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Over the long weekend, we posted some new Subscribercasts recorded up at the Banff Workshop. Special thanks to those engineers who’ve helped out.

The first is a two-part conversation with Dave Douglas and Donny McCaslin discussing Donny’s albums Recommended Tools and Declaration with selected audio tracks from both, composing, practicing, the Banff Workshop, and much more.

The second Subscribercast update is titled Travelogue: Birth, Growth, and Maintenance. This one has Dave detailing various versions of the tune Travelogue from the Spark of Being release. Five versions of the piece are showcased, from the earliest trio recording with Dave, Adam Benjamin, and DJ Olive, to the fully-realized Soundtrack mix with commentary on each.

These Subscribercasts are exclusively available for Subscribers to stream. If you’re already a Subscriber, simply login at the store with your email/password, and head over to the Subscribercast page and click on a ‘cast. Also, check the Subscriber Downloads blog for a preview of Spark Of Being: Expand (out August 2010). The track Tree Ring Circus is available in MP3 and FLAC formats.

For non-subscribers, we’ve recently given the Subscriber system a make-over, including a new economically-friendly level for those who want to access these Subscribercasts. Remember also, with any Subscription, you get unlimited access to full-album streams for all our frontline titles.

Happy listening.

Keystone and I have finished our new recording and it will be released very soon. Here is the cover of the first album in the trilogy of CDs and we’re all really excited about the collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison on Spark of Being. ‘Soundtrack’ is the first release of three — it’s the music from the actual film. We’ve documented much more than that, with two CDs of Keystone recordings from the sessions in Stanford.

We’ll be making a big push for this first release as well as for the three CD set and new subscription podcasts and conversations.

I think you’ll enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Left-coasters can hear Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy this coming Sunday the 28th at the Crystal Ballroom [map] as part of the Portland Jazz Festival. Get your tickets here.

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To celebrate, this week at the Greenleaf store we have a sale going for all the Brass Ecstasy music.

Spirit Moves: Buy the CD and receive a free upgrade to the Deluxe CD+DVD package. Saves you 40%.
On Stage: Part of our download-only series, pick up these live sets for $5 MP3 or $7 FLAC saving you 30%.
Sheet Music: Five bucks off the digital PDFs of the extended Spirit Moves book of music. Saves you 25%.

Sale ends Monday the 29th.

Thanks to all who have preordered their copy of this DVD. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have been these past couple weeks. Such a spectacle to watch and hear. Watch the trailer for Stained Radiance.

Today is the official release day. So at days end our celebratory sale on all Nels Cline Cyptogramophone albums will be taken down. Act now and get all of those great records for $7 (MP3s @ 320kbps) or $9 (lossless FLACs).

Be sure to make it out to the record release show a week from today.

Tuesday, 02-02 | Long Beach, CA | DiPiazza
Nels Cline + Norton Wisdom

I also came across a clip of another live performance from this duo the other day…

Awesome.

Guitarist Nels Cline and ar Norton Wisdom, both masters of their medium, joined together last year for an afternoon of sonic and visual improvisation caught on film by Aeght Nign. Armed with his guitar and effects, Cline constructs lush soundscapes brought about by Wisdom’s brush-stroke spontaneity. Wisdom in turn follows Cline’s auditory twists creating and recreating the same canvas.

Two mesmerizing performances are included on the DVD along with special features like the Norton Headcam, and a behind-the-scenes look into the sessions.

Preorder the DVD at our store.

Stained Radiance – Nels Cline & Norton Wisdom from Greenleaf Music.

Also, all Nels Cline albums are on sale for 30% off during the Stained Radiance preorder. Links below.

 

Live at the Bimhuis was one of the very first releases on Greenleaf Music, and the first in Dave’s Paperback Series. It predates my time here, actually, but not by much.

An order came in this morning for the final physical copy on hand. So, as of today, the CD format for this title is Out-Of-Print. Digital formats are of course still available here.

Thanks to all who have ordered it in the past and for making it one of the most successful releases in our catalog.

Most of you probably saw the email blast we just sent out. For those who didn’t, one of the things we mentioned was the Record of the Day special offer we’re doing at the store.

Each day for the next few weeks we’ll put up a different deeply-discounted album. $7 for the CD, $6 for the FLACs, and $5 for the MP3s.

That means that you can buy a CD for less than you can buy the MP3s at other retailers. Plus you get sweet artwork and packaging — remember that stuff? Or choose the FLAC/MP3s that are sampled higher than most places on the web (320kbps MP3s).

The first Record of the Day is up now, Moonshine by Keystone.

We just posted two tracks from Dave’s newest album at the Subscriber Blog. The Presidents (track 1) composed and arranged by Dave Douglas, and A Single Sky (track 3) composed by Dave Douglas and arranged by Jim McNeely are up for download.

Subscriber login here.

More info on the A Single Sky preorder coming VERY soon.

The Brass Ecstasy Tiny Desk Concert made it to the front page on YouTube with now over 85,000 views. With 187 comments posted so far you get a wide variety of opinions on the short set.

Here’s just a few…

“Being a typical modern teenager, I never knew a brass ensemble would ever sound this pleasant to listen to until now. Thanks NPR for posting this ”

“you guys are awesome if you really work on that you be playing pro.”

“Best 17 min and 53 secs i spent ever”

“the trumpet players’ ray bans are sick.”

“man i love that trombone player”

“where is the vocals?”

“Thanks for the political jab at Bush, Douglas. Couldn’t help yourself, right? Twilight of the Dogs. What a clever, dyslexic title. 1-20-09 was such an inspirational day for you. Transfer of power, and all that. Here it is roughly seven months later. R U proud of the job your messiah is doing? So vastly superior to Bush, right? Uh huh. obama and his administration remind me a lot of your music. Cataphonic. Ever hear of separation of music and politics? Try it sometime. It’s nice.”

“they should play ska music, cause we all know the best music involving horns is ska, true story.”

“i agree with chewbacca”