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PARAORCHESTRA With Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood [feat. Nadine Shah and Gwenno]
DEATH SONGBOOK CD ALBUM
£11.00
Release Date: Apr 19, 2024
Discs: 1
A groundbreaking collaboration featuring exquisite reimaginings of iconic songs about death, loss, and transcendence.
Death Songbook is an exquisite and unique collaboration between Suede’s Brett Anderson, Charles Hazlewood and Paraorchestra featuring special guests Nadine Shah and Gwenno. The album features delicate new interpretations of iconic songs by the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Suede, Depeche Mode, Mercury Rev and Japan tackling themes of death, the death of love, anxiety, loss and transcendence. Paraorchestra is the world's first large-scale virtuoso ensemble of professional disabled and non-disabled musicians. The CD and LP packages feature beautiful photography from the original recordings at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
Tracklisting:
1. The Killing Moon (original composition – Echo & The Bunnymen)
2. Unsung (Brett Anderson)
3. Holes (feat. Nadine Shah) – (orig comp – Mercury Rev)
4. Nightporter (orig comp – David Sylvian, JAPAN)
5. She Still Leads Me On (orig comp Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood) - LIVE
6. Wonderful Life (orig comp Colin Vearncombe)
7. The Next Life (orig comp Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, SUEDE)
8. He's Dead (orig comp Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler/SUEDE)
9. Enjoy The Silence (feat. Gwenno) (orig comp David Gahan/Depeche Mode) - LIVE
10. The End Of The World (feat. Nadine Shah) – (orig comp Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee)
11. My Death (orig comp Jacque Brel) - LIVE
12. Brutal Lover (orig comp Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood) - LIVE
PARAORCHESTRA With Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood [feat. Nadine Shah and Gwenno]
DEATH SONGBOOK DOUBLE LP
£28.00
Release Date: Apr 19, 2024
Discs: 2
A groundbreaking collaboration featuring exquisite reimaginings of iconic songs about death, loss, and transcendence.
Death Songbook is an exquisite and unique collaboration between Suede’s Brett Anderson, Charles Hazlewood and Paraorchestra featuring special guests Nadine Shah and Gwenno. The album features delicate new interpretations of iconic songs by the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Suede, Depeche Mode, Mercury Rev and Japan tackling themes of death, the death of love, anxiety, loss and transcendence. Paraorchestra is the world's first large-scale virtuoso ensemble of professional disabled and non-disabled musicians. The CD and LP packages feature beautiful photography from the original recordings at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
Side A:
1. The Killing Moon (original composition – Echo & The Bunnymen)
2. Unsung (Brett Anderson)
3. Holes (feat. Nadine Shah) – (orig comp – Mercury Rev)
Side B:
4. Nightporter (orig comp – David Sylvian, JAPAN)
5. She Still Leads Me On (orig comp Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood) - LIVE
6. Wonderful Life (orig comp Colin Vearncombe)
Side C:
7. The Next Life (orig comp Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, SUEDE)
8. He's Dead (orig comp Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler/SUEDE)
9. Enjoy The Silence (feat. Gwenno) (orig comp David Gahan/Depeche Mode) - LIVE
Side D:
10. The End Of The World (feat. Nadine Shah) – (orig comp Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee)
11. My Death (orig comp Jacque Brel) - LIVE
12. Brutal Lover (orig comp Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood) - LIVE
PARAORCHESTRA With Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood [feat. Nadine Shah and Gwenno]
DEATH SONGBOOK DOUBLE LP & CD ALBUM WITH SIGNED ART CARD
£35.00
Release Date: Apr 19, 2024
This multi buy includes:
Death Songbook CD Album
Death Songbook Double LP
Death Songbook Signed Art Card
Exclusive Death Songbook cover art 12''x12'' print, signed by Charles Hazlewood available in bundle of both formats only - whilst stock lasts.
A groundbreaking collaboration featuring exquisite reimaginings of iconic songs about death, loss, and transcendence.
Death Songbook is an exquisite and unique collaboration between Suede’s Brett Anderson, Charles Hazlewood and Paraorchestra featuring special guests Nadine Shah and Gwenno. The album features delicate new interpretations of iconic songs by the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen, Suede, Depeche Mode, Mercury Rev and Japan tackling themes of death, the death of love, anxiety, loss and transcendence. Paraorchestra is the world's first large-scale virtuoso ensemble of professional disabled and non-disabled musicians. The CD and LP packages feature beautiful photography from the original recordings at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.
Side A:
1. The Killing Moon (original composition – Echo & The Bunnymen)
2. Unsung (Brett Anderson)
3. Holes (feat. Nadine Shah) – (orig comp – Mercury Rev)
Side B:
4. Nightporter (orig comp – David Sylvian, JAPAN)
5. She Still Leads Me On (orig comp Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood) - LIVE
6. Wonderful Life (orig comp Colin Vearncombe)
Side C:
7. The Next Life (orig comp Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler, SUEDE)
8. He’s Dead (orig comp Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler/SUEDE)
9. Enjoy The Silence (feat. Gwenno) (orig comp David Gahan/Depeche Mode) - LIVE
Side D:
10. The End Of The World (feat. Nadine Shah) – (orig comp Arthur Kent and Sylvia Dee)
11. My Death (orig comp Jacque Brel) - LIVE
12. Brutal Lover (orig comp Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood) - LIVE
Death Song Book Album release
Re: Death Song Book Album release
1st March 2024
Suede’s Brett Anderson shares “stunning” cover of Echo & The Bunnymen’s classic ‘The Killing Moon’
The cover is taken from a new project Anderson has worked on with Charles Hazlewood and the Paraorchestra, 'Death Songbook'
By
Emma Wilkes
Suede‘s Brett Anderson has released a cover of the Echo & the Bunnymen’s classic ‘The Killing Moon’ as part of a new project.
Anderson has worked with Paraorchestra and their founder and artistic director Charles Hazlewood on ‘Death Songbook’, a collaborative 12-track album featuring original compositions and “re-imagining iconic songs exploring love, loss and transcendence” by artists including Depeche Mode, Suede and Japan. The album includes guest features by Nadine Shah, Gwenno, Seb Rochford of Sons of Kemet and Adrian Utley of Portishead.
Paraorchestra is the world’s only ensemble consisting of both professional disabled and non-disabled musicians playing an unconventional mix of traditional orchestral, acoustic, and electronic instruments and using assistive technology.
‘Death Songbook’ will be released on April 19 via BMG.
Check out Anderson’s cover of ‘The Killing Moon’ below:
“The Death Songbook was an idea Charles came up with during the bleak days of lockdown. As soon as he suggested it, I was sold,” Anderson said in a press release. “I loved the idea of curating a suite of songs about loss and sadness and regret. I’ve always found happy songs depressing, it’s been the murkier themes that have somehow sounded more joyous to me. Songs about doubt and fear and grief confront feelings we all struggle with, so to know that we are not alone in that fight can be quietly life-affirming.”
Anderson helped to curate the album, the only rule being that all the songs have to have a relationship to death or the death of love.”
“So much of the greatest art, certainly from my point of view, is intrinsically melancholic,” said Hazlewood. “Music which is about death, or the death of love, about loss, about anxiety, there’s a transcendence in that music. My go to, whether I’m feeling happy or sad or somewhere in between, will be melancholy music because that’s where the catharsis is, that’s where art is most resonant.”
Most of the album was recorded live in an afternoon during lockdown, socially distanced across Europe’s largest opera stage – the Donald Gordon Theatre at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Three more songs were recorded in October 2022, when the project returned there for a live performance.
The tracklisting of ‘The Death Songbook’ is:
‘The Killing Moon’
‘Unsung’
‘Holes (featuring Nadine Shah)’
‘Nightporter’
‘She Still Leads Me On’ (live)
‘Wonderful Life’
‘The Next Life’
‘He’s Dead’
‘Enjoy The Silence’ (featuring Gwenno – live)
‘The End Of he World’ (featuring Nadine Shah)
‘My Death’ (live)
‘Brutal Lover’ (live)
The project is also sent to be brought to life in front of an audience for two shows at London’s Roundhouse and Manchester’s Aviva Studios on April 24 and April 26 respectively – find tickets here.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/suedes-b ... ZWqll6eBRg
Suede’s Brett Anderson shares “stunning” cover of Echo & The Bunnymen’s classic ‘The Killing Moon’
The cover is taken from a new project Anderson has worked on with Charles Hazlewood and the Paraorchestra, 'Death Songbook'
By
Emma Wilkes
Suede‘s Brett Anderson has released a cover of the Echo & the Bunnymen’s classic ‘The Killing Moon’ as part of a new project.
Anderson has worked with Paraorchestra and their founder and artistic director Charles Hazlewood on ‘Death Songbook’, a collaborative 12-track album featuring original compositions and “re-imagining iconic songs exploring love, loss and transcendence” by artists including Depeche Mode, Suede and Japan. The album includes guest features by Nadine Shah, Gwenno, Seb Rochford of Sons of Kemet and Adrian Utley of Portishead.
Paraorchestra is the world’s only ensemble consisting of both professional disabled and non-disabled musicians playing an unconventional mix of traditional orchestral, acoustic, and electronic instruments and using assistive technology.
‘Death Songbook’ will be released on April 19 via BMG.
Check out Anderson’s cover of ‘The Killing Moon’ below:
“The Death Songbook was an idea Charles came up with during the bleak days of lockdown. As soon as he suggested it, I was sold,” Anderson said in a press release. “I loved the idea of curating a suite of songs about loss and sadness and regret. I’ve always found happy songs depressing, it’s been the murkier themes that have somehow sounded more joyous to me. Songs about doubt and fear and grief confront feelings we all struggle with, so to know that we are not alone in that fight can be quietly life-affirming.”
Anderson helped to curate the album, the only rule being that all the songs have to have a relationship to death or the death of love.”
“So much of the greatest art, certainly from my point of view, is intrinsically melancholic,” said Hazlewood. “Music which is about death, or the death of love, about loss, about anxiety, there’s a transcendence in that music. My go to, whether I’m feeling happy or sad or somewhere in between, will be melancholy music because that’s where the catharsis is, that’s where art is most resonant.”
Most of the album was recorded live in an afternoon during lockdown, socially distanced across Europe’s largest opera stage – the Donald Gordon Theatre at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Three more songs were recorded in October 2022, when the project returned there for a live performance.
The tracklisting of ‘The Death Songbook’ is:
‘The Killing Moon’
‘Unsung’
‘Holes (featuring Nadine Shah)’
‘Nightporter’
‘She Still Leads Me On’ (live)
‘Wonderful Life’
‘The Next Life’
‘He’s Dead’
‘Enjoy The Silence’ (featuring Gwenno – live)
‘The End Of he World’ (featuring Nadine Shah)
‘My Death’ (live)
‘Brutal Lover’ (live)
The project is also sent to be brought to life in front of an audience for two shows at London’s Roundhouse and Manchester’s Aviva Studios on April 24 and April 26 respectively – find tickets here.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/suedes-b ... ZWqll6eBRg