Podcasts about brassland

I met Alec in... Jesus, 2001? Ironically, we met partially in the context of me grieving a friend who had passed. We met again through music. He had started a record label in order to put out the music by a new band from Ohio called The National. I was managing Baby Dayliner, who wound up on Brassland. But our way into the conversation today is Mark Lanegan. When Lanegan's memoir 'Sing Backwards and Weep' published, Alec read it and plunged into Lanegan's music during the pandemic. We cover a lot here but honestly, you need to listen to this podcast because Alec is such an earnest fan of music, even after working in the industry for more than 20 years. Being a fan is deeply cool. Remaining a fan is even cooler.   Alec Hanley Bemis is a writer, producer & curator of creative projects, primarily in music. In 2001, he co-founded the Brassland label with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. For that work, he has been covered by The Irish Times, The Guardian, Print Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. In his first career as a writer & journalist, he was published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum and LA Weekly on topics ranging from Beck to backyard wrestling. Once a month or so he posts algorithm-free music playlists to his mixtape delivery service AHB's Goodies: http://alechanleybemis.substack.com Learn more at http://brassland.org and http://alechanleybemis.com

In this episode, I chat with Alec Bemis the co-founder (along with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National) about starting and growing their record label over the past 20 years!  ►► Download our Free Record Label Toolkit → http://OtherRecordLabels.com/Toolkit Find more resources for independent record labels and DIY artists at http://OtherRecordLabels.com

In 2001, The National's self-titled debut was released on Brassland, a label co-founded by band members Aaron & Bryce Dessner and Alec Hanley Bemis. Two decades later, under Alec's guidance, Brassland has consistently boasted an adventurous roster that has included Bartees Strange, Hannah Georgas, Fusilier, Las Palabras and Bryce Dessner/So Percussion's Music for Wood and Strings. [This is episode features an exclusive ten-track Brassland playlist curated by Alec Hanley Bemis.] Visit Alec Hanley Bemis online: http://alechanleybemis.com Visit Brassland online: https://brassland.org Brassland Playlist: 01 Clogs: "Cocodrillo" (feat. Shara Nova née Shara Worden) — from the album The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton      02 Bartees Strange: "Going Going" — from the album Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy 03 Hannah Georgas: "That Emotion" (radio edit) — from the album All That Emotion 04 Baby Dayliner: "You Push I'll Go" (feat Alex Sanchez) — from the EP You Push I'll Go 05 This is The Kit: "Earthquake" — from the album Wriggle Out The Restless 06 Las Palabras: "Condesa" — from the album Las Palabras 07 Fusilier: "dueling" — from the EP Duty 08 Buke and Gase: "Houdini Crush" — from the album General Dome 09 Bryce Dessner / So Percussion / Justin Vernon / S. Carey: "Music for Wood and Strings (Translucent remake) — remix from the album Music for Wood & Strings 10 Briars of North America: "Sala" (edit) — from the album Supermoon These Brassland artists were previously interviewed on TMT: TMT 206: Bartees Strange https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hXcUwntmL8u4uoLmoj3dU? si=kmuJFSNiT1aQaKJRfpM88A&dl_branch=1 TMT 210: Fusilier https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bDOiPGpOq3BqML5CelCHj?si=An4obJhIRJyXR8TZxW3F- A&dl_branch=1 TMT 225: Rafael Cohen (Las Palabras, !!! and El Guapo): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hXcUwntmL8u4uoLmoj3dU? si=kmuJFSNiT1aQaKJRfpM88A&dl_branch=1   boice is also the host/producer of The StrandCast, The Official Podcast of Strand Bookstore in NYC at 12th and Broadway. Every other week listen to longform conversations with authors from different genres. For more information and to stream, visit: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OAjmWiwBFIRJwNTwGmkXr STREAM/SUBSCRIBE TMT ON SPOTIFY:                               http://bit.ly/TMTspotify SUBSCRIBE TO TMT ON SOUNDCLOUD:                 https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice TMT APP FOR iPHONE: http://bit.ly/TMTappiOS TMT APP FOR ANDROID: http://bit.ly/TMTappANDROID SUBSCRIBE TO TMT ON iTUNES: http://bit.ly/TalkMusicTalk SUBSCRIBE TO TMT ON GOOGLE PLAY: http://bit.ly/TMTgoogleplay Please take a moment to leave a rating and/or review in the store. It helps increase the ranking of the podcast and exposes TMT to a new audience. Thanks! Liz (The Talk Music Talk Theme)-FULL VERSION Written and Composed on an iPad by boice. https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme

The name of songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rafael Cohen’s latest project is Las Palabras. Las Palabras’ self-titled Brassland debut finds him singing in Spanish for the first time and was inspired by post-tropicália Brazilian pop music. Rafael was previously in the Dischord band El Guapo and is a core member of !!!, who are working on their ninth album. [This episode features “Condesa” and “Juan Pared” from Las Palabras (Brassland) in their entirety.] Visit Las Palabras online: https://brassland.org/artists/laspalabras boice is also the host/producer of a brand new podcast. The StrandCast, The Official Podcast of Strand Bookstore in NYC at 12th and Broadway. Every other week listen to longform conversations with authors from different genres. For more information and to stream, visit: https://open.spotify.com/show/0OAjmWiwBFIRJwNTwGmkXr STREAM/SUBSCRIBE ON SPOTIFY:                               http://bit.ly/TMTspotify SUBSCRIBE ON SOUNDCLOUD:                 https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice TMT APP FOR iPHONE: http://bit.ly/TMTappiOS TMT APP FOR ANDROID: http://bit.ly/TMTappANDROID SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES: http://bit.ly/TalkMusicTalk SUBSCRIBE ON GOOGLE PLAY: http://bit.ly/TMTgoogleplay Please take a moment to leave a rating and/or review in the store. It helps increase the ranking of the podcast and exposes TMT to a new audience. Thanks! Liz (The Talk Music Talk Theme)-FULL VERSION Written and Composed on an iPad by boice. https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme

Las Palabras is the plural-named solo project of Rafael Cohen, of the dance-punk band !!! (pronounced chk chk chk). Cohen, a Brooklyn-based musician by way of Washington DC (his band El Guapo was on Dischord Records), studied with Anthony Braxton in school, and lived in Mexico City until he was 10. In Las Palabras, (a Spanish phrase for “The Words”), he taps into his earliest musical memories of Guatemalan marimbas, Peruvian waltzes, Brazilian bossa nova, salsa, and reconciles these sonics with the musician he has become (Cohen’s statement, Brassland.org). He plays some of these charming and whimsical songs in his native language, remotely for the podcast. Set list: "Condesa," "Juan Pared," "Pescador" "Condesa": "Juan Pared" "Pescador" Web Extra: "Cayendo"

Alec Hanley Bemis, writer and manager of cultural projects, co-founded the Brassland record label in 2001 along with his friends Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the band The National. Over the years, the label has become home to a community of like minded creative musicians who defy category. Last month Alec published a piece in Creative Independent called 19 things I’d tell people contemplating starting a record label (after running one for 19 years). Here we discuss what happened in between.  Although this conversation was recorded in the before times of 2019, listening back I am struck by a few particularly interesting ideas that emerge in the talk: the distinction between culture and subculture; that we are now in an era of “constant content”; the shift over time from the taste maker as an institution to the taste maker as an individual personality; and what he describes as “the economy of cool”. www.third-story.com www.patreon.com/thirdstorypodcast www.brassland.org

Knowing how a piece of classical music came to be is often a bit of a guessing game. What inspired Bach to write the Goldberg Variations, or Beethoven to write his 9th Symphony? Context clues, letters, composers’ notes help us put the story together; we fill in the rest with our imaginations and mythology. But no more! In this episode of Classical Classroom, you’ll hear the entire story of a piece of modern classical music, Music for Wood and Strings, from commission to performance. Even the instruments on which the piece is played didn’t exist before this story began. You’ll meet composer Bryce Dessner (The National), instrument maker Aron Sanchez (Buke and Gase), and the members of So Percussion. You’ll hear a lot of awesome music. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry. Your life will be affirmed. But seriously, it’s a compelling (and thoroughly American) story about ingenuity, modernist music, and most importantly, joy.          Music in this episode: Music for Wood and Strings. Bryce Dessner. Played by So Percussion. “Don’t Swallow the Cap.” The National, from the album Trouble Will Find Me. “Seam Esteem.” Buke and Gase. So-Called Laws of Nature. David Lang. Played by So Percussion. Appalachian Grove I. Laurie Spiegel. Audio production by Todd “Tex” Hulslander with giddyups from Dacia Clay and editing by Mark DiClaudio. For more So Percussion: www.sopercussion.com For more Bryce Dessner: www.brycedessner.com For more Aron Sanchez (and great pics of the chordsticks and other instruments he’s made): www.polyphonicworkshop.com Thanks to Emily Motherwell, Stuart Wolferman, Da Camera of Houston, and the people at Brassland for their help with this episode. 

The National Concert Hall and New York Label Brassland have collaborated to curate a weekend of music entitled ‘Brassland@NCH’ on 13 and 14 December 2014. In this podcast Ben Eshmade talks to  Alec Hanley Bemis, Buke & Gase, Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and Paul Noonan of BellX1 and Printer Clips. 

The National Concert Hall and New York Label Brassland have collaborated to curate a weekend of music entitled ‘Brassland@NCH’ on 13 and 14 December 2014. In this podcast Ben Eshmade talks to label founders Alec Hanley Bemis and Bryce Dessner of The National as well as Kate Staples from This Is the Kit.