View basket “Alone Together” has been added to your basket. Amaryllis & Belladonna Mary Halvorson SKU: 0075597912708 Barcode: 0075597912708 30.00 £30.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Nonesuch Released Date: 13th May 2022 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ‘An unflinching original who has revealed new possibilities within the music.’ – New York Times ‘During the last decade, Halvorson has reimagined the rules and roles of jazz guitar by pairing a graceful approach to melody with an iron will to warp, corrupt, and subvert it.’ – Pitchfork ‘The most future-seeking guitarist working right now, thinking out the instrument on a level most couldn’t comprehend.’ – NPR Nonesuch Records releases twin label debut albums, Amaryllis and Belladonna, from Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson. The two suites, which Halvorson describes as “modular and interlocking,” were performed at Brooklyn’s Roulette last fall. The records, produced and mixed by John Dieterich (Deerhoof), will be available as a two-LP vinyl set or as two separate CDs, and also will be available digitally. Halvorson and the ensembles celebrate the albums’ release with a special performance of the two suites at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on May 18. Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers, including Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). The Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has written to date. The suite showcases Halvorson’s many musical influences from jazz, experimental, new music, and beyond. Belladonna is a set of five compositions written for Halvorson on guitar plus The Mivos Quartet: Olivia De Prato (violin), Maya Bennardo (violin), Victor Lowrie Tafoya (viola), and Tyler J. Borden (cello). It is Halvorson’s first time writing for a string quartet. Mivos’ parts are through-composed and augmented by Halvorson’s guitar improvisations. Halvorson says, “Amaryllis features some of my favorite musicians on the planet. I started writing the music in 2020, when the world slowed and most activities came to a halt, and all I had was my guitar, a pencil, some staff paper, and a computer. The pleasure of imagining what the music might sound like kept me sane during that time and gave me reason to push forward. “Around the same time, I was listening to a lot of string quartet music. I had a few orchestration books lying around my apartment, and ample time to take composition lessons. Writing for string quartet has always been a dream of mine, but something that seemed intimidating and somehow out of reach. But with a clear schedule and endless days stretching out in front of me, it felt like the right time to finally go for it,” she continues. “Working with the Mivos Quartet was a dream. After I composed the Belladonna record, for string quartet and guitar, I wanted to keep going, so I started adding string quartet parts to the Amaryllis sextet music, too. Hence the project ultimately circled back around to contain both groups, as a tentet,” Halverson concludes. “I liked the notion that the projects are modular – they can exist separately or come together as one large ensemble.” Nonesuch President David Bither says, “I am so pleased to welcome Mary to Nonesuch. We first talked a number of years ago and I said to Mary, when the time comes that you have a project that would benefit from us working together, please tell me. She sent a note about nine months into the pandemic asking if that invitation was still good, and I was happy to respond that it was. For all of the remarkable music Mary has made over the past fifteen years, I think Amaryllis and Belladonna represent a next step forward for her – which is saying a great deal given the many forward steps she has taken in her career.” Rolling Stone said, ‘Mary Halvorson’s guitar playing can be challenging and at times even confrontational, but it is never conventional. A fixture in avant-garde and improvisational music circles, the New York City-based guitarist is just as likely to pick out intricate, harmonically and melodically complex lines of stunning beauty as she is to unleash a violent spray of atonal, harshly distorted six-string noise.’ Halvorson has released a series of critically acclaimed albums, from Dragon’s Head (2008), her trio debut featuring bassist John Hébert and drummer Ches Smith, expanding to a quintet with trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon on Saturn Sings (2010) and Bending Bridges (2012), a septet with tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and trombonist Jacob Garchik on Illusionary Sea (2014), and finally an octet with pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn on Away With You (2016). She also released the solo recording Meltframe (2015), and most recently debuted Code Girl (2018, 2020), a new ensemble featuring vocalist Amirtha Kidambi (singing Halvorson’s own lyrics), trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, saxophonist and vocalist María Grand, bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara. One of New York City’s most in-demand guitarists, over the past decade Halvorson has worked with such diverse musicians as Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum, John Dieterich, Trevor Dunn, Bill Frisell, Ingrid Laubrock, Jason Moran, Joe Morris, Tom Rainey, Jessica Pavone, Tomeka Reid, Marc Ribot, and John Zorn. She is also part of several collaborative projects, most notably the longstanding trio Thumbscrew with Michael Formanek on bass and Tomas Fujiwara on drums. Artist Mary Halvorson Genre Jazz Label Nonesuch Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A - Amaryllis Night Shift Anesthesia Amaryllis Side B - Amaryllis Side Effect Hoodwink 892 Teeth Side C – Belladonna Nodding Yellow Moonburn Flying Song Side D – Belladonna Haunted Head Belladonna Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Mary Halvorson and more from Jazz View Product Quick View Mary Halvorson Cloudward Jazz | Nonesuch | 1LP Released 19th January 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mary Halvorson Cloudward £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597902334 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Red Mitchell Rejoice Jazz | Jazz Workshop | 180g, 1LP Released 14th October 2013 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Red Mitchell Rejoice £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Jazz Workshop SKU: LPJW038 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Baden Powell Images On Guitar Jazz | MPS | 1LP Released 24th June 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baden Powell Images On Guitar £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: MPS SKU: 0210990MSW Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges Side By Side Jazz | Analogue Productions | 200g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 25th July 2013 £60.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges Side By Side £60.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AVRJ610945 Formats: 200g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 25th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alphonse Mouzon By All Means Jazz | MPS | 1LP Released 4th March 2022 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alphonse Mouzon By All Means £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: MPS SKU: 0215722MSW Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis Live at the Blackhawk Friday and Saturday Nights 1961 Jazz | Impex Records | 180g, 2LP Released 18th February 2012 £56.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis Live at the Blackhawk Friday and Saturday Nights 1961 £56.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impex Records SKU: IMP6009 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 18th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bad Plus The Bad Plus Jazz | Edition Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th February 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bad Plus The Bad Plus £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Edition Records SKU: EDNLP1208 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Coltrane My Favorite Things Jazz | Atlantic | 180g, 1LP Released 23rd July 2010 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Coltrane My Favorite Things £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Atlantic SKU: 8122798049 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 23rd July 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis Volume 2 – Classic Vinyl Series Jazz | Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 15th March 2024 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis Volume 2 – Classic Vinyl Series £26.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note SKU: 5831995 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 15th March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chet Baker Sings and Plays with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings Jazz | Doxy | 180g, 1LP Released 18th June 2012 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chet Baker Sings and Plays with Bud Shank, Russ Freeman and Strings £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Doxy SKU: DOX866LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th June 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View McCoy Tyner McCoy Tyner – The Montreux Years Jazz | BMG Rights Management | 180g, 2LP Released 23rd June 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders McCoy Tyner McCoy Tyner – The Montreux Years £28.00 Genre: Jazz Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538889482 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 23rd June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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