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Title:
Laysongs [CD]
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
[New York] : Nonesuch Records, [2021]
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (40 min., 41 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Abstract:
The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, its centerpiece is the three-part Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, which was inspired by C.S. Lewis'sThe Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók'sSonata for Solo Violin.
General Note:
Title from disc label.
Songs written by Chris Thile, except "God is alive magic is afoot" by Buffy Saint-Marie and Leonard Cohen; "Sonata for solo violin" by Béla Bartok; "Won't you come and sing for me" by Hazel Dickens.
Compact disc.
Song lyrics printed on container insert.
Performers:
Performed by Chris Thile.
Contents:
Laysong -- Ecclesiastes -- God is alive magic is afoot -- Salt (in the wounds) of the Earth, pt. 1 -- Salt (in the wounds) of the Earth, pt. 2 -- Salt (in the wounds) of the Earth, pt. 3 -- Sonata for solo violin, sz. 117. Presto -- Dionysus -- Won't you come and sing for me.
Language:
English
