You of all things cd notes and credits

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Metadata: Jodie Landau / wild Up On bedcom website and when referred to in writing: Jodie Landau and wild Up (wild Up should be in italics.) __

Release: October 2, 2015 Artist Name: Jodie Landau / wild Up Album Title: you of all things

Composer: each composer listed for their tracks: Jodie Landau (for his tracks: 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10) Ellen Reid (2) Marc Lowenstein (5, 6) Andrew Tholl (7)

Catalogue number for album: HVALUR24 Barcode: 880319732027 Release date : 2 October 2015 Album Order / Piece titles: 1. an invitation 2. orlando & tiresias 3. the taste of the room 4. a ballad ­ for you dear 5. this ­ i 6. this ­ ii 7. memory draws the map we follow 8. as I wait for the lion 9. stay going nowhere 10. as we sway

Text/Lyrics an invitation you hold your hand out I volunteer your eyes seem so inviting and so sincere so so silently we go I’ll follow blindly anywhere for you dear

Orlando & Tiresias: Meeting on an Unmarked Plane Text by Mandy Kahn [The setting here is stark—an empty, windswept plane—the sort of set that Waiting for Godot is often staged on: we’re far out between towns, deep within some countryside, where two people are unlikely to encounter each other. Tiresias, the Blind Prophet of Thebes, is on a walk, and along comes Orlando, the title character from Virginia Woolf’s novel. Orlando, who is of noble birth, has only recently been changed— inexplicably—during seven mysterious days of unbroken sleep—from a man to a woman, and is crossing this plane heading from Constantinople back to England, her homeland. Tiresias assumes that Orlando will ask him for advice, and so speaks first.]

Ask me not for prophesy—I’m on this walk to be alone— So am I. So ask not for advice—though nights are long—

What nights are long?

Don’t you seek to know how things turn out?

Don’t you seek to know how you became?

You ask for no advice?

A Russian princess heel to throat in fox fur white as asphodels loved me on a plane of ice then flew by ship, and left no note, Heartbreak taught me everything.

No shock will ever hurt again.

I’m neither boy nor girl— I’m a figure that has known and lost a love—

you’d see it if I woke a cloud, or hear it if I woke a bank of frogs—

you’d feel it as a chill, if I awoke a stream—

I’m molecules within a space, that hover in a group, with one span gone.

Have you seen a school of gnats employ the air?

Always, at the center, there’s a void— a shadow where the jar of honey sat, when gnats began.

And the honey? Where’s it gone?

Preserved somewhere, in some Egyptian tomb, where each age dips a thumb and tastes again.

What was it like?

A galleon of warm plums.

I’m hard like you, just from eating one.

a ballad ­ for you dear my sweet, my two way stream, my life I’m simply satisfied to be full in your hands held soft as the sheets we dream and wake in heaven a pillowed dream so so soft and sweet so so you rest your lips upon my cheek and sing to me you held your hand out I volunteered your eyes seemed so inviting and so sincere but so suddenly you go I really wanted you to stay so so sweet but then realized you don’t you don’t care for me at all and then I realized you won’t you won’t care at all

This

Texts from The Song of Songs Rumi, and Bialik We have been wandering . . .

“Come away, my love, my fair” I hear a voice in my dreams, I hear the song of my lover there She calls me to her in my sleep “For the winter is past” She smiles at me and silently tells me to unask the question “The time of singing is here” __________ “When compassion fills my heart, Free from all desire” om mani padme hum “I sit quietly like the earth, My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe” om mani padme hum

__________ Bayomkayits,yomchom Et hashemesh mimʼrom Ha rakiyah telahet kʼtanur hayom et lʼvakesh halev pinat sheket lʼchalom Bo elai, bo elai, reyah ayef.

[On a summer day, a day of heat The sun is above and the heavens heat up like an oven today Now the heart seeks a quiet corner

to dream ­­ come to me, come to me my tired friend.]

as I wait for the lion I try to write as if I knew I try to find a thought of you you of all things you of all things you evolve so you’ll appear somewhere out there I search hard for it hard for it I search hard for it in hopes to find a glimpse of you out of all I thought I knew knew of all things but you of all things you evolve til you appear somewhere out there I search hard for it search hard for it I search hard for it I am ready and unopened and though my needs not met we’ve seen the things we love but find them separate if only we’d forget I’m finding it hard still finding it hard in finding your song

stay going nowhere

I want you to know how often I think of you consider your thought mull over your every view they stay with me always I want you to know and yet I still bite my tongue I want to embody it all [embody it all…] speak the truth but feel that the words are wrong [know this, know all…]

I want you to know I want you to feel at home for you to feel safe safe with me until we are both unknown so stay with me stay with me

I want you to know I wanted a love our own for you to feel safe safe with me until we are both unknown so stay with me stay with me I want you to know I want you to stay want you to hold want you to feel safe with me awake with me stay with me stay

as we sway

you’re involved in me take your time find a sense of the room follow and lead and sway you’re a choice I make time and time again and though the hour nearly ends I’d love to wait silently gazing and sway

Credits: Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson Co­Produced by Jodie Landau & Christopher Rountree Engineered and Edited by Valgeir Sigurðsson & Paul Evans Additional Mixing Paul Evans Assistants: Bridget Feral and Dominik Suchy Recorded at Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland between August 2014 and January 2015.

wild Up Jodie Landau ­ Voice, Vibraphone, Crotales, Bass Drum, & Piano Christopher Rountree ­ Conductor Brian Walsh ­ Clarinets Andrew Tholl ­ Violin Derek Stein ­ Cello Maggie Hasspacher ­ Bass Katie Buckley ­ Harp Elisabet Waage ­ Harp Choir ­ Graduale Nobili: Ásdís Björg Ástríður W Ríkharðsdóttir Bergljót Rafnar Karlsdóttir Elín Edda Sigurðardóttir Erla María Markúsdóttir

Ester Auðunsdóttir Fífa Jónsdóttir Gígja Gylfadóttir Gígja Haraldsdóttir Guðný Árnadóttir Guðrún Matthildur Sigurbergsdóttir Harpa Ósk Björnsdóttir Snædís Snorradóttir Steinunn Þorvaldsdóttir Unnur Sigurðardóttir Vigdís Sigurðardóttir Additional Singers: Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir Auður Guðjohnsen Vocal Coach Marc Lowenstein

Stay Going Nowhere Electronics: Electronic Sounds by Valgeir Sigurðsson Samples Recorded by Nick TIpp Electronics & Samples Derived from Performances by Henry Kwapis Edited by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Jodie Landau

Photos by Hörður Sveinsson Design by Chris Bigg

This is a Bedroom Community Record www.bedroomcommunity.net www.jodielandau.com www.wildup.org

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wild Up mission statement: We make music.

New music. Old music.

We’ll play it, as long as we love it. wild Up bio: wild Up is a modern music collective; an adventurous chamber orchestra; a Los Angeles­based group of musicians committed to creating visceral, thought­provoking happenings. wild Up believes that music is a catalyst for shared experiences, and that a concert venue is a place to challenge, excite and ignite a community of listeners. wild Up has been called “Searing. Penetrating. And thrilling” by Fred Child of Performance Today and “Magnificent” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. Over the last five years, wild Up has collaborated with orchestras, rock bands and cultural institutions around the world.

The group began in 2010 as a self­funded, completely bootstrapped project of wild Up’s Artistic Director and Conductor Christopher Rountree: after graduate school, Rountree returned to Los Angeles wanting to create a new orchestra made up of young musicians, a group that would reject classical music’s most boring traditions and embrace unusual venues and programs that mashed up classical repertoire, pop culture, new music and performance art. The group’s first few concerts at art studios and rock clubs around L.A. created a fervent fanbase of true believers. Then UCLA’s Hammer Museum tapped wild Up as the museum’s first ever Orchestra in Residence, and after dozens of concerts in the Hammer’s halls, courtyards and galleries, the L.A. Times proclaimed the group “Best Classical Music of 2012.” It was off to the races, as wild Up began working with musical and cultural institutions around the world. wild Up has been Ensemble in Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and played numerous programs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic including the Phil’s Brooklyn Festival, Minimalist Jukebox Festival, and Next on Grand Festival. wild Up has a one­of­a­kind education partnership with The Colburn School; taught a semester­long class on Creativity and Consciousness at Bard College’s Longy School; led composition classes with the American Composers Forum and American Composers Orchestra; and founded an ongoing intensive educational program with the L.A. Phil in which 10 young composers and a faculty of eight legendary composers meet to collaborate on new work.

While the group is part of the fabric of classical music in L.A., wild Up also embraces indie music collaborations. The group has an album forthcoming on Bedroom Community Records with Bjork’s choir Graduale Nobili, vocalist Jodie Landau, and composer Valgeir Sigurðsson recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland; they played with composer Ellis Ludwig­Leone and rock band San Fermin under a tyrannosaurus rex at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles; they performed Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes’ score of the Scarlett Johansson film “Under the Skin” at the Regent Theater in downtown L.A.; they premiered and recorded an opera by Lewis Pesacov of afrobeat band Fool’s Gold about the end of the Mayan Calendar; and they will premiere forthcoming works by Domino Records artist Julia Holter and Eric Avery of rock band Jane’s Addiction.

In the upcoming season, wild Up is Ensemble in Residence with Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at the Laguna Beach Music Festival; they embark on their second large­scale production with director James Darrah and production company Chromatic called FAILURE.; and the group will premiere a few dozen new works, including composer David Lang’s “Anatomy Theater” at the L.A. Opera. In October, wild Up makes their New York debut on the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC festival with a new program called “West.” wild Up has been featured at numerous West Coast cultural spaces including the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures, the Broad Stage, Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, REDCAT, Beyond Baroque, the Armory Center for the Arts, Santa Ana Sites and Echo Park’s Jensen Rec Center. Their recordings of Shostakovich, Rzewski, Messiaen and Los Angeles composers have been featured on KUSC, WNYC, Q2, KPFK, Alex Ross’s blog The Rest Is Noise and American Public Media’s Performance Today, among many others.

Jodie Landau is a 23­year­old composer, vocalist, and percussionist. His music combines elements of chamber music, rock, and jazz for live performance, film, theater, and dance. As a solo performer, Jodie sings while playing vibraphone and marimba.

Landau works with the acclaimed modern music collective, wild Up as a performer, composer and production manager. He has also performed with groups such as Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, ACE Jazz Collective, Gnarwhallaby, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, The Guthrie Project, Formalist String Quartet, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale Chamber Singers. He has worked with and performed works by composers: Sofia Gubaidulina, Ellen Reid, Christopher Rountree, Pauline Oliveros, Jonathan Beard, Marc Lowenstein, Mark Menzies, Andrew Tholl, Cathlene Pineda, David Johnson, Beth Schenck, and Christopher Cerrone.

In Fall 2013, Jodie was the multi­percussionist in The Industry’s invisible opera for wireless headphones, “Invisible Cities” by Christopher Cerrone at Union Station. In Spring 2014, Jodie composed a live score for Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY’s “mouth to mouth” performed by wild Up.

In Summer 2014, Jodie and wild Up traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to collaborate on a concert and recording with Graduale Nobili, the Icelandic choir that recorded and toured with Bjork for her Biophillia project, and recorded at Greenhouse Studios with Valgeir Sigurðsson, the founder of Bedroom Community.­

In June 2015, Jodie sang on tour with Ballet National de Marseille and ICKamsterdam performing the premiere of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten’s “Extremalism” with music by Valgeir Sigurðsson. The work premiered at the Holland Festival and Montpellier Danse.