Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part CD + MP3 Bundle

Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part CD + MP3 BundleLet the Soil Play Its Simple Part is an album of songs written and performed by Caroline Shaw and S Percussion. With Shaw on vocals and S filling out this new band, they developed songs in the studio, with lyrics inspired by their own wide ranging interests: James Joyce, the Sacred Harp hymnal, a poem by Anne Carson, the Bibles Book of Ruth, the American roots tune Ill Fly Away, the pop music of ABBA, and more.

This third volume in the Randy Newman Songbook series

Recorded during a concert in Brazil in 2015

which he plays on his phalanx of remarkable

The film is directed by Ken Burns

The album was recorded during the pandemic with producer Brad Cook (Waxahatchee

which was pressed on Wadud's label

KCRW calls it Veloso "at his best

and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello

considers it a dialogue between herself and two fado singers who blazed a trail for her: Beatriz da Conceição and Teresa Siqueira (her mother)

" "You will find it difficult if not impossible to get this disc out of your machine for quite a while

expanding the string quartet repertoire with works from across genres

" Rolling Stone says: "A perfect match of sound and soul