CHRIS THILE - Laysongs - LP - Vinyl

LABEL: Nonesuch

CAT NO: 0075597916171

BARCODE: 0075597916171

Tracklisting:

1. Laysong
2. Ecclesiastes
3. God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot
4. Salt (In The Wounds) Of The Earth, Pt. 1
5. Salt (In The Wounds) Of The Earth, Pt. 2
6. Salt (In The Wounds) Of The Earth, Pt. 3
7. Sonata For Solo Violin, Sz. 117: IV. Presto
8. Dionysus
9. Won’t You Come And Sing For Me

CHRIS THILE – Laysongs

LP – Vinyl

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.