Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges

Constellation

£12.39

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: CST075LP
Barcode: 0666561007515
Release Date: 21 Jul 2023
Genre: Alternative

Colin Stetson is a horn player of uncommon strength, skill and genre- defying creativity. He composes and performs otherworldly songs that combine a mastery of circular breathing technique with percussive valve- work and reed vocalisations, making a polyphonic solo music that combines influences as diverse as Bach, early metal, American pre-war Gospel, and the explorations of Jimi Hendrix, Peter Brotzman and Albert Ayler. New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges is Stetson's second solo record and his first for Constellation. Colin has been making his mark as a staggering solo performer for several years now, in front of audiences small and large, from intimate jazz and experimental music venues to big stages, whether opening for Arcade Fire or The National, or playing at jazz and new music festivals like Moers and London Jazz. His talents have been widely recognised and employed by artists as diverse as Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, TV On The Radio and Bon Iver. Colin also plays in Belle Orchestre and Sway Machinery. The music on New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges was captured entirely live in single takes at Montréal's Hotel2Tango studio, with no overdubs or looping, using over 20 mics positioned close and far throughout the live room. Guest vocals by Laurie Anderson and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) are the only exceptions to this rule, along with one brief french horn piece that was multi-tracked. “Sounds like nothing else” – PITCHFORK (8.2) // “Phenomenal” – BLURT (10/10) // “Pure revelation” – ALL ABOUT JAZZ // “A must have” – LOUD VINE // TOP 25 RECORDS OF 2011 SO FAR: THE QUIETUS, ALARM PRESS, TINY MIX TAPES.

1. Awake on foreign shores 2. Judges 3. The stars in his head (Dark Lights Remix) 4. All the days I've missed you (ILAIJ I) 5. From no part of me could I summon a voice 6. A dream of water 7. Home 8. Lord I just can't keep from crying sometimes 9. Clothed in the skin of the dead 10. All the colors bleached to white (ILAIJ II) 11. Red Horse (Judges ll) 12. The righteous wrath of an honorable man 13. Fear of the unknown and The Blazing Sun 14. In love and in justice