Announcing Portland Cello Project’s digital release of their recordings of all twenty songs from Beck’s sheet-music-only Song Reader (published by McSweeney's). Recorded in just a few days with numerous special guests, in three different studios across Portland, their album showcases Beck’s monumental and refined songwriting achievement. The album flows with the diversity of an Oregon weather report... whether you like or don’t like what’s happening at one moment, don’t get too attached, because it has nothing to do with what will be happening a moment later.

Portland Cello Project and their collaborators were amazed by how many epiphanies appeared as they learned and recorded the songs. Here is not a satire of the Song Readers of the past, though the humor is not to be missed. Here is not just a beautifully produced livre d’artiste from McSweeney’s, though the beauty of the presentation is not to be missed. Here is, at its core, a collection of well-written, highly refined songs, one that seems to have allowed Beck to expand upon the beauty and insight of his words more than ever before.

The Song Reader is a fearless collection of songs.

Special guests performing on the record include Jolie Holland, Lizzy Ellison and Patti King (Radiation City), Adam Shearer, Chanticleer Tru, Nate Query (Decemberists), Daniel Hunt (AgesAndAges), Damon Boucher, Matt Berger (Laura Gibson Band), Sam Howard, Brian Wright (Grand Hallway, Gold Leaves), and Dave Depper (literally every band in Portland).

Physical copies of Beck's Sheet music -- Beck Hansen's Song Reader -- are available through McSweeney's:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/song-reader

And Portland Cello Project's recorded versions of these songs can be purchased through iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beck-hansens-song-reader/id589513536

Portland Cello Project Play Beck Hansen's Song Reader

Mahler’s great symphony of song, Das Lied Von der Erde twists strands of Chinese poetry, German song and threads of fresh mountain air to express the grief and spiritual yearnings of Gustav Mahler.  
CLS commissioned Rachel to write an introduction that would stir hearts of newcomers and long-time listeners alike.

More on Das Lied Von Der Erde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Lied_von_der_Erde


City of London Sinfonia: CLoSer to Mahler Commission

A clip from London Stone, a 30 minute tale of uprising and liberty,  twisting words and music into tales of the Peasants’ Revolt, G20 protests and the myth of the London Stone.

Charismatic and captivating, RRR bridges folk storytelling and modern spoken-word, hailed ‘a glimpse of magic’ (Guardian) for her first Latitude appearance. Performances from the Barbican to Edinburgh and Nevada’s Burning Man have seen her named ‘a rising star of the festival circuit’ (Independent on Sunday). Led by ZooNation musical director DJ Walde, the acclaimed REC stretch the boundaries of improvisation, experimentation and collaboration.
Photography by Wasi Daniju

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Clip from London Stone

Announcing Portland Cello Project’s digital release of their recordings of all twenty songs from Beck’s sheet-music-only Song Reader (published by McSweeney's). Recorded in just a few days with numerous special guests, in three different studios across Portland, their album showcases Beck’s monumental and refined songwriting achievement. The album flows with the diversity of an Oregon weather report... whether you like or don’t like what’s happening at one moment, don’t get too attached, because it has nothing to do with what will be happening a moment later.

Portland Cello Project and their collaborators were amazed by how many epiphanies appeared as they learned and recorded the songs. Here is not a satire of the Song Readers of the past, though the humor is not to be missed. Here is not just a beautifully produced livre d’artiste from McSweeney’s, though the beauty of the presentation is not to be missed. Here is, at its core, a collection of well-written, highly refined songs, one that seems to have allowed Beck to expand upon the beauty and insight of his words more than ever before.

The Song Reader is a fearless collection of songs.

Special guests performing on the record include Jolie Holland, Lizzy Ellison and Patti King (Radiation City), Adam Shearer, Chanticleer Tru, Nate Query (Decemberists), Daniel Hunt (AgesAndAges), Damon Boucher, Matt Berger (Laura Gibson Band), Sam Howard, Brian Wright (Grand Hallway, Gold Leaves), and Dave Depper (literally every band in Portland).

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