Name: Laysongs
Brand: Chris Thile

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0075597916188

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Softpack.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-06-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Black

140 Gram Vinyl.

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Artist

Chris Thile

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Nonesuch

Chris Thile is an American mandolin player, born on 20 February 1981 in Oceanside, California. Known for his exceptional talent and versatility, he has made a significant impact on the music industry. Thile's maternal grandfather was Robert Shallenberg, an avant-garde composer.

With a unique style that blends bluegrass, folk, and classical influences, Thile has captivated audiences worldwide. He has collaborated with renowned artists such as *Punch Brothers*, *Nickel Creek*, *The Greencards*, and more.

Thile's virtuosity on the mandolin is unmatched. His technical prowess and innovative approach have earned him numerous accolades throughout his career. Fans of *Mike Marshall*, *Alison Brown*, and other notable performers will appreciate Thile's extraordinary musical abilities.

Nonesuch is a US record label that was created in 1964 as a budget label for classical releases. It eventually expanded to include adventurous music from around the globe and world-premiere recordings of contemporary composers. Nonesuch has gone through various ownership changes over the years, including being acquired by Warner Communications in 1970 and becoming a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records in 2004.

Under the leadership of Jac Holzman, Nonesuch was established as a budget label for classical releases licensed from large record companies in Britain and France. Designed by Bill Harvey, the packaging emphasized affordability with releases marketed as "Recordings at the Price of a Quality Paperback."

In 1970, Nonesuch became part of Warner Communications (Kinney/WEA) and continued to release music under its own name along with other Elektra-based labels like Elektra and Asylum Records. The merger between Elektra and Atlantic labels in 2004 resulted in Nonesuch becoming a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records within the Warner Music Group.

Nonesuch Records releases mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile’s Laysongs. 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 contextualise and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs’ centrepiece is the three-part ‘Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth’, which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; ‘God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot’ based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens’ ‘Won’t You Come and Sing for Me’; and an original instrumental loosely modelled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in E Major.

Laysongs

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