The complete soundtrack recording of Laurie Anderson’s newest piece, Heart of a Dog, is available from Nonesuch Records on October 23, 2015. Anderson was recently commissioned by the European TV network Arte to create a feature film—her first in 30 years. Her response was a personal essay entitled Heart of a Dog, a work encompassing joy and heartbreak …
John Adams: Nixon in China (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live) (DVD+Blu-Ray)
Nonesuch Records presents the Metropolitan Opera s performance of John Adams Nixon in China, with the composer conducting, on Blu-ray and DVD together in one package. The Met s production, staged by Adams longtime collaborator Peter Sellars, stars James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, a role he created at the opera s world premiere in 1987 and has since …
Reviewing The Black Keys 2010 Top Ten breakthrough album Brothers, Rolling Stone called the duo a two-man combo with a big-band mind. That description seems downright prophetic now. With the hard-rocking El Camino, The Black Keys fourth Nonesuch disc, guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney conjure up an exhilarating, stadium-sized sound in collaboration with producer and friend …
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell’s new album, The Traveling Kind, will be released May 12 on Nonesuch Records, with the vinyl due June 2.The Traveling Kind follows the longtime friends’ first duet album, 2013’s Old Yellow Moon, which won Best Americana Album at the 56th annual Grammy Awards as well as two awards at the 2013 Americana Music …
Rhiannon Giddens, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, makes her solo recording debut with Tomorrow Is My Turn, due out February 10, 2015, on Nonesuch Records. (The vinyl will follow on March 3.) The album was produced by T Bone Burnett.Burnett first worked with Giddens when she performed last fall at a …
2013 collaboration between two of Country Music’s most respected artists. Old Yellow Moon features four songs written by Crowell as well as interpretations of songs such as Hank DeVito’s ‘Hanging Up My Heart,’ Roger Miller’s ‘Invitation to the Blues,’ and Allen Reynolds’ ‘Dreaming My Dreams,’ among others. Produced by Brian Ahern (Johnny Cash, George Jones, Roy Orbison),Old Yellow …
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (2CD)
A one-night-only concert was held at New York City s Town Hall last fall, to celebrate the music of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis. The evening was filmed for a documentary that was broadcast by Showtime last winter, and now Nonesuch Records releases a live recording of the concert, Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music …
After working with Burnett numerous times most recently on the soundtrack for the Joel and Ethan Coen film Inside Llewyn Davis and the related Town Hall/Showtime concert Another Day, Another Time Punch Brothers decided to join forces with the multiple Grammy Award winning producer for their new record. Last summer, the band and Burnett spent a month at …
“The Bad Plus (plus one) roared as if a quartet were always lying just beneath its surface.” —Los Angeles TimesIn 2011, The Bad Plus invited saxophonist Joshua Redman to join them for a week of enthusiastically received performances at the Blue Note in New York City. They then played a handful of dates before heading into the studio …
The landmark Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall-July 1, 1998-was both the start of a remarkable story and the culmination of a dream. This one-time-only event elevated veteran Cuban performers like Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo and Omara Portuondo to long-overdue status as international stars, and it transformed the BVSC’s already critically acclaimed album into …