INTRODUCING THE SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES

Last updated: Thursday, September 11, 2008

INTRODUCING THE SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES

Sunday Music Various Artist Series Continues With Volumes 3 And 4. Volume 3 Another Great Collection Of Exclusive And Previously Available Tracks. Volume 4 Represents First Foray Into Classical Music.

bigHelium Records in association with Barnes & Noble Booksellers have just released both Sunday Music Volume Three and Sunday Music Volume Four on September 2nd, 2008. These compilations offer up an eclectic collection of the very best of subtle, brilliant pop and classical music and are the two latest volumes in the increasingly popular ongoing series. Featuring genre-spanning artists - ranging from Iron and Wine to Anna Netrebko, from Hilary Hahn to Sting, from Pat Metheny to Kings of Convenience featuring Feist - the albums comprise the perfect Sunday soundtrack for busy but discerning listeners who desire quality music but would rather not spend their Sundays scoring the blogs for low-fi MP3's.

Released in late '07 to great acclaim, the first two volumes of the series featured music by then unknowns Sara Bareilles and Melody Gardot, and rare guest appearances by stars Norah Jones and Chris Martin. The new volumes continue the tradition with a superb mix of newcomers and established icons. As esteemed music journalist Alan Light suggests, in the liner notes for Volume Three:

"(Sunday) marks the beginning of the week and the end of the weekend, a time for both reflection and anticipation. Regardless of our faith, we all know that Sunday has its own texture and rhythm-a singularity that has long been reflected in music. For Billie Holiday, it was "Gloomy Sunday," while the Shirelles doo-ron-doo-ronned through "Met Him on a Sunday." Duke Ellington ("Come Sunday") and the Velvet Underground ("Sunday Morning") each wrote their own version of a hymn to the day."

"Sunday Music Three offers the languorous majesty of Cassandra Wilson on "Closer to You" and the hard-earned renewal of Katie Herzig's "Wish You Well." The raw yearning in "When Your Mind's Made Up, " by the Oscar-winning duo The Swell Season, follows the achingly lovely "Cinema Paradiso Main Theme," as interpreted by jazz giants Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny. Sunday Music is sexy, dreamy, melancholy-and available any day of the week when, like Johnny Cash, you feel Sunday morning comin' down."

Volumes Three and Four will be offered exclusively for six months at retailer Barnes & Noble Booksellers and their online store, www.bn.com/sundaymusic, and as part of their Discover Great New Music program.

SUNDAY MUSIC VOLUME THREE
A truly international cast makes up the new 'pop' volume: - Canada's Feist w/Norways's folk duo Kings of Convenience; from the UK the unique sounds of Goldfrapp and Stephanie Dosen (a featured vocalist on the forthcoming record by Massive Attack); homespun up-and-coming heroes include the exceptional Iron & Wine, alt-Nashville's Katie Herzig, Landon Pigg and Viktor Krauss (brother of Alison): the African icon, Angelique Kidjo; a live track from Oscar-Winning European duo The Swell Season (from "Once"); remixed Mexican songbird, Lila Downs; Australia's Sia; platinum Brit Newton Faulkner and Brooklyn's finest, Beirut. This eclectic group of top tier artists performs their own material, as well as classics by Gershwin, Morricone, Dylan (Jakob) and the Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan.

1. Kings of Convenience featuring Feist - Know How
2. Goldfrapp - Happiness
3. Stephanie Dosen - This Joy
4. Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin
5. Angelique Kidjo - Summertime
6. Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Cinema Paradiso
7. The Swell Season - When Your Mind's Made Up (Exclusive)
8. Lila Downs - I Would Never (Sunday Music Exclusive Mix)
9. Katie Herzig - Wish You Well
10. Landon Pigg - Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop
11. Viktor Krauss - Hop
12. Sia - Day Too Soon
13. Newton Faulkner - I Need Something
14. Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You
15. Beirut - A Sunday Smile

SUNDAY MUSIC VOLUME FOUR - CLASSICAL
In putting together the first Classical volume, series producer Hugo Vereker's goal was to feature a diversity of extraordinary artists; to celebrate centuries of brilliant composition; to introduce a spectrum of recordings from the conventional to the unexpected; and to weave them together into a cohesive, moving and unique Sunday soundtrack.

Produced in association with Universal Special Markets, Sunday Music 4 is a unique blend of contemporary and classical by an international cast as diverse as that of its sister volume. The musical palate ranges from familiar pieces with an artful twist - film composer Brook (An Inconvenient Truth & Into The Wild) and world music maestro Gasparyan's take on Albinoni's Adagio, for example, arranged for duduk, guitar, brass and strings; or superstar Sting's exquisite vocal and lute reading of a C17th ballad -- to highly original artists such as Lisa Gerrard, whose compelling body of work includes movies (Gladiator) and avant-garde pop (Dead Can Dance). And then there are simply "classics" -- breathtaking performances from some of the biggest stars in Classical Music - Hahn, Bernstein, Netrebko and more.

Artists/Composers:
1. Magdalena Kozena/Handel
2. Wilhelm Kempff/Schubert
3. Pepe Romero/Rodrigo
4. Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
5. Hilary Hahn/Bach
6. Sting & Edin Karamazov/Johnson
7. Michael Brook & Djivan Gasparyan/Albinoni
8. Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Whitacre
9. Los Angeles Philarmonic/Bernstein
10. David Darling
11. Anna Netrebko/Dvorak
12. Craig Armstrong/Sibelius

Be sure to catch live events in major cities in the fall/winter - details to be announced soon.

Source: Big Hassle Media

| Thursday, September 11, 2008

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