this instrument is called a Chordstick btw

A sampler playlist featuring So Percussion's music: new commissions, classic repertoire, collaborations, and our own music.  

So Percussion

In this episode, Other Record Labels chats with Alec Hanley Bemis the co-founder (along with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National) about starting and growing their record label over the past 20 years!

Introduction to Brassland: orcd.co/introducingbrassland

More about Other Record Labels: https://www.otherrecordlabels.com/

Brassland - (The National, Bartees Strange, Doveman)

Episode #12 w/ Mitski (2014)

i used to

careful what you wish for

The recording for Bobby Previte's "Terminals" is nearly finished!  "Terminals" is a series of concerti for So Percussion plus master improvisers as soloists.  Here's a bit of Nels Cline (Wilco) melting our faces...

Bobby Previte's "Terminals" Preview: #3 with Nels Cline

On May 14th, Cenk Ergun releases "Nana" on Carrier Records, featuring the percussion quartet "Proximity" with So Percussion.  

www.cenkergun.com
www.sopercussion.com

Ergun Proximity - cymbals and vibes

Cenk Ergun's "Nana" on Carrier Records, featuring the percussion quartet "Proximity" with So Percussion.  

www.cenkergun.com
www.sopercussion.com

Ergun Proximity - solo vibraphone

Amazon > http://geni.us/stringswoodamzn
iTunes > http://geni.us/stringswooditunes
Bandcamp > http://brycedessner.bandcamp.com
Spotify > https://open.spotify.com/track/7i1r0bfEMprCXlP2bGpbm6

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 the piece. Best known as a guitarist and songwriter in The National, he is increasingly renown for his work as a composer and collaborator with artists ranging from Steve Reich to Sufjan Stevens, and as a curator on all-star projects exploring the links between the worlds of composed, folk and indie rock music (i.e. the Barbican's Mountains & Waves festival, Red Hot's Dark Was The Night, Brassland's recently released compilation MusicNOW: 10 Years). 

TWO: So Percussion performed it. A Brooklyn-based percussion quartet, the group has a decade plus track record as serial collaborators with artists across the indie, electronic and classical music spectrum (i.e. Matmos, Dan Deacon, Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang). The New Yorker has praised them for their "exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam."

THREE: Aron Sanchez of the duo Buke and Gase built the Chordstick, the original instruments upon which the music was made. These instruments -- designed in collaboration with Bryce -- are a cross between a hammer dulcimer and an electric guitar, lending the album its uniquely electrified and various soundscape: pointillist then hazy, distorted then crisp, shifting at will between a hum and a roar and always hypnotic, melodic and engrossing. 

Weighing in at 35 minutes in length, "Music for Wood and Strings" is the most ambitious piece of music Dessner has released to date. The CD and download have a run time of 70 minutes, presenting the the composition both as a full length concert piece, and in 9 "sections" which are sub-divided into Spotify friendly "tracks" ideal for sharing on a playlist or embedding in your Facetube's blogtweetstream. 

The appeal of all three parts of this equation should not be understated. Dessner is the clear winner in terms of name recognition because of his work with today's most popular independent musicians. However, Sō Percussion--taking after ensembles like Kronos Quartet--have redefined what it is to be a contemporary music ensemble, equally comfortable in the worlds of indie and art music. And it should also make it onto the radar of Buke and Gase fans, an iconic band whose place in underground pop imagines an intersection between Cocteau Twins, Shellac and Reggie Watt. All three artists have found a way to build on the DNA of iconic post-modernist John Cage: pushing experimental culture into the wider world.

Bryce Dessner: "Music For Wood And Strings: Section 8" (performed by So Percussion)

Climactic drum battle in Terminal #4 between Bobby Previte and Jason Treuting. 

http://bangonacan.org/store/music/terminals

Bobby Previte's Terminal #4 - DRUM BATTLE!!!

Fusilier writes:  "I’m selling myself short here so whatever relationship I was taking about was never going to work. The whole song is me trying to compromise too much. I’m singing at the top of my range, I’m playing an instrument that I hate but by the end I just do what I would’ve done anyway and drop it. It was all worth it for that song though."

Sometimes I hold you
Just to make you stay
Or to shield you 
From what I could say

About the way I feel (slow down)
Falling fast (slow down)

Sometimes I wonder 
What you see in me 
Do we make summer 
Or have a stormy spring?

What’s in your heart (Tell me) 
Is it love?

Tell me, 
That I’m not alone loving by myself 
Cause I’m head over heels you control yourself 
Show me that you’re lost and you need my help 
In this love

Now I see you 
In my fantasy 
You and me at the Oscars 
A film about our history

When does it start (Action) 
And what’s our reaction?

You’ve got me thinking 
That I”m not alone loving by myself 
But I’m head over heel you control yourself 
Show me that you’re lost and you need my help 
In this love

Show me you’re lost by yourself 
Show me all of yourself 
--- everything I know 
About being alone 
You’re everything I love

DUTY EP

Listen

dueling

tired week, social distance, rare chance to be in the studio, unintended challenge to cover a Buke & Gase song...the original is just a stunner.  i did my very best.  and love the song even more.  yeah.  you couldn't find a better friend than me.  go buy the real album "Scholars" on bandcamp: https://bukeandgase.bandcamp.com/album/scholars

Stumbler (Buke & Gase Cover!)

In turbulent times we need audacious artists like Fusilier. His just released EP, Upstream (Brassland), features the title track about isolation plus a sinister take on Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street” that ﬁnds the classic twisted into a protest anthem. The Brooklyn-based vocalist and multi-instrumentalist has also released self-directed videos for both songs. [This episode features the full-version of “Upstream” in its entirety.]

Visit Fusilier online:
https://www.instagram.com/blakeful
https://fusilier.bandcamp.com

The last live show I attended before the quarantine featured an incredible bill at Brooklyn’s Sultan Room with Fusilier and two other TMT guests: Wsabi Fox and Bartees Strange:

Wsabi Fox (Jennae Santos) TMT 169:
https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/talk-music-talk-with-boice-wsabi-fox-interview-169

Bartees Strange TMT 206:
https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/talk-music-talk-with-boice-bartees-strange-podcast- interview-206

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Liz (The Talk Music Talk Theme)-FULL VERSION
Written and Composed on an iPad by boice.

https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme

"Talk Music Talk with boice" Fusilier Podcast Interview 210

Links & description: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2015/11/23/128480/ep-110-starting-from-scratch-bryce-dessner-aron-sanchez-so-percussion/

Classical Classroom

Classical Classroom Ep 110: Starting From Scratch - Bryce Dessner, Aron Sanchez, & So Percussion

Alec Hanley Bemis, writer and manager of cultural projects, co-founded the Brassland record label in 2001 along with his friends Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the band The National. Over the years, the label has become home to a community of like minded creative musicians who defy category. Last month Alec published a piece in Creative Independent called 19 things I’d tell people contemplating starting a record label (after running one for 19 years). Here we discuss what happened in between.&nbsp; Although this conversation was recorded in the before times of 2019, listening back I am struck by a few particularly interesting ideas that emerge in the talk: the distinction between culture and subculture; that we are now in an era of “constant content”; the shift over time from the taste maker as an institution to the taste maker as an individual personality; and what he describes as “the economy of cool”.    www.brassland.org

Alec Hanley Bemis

Brassland is an artist-operated label started in 2001 by The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner (http://brycedessner.com) and writer Alec Hanley Bemis (soundcloud.com/a-h-b). We encourage collaboration and creation among an evolving assortment of creative folks.

We are NOT actively seeking demos. But if you'd like to message us try http://brassland.org/contact.php

Bryce Dessner: "Music For Wood And Strings: Section 8" (performed by So Percussion)

Brassland

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