#laysongs

[nonesuchrecords]

Chris Thile was on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to perform some Bach and music from his 2021 solo album, Laysongs, and to talk with presenter Luke Jones about the album and more. You can hear the episode here.

Thile kicks off a tour of the UK and Ireland with Sam Amidon in Bristol tonight, followed by shows in Coventry, London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Dublin. Details/tickets here.

#chris thile #bbc radio 4 #front row #bach #laysongs #mandolin #folk music #live music #luke jones #sam amidon #on tour #nonesuch #nonesuch records

[sharkeysnight]

there really is something deeply soothing and almost sacred to me abt curling up and listening to all ashore (album) in the morning sun

#its the same way with listening to like. laysongs or phosphorescent blues right before dawn #some people were just put on the earth to make morning music idk!!! #punchposting #delete later #i loooove living somewhere that gets morning sun lol

[inlovewitheasefuldeath]

something something EU timezone so i only saw this now but if you get a bingo we're now legally married, sorry, i don't make the rules. i literally could've made one with only taylor swift and chris thile projects lmao. album names under the cut :)

From top left going left to right:

Fearless (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift Ahoy! - Punch Brothers Folklore - Taylor Swift Punch - Punch Brothers A Dotted Line - Nickel Creek In the Heights Broadway Soundtrack Midnights - Taylor Swift Laysongs - Chris Thile Say I Am You - The Weepies Evermore - Taylor Swift Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau Next to Normal Broadway Soundtrack Free space! (though it looks like Blackstar lmao) reputation - Taylor Swift Hell on Church Street - Punch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now? - Punch Brothers Lover - Taylor Swift Lonely Runs Both Ways - Alison Krauss & Union Station Why Should the Fire Die? - Nickel Creek Rent Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Inside (The Songs) - Bo Burnham Deceiver - Chris Thile The Phosphorescent Blues - Punch Brothers Red (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift Pony - Orville Peck

#swiftiebingonight #please i need new people to follow on here lmao #taylor swift

[lyriquediscorde]

I have to get out of California

"Awaken and Allow" by Shannon Lay - Song of the Day

Songs about California, the love of it, the loathing of it, the returning, and the leaving. I’m a lover of all the California songs. This morning, cup of coffee in hand, “Awaken and Allow” by Shannon Lay starts playing. Discovering new music is my love language, my kink, one of my most favorite of things. “Awaken and Allow” by Shannon LaySong of the Day Shannon’s music are described as indie,…

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#Shannon Lay #song of the day #SOTD

[eternitainment]

Watch "Norah Jones, Chris Thile - Won't You Come and Sing For Me (Live)" on YouTube

I loved this collaboration between Chris Thile and Norah Jones. The song comes from Chris Thile’s album Laysongs Won’t You Come and Sing for Me (Chris Thile) I feel the shadows now upon meAnd the angels beckon to meBefore I go dear sisters and brothersWon’t you come and sing for meSing those hymns we sang togetherIn that plain little church with the benches all wornHow dear to my heart how…

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#americana #church #death #folk

[dustedmagazine]

Chris Thile — Laysongs (Nonesuch)

Photo by Josh Goleman

Chris Thile first came to prominence on mandolin, breaking out (musically) as a kid in bluegrass and Americana both with Nickel Creek and on his own. Though he was a prodigy in that field, he's never been stuck in one genre for long. His interest in classical music has driven some of his work, and his collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, and Edgar Meyer for The Goat Rodeo Sessions revealed a joy in cross-genre weirdness. Now he releases his first album that's simply him — just mandolin and vocals — and he throws in a thematic challenge by tackling big spiritual topics. Laysongs blends secular and sacred, bluegrass and classical, scripture and Greek ecstasy for an album that's as much a question as a statement.

The album grew out of Thile's “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth” sequence, inspired by C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, a literary take on a demon mentoring a novice. The devil in Thile's trilogy gets meaner as he goes, offering some hot (so to speak) takes along the way, like, “And they've become the church / Rubbing salt in the wounds of the earth / In the name of a savior / Who only seems to save their sense of worth.” The mandolin sounds uneasy throughout the three tracks, turning mostly into background for the furious and dramatic finale. 

That third of the album takes on an anti-religious voice in character, but it does so as part of a broader questioning. Thile works through agnostic meditations by raising questions and exploring ideas unusual in the Christian milieu he navigates. The instrumental “Ecclesiastes” provides a sincere and uplifting take on Ecclesiastes 2:24: “A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God.” That bit of wisdom proves to be inspiring, guiding Thile through a melodic piece. 

Finding a track titled “Dionysus” comes as a surprise, then, its bacchanal offering a different approach to the value of eating, drinking and satisfying. Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot” likewise winds through its spiritual musings with complicated language and an energetic performance. Thile keeps his listeners off balance. For every nod to bluegrass, there's a nod to classical music, all intermingled with shifting spiritual ideas. Where Thile previously demonstrated his love for Bach, he now tests himself with Bartók, a move that has as much religious implication as it does musical.

After all that, he ends with Hazel Dickens' “Won't You Come and Sing for Me,” a church-y, end-of-life bluegrass number. Closing the album with such a number suggest Thile (or at least the Thile of the album) continues to search without devaluing his roots. Picking a Dickens number further hints that there's a physical grounding to all this work. Tying this cut with “Ecclesiastes” takes the spiritual search out of the ethereal and grounds it in an embodied present. It's a finish as smart as it is enjoyable, one more twist from Thile on an album with plenty of musical and lyrical bends. 

Justin Cober-Lake

#chris thile #laysongs #nonesuch #justin cober-lake #albumreview #dusted magazine #bluegrass #americana #mandolin #classical music #spiritual music

[yamabra-extra]

CHRIS THILE / Laysongs

「Punch Brothersの」なんて説明はもはや無意味だと思いますが、知らない人も少しはいるかも。そう、マンドリン奏者、歌手、作曲家としてPunch Brothersも牽引するChris Thileのソロ・アルバムです。本作は彼のソロの中でも、歌とマンドリンだけによる作品として貴重なもの。超絶技巧の演奏はもちろん、歌い手・作曲家としてもより深化を遂げた素晴らしいアルバムです。

⭐️LAYSONGS

#CHRIS THILE

[criminalrecordsatl]

Hi! It’s Thursday. 🙃 The shop is open 12-6pm today. Let’s take a look at some of the ohhhsomany featured new music releases out tomorrow, Friday 06/04. *Remember that online / CriminalATL.com inventory differs from in-store inventory so when in doubt please contact the shop directly.* Ok, here we go: Billy F Gibbons - Hardware // Cheap Trick - In Another World // Chris Thile - Laysongs // Cleopatrick - Bummer // Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting (slide thru now) // Liz Phair - Soberish // Mark Collie - Book Of My Blues // Mike Cooley, Paterson Hood, Jason Isbell - Live At The Flat Shoals Theatre // Mumps - Rock & Roll This... // Night Beats - Outlaw R&B // Red Fang - Arrows (slide thru again;) Rise Against - Nowhere Generation // The Avalanches - Since I Left You // Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy. TBC in a lil while. Thank you for all of your support! 💙 (at Criminal Records Atlanta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPqgxUmlj1O/?utm_medium=tumblr

[krispyweiss]

Chris Thile and Aoife O’Donovan Livestream from Studio 9, North Adams, Mass., March 12, 2021

It was December 2020 when Chris Thile and Aoife O’Donovan headed into Studio 9 in Massachusetts to lay down tracks for a late-winter 2021 webcast.

Pushed out March 12 - it’s available through March 18 - and followed by a live Q&A, the set found the often-esoteric Thile and the homespun O’Donovan performing alone and together in an hourlong set encompassing samplings from solo albums, covers of everyone from Bach to Radiohead and selections from Thile’s Punch Brothers and O’Donovan’s I’m With Her, along with Goat Rodeo, their collaborative band with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan and Edgar Meyer.

Surrounded by glass walls, a snowy landscape and performing on a Persian rug in the otherwise-empty space, the pair opened with O’Donovan’s “Porch Light” as his mandolin and her acoustic guitar wound around each other as tightly as their voices.

It was collaborations such as this - reprised on I’m With Her’s “Ryland (Under the Apple Tree)” and “Elephant in the Room,” Thile’s whimsical tale of Thanksgiving gone awry - that the pandemic-style concert was most alluring. Other numbers, such as Thile’s “Laysong,” are so out there that you’ve really got to be in the same room to appreciate it, even as his sheer talent caused O’Donovan to gaze at him occasionally with a Dude, WTF? look of amazement.

And when he scribbled all over her Joni Mitchell-inspired “King of all Birds,” O’Donovan gave Thile a Thank you very much look of amazement.

Looking, as usual, as if he’d just rolled out of bed with mussed hair, a three-day beard and tie askew, Thile played Bach on mandolin; quoted his young son as asking, “Is God just some monster dude who takes care of everything?;” previewed songs from a forthcoming, recorded-in-quarantine solo record; and helped O’Donovan turn Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” into an Americana duet for the COVID era.

Strangely, the buffering issues that plagued the pre-recorded portion vanished during the live session as the two friends and collaborators reminisced remotely about past gigs, shared musical influences, their favorite whiskeys and promised to never again pass up an opportunity to play a late-night jam at a festival.

Grade card: Chris Thile and Aoife O’Donovan Livestream from Studio 9, North Adams, Mass., March 12, 2021 - B

3/13/21

#chris thile #the punch brothers #aoife o'donovan #i’m with her #crooked still #nickel creek #radiohead #j. s. bach #bach #joni mitchell #goat rodeo #yo yo ma #edgar meyer #stuart duncan

[nonesuchrecords]

"'I would say it’s centered around communion, and a yearning for it, and a mistrust of it,'" Chris Thile tells the New York Times of his upcoming solo album, Laysongs. "The album is an attempt 'to push back against that element of exclusion that comes with building community' ... and against how 'we then isolate ourselves with those people that we love.'"

#chris thile #laysongs #mandolin #new york times #nickel creek #punch brothers #nonesuch #nonesuch records

[sharkeysnight]

deeply debating roasting broccoli for a little snack, right now, at 2 am, so that’s how ive been doing

#delete later #like fully sitting here deeply contemplating whether im too stoned to cook quietly enough not to wake up my mom fhdjdbdnfn #anyways my sweet cat died extremely suddenly a week ago we picked up the ashes today and im coping w this by listening to laysongs on the fl #floor in the middle of the night. This album can fix me probably

[cedeterija]

Noviteti #christhile #laysongs #christilemusic #christhilemusic #christhilemandolin #christhilefanclub #christhilenewalbum #newmusic #newalbum #newrelease #aquariusmusicshop #cedeterija (at Zagreb, Croatia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQOBSACrn6j/?utm_medium=tumblr

#christhile #laysongs #christilemusic #christhilemusic #christhilemandolin #christhilefanclub #christhilenewalbum #newmusic #newalbum #newrelease #aquariusmusicshop #cedeterija

[youtream]

Chris Thile - Won't You Come and Sing for Me Mp3 Download

Song: Chris Thile - Won't You Come and Sing for Me Mp3 Download Album: Laysongs Artists: Chris Thile, Stream Link: Chris Thile - Won't You Come and Sing for Me Mp3 Download

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[globalworship]

"Hymns for the Churchless" (Chris Thile)

What follows are some excerpts and summaries from this thought-provoking article: "Mandolinist and singer-songwriter Chris Thile writes psalms for those who struggle to believe — or belong" by Elyse Durham https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/09/16/chris-thile-laysongs-mandolin-review-241284

A brand new phenomenon: "psalms for those who struggle to believe - or belong" - "hymns for the churchless." Renowned sInger-songwriter Chris Thile was raised a fundamentalist evangelical Christian who used to sing about his faith as a teen. Today, at 40, he is an agnostic who belongs to the "nones" group who reply "none" to the survey question asking for the respondent religion. Today his songs are "simply and honestly about his struggle to believe".

"Though now churchless, Thile still feels a pull to belong to something larger than himself. But where to find it?" His latest solo album "Laysongs" arises out of this "feeling of rootlessness" and is an attempt to recreate "the feeling of oneness" that comes from gathering together in song - even as the pandemic keeps everyone apart. "Thile also imagined “Laysongs” as a collection of hymns for the churchless."

"In a deft nine tracks, it spans the entire emotional range...doubt, despair and even ecstatic outpourings of praise. For people of faith, “Laysongs” also provides an opportunity to glimpse inside the religious longings of those outside the church."

"Bookended by the hymnlike “Laysong” and “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me” (a Hazel Dickens cover), “Laysongs” extols the value of community. Gathering together brings comfort, catharsis and shared wisdom to the afflicted.

And yet Thile laments the disorientation of the post-religious landscape, where “our souls are untethered/ And nothing’s sacred or profane,” a state that has left everyone “out of breath” (“Laysong”). Humans are “a species at war/ With itself since the day it was born” (“Dionysus”). Death is ever-present and greatly feared (“Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth”), and the narrator of “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me” yearns for an afterlife, “where there’s no more sad parting.”

The album’s ecstatic zenith is “God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot.” An effervescent reimagining of a 1969 song - the lyrics are a poem by Leonard Cohen, set to music by Buffy Sainte-Marie. “God Is Alive” displays Thile’s virtuosity at its finest. He plays (and sings) like he has found the news the world has always waited for.

[hear Thile's version below]

“God Is Alive” is the closest “Laysongs” comes to a declaration of faith. Its lyrics were penned by the late Jewish singer and poet Leonard Cohen, who was fond of referring to Christ in his work. In mystical, twisting language, Cohen tells of foolish unbelievers (“Though mountains danced before them/ They said that God was dead”) and the resiliency of faith (“Though his death was published/ Round and round the world/ The heart did not believe”), of God’s purposes persisting in spite of the hypocrisy of those who “locked their coffers.” Most surprising of all, Cohen writes—and Thile sings—of the reality of the Resurrection: “Though his shrouds were hoisted/ The naked God did live.”

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The entire article is excellent, read it at https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/09/16/chris-thile-laysongs-mandolin-review-241284

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Here is Chris Thile's recent version of "God is Alive," with lyrics by Leonard Cohen and music by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

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