Clogs (band)

Clogs
MembersPadma Newsome
Bryce Dessner
Rachael Elliott
Thomas Kozumplik
Websitewww.clogsmusic.com

Clogs are a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.[1] Clogs have released five albums on Brassland Records—Thom's Night Out (2001), Lullaby for Sue (2003), Stick Music (2004), Lantern (2006)[2] and The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (2010).[3][4][5]

History

The band members, (Bryce Dessner, Rachael Elliott, Thomas Kozumplik and Padma Newsome), met in the late 1990s while studying at the Yale School of Music.[6][7] Newsome, born in 1961 in Alice Springs, Australia,[8] started his career as a concert violinist in the Sydney Symphony, before a six-year detour took him to an ashram in the remote region of New South Wales. He began composing in the 1990s at the University of Adelaide, when he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that brought him to America.[6] Dessner is an established soloist and veteran of groups Bang on a Can All-Stars and the National,[6] which has given him in contact with Philip Glass and Terry Riley. Elliott released her debut album, Polka the Elk, in 2011, which displays her bassoon music and includes contributions from Newsome, David Lang and Tawnie Olson.[9]

Style

Clogs' "classical" music is the result of a peculiar writing process more akin to a rock band or a jazz quartet. The members come to rehearsals with basic ideas that the group riffs on and develops in jam sessions and live performance. Their influences include John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Philip Glass;[10] and a 16th century lute player.[11] Newsome later arranges these ideas into elegant and complex musical narratives that meld and extend the ideas of minimalist, modernist, and romantic composers, adding sounds and melodies drawn from the folk music of India, the Jewish diaspora, and everywhere else.[12]

Members

  • Bryce Dessner – guitar, ukulele, prepared guitar, mandola
  • Rachael Elliott – bassoon, melodica
  • Thomas Kozumplik – percussion
  • Padma Newsome – viola, violin, melodica, voice, piano, prepared guitar, mandola, celeste

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

  • Veil Waltz (2010)
  • Last Song (2010)
  • The Sundown Song (2013)

References

  1. ^ "Caught in the Net: Clogs show they've got plenty of sole". The Independent. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  2. ^ Raper, Dan (9 March 2006). "Clogs: Lantern, PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Get Your Clogs On". The New York Times. 24 March 2010. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  4. ^ Snapes, Laura (16 June 2011). "Brassland: the record label at the centre of New York's other music scene". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  5. ^ Lang, Rebecca (13 February 2010). "Clogs arrives at the Southern Theater". Star Tribune. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  6. ^ a b c "Clogs Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  7. ^ Campbell, Brett (5 November 2013). "Bryce Dessner: A Musician for Every Space, and Beyond". www.sfcv.org. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Padma Newsome | bio". Clogsmusic.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  9. ^ Deanne, Sole (12 September 2011). "Rachael Elliott: Polka the Elk". PopMatters. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  10. ^ Robson, Britt (19 February 2010). "The National's Bryce Dessner brings his chamber-pop band Clogs to the Southern". MinnPost. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  11. ^ Daily, The Tufts (14 February 2006). "Clogs make mood music for the intellectual person". The Tufts Daily. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  12. ^ Zuel, Bernard (18 January 2007). "Clogs". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  13. ^ Clogs (Musical group); Newsome, Padma; Kozumplik, Thomas; Elliott, Rachael; Dessner, Bryce (2001), Thom's Night Out, Brassland, retrieved 13 February 2023
  14. ^ Raggett, Ned. "Clogs: Lullaby for Sue Reviews, Songs and More". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  15. ^ Clogs (Musical group); Choi, Jennifer. (Performer); Friedlander, Erik. (Performer); Feeney, Tim. (Performer) (2004), Stick Music, Brassland, retrieved 13 February 2023
  16. ^ Clogs (Musical group) (2005), Lantern, Brassland, retrieved 13 February 2023
  17. ^ Clogs (Musical group); Newsome, Padma. (Performer); Dessner, Bryce. (Performer); Kozumplik, Thomas. (Performer); Elliott, Rachael. (Performer) (2010), The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton, Brassland, retrieved 13 February 2023