Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau - Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2017) CD Rip

Nonesuch Records labelmates mandolinist/singer Chris Thile and pianist Brad Mehldau, longtime admirers of each other’s work, first toured as a duo in 2013. At the end of 2015, they played a two-night stand at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom before going into the studio to record Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau, a mix of covers and original songs that Nonesuch releases on January 27, 2017, on two CDs / LPs. A US tour will be announced at a later date.

The two musicians first performed together in September 2011 as part of Mehldau’s residency at London’s Wigmore Hall. The Guardian said of that performance, “Mehldau struck up his signature rocking chord vamp over which lightly struck motifs swell to sensuous extended melodies. Thile kept cajoling him with percussive snaps, flying runs, and chords strummed fast enough to sound as seamless as a purring strings section, inducing Mehldau … to bat back the playful provocation with stinging rejoinders.”

Tracklist:

CD1
01 - The Old Shade Tree
02 - Tallahassee Junction
03 - Scarlet Town
04 - I Cover the Waterfront
05 - Independence Day
06 - Noise Machine

CD2
01 - The watcher
02 - Daughter Of Eve
03 - Marcie
04 - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
05 - Tabhair dom do Lamh