Welcome to our new website!
…The website is a work in progress. For example we still need to add review quotes for many of the more recent releases, and organize touring info. We welcome your feedback, questions, and suggestions for improvements at info@songlines.com, or send us a message on the contact page. …
Serpentine
…ers Douglas has not studied and does not appreciate being compared to. Still, you can understand how such comparisons get made — as with Bennink he seems a little out of his own time. Dave Douglas’s piece ‘Serpentine’…sounds a bit like a Bix Beiderbecke or Hoagy Carmichael blues line from the 1920s. Bennink and Douglas had only played together a few…
The Loan
…, and without a doubt one of the boldest music hybrids to come down the pike in the last 40 years.” — Michael G. Nastos, Allmusic.com “Shepik has crafted a moving and mysterious sonic landscape…His strong original compositions use ancient sounding melodies, written in challenging time signatures, to smudge categories, while continuing to demonstrate…
Origami
…minimalism, ambient, noise, and free improv. His original compositions, combining jazz and American classical influences (Ives, Copland), and with an occasional nod to his countryman Bach, often reference a chorale-like serenity. “Origami” (set to a poem in Japanese by Reiko Aoki) begins simply but becomes both fuller and freer as the group collecti…
No Boat
…othenberg. He currently leads a quartet, Slow Motion; his composition “Chorale #1 for Eight Voices” received the ASCAP/Gershwin Award. As a sound improvisor/ composer he has created scores for radio, film, dance and theatre, including the alien language for Steven Spielberg’s Men in Black. Recent collaborations include The Last Words of Dutch Schult…
Tá Lam
…tions. Hassler is particularly effective on accordion…The combination of ‘world’ elements and very serious composing strikes a chord, and Ullman has talent to spare, both as a composer and as a soloist.” — Steven A Loewy, Allmusic.com “…ties together elements of African, Asian, and European traditions in a seamless personal musical compositional sty…
Deviantics
…r voice on the scene, telling new trumpet stories as they come to him in improvisational know-how. Fiery as this disc is at times, it is a more lyrical and introspective attempt at jazz languages than the earlier, harder Yeah No record from Vancouver’s always interesting Songlines label. Recommended here for its collective brilliance, exploratory sp…
Emit
…he composer doesn’t always know best.” “Chris Speed has become a very skilled composer and bandleader. Speed shows his versatility with freedom and composition throughout. His Middle Eastern and klezmer influences in rhythm and harmony makes the complex time signatures sound fluid. Most tunes contain placid sections, which highlights the textural ab…
Green-Wood
…is way up from sound effects and music editor to resident composer while leading jazz combos around town and occasional tours. Between 1994 and 2002 he produced and released three CDs on his own label, recording them at high-end LA studios and garnering considerable critical praise in the process (All Music Guide called him “one of the brightest lig…
Ways & Means
…rds, and their related partials that I wanted to exploit, coming from both the composed passages and the open sections. You can’t plan it, and you really can’t orchestrate it, either. “I love the challenge of writing a long-form composition, orchestrating it, and then handing off the reins of control to everyone in the group so that we have the chan…
