Results for "Songlines Recordings"

Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion

by Glenn Astarita
April 10, 2005

Various band members contribute compositional frameworks as a backdrop of sorts for Rinde Eckert's lyricism and recitations on this idyllically focused jazz work. And it's drummer Jerry Granelli's brainchild as he lays down the rhythms for a potpourri of acoustic-electric tunes structured upon medium-tempo rhythms and jazzy dreamscapes. Eckert's likeable recitals are cleanly delivered ...

Benoit Delbecq Unit: Phonetics

by John Kelman
February 14, 2005

With an approach blending hypnotic rhythms and free-flowing improvisation with a new music sensibility that examines more oblique and mathematically precise melodies, Benoit Delbecq has already gained a certain degree of notoriety in his native France for his work with prepared piano and his four previous Songlines releases. This time around he gathers an international cast, ...

Jerry Granelli: Sandhills Reunion

by Dan McClenaghan
February 5, 2005

Like rocker Bruce Springsten with his Nebraska or author Annie Proulx with her two volumes of Wyoming stories, Jerry Granelli's Sandhill Reunion --where his band accompanies Rinde Eckert's words--evokes the American experience in the prairie heartland, placing poetic viginettes of small experience under a powerful microscope on a set of of jazz-backed prose poems that explore ...

Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion

by John Kelman
February 2, 2005

In these days of rap-informed everything , the combination of spoken word and jazz is nothing new. Mike Ladd's Negrophilia - The Album (Thirsty Ear, '05), for example, seamlessly blends poetry with electronica-inflected free ideas. But rap has a certain cadence that differs from the less direct rhythms associated with the spoken word of, say, the ...

Bill Frisell: Richter 858

by Mark Corroto
January 24, 2005

Commissioned to create music for a book project on the German painter Gerhard Richter, guitarist Bill Frisell opened his book of guitar techniques to enhance the painter's art. Given instructions and eight Richter images, Frisell composed pieces for the 858 Strings Trio of Jenny Scheinman, Eyvind Kang, and Hank Roberts, a unit which can ...

Bill Frisell: Richter 858

by John Kelman
January 21, 2005

For those who think, based on recent recordings, that guitarist Bill Frisell has lost his edge, two new recordings should go a long way to restoring faith in Frisell's inestimable abilities as a composer and performer. They also assert that, like them or not, the Americana, world music, and groove-centric concerns of his most recent Nonesuch ...

Bill Frisell: Richter 858

by Dan McClenaghan
January 11, 2005

Richter 858 is a commissioned work, setting guitarist Bill Frisell up with the job of creating music to accompany eight paintings for a book project on German painter Gerhard Richter. One of Richter's main techniques is to use a squeegee to smear paint over an aluminum surface. Frisell captures this sound--the squeak and squeal, the shrillness--perfectly ...

Solos

By Robin Holcomb

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: Reno; Tired; Armageddon; The Pleasures of Motion; Joanna's Solo; Before the Comet Comes; Stars Fell on Alabama; Interpretation #1; The Road to Zamora; Buttermilk Hill; Up Do; Interpretation #2; Done For; Crispin and Lisa's Duet.

Poor Boy: Songs Of Nick Drake

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2004

Train Song

By Aros

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Zimbabwe 2. Road Song 3. Four 'n a half 4. Tango 5. Ostinato 6. Train Song 7. Fugatisme 8. One for Charlie 9. 30 10. Song of the Heart 11. Rocket Song