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Bryce Dessner
Music For Wood And Strings [ Brassland / CD - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Music for Wood and Strings is the official follow-up to Bryce Dessner's 2013 solo debut Ahyem. But don't call this a solo record. Rather it is the meeting of three great musical entities that sound even better together. |
Sufjan Stevens
The Age of Adz (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty / 2 LP - released 11/Sep/2010 ] The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens' first full-length collection of original songs since 2005's civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its... |
Sufjan Stevens
All Delighted People (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty / 2 LP - released 6/Dec/2010 ] All Delighted People is built around two different versions of Sufjan's long-form epic ballad "All Delighted People," a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon's "Sounds of Silence." Sounds delightful, yes! The song was... |
Sufjan Stevens
All Delighted People [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] All Delighted People is built around two different versions of Sufjan's long-form epic ballad "All Delighted People," a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon's "Sounds of Silence." Sounds delightful, yes! The song was... |
Sufjan Stevens
The Avalanche [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 10/Jul/2006 ] The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in-as did the... |
Sufjan Stevens
Michigan [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Sufjan Stevens, Asthmatic Kitty, and Soundsfamilyre announce Sufjan's third full-length album, a collection of songs for his birth-state, Michigan, "The Great Lake State." Composed as a geographical tone poem, Michigan follows a metaphysical... |
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister
Planetarium [ 4AD / CD - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner (of the National), James McAlister, Nico Muhly, and Sufjan Stevens. Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble has assembled... |
PHILIP GLASS / NICO MUHLY
In the summer house Angela Chun (violin), Jennifer Chun (violin), Nico Muhly (keyboards) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] A minimalist palette for maximum effect. This recital of music especially written or arranged for duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun highlights the personal and professional connections between Philip Glass - represented here as a miniaturist -... |
Bryce Dessner
Music For Wood And Strings LP [ Brassland / LP - released 31/Jul/2015 ] Music for Wood and Strings is the official follow-up to Bryce Dessner's 2013 solo debut Ahyem. But don't call this a solo record. Rather it is the meeting of three great musical entities that sound even better together. ONE: Bryce Dessner wrote... |
DESSNER / GREENWOOD
St Carolyn By the Sea / Suite From "There Will Be Blood" Bryce Dessner, Jonny Greenwood (electric guitars) / Copenhagen Philharmonic, Andre de Ridder [ Deutche Grammophon / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] Bryce Dessner is a Brooklyn based composer, guitarist, and curator primarily known as a member of The National. The English musician and composer Jonny Greenwood, best known as a lead guitarist and keyboardist of Radiohead, also wrote numerous... |
Casey Foubert / James McAlister
Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Drums [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "Music For Drums" is the first in a series of records conceived by Casey Foubert and James McAlister using drums, percussion, and user designed software effects as the sole sound source. Foubert and McAlister drew from both improvised drumming and... |
Casey Foubert / James McAlister
Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Drums (LP) [ Asthmatic Kitty / LP - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "Music For Drums" is the first in a series of records conceived by Casey Foubert and James McAlister using drums, percussion, and user designed software effects as the sole sound source. Foubert and McAlister drew from both improvised drumming and... |
BRYCE DESSNER
Aheym Kronos Quartet [ Epitaph / CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] Bryce Dessner is a guitarist with the alternative rock and Americana band the National, and this album with the Kronos Quartet appears not on its longtime label home of Nonesuch but on the rock-oriented ANTI imprint. The sound, from the standpoint of... |
NICO MUHLY
A Good Understanding Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Oct/2010 ] "All the music receives outstandingly good performances, both precise and impassioned." (The Gramophone) |
Ryuchi Sakamoto / Alva Noto / Bryce Dessner
The Revenant - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [ Milan Records / CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] The National's Bryce Dessner, German electronic musician Alva Noto, and Ryuichi Sakamoto are behind the score for Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film The Revenant. |
Sufjan Stevens
The Age Of Adz [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 11/Oct/2010 ] The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens' first full-length collection of original songs since 2005's civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its... |
Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 3/Apr/2015 ] Carrie & Lowell is an album by American indie folk musician Sufjan Stevens scheduled for release through Asthmatic Kitty on March 31, 2015. Unlike Stevens' last studio album, the electronic Age of Adz, Carrie & Lowell is sparsely instrumental and... |
Sufjan Stevens
Enjoy Your Rabbit [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 16/Apr/2002 ] Almost two years in the making, Sufjan Steven's Enjoy Your Rabbit, an album of programmatic songs for the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, is now available for your listening pleasure. Departing from the singer-songwriter format of his first Asthmatic... |
Sufjan Stevens
Illinoise [ Asthmatic Kitty / CD - released 5/Jul/2005 ] Stevens weaves variegated musical styles - jazz, funk, pop, folk and Rodgers & Hammerstein-like flourishes - and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. |
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister
Planetarium (LP) [ 4AD / 2 LP - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Planetarium is an album co-composed by four musicians: Bryce Dessner (of the National), James McAlister, Nico Muhly, and Sufjan Stevens. Flanked by a string quartet and a consort of seven trombones, this unique collaborative ensemble has assembled... |
