Spinner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for the National and Interpol . Mum member and Finnish percussionist Samuli Josminen and composer Nico Muhly also contributed to the album, which was recorded in both Iceland and Connecticut.
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | yesterday
... debut, a nine-track effort titled simply Go . The effort will include contributions from composer Nico Muhly (Björk, Grizzly Bear ), who arranged the whole damn thing!, as well as his Riceboy Sleeps partner Alex Somers, Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), and Samuli Kosminen (múm). Oh, and it’s also probably worth noting that Birgisson will be singing primarily in English, so you’ll...
eighteen seconds before sunrise (Free subscription) | yesterday
... joyful and dramatic album, featuring ecstatic string, brass and woodwind arrangements by composer nico muhly (antony & the johnsons, grizzly bear), as well as warmer, more melancholic moments. in the coming weeks, jónsi’s official site www.jonsi.com will be updated with exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and videos of jónsi and collaborators making the record. in addition you can...
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Sigur Rós's Jónsi Birgisson has a solo album on the way titled Go , which the band's site mentions "will be largely acoustic and feature string arrangements from contemporary classical composer Nico Muhly." The first track from the Peter Katis-produced album up for grabs is "Boy Lilikoi," which is majestic of course, and in English which apparently is...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
"Boy Lilikoi" is the first track to trickle down from Jonsi's upcoming solo LP, and what do you know, he's singing in English! The whole album is a collaboration with composer Nico Muhly, and on this track, at least, Muhly and Jonsi have created a very sunny, spaceous song, with Jonsi's faintly ethereal voice underlined mainly by bright, fluttering percussion. Also,...
Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... on April 16 and 17 Alan Gilbert leads the musicians and baritone Thomas Hampson , with works by Nico Muhly , Matthias Pintscher and Sean Shepherd . And the New York Philharmonic would like a few lucky souls to come hear it for free ! We have three pairs of tickets to the Dec 19th 7p.m. concert at the Met Museum, and we’d like to give them away to the first three correct answerers...
The Buzzing Reed, David Thomas Clarinet Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The Buzzing Reed is privileged to be the first to announce the December rankings for classical music blogs from Wikio. Wikio is the number 1 news aggregator and blog-indexing website in Europe, which indexes nearly 200,000 English-language sources. Apparently The Buzzing Reed moved up a few notches to number 25 from 106 last month. Thank [...]
