Bon Iver - Flume (Cover)

Collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/mandymarierose
It's a real pleasure to be part of this collaboration with the super-talented Mandy Rose, check out her profile for more :)
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Mandy Rose & Lisbon Soul


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Fly Me To The Moon - Mandy Rose & Lisbon Soul

Say Yes (featuring Ira Glass)

World’s Fair. Julian Lage’s first solo guitar album, is so spontaneous and intimate in feel it’s as if this prodigious guitarist had just arrived in your living room, picked up his vintage Martin, and simply started to play.

“I always had a fantasy about doing a solo guitar project, “ Lage explains, “especially one that highlighted various orchestrational aspects of guitar playing and guitar techniques, drawing from the structure of the three to four minute song, pieces that did not depend as much on improvisation but on moods, or musical attitudes. When I started recording, I discovered what a rare opportunity this was for me to recalibrate my senses to one instrument and within that recalibration learn to savor the vast world of intimacy and nuance, both qualities so inherent to the guitar.”

While conceiving of and recording World’s Fair, Lage was inspired by the orchestral approach to the guitar of the great Andres Segovia and by the music of the early 20th Century, of “jazz before be-bop. He found a similarly unbound spirit in the early seventies work of singer-songwriters like Randy Newman, who managed to incorporate a sophisticated range of ideas into the concise pop-song format. He was drawn, in other words, to sounds that were both challenging and pleasing -- work, much like his own, that defies easy categorization.

As the New York Times has put it, the 26 year-old Lage is a an artist whose roots are “tangled in jazz, folk, classical and country music.” A child guitar prodigy, he was the subject of the 1997 Oscar-nominated documentary short, Jules at 8.; he made his first recording, with David Grisman, at the age of 11. His first recording as a leader, 2009’s Sounding Point, garnered a Grammy nomination as Best Contemporary Jazz Album. Up to now, collaboration has been essential to Lage’s process; he has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Gary Burton, Nels Cline, Fred Hersch, and Jim Hall, who was a major influence on the young Lage. His most recent project is Room, a live-in-the-studio exchange with experimental guitarist Cline. Earlier this year, he released Avalon, a duo recording with fellow guitarist Chris “Critter” Eldridge (of Punch Brothers) that surveyed the American Songbook with an easygoing virtuosity.

World’s Fair, co-produced by Matt Munisteri and engineered by Armand Hirsch, sets up a new sort of relationship between Lage and his audience, as about as one-on-one as a musician can get without physically being there. Says Lage, “Here are twelve songs that represent this opening into my world, a musical and personal aesthetic I haven’t yet had the opportunity to express in full on record. This music, these explorations, this overarching narrative -- taken together, they represent one of my long times dreams, to create music for one guitar, played by one person, for you.”

- Michael Hill
credits
released February 3, 2015

Produced by Matt Munisteri and Julian Lage
Engineered and Mixed by Armand Hirsch
Assistant Engineered by Teddy Tuthill
Mastered by Dan Millice at The Engine Room
Design: Matt Pfahlert for www.thesilentp.com

Recorded June 16-17, 2014 at Sear Sound in New York City, with the exception of "Double Stops" and "Where or When" which were recorded March 19, 2014 at Echo Mountain in Asheville, NC with Assistant Engineer, Jon Ashley. Mixed at Sterling Studios in NYC. 

Where Or When

If you’d ask me what my favorite song is, out of the hundreds of songs I’m in love with, this is the one I would answer. I fall asleep to it, wake up to it, soak in the tub with it, have haunting dreams because of it, and fell in love with my French boy more when he learned and played it on the piano for me.

This song would always have a special place in my heart and as hard as it was to do a cover of it, I sure hope I did it justice.

Riverside - Agnes Obel (Cover)

Camera Obscura - Before You Cry

Anthony Lazaro - So What You Wanna Do?

We sit in the dark
Like Bonnie & Clyde
I can feel the chemistry
And the traveling vibes

Ringing of drinks
Slow melting of ice
Can feel the space between us
Shrinking under my eyes 

I don’t wanna spend the night
Lost in small talk

I don’t wanna get outside 
Or go for a walk

I don’t want to waste my time
And cook on a flame
Just wanna face the facts
Call things by their name

So what you wanna do?
Yes I wanna lie down 
Yeah I wanna lie with you

So what you wanna do?
I just  wanna lie down
Yes I wanna lie down 
Yeah I wanna lie with you


But I know the rules
We should talk some more about the weather and the food? 

But I don’t wanna wait
Until Midnight
To spend some time alone with you 

I don’t wanna spend the night
Lost in small talk

I don’t wanna get outside 
Or go for a walk

I don’t want to waste my time
And cook on a flame

Just wanna face the facts
Call things by their name

So what you wanna do?
Yes I wanna lie down 
Yeah I wanna lie with you

But 
I just  wanna lie down
Yes I wanna lie down 
Yeah I wanna lie with you

So what you wanna do?
Yes I wanna lie down 
Yeah I wanna lie with you

But 
I just  wanna lie down
Yes I wanna lie down 
Yeah I wanna lie with you



So what you wanna do ? (sempre ?)
like to spend some time to you
It can be your place or mine

So What You Wanna Do ? (Preview)

I Don't Have Time to be in Love - Priscilla Ahn cover

Inside My Arms (feat. Braxton Cook)

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