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- Thursday,February 8,2018
"I immediately got completely kidnapped by the musical world of John Adams," filmmaker Luca Guadagnino tells Pitchfork. Nonesuch recordings of Adams's music have been featured memorably in the three films of Guadagnino's "Desire Trilogy": Call Me By Your Name, A Bigger Splash, and I Am Love, which is scored entirely with Adams's music. All of that can now be heard here via new Nonesuch playlists on Spotify and Apple Music.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsWednesday,February 7,2018
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet have shared a fourth track from their forthcoming album, Landfall: "CNN Predicts a Monster Storm." The video for the song premiered via The Quietus, which spoke with Anderson and Kronos's David Harrington about this "first recording collaboration between two of contemporary music’s most renowned figures." Watch the video here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWednesday,February 7,2018
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced its 2018–19 concert season—its centennial season—and among the artists joining the orchestra to perform this season at Walt Disney Concert Hall are John Adams and Audra McDonald. The LA Phil will also give the world premiere of new works by Adams, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTuesday,February 6,2018
Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell were on WNYC's Soundcheck. They discussed and performed music from her 2017 album, Freedom Highway, which she co-produced with Powell in his Louisiana studio, songs from an in-progress theater work, and more. Watch the episode here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioVideoFriday,February 2,2018
Steve Reich's Pulse / Quartet is now available on CD and digitally, with the vinyl to come on March 30. Pulse is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Quartet is played by the Colin Currie Group. The Los Angeles Times notes the "lyricism, gorgeous instrumental textures and affecting harmonies" of Pulse, and the New York Times says of Quartet: "Written for two vibraphones and two pianos, Quartet is Mr. Reich's first piece for those two instruments alone, and the combination is ingenious and seductive, and deployed with subtle craftsmanship."
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,February 2,2018
IndieWire has published its list of The 25 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century, including five for which Nonesuch released the soundtrack: Philip Glass's score to Stephen Daldry's 2002 film The Hours; Clint Mansell's for Darren Aronofsky's 2006 film The Fountain, performed by Kronos Quartet and Mogwai; and three scores to Paul Thomas Anderson films—Jon Brion's for 2002's Punch-Drunk Love, and Jonny Greenwood's for 2007's There Will Be Blood and the just-released Phantom Thread. IndieWire says "the last 18 years have given us some of the most memorable music ever written for the movies."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsFriday,February 2,2018
Paul Thomas Anderson's new feature film, Phantom Thread, which opened in US theaters in January to rave reviews and six Oscar nominations, opens in theaters in the UK (where it is up for four BAFTAs), Australia, and Europe. "Not for nothing has the film earned six nominations, including one for Greenwood's score," says Uncut. Phantom Thread earns five-star reviews from the Guardian ("such pure delicious pleasure in this film"), Financial Times ("mesmerising ... [Anderson] gets everything right here"), and Daily Express ("an audacious, spellbinding slice of storytelling").
Journal Topics: Artist NewsFilmWednesday,January 31,2018
Fleet Foxes have debuted their performance of the title track to their album Crack-Up, accompanied by the acclaimed Icelandic women's choir Graduale Nobili, in a new video from Consequence of Sound. The performance was filmed at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, ahead of the 2017 Iceland Airwaves festival. Watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWednesday,January 31,2018
David Byrne joined Lauren Laverne as co-host of the BBC Radio 6 Music morning show. They discuss his Reasons To Be Cheerful series of talks, which he presented in London Tuesday, and his new album, American Utopia, from which Laverne gives the world premiere of the track "This Is That," a collaboration with Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never). Byrne was also a guest on BBC Radio 2's Drivetime show with Simon Mayo.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioTuesday,January 30,2018
Emmylou Harris and Chris Stapleton shared the stage at the 60th annual Grammy Awards to offer a touching take on the late Tom Petty's song "Wildflowers" from Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoTuesday,January 30,2018
David Byrne joined a group of strangers in the lobby of the Public Theater in NYC during the Under the Radar Festival earlier this month to perform David Bowie's "Heroes." Organized by the group Choir! Choir! Choir!, singers and non-singers alike were invited to participate in the mass sing-along, with Byrne singing lead. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoTuesday,January 30,2018
Rostam, who kicked off a month-long North American tour with a sold-out show in Atlanta last night, has added new dates on the flip side of the tour in late March. The spring shows include stops across the US, Europe, and the UK. Also today comes the release of a new, official video for "Bike Dream," from his album Half-Light, directed by Rostam and filmed in Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen. You can watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourVideoEnjoy This Post?
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