http://64.13.248.211/index.php en Copyright 2010 2010-09-06T23:33:25+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/new_music_available_from_nico_muhly http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/new_music_available_from_nico_muhly#When:23:33:25Z We are super happy and proud! Today has seen the release of our collaborative effort with Decca Classics; Nico Muhly's I Drink The Air Before Me. We are equally happy to tell you that the good folks at Decca are releasing another album by Nico Muhly titled A Good Understanding. While we can offer you an instant download and/or the physical pacage of the former right here — please go and check out the purchasing options and preview both albums at this newly created Decca mini-site.   As always, you can get these records from Amazon, iTunes and all good record stores. Check out Nico's blog and Decca's website for more. 2010-09-06T23:33:25+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/nico_muhly_to_release_two_albums_via_decca_classics http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/nico_muhly_to_release_two_albums_via_decca_classics#When:22:52:28Z Two brand new CDs by Nico Muhly will be released on September 6th 2010; A Good Understanding and I Drink The Air Before Me.  A Good Understanding — a collection of choral works performed by The Los Angeles Master Chorale and recorded in Disney Hall, L.A. — will be released by the legendary record label Decca Classics. The Bedroom Community produced album I Drink The Air Before Me is taken from a score created by Muhly for Stephen Petronio's ballett of the same name. This album will be released worldwide by Bedroom Community in collaboration with Decca. Of course you can get it here, directly from your favourite little indie-label! To quote Decca's press release: Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the Stephen Petronio Dance Company, the piece [I Drink The Air Before Me] was premiered in New York in early 2010 and will be performed by them at London’s Barbican in October 2010. The release will be a collaboration with the eclectic independent label Bedroom Community. “The writing was ingenious and troubled, maybe a warm-up for more ambitious orchestral scores. What made it work was the way Muhly had absorbed Petronio’s nervous, insistent choreography and echoed and extended it in his music. Well worth the watch and, even more, the listen.” – John Rockwell, ArtsJournal.com Paul Moseley, General Manager of Decca said, “For many years Decca has strived to capture on disc the very best in contemporary music. Nico Muhly is one of the most exciting and individual voices of today and we look forward to many collaborations with him." Click here to preview and pre-order I Drink The Air Before Me and receive 2 exclusive bonus tracks only available through Bedroom Community.   A Good Understanding is available from Decca, more details right here.   Here below is the full Decca press-release for both I Drink The Air Before Me and A Good Understanding. DECCA MUSIC GROUP – PRESS RELEASE 23 JULY 2010 Decca signs agreement to release new recordings 
by Nico Muhly, “the planet’s hottest composer” 
[The Daily Telegraph] Under a new agreement, Decca will release its first recording of music by young American composer Nico Muhly in Autumn 2010; an album of choral music sung by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by their Music Director Grant Gershon, entitled A Good Understanding. New York based Muhly, born in 1981 is “the planet’s hottest composer” (The Daily Telegraph). He has composed extensively for the concert hall as well as for films including The Reader, and for dance. His new opera Two Boys – commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, New York and English National Opera, will premiere in London in Spring 2011, transferring to New York in 2013. A hugely enthusiastic choral composer, Nico Muhly acknowledges that his unique musical vocabulary was fed by early experiences as a boy chorister. “Writing choral music is one of my greatest pleasures in life; I was a boy chorister with an addiction to the textures and rapturous moments that define the Anglican choral tradition. My sense of line, melody, and harmony all come from strange, specifically choral sources.” The new album was recorded in the acclaimed acoustics of the choir’s home – the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. This first release will be followed by a recording of Muhly’s acclaimed ballet score I Drink The Air Before Me. Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the Stephen Petronio Dance Company, the piece was premiered in New York in early 2010 and will be performed by them at London’s Barbican in October 2010. The release will be a collaboration with the eclectic independent label Bedroom Community. “The writing was ingenious and troubled, maybe a warm-up for more ambitious orchestral scores. What made it work was the way Muhly had absorbed Petronio’s nervous, insistent choreography and echoed and extended it in his music. Well worth the watch and, even more, the listen.” – John Rockwell, ArtsJournal.com Paul Moseley, General Manager of Decca said, “For many years Decca has strived to capture on disc the very best in contemporary music. Nico Muhly is one of the most exciting and individual voices of today and we look forward to many collaborations with him.”   2010-08-24T22:52:28+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/flaming_volcanos_cant_keep_us_away http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/flaming_volcanos_cant_keep_us_away#When:07:35:17Z The Whale Watching Tour is back for two Mini Tours to make up for the dates we had to drop in April. The first mini tour starting on the 12th of August is focusing on Germany with concerts in Hamburg, Rees-Haldern and Berlin, and the second starting September the 26 will see us in Dublin, London and Ghent.  The tour will feature Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson accompanied by Helgi Jónsson (vocals and trombone), Borgar Magnason (double-bass), Una Sveinbjarnardóttir (violin) and Nadia Sirota (viola). To find out more check out the Bedroom Community events page.  Also check out videos and photos from some of our previous shows. Hope to see you there. 2010-07-29T07:35:17+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/ben_frost_chosen_by_iconic_artist_brian_eno_for_a_year_of_mentoring_in_role http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/ben_frost_chosen_by_iconic_artist_brian_eno_for_a_year_of_mentoring_in_role#When:05:34:51Z Ben Frost is among six exceptional young talents who have been chosen by some of the world’s most distinguished artists for a year of collaboration and inspiration in the international Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, it was announced today.   Frost, 30, an acclaimed composer, producer and musician originally from Melbourne, who has lived and worked in Iceland since 2005, is the music protégé for 2010-2011. He will be mentored by Brian Eno from the U.K. who made his name with Roxy Music in the 1970s and has become a visionary composer and producer, working with many leading artists. The Arts Initiative has six disciplines: dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual arts. With four of the total 29 protégés over the five cycles of the Arts Initiative, this marks the first time an artist from Iceland has participated in this international programme. The protégés will each have their own individually tailored programme, providing time across the year for unique personal access to and creative dialogue with their mentor. In addition, the protégés will receive a grant of US$25,000 each and are eligible for a further $25,000 towards the cost of creating a project following their mentoring year. The other protégés and mentors for 2010-2011 are: Dance: Australian dancer Lee Serle, selected by mentor Trisha Brown (United States) Literature: American poet Tracy K. Smith, selected by mentor Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Germany); Visual arts: South African artist Nicholas Hlobo, who will be mentored by Anish Kapoor (United Kingdom); Theatre: Lebanese actor, writer and aspiring director Maya Zbib, whose mentor is Peter Sellars (United States); Film: Annemarie Jacir, a Palestinian film director and poet living in Jordan, who will be mentored by Zhang Yimou (China). The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative was founded in 2002. The programme is organized by a specialist team based at Rolex headquarters in Geneva. Through an Advisory Board, which recommends the mentors, and expert nominating panels, six talented, young artists around the world are sought to work alongside six major artists in the fields of dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual arts for a year of intense collaboration. Artists who have been mentors on the programme are: John Baldessari, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Sir Colin Davis, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, William Forsythe, Stephen Frears, Sir Peter Hall, David Hockney, Rebecca Horn, Jiří Kylián, Toni Morrison, Mira Nair, Youssou N’Dour, Jessye Norman, Martin Scorsese, Álvaro Siza, Wole Soyinka, Julie Taymor, Saburo Teshigawara, Mario Vargas Llosa, Kate Valk, Robert Wilson and Pinchas Zukerman. Artists, Various, 2010-06-28T05:34:51+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/ben_frost_and_daniel_bjarnasson_create_solaris_with_sinfonietta_cracovia http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/ben_frost_and_daniel_bjarnasson_create_solaris_with_sinfonietta_cracovia#When:03:16:42Z Poland's Unsound Festival has commissioned Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason to create a new piece of music inspired by Andre Tarkovsky’s 1972 film and the original novel Solaris written by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. The music will be performed live by Frost, Bjarnason and Krakow’s 28-piece Sinfonietta Cracovia. This work will be premiered at Unsound Festival in Krakow in October, and be performed at the second edition of Unsound Festival New York in April 2011. 2010-06-19T03:16:42+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/by_the_throat_and_i_see_the_sign_available_on_vinyl http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/by_the_throat_and_i_see_the_sign_available_on_vinyl#When:11:14:06Z We are exited to announce that Sam Amidon's album I See The Sign and Ben Frost's album By The Throat are now both available on vinyl. These albums have been specially mastered for vinyl and have unseen album artwork specifically designed for this format. They can be bought from all good record stores and from the following online locations:   Boomkat Kompakt Amazon Experimedia Releases, 2010-06-15T11:14:06+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/bedroom_community_gets_presidential_visit http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/bedroom_community_gets_presidential_visit#When:13:19:19Z A buzz of anticipation surrounded the studio as press, police and musicians waited for the arrival of a head of state. Greenhouse studio, which is the home of Bedroom Community record label, had a visit last week from Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. The President, a fan of Bedroom Community, was on a state visit to Iceland and wanted to experience some of the vibrant music scene for himself. A  concert for the President and 25 of his delegates was put on by Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason, accompanied by Borgar Þór Magnason (Contrabass) and  Bryndís Halla Gylfadóttir (Cello) playing tracks from Ben's album By The Throat and Daniel's album Processions. 2010-06-14T13:19:19+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/photos_from_the_tour http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/photos_from_the_tour#When:06:28:06Z Check out a photo slideshow from the recent The Whale Watching Tour. Look out for additional European dates in June, August and September on our events page.   To view this slideshow you'll need the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.   // 2010-05-02T06:28:06+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/theory_of_machines_is_back_in_stock http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/theory_of_machines_is_back_in_stock#When:16:52:31Z We have just received a fresh new stock of Ben Frost's Theory of Machines on CD in a gorgeous digisleeve package. All backorders should reach buyers very soon (volcanic ash permitting). We do apologise to those who have been waiting for their order for a while now. We'd also like to use this opportunity to inform you that Ben's latest album By The Throat is not yet available on vinyl. We have received countless requests for the vinyl edition and we are doing our best to make that happen. But truth be told we do not know when, as there have been severe design and manufacturing complications. We are doing what we can and will inform our mailing list as soon as we can. Sign up for the mailing list and you will be the first to know. 2010-05-01T16:52:31+00:00 http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/how_come_that_blood_live http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/news/article/how_come_that_blood_live#When:17:48:51Z Have you all got your hands on I See The Sign by Sam Amidon? "These are songs to live by (or in).." said Pitchfork in a recent 8.1 review. Pick up a copy at our store and judge for your self. And fresh from the Moby Dick editing-suite, here is a video filmed on the last Whale Watching Tour (which is currently blazing across Europe). 2010-04-27T17:48:51+00:00