Podcast appearances and mentions of ellis ludwig leone

Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? For the ensemble cast of characters that make up the prairie community at the heart of The Mighty Red, existential questions are constantly close to the surface. In her newest novel, author Louise Erdrich immerses readers in the Red River Valley of the North and the complicated lives of its inhabitants. Argus, North Dakota is a town framed by the 2008 economic crisis, the consequences of climate change, and the dynamics of small-town drama. Thrown into motion by a chaotic teen love triangle and fretting about the future, Erdrich's characters navigate impulsive choices, bitter secrets, and deeply rooted ties to their land and to each other. The Red River Valley is home to dark realities and glimmering hopes, twisting together like winding late-night drives along dimly lit roads. As resources dwindle and viewpoints shift, love and life lurch forward in splendor, catastrophe, and absurdity. Bonds in the community are born and bolstered, disturbed and questioned, broken and mended. Laced with tender humor and humanity in the midst of devastating environmental circumstances, The Mighty Red paints a layered landscape of ordinary people surviving fraught times. Louise Erdrich is an award-winning Native American author and poet whose writing spans novels, short stories, non-fiction, and children's books. Her previously published works include The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and The Night Watchman. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the owner of the Native-focused independent teaching bookstore Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Karen Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including The New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the recipient of two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, and the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize, among other honors. With composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone and choreographer and director Troy Schumacher, she cocreated The Night Falls, listed as one of The New York Times's Best Dance Performances of 2023. She has taught literature and creative writing as a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California–Irvine, Williams College, Columbia University, and Bryn Mawr College, and was the Endowed Chair of Texas State University's MFA program. She serves on the board of Street Books. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, son, and daughter. Buy the Book The Mighty Red: A Novel The Elliott Bay Book Company

American indie rock-chamber collective, San Fermin, has been making lush, wide-angled Baroque-pop songs for more than a decade. The band was founded by keyboardist Brooklyn-based Ellis Ludwig Leone, who has multiple creative outlets as a songwriter, classical composer, and founding partner (with bandmate Allen Tate) of a record label focused on collaborations. The latest batch of 'immediate pop' songs on the 2024 album, Arms, is about things falling apart, but the process of making it brought people together, (Brooklyn Magazine). The band San Fermin plays some of these new songs, in-studio. Set list: 1. Weird Environment 2. Didn't Want You To 3. Arms

Ellis Ludwig-Leone is the composer behind this indie rock collective that has a string of critically acclaimed albums to their name.

Hello friends! Ellis Ludwig-Leone from Brooklyn based, indie-folk band, San Fermin is my guest for episode 1351! Their new album, Arms comes out on February 16th on their own label, Better Company Records. They're also heading out on a U.S. tour starting this spring and they'll be at The Parish in Austin on June 11th. Go to sanferminband.com for tour info, music, videos, and more. Ellis and i have a great conversation about growing up in the classical music world and going to Yale, the San Fermin singers, Allen Tate and Claire Wellin, composing the dance opera, "The Night Falls", post-show hotel loneliness, dark horn arrangements vs peppy arrangements, how I identified with some of the songs on Arms, and much more. I had a great time getting to know Ellis. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down! Get the best, full-spectrum CBD products from True Hemp Science and enter code HDIGH for a special offer from How Did I Get Here? If you feel so inclined. Venmo: venmo.com/John-Goudie-1  Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie

As day jobs go, one could do a lot worse than composer. Classically trained at Yale, Ellis Ludwig-Leone spends much of his time writing music for institutions including the New York City Ballet. By night, he's the principal songwriter and ostensible leader of San Fermin, whose indie-inclined chamber pop has earned a steady following and critical acclaim for more than a decade. Next month, the will release Arms, a rawer, more immediate album dealing with – among other topics – art and the end of relationships. Ludwig-Leone joined us to discuss the two sides of his songwriting life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I am joined by Ellis Ludwig-Leone, composer and member of the band San Fermin. We talk about his new album "False We Hope", as well as get into his years playing competitive basketball, falling out of love with the Boston Celtics, and his evolving fandom of the NBA. We also takes a stab a Build-a-Band, creating a band out of NBA players. ---- Lift Yr Skinny Fists t-shirts are still available at http://www.indiebasketball.com Check out the entire first season of Half Court Sessions: https://youtu.be/Uv9RSZB1Iz8 Support Indie Basketball on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/indiebasketball Join the conversation on Discord: https://discord.gg/HJaDNwxSbe Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | TikTok Theme music courtesy of Empty Heaven. Outro courtesy of Mother Evergreen.

Lisa Lotito interviews ALLEN TATE, a producer, mixer, songwriter and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. As a performer, he is best known as the lead singer and main collaborator for the indie rock band San Fermin. As a producer, his work has been featured by NPR, Rolling Stone, Under the Radar, and more. In 2021, Allen founded the label Better Company Records with his bandmate Ellis Ludwig-Leone as a joint venture with The Orchard. Lisa and Allen discuss what it's like to start a record label as well as the way delivering a lyric changes its meaning. THEME MUSIC Emily Drinker INTRO MUSIC San Fermin, The Districts AUDIO EDITING Allen Tate + Lisa Lotito ART DIRECTION + DESIGN Lisa Lotito PRODUCTION studio56.xyz

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Brooklyn-based orchestral pop outfit San Fermin has a reputation for grand and enchanting music. Led by songwriter and composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone, and joined by new collaborators Attacca Quartet and harpist Lavinia Meijer, as well as talented vocalists and bandmates who play violin, trumpet, sax, percussion, and guitars, San Fermin's latest, ‘Cormorant I,’ is both a search for the profound and a dose of nostalgic reflection. Although the full record combines the elegance of chamber music and the immediacy of pop songs, they play some stripped-down versions of these tunes in-studio.  - Caryn Havlik Watch the session here:     

Ellis Ludwig-Leone has spent most of his life immersed in music. Long before the Yale-educated composer and songwriter made his mark with San Fermin, the Brooklyn indie rock collective's bandleader was a kid in rural Massachusetts looking to challenge himself with classical music and Russian "knuckle-busters" during piano lessons. In high school, he wound up playing keyboard in a short-lived instrumental metal outfit, followed by a stint performing Ben Folds and Eagle-Eye Cherry covers at Sweet 16 parties in a cover band. While at a Berklee College of Music summer camp, Ludwig-Leone struck up a friendship with a fellow camper named Allen Tate, and the rest was history. Recently, prior to a show at Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom in support of San Fermin's recently released The Cormorant I, Ludwig-Leone met My First Band host Tyler Maas in the venue's balcony to talk about his formative early auditory endeavors, starting a project with Tate while they were going to college in different states and how San Fermin has changed his life in ways he never could've anticipated. Though this one is shorter than most episodes, Ellis managed to pack a ton of great stories and interesting information into a tight pre-show window. My First Band is sponsored by Boulevard Brewing. The show is edited by Jared Blohm. You can listen to My First Band on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and wherever else you get podcasts. Music used in this show comes courtesy of Devils Teeth ("The Junction Street Eight Tigers") and San Fermin ("Saint").

In this week’s episode of Rhapsody in Reverie, Adrienne and Katarina discuss indie band San Fermin. This Brooklyn band’s debut album San Fermin and sophomore album Jackrabbit soared to operatic heights with beautifully crafted narratives weaving each song together. Primary songwriter Ellis Ludwig Leone diverged from concept albums on San Fermin’s most recent album Belong for a much more personal exploration into his mind and talent. Listen to Adrienne and Katarina dissect the nuances hiding within the lyrics of San Fermin, discover references to Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as well as ponder life, death, love and fear. NOTE: Contains a spoiler for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

With a layered and deeply texture sound, San Fermin stands out in the current indie pop scene with its eight-member ensemble that utilizes trumpet and saxophone and violin and guitar and trombones and synth. The project is the brainchild of composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who writes and arranges all of San Fermin’s music. The Brooklyn-native formed San Fermin in 2011 and the band made its self-titled album debut in 2013, followed by "Jackrabbit" in 2015. The band's third recording, "Belong," came out on April 7 of this year. New Yorker magazine music reviewer Jia Tolentino wrote San Fermin's new album "often sounds like a wall of flowers blooming at once. It feels lovely, just now, to be swallowed up by a baroque arrangement, in a rush of sweetness and sincerity." Ludwig-Leone said on the band's bio page that his songwriting has evolved from stories about fictional characters into explorations of themes and issues personal to him. “As I’ve become more confident as a songwriter, I decided that I could drop some of the artifice and write something more direct," he said. “Anxiety is something I’ve dealt with since I was a kid, but on this album I talked about it more explicitly than I ever had before." Set list: Cairo Bride - interview - No Promises Belong Mixed by John McRae

From deep in the heart of SXSW, Host Adrian Spinelli interviews San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone, all three members of Khruangbin, and Bay Area rapper Rex Life Raj about the constant hustle of SXSW as well as their current projects. You'll hear tracks from all three of these artists…and get a couple more selections from some of Adrian’s live favorites at SXSW.   

San Fermin bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone first heard Paul Simon's album Graceland when he was five years old. Listen as he describes why he loves the record and how it's stuck with him throughout his musical journey. Then John and Tracy Dell from the Austin band El Tule explain how music by bands like La Sonora Dinamita, Celso Piña, and Fruko y sus Tesos helped them find their sound as a band.

San Fermin bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone first heard Paul Simon's album Graceland when he was five years old. Listen as he describes why he loves the record and how it's stuck with him throughout his musical journey. Then John and Tracy Dell from the Austin band El Tule explain how music by bands like La Sonora Dinamita, Celso Piña, and Fruko y sus Tesos helped them find their sound as a band.

Brooklyn composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone formed San Fermin for a one-off performance of his sheet music compositions in 2012. However, that music would live on past that show: The band recorded and released those songs in 2013 on San Fermin's debut self-titled album. Ludwig-Leone then solidified San Fermin as an eight-piece touring band with two lead vocalists and a blend of rock and orchestral instruments. Last year San Fermin released its second studio album, "Jackrabbit," which came to life as Ludwig-Leone and his band adapted to life as a touring band and became a close-knit musical family.

Under the direction of pianist and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone, this Brooklyn-based octet have released two albums that mix symphonic swells, beat-driven pop and evocative vocal interplay. We talk with Ludwig-Leone, vocalist Charlene Kaye and trumpet player John Brandon about the band's evolution from studio concoction to thrilling, club-filling live act. San Fermin plays the songs "Emily," "Jackrabbit" and "Reckoning," all from the new Jackrabbit LP. Recorded live at KDHX in St. Louis, Missouri on May 14, 2015. Engineered by Andy Coco.  

Ellis Ludwig-Leone, the brain behind San Fermin, sat down with Richie T before their show at Salt Lake's Twilight Concert Series. He explains what San Fermin means, (how to pronounce it), and if Richie can join the band as the 9th member.

Ellis Ludwig-Leone, the brain behind San Fermin, sat down with Richie T before their show at Salt Lake's Twilight Concert Series. He explains what San Fermin means, (how to pronounce it), and if Richie can join the band as the 9th member.