You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: 50ftf.kronosquartet.org

Composed by inti figgis-vizueta
© 2021 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2021 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded December 2021 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington, May 2022

inti figgis-vizueta - branching patterns

6 - 7

Link Wray – Black River Swamp
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Ohio River Boat Song
John Fahey - Dixie Pig Bar-B-Q Blues
Beck - Rowboat
Michael Hurley & Betsy Nichols – River in the Rain
The Persuasions – Lazy River Road
Chris Darrow – The Sky Is Not Blue Today
Mickey Newbury – Let Me Sleep

Yvonne Fair – If I Knew
Knocker Jungle – I’ve Got Time
Mary Wells – 500 Miles
Patricia Denson and The Soul Expressions – I Thought I Heard You Moan
Bo Diddley – Pills
Honeybus – Proof Enough
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Good Times
Jackie Shane – In My Tenement
Bobby McFerrin – Frisking and Wisking
Nina Simone – If You Knew/Let It Be Me

The Rivals – It’s Gonna Work Out
J.J. Barnes – I Think I Found a Love
Marcia Griffiths – Don’t Let Me Down
Sir Victor Uwaifo – Osalobua Rekpama
Nancy Dupree – James Brown
Ernie K. Doe – Beating Like a Tom Tom
Lorne Greene – Oh! What A Town
Abner Jay – Depression
The 5 Royales – Standing in the Shadows
Happy & Artie Traum – Going Down The Road To See Bessie

Gram Parsons – When Will I Be Loved?
Bob Lind – Loser
R. Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me
Linda Ronstadt & Lowell George - Heartache
PS22 Chorus – I’ll Be Your Mirror
Loudon Wainwright III – New Paint
Ginny Reilly – Landslide
Ian Matthews – Do I Still Figure in Your Life?
Elton John – Levon (demo)
The Bunch featuring Sandy Denny – When Will I Be Loved?

Maison Dufrene Show #21 :: August 24, 2022

17 January 2022

Fell asleep to your voice
In a foreign place 
Wiped the tears away

No one saw me cry
So I can break apart
Slowly and quietly

And hope someone picks me up 
And puts me back together 
When the sun is up

And I thought it would be you 
I was so sure and
I was so wrong

Cause you take forever 
To say the words that you sing 
But I’ll wait if the wait is for you

Patient like a dog
I’m loyal to a cause that wants me dead 
I’ll die just to prove I love you to death

You put me through your hell
Even though all I wanted 
Was a little warmth

Your hands 
Too close to touch
And too far to hold

But don’t change
Stay the way you are 
You’re beautiful and I’m only tongue tied

Something in you I seem to recognize 
Is the reason why 
I keep dragging this around

This body is heavy
The dead can’t fight against the gravity
But don’t change, don’t change
Stay the way you are

I'm patient like a dog
I’m loyal to a cause that wants me dead 
I’ll die just to prove I love you to death

And even though there's nothing left for me
I’ll wait because the wait is for you

The Whirl

Tonight’s new episode of Archivalesque compiles three mixes I made in the Octobers of ’13 and ’15. In it are a few dozen songs that finally made it clear to me that a little over 98% of the music I would enjoy for the rest of my life had already been created and was simply waiting for me. There is a tremendous amount of comfort in that realization!
Links to Mixcloud and Soundcloud in my bio & story.
FULL downloads on my patreon.
Curated by @pauldufrene

Graham Nash – Hey You (Looking At The Moon)
Roger McGuinn – I’m So Restless
Ian Matthews – Close The Door Lightly When You Go
Lee Hazlewood – Won’t You Tell Your Dreams
Donovan – Ramblin’ Boy
Nick Drake – Rider On The Wheel
Michael Hurley – The Vt.-Ore. Floor
Melanie – Steppin’
Joe Cocker – Just Like A Woman
Moby Grape – 8:05
Cat Stevens – Trouble
Bob Lind – The Times They A Changin’
Tom Rush – Joshua Gone Barbados
Ralph McTell – First Song
David Blue – Grand Hotel
Loudon Wainwright III – Come A Long Way
Ted Lucas – It Is So Nice To Get Stoned
Nina Simone – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Dave Van Ronk – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
Terry Jacks - Christina
Hickory Wind – I Don’t Believe
Maggie and Terre Roche – Down to Dream
Mike Cooper - Places I Know
Bob Lind - What Color Are You
Fairport Convention - Book Song
Faces – Glad & Sorry
Them - Could You Would You
Meic Stevens - Can Mamgu
Elyse Weinberg - What You Call It
Dave Van Ronk - He Was A Friend of Mine
Jerry Jeff Walker - Old Road
Sir Douglas Quintet - At the Crossroads

Archivalesque #10 :: October 5, 2022

This week’s special Maison Dufrene Show is comprised entirely of one of my favorite kinds of music I like to call “Rusty Tunes.” This is that genre of singer-songwriter music from the late sixties and early seventies that walks the tightrope over a sea rock, folk, blues, and soul, dipping its foot wherever but staying aloft to remain something all its own. The Band, Neil Young, Fairport Convention and even Led Zeppelin all made some Rusty Tunes but tonight’s show is reserved for the folks making rust in the background. 
STREAM on MIXCLOUD, SOUNDCLOUD and the ‘Maison Dufrene’ podcast.
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Curated by @pauldufrene

Michael Hurley – O My Stars
Mistress Mary – And I Didn’t Want You
Sandy Harless - I Knew Her Well
Area Code 615 - Just Like A Woman
Denny Lile - Hear The Bang
James Talley - No Opener Needed
Boondoggle & Balderdash - I've Been Delayed
Randy Sharp – Country Song
Link Wray – La De Da
Norman Greenbaum ~ Hook & Ladder
High Mountain Hoedown – The Weight
JJ Light – On The Road Now
Meic Stevens – Left Over Time
Stephen Ambrose - Answer in the Rain
Midnight Well - Nickey's Song
Judee Sill – Lopin’along Thru the Cosmos
Daniel Moore – May, 16, 1975
Rio Grande - So Good To Be Free
John Renbourn - Seven Sleepers
Hazel Dickens & Alice Girrard - Mama's Gonna Stay
Matthews Southern Comfort - Mare, Take Me Home
Herb Pedersen - Fair and Tender Ladies
Ro Ro - Meet At The Water
Blue - The Way Things Are
Ian Matthews – Keep On Sailin #2
Topo D. Bill – Witchi Tai To
Mike Cooper - Journey to the East
Deroll Adams – I’m sad and I’m Lonely
Boondoggle and Balderdash - Old Porch Swing
Rick Roberts ~ Davy McVie
The Farm Band ~ Keep Your Head Up High

Maison Dufrene Show #26 :: November 2, 2022 :: A Rusty Tunes Special!

Exuma – Dambala
William C. Beeley – You Ain’t GoingNowhere
Steve Young – Love In My Time
Tool Shed – Angel In Her Walk
Tom y la Bestia Bebe – El Amor ya aLlegado
White Antelope –Wild Mountain Thyme
John Martyn – Back To Stay
The Parviram – America
Fred Neil – Faretheewell(Fred’s Song)
Ted Lucas – I’ll Find A Way (To CarryIt All)
Mack Sigis Porter – Till The Fall
Terry Telson – When Evening Comes

Recent Songs #1 :: Love In My Time

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Greg Foat has always had a great reverence for the musicians that featured on the records he has collected over the years. Whether they were players from the great European library catalogs, Italian soundtracks, American Jazz but most of all British Jazz. One of his all-time favourites being the beautiful tone of Art Themen's Saxophone…
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After Art had played on a few sessions for Greg both were keen to record an LP together. Plans were hatched during lockdown and everyone headed to Edinburgh as soon as allowed, to an unassuming metal door that leads to a renowned studio with a large live room with a stunning Neve desk. Chamber Studio has a long Edinburgh heritage, known for recordings from Mogwai to everyone's favourite The Vaselines.

Greg & Art wanted to do something experimental so they brought in an interesting and challenging mix of new musicians along with a large pile of synthesizers and effects pedals. The result is a fantastic melting pot of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic ideas and motifs.

Greg Foat - Fender Rhodes, Prophet 10, Roland SH-101
Art Themen - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Gavin Sutherland - Guitars
Amanda Whiting - Harp
Philip Achille - Bass
Nadav Schneerson - Drums & Percussion

Recorded at Chamber Studio, Edinburgh
Recording engineer, Graeme Young

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Greg Foat & Art Themen - Off Piste - Off Piste

Running 60 minutes of house, broken and Brit funk, Last Nubian was joined by Flat White Records label boss Chris this month.

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Last Nubian w/ Flat White Chris - June 2023

Brooklyn-based bassist/composer Kenneth Jimenez presents his new work Sonnet to Silence on We Jazz Records, 17 November. Consisting of 7 original compositions by Jimenez performed by his quartet including pianist Angelica Sanchez, drummer Gerald Cleaver and saxophonist Hery Paz, Sonnet to Silence echoes the original fire of New York free jazz while stepping into a terrain of its own, boldly forward-thinking.

Jimenez, originally from Costa Rica, has a knack at composing pieces that breathe naturally and take fight on the wings provided by the first-rate quartet, joining scene stalwarts and newcomers together as a coherent unit.

"Since I was a kid I’ve had this reoccurring dream of running towards the edge of a mountain and suddenly discovering myself flying down to the valley, feeling weightless and fearless", say Jimenez. "This record is the materialization of that dream. The uncompromising voices in the band and our shared desire to explore the unknown make this music live and breathe. It feels that the possibilities become endless when creating with these master improvisers, and the only thing that matters is to take that initial jump into the abyss."

The opening track and first single "Dos Tazas" is a fine example of what the quartet can achieve. It sneaks up on the listener, drawing you in from the first moments, before revealing its melodically adventurous nature in its fullest. As a whole, the album lets the band loose at times, while the music maintains its natural flow. With Sonnet to Silence, Kenneth Jimenez establishes himself as a composer and bandleader with remarkably strong presence.

Dos Tazas

The Globeflower Masters Vol. 2 is the slightly edgier and more grown-up sequel to Mark and Glenn's 2021 debut album. For this excursion, the Brighton-based duo wanted to lean a little further into their European film soundtrack influences, with inspiration mined from the works of Stefano Torossi, David Shire, and Roger Webb. This expansion of their sound builds upon the rich tapestry of cinematic funk à la David Axelrod, Serge Gainsbourg and Morricone that fashioned Vol. 1.

The Deluxe Edition of the album features five new tracks, comprising two new original recordings, a piano solo version of the closing track from the original album, and two remixes from Project Gemini and Andres y Xavi.

‘Shaded By Your Side’ takes things right back to the moody, dark and Axelrod-inflected sound of their first album. Much of this track was played in single takes to try and retain as much of the urgency and spontaneity as possible. 

‘Return to Salvador’ is described by the duo as if “Shuggie Otis and Marcos Valle have one too many caipirinhas and decide to visit outer space”. It fuses together Mark's space sounds and floaty pianos with Spanish guitar and busy, melodic bass creating a musical trip from the grounded and earthy sounds of Vol.1’ to the more upwards-looking and musically diverse sound of Vol.2.

The remixes give a different flavour to the release, but both pay homage to the original recordings. Sharing a mutual admiration for each other’s work, it seemed like a natural choice to ask Project Gemini to contribute. Here is what he had to say about his rework, “I’m a big fan of both volumes of Mark and Glenn’s ‘Globeflower’ LP’s and it was a huge honour to get a chance to rework one of my favourite tunes from Vol.2. There are many great layers to ‘A Voyage North’ so it was a lot of fun to choose my favourite elements, then put some Project Gemini flavours and sounds into the mix and create something new whilst hopefully keeping some of the spirit of the original track. A darker, fuzzier take on the album version”.

When Glenn first passed the original album to Steve KIW, his collaborator in Balearic production outfit Andres y Xavi, this was one of two tracks which he picked out as having some particularly Balearic DNA. As such, pushing this concept to its logical conclusion seemed like the obvious thing to do. There’s a shaded sunset sound paired with a 4/4 beat of Latin-leaning.

Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Vibe Sharp

Kronos Quartet is David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello).

http://kronosquartet.org/

Here you will find our recordings of new work commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Released over five years beginning in 2016, this collection of 50 compositions by 25 men and 25 women from around the world will be devoted to the contemporary approaches to the string quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Scores and parts, audio recordings, composer interviews, and many more resources are available for free on our website.

Founded over forty years ago, we are a San Francisco-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more recordings, please visit http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/kronos-quartet or http://kronosquartet.org/recordings Thank you!