PHIL COOK SONGWRITER FREE
Piano is where Cook is the most expressive, an easy, free flow of emotional output. These ten pieces came to life on a long-cared-for and much-loved one-hundred year-old Steinway over a week in the spring of 2021.
PHIL COOK SONGWRITER FULL
Cook and Joseph have been close their entire lives, with Joseph being one of the people who knows the full depth of Cook’s relationship to the instrument. "All These Years" is Cook’s first solo instrumental album on his primary instrument, recorded at NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, NC by his cousin and collaborator Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Indigo Girls). In that way, "All These Years" is sort of the first proper introduction to Cook, to the way he can express himself with the most ease and reveal the deepest compartments of his heart. But even across all the work he’s done in his decades as a musician, he’s yet to release a proper piano album. A sweet and affable presence whose musical dexterity elevates every project he touches, Cook’s musical output and true sound has been hard to pin down. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - Cook has always been a musician’s musician. He made his name with a strong, slow build, quietly introducing his music to anyone willing to listen.For Phil Cook, it all started with piano. Daniel Norgren is an otherworldly talent with an old soul.
Daniel Norgren illuminates the cracks and details of the Americana lineage we so often overlook. Our blind spots are too large, our notions too preconceived. In this regard, he reminds one of Sergio Leone, not in his filmic style, but in the way he spins American music unlike anyone born in the USA ever could. His enterprise is a fully realized universe: Norgren makes his own videos, filming the world around him to match his aesthetic. But Norgren’s interests lie in more than music. Daniel’s records are supremely unique takes on the American tradition, evoking a rust-worn blues feel that pervades his sound. But for the uninitiated, before the music speaks louder than these words ever could, here’s his story: The Swedish born musician began releasing albums on his own Superpuma Records in 2007, running the imprint with his producer, Pelle Nyhage, and his wife, Petra Wester-Norgren. It’s music that moves the body as much as the soul, grounded and etherial.ĭaniel Norgren shouldn’t need an introduction. Norgren regularly commands legions of European concertgoers with his entrancingly sublime slow-burn of blues noir and soulful folk washed in a transcendental quietude molded by the forests and lakes of his hometown just outside of Borås, Sweden. Daniel Norgren, acclaimed Swedish avant-folk singer-songwriter, will play at the Tractor Tavern on August 7 and 8 with guest Phil Cook.
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