Hear new music from Montreal musicians Sarah Neufeld, the touring violinist of Arcade Fire and serial collaborator; cellist Rebecca Foon, who records as Saltland, and plays with Esmerine, and Thee Silver Mt. Zion); and Richard Reed Parry, bass player, multi-instrumentalist (Arcade Fire) and cofounder of Bell Orchestre. Listen to music from their collaborative album called First Sounds, “which reflects their enormous range: the record includes an acoustic form of ambient music, post-minimalist ensemble pieces, strings (and occasional wordless vocals) surrounded by an electronic haze, and chamber music abstractions”, (Schaefer.) Then, listen to some of the music from their other bands and solo work Rebcecca Foon (with Sarah Neufeld) in Esmerine; Richard Reed Parry, as a composer and in Bell Orchestre; and in duos: Rebecca Foon with Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, and Sarah Neufeld together with sax player Colin Stetson. There's music from the Canadian chamber band Esmerine (co-founded by Thee Silver Mt. Zion member Rebecca Foon and Godspeed You! Black Emperor alumnus Bruce Cawdron) whose music ranges from drones to post-punk to having even worked with Turkish folk musicians on the very excellent release Dalmak. Hear recent music from Montreal’s Bell Orchestre, a chamber group founded by bass player Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire. Recorded in all of the rooms in Sarah Neufeld’s rural house (pedal steel in the bathroom, drums in the attic, and so forth), each member was isolated, but improvised and then those takes were brought together with structure for a record called inevitably, House Music. There’s also music by Sarah Neufeld, along with Colin Stetson, along with the recordings of nature, from the New Sounds Live Concert Series, performed within Pete M. Wyer’s sound installation. Then, listen to music by cellist and composer Rebecca Foon, who often records as Saltland, from her 2020 record, Waxing Moon, which includes piano and voice, along with her cello and electronics. And more. - Caryn Havlik Program #4971, Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Richard Reed Parry - separately and together (First aired 1/27/2025) ARTIST: Arcade FireWORK: Wake Up [1:27]RECORDING: FuneralSOURCE: Merge Records / Reissued Sony MusicINFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube ARTIST: Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Richard Reed ParryWORK: Maria [5:17]RECORDING: First SoundsSOURCE: Envision Records / One Little IndependentINFO: https://sarahneufeld.bandcamp.com/album/first-sounds ARTIST: EsmerineWORK: Lost River Blues I [7:26]RECORDING: Dalmak SOURCE: Constellation RecordsINFO: cstrecords.com ARTIST: EsmerineWORK: Lost River Blues II [3:18]RECORDING: Dalmak SOURCE: Constellation RecordsINFO: cstrecords.com ARTIST: Bell OrchestreWORK: IX Nature That’s It That’s All [4:36]RECORDING: House MusicSOURCE: Erased Tapes RecordsINFO: erasedtapes.com ARTIST: Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Richard Reed ParryWORK: Rosa Canina [5:51]RECORDING: First SoundsSOURCE: Envision Records / One Little IndependentINFO: https://sarahneufeld.bandcamp.com/album/first-sounds ARTIST: Sarah Neufeld & Colin StetsonWORK: The Sun Roars Into View [9:39]RECORDING: Live at Brookfield Place, 10/13/16SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.INFO: Sarah Neufeld | Colin Stetson ARTIST: yMusicWORK: Richard Reed Parry: Quartet for Heart & Breath [5:28]RECORDING: NSL @ Ecstatic Music Festival, 2/8/2012 at Merkin HallSOURCE: This performance not commercially available.INFO: The work was released on Music for Heart and Breath, available via Deutsche Grammophon ARTIST: Rebecca Foon, Patrick WatsonWORK: Vessels [3:30]RECORDING: Waxing MoonSOURCE: Constellation Records CST 149INFO: cstrecords.com
Hear new music from Montreal musicians Sarah Neufeld, the touring violinist of Arcade Fire and serial collaborator; cellist Rebecca Foon, who records as Saltland, and plays with Esmerine, and Thee Silver Mt. Zion); and Richard Reed Parry, bass player, multi-instrumentalist (Arcade Fire) and cofounder of Bell Orchestre. Listen to music from their collaborative album called First Sounds, “which reflects their enormous range: the record includes an acoustic form of ambient music, post-minimalist ensemble pieces, strings (and occasional wordless vocals) surrounded by an electronic haze, and chamber music abstractions”, (Schaefer.) Then, listen to some of the music from their other bands and solo work Rebcecca Foon (with Sarah Neufeld) in Esmerine; Richard Reed Parry, as a composer and in Bell Orchestre; and in duos: Rebecca Foon with Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, and Sarah Neufeld together with sax player Colin Stetson.
There's music from the Canadian chamber band Esmerine (co-founded by Thee Silver Mt. Zion member Rebecca Foon and Godspeed You! Black Emperor alumnus Bruce Cawdron) whose music ranges from drones to post-punk to having even worked with Turkish folk musicians on the very excellent release Dalmak. Hear recent music from Montreal’s Bell Orchestre, a chamber group founded by bass player Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire. Recorded in all of the rooms in Sarah Neufeld’s rural house (pedal steel in the bathroom, drums in the attic, and so forth), each member was isolated, but improvised and then those takes were brought together with structure for a record called inevitably, House Music.
There’s also music by Sarah Neufeld, along with Colin Stetson, along with the recordings of nature, from the New Sounds Live Concert Series, performed within Pete M. Wyer’s sound installation. Then, listen to music by cellist and composer Rebecca Foon, who often records as Saltland, from her 2020 record, Waxing Moon, which includes piano and voice, along with her cello and electronics. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4971, Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Richard Reed Parry - separately and together (First aired 1/27/2025)
ARTIST: Arcade FireWORK: Wake Up [1:27]RECORDING: FuneralSOURCE: Merge Records / Reissued Sony MusicINFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube
ARTIST: Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Richard Reed ParryWORK: Maria [5:17]RECORDING: First SoundsSOURCE: Envision Records / One Little IndependentINFO: https://sarahneufeld.bandcamp.com/album/first-sounds
ARTIST: EsmerineWORK: Lost River Blues I [7:26]RECORDING: Dalmak SOURCE: Constellation RecordsINFO: cstrecords.com
ARTIST: EsmerineWORK: Lost River Blues II [3:18]RECORDING: Dalmak SOURCE: Constellation RecordsINFO: cstrecords.com
ARTIST: Bell OrchestreWORK: IX Nature That’s It That’s All [4:36]RECORDING: House MusicSOURCE: Erased Tapes RecordsINFO: erasedtapes.com
ARTIST: Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Richard Reed ParryWORK: Rosa Canina [5:51]RECORDING: First SoundsSOURCE: Envision Records / One Little IndependentINFO: https://sarahneufeld.bandcamp.com/album/first-sounds
ARTIST: Sarah Neufeld & Colin StetsonWORK: The Sun Roars Into View [9:39]RECORDING: Live at Brookfield Place, 10/13/16SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.INFO: Sarah Neufeld | Colin Stetson
ARTIST: yMusicWORK: Richard Reed Parry: Quartet for Heart & Breath [5:28]RECORDING: NSL @ Ecstatic Music Festival, 2/8/2012 at Merkin HallSOURCE: This performance not commercially available.INFO: The work was released on Music for Heart and Breath, available via Deutsche Grammophon
ARTIST: Rebecca Foon, Patrick WatsonWORK: Vessels [3:30]RECORDING: Waxing MoonSOURCE: Constellation Records CST 149INFO: cstrecords.com