Songs from the Alan Lomax Collection
by Andy Biskin and 16 Tons
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Sweet Betsy from Pike
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Gray Goose
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Blue Tail Fly
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Down in the Valley
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House Carpenter
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Go Fish
08:00
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Lily Munroe
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Tom Dooley
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Muskrat
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Knock John Booker
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Am I Born to Die
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Sweet Betsy from Pike
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about
"Andy Biskin seeks to find the threads between old European folk music, early American songforms and the contemporary avant-garde." —Downbeat
Clarinetist and composer Andy Biskin, who has been hailed by The New Yorker as “ahead of the curve, long gifted at balancing his musical-Americana fixation with side trips into regions unexplored” turns his focus to legendary folklorist Alan Lomax. The CD features idiosyncratic instrumental interpretations of a dozen songs chosen from Lomax’s mammoth 1960 anthology, The Folk Songs of North America. Biskin takes an unorthodox approach, blending the tunes with his own melodies, Ellingtonian touches, marching band riffs, chamber music sonorities, four-part chorales, and the manic energy of cartoon music to create surprising versions of well-known favorites as well as more obscure ballads, hymns, and children’s game songs. The music is scored for clarinet, drums, and a choir of three trumpets.
Clarinetist and composer Andy Biskin, who has been hailed by The New Yorker as “ahead of the curve, long gifted at balancing his musical-Americana fixation with side trips into regions unexplored” turns his focus to legendary folklorist Alan Lomax. The CD features idiosyncratic instrumental interpretations of a dozen songs chosen from Lomax’s mammoth 1960 anthology, The Folk Songs of North America. Biskin takes an unorthodox approach, blending the tunes with his own melodies, Ellingtonian touches, marching band riffs, chamber music sonorities, four-part chorales, and the manic energy of cartoon music to create surprising versions of well-known favorites as well as more obscure ballads, hymns, and children’s game songs. The music is scored for clarinet, drums, and a choir of three trumpets.
credits
released June 27, 2018
Produced by Andy Biskin
Recorded January 12, 2018 at EastSide Sound Studios, NYC
Engineered and mixed by Marc Urselli
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk NY
Andy Biskin clarinet/bass clarinet
John Carlson trumpet
Dave Smith trumpet
Kenny Warren trumpet
Rob Garcia drums
Cover image by Eric Drooker
Design and hand lettering by Lizi Breit
All Arrangements by Andy Biskin / Andoor Music (SESAC)
Track 6 composed by Andy Biskin, all others Traditional
Produced by Andy Biskin
Recorded January 12, 2018 at EastSide Sound Studios, NYC
Engineered and mixed by Marc Urselli
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk NY
Andy Biskin clarinet/bass clarinet
John Carlson trumpet
Dave Smith trumpet
Kenny Warren trumpet
Rob Garcia drums
Cover image by Eric Drooker
Design and hand lettering by Lizi Breit
All Arrangements by Andy Biskin / Andoor Music (SESAC)
Track 6 composed by Andy Biskin, all others Traditional
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