by Brad Mehldau
Release Date: 29 August 2025
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Nonesuch
£37.99
Brad Mehldau Ride into the Sun Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun, a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio, Samara Joy) and John Davis (who also engineered and mixed the album); drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman, who also conducted on Mehldau’s 2010 album Highway Rider. Ride into the Sun’s 10 Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are “inspired by, and reflect, Smith’s oeuvre.” Also included are interpretations of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’, which Smith also covered, and ‘Sunday’ by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, “I look at in some ways as sort of Smith’s visionary godfather.”
Featured Tracks:
Side: 1
1. Better Be Quiet Now
2. Everything Means Nothing to Me
3. Tomorrow Tomorrow (feat. Daniel Rossen)
4. Sweet Adeline
5. Sweet Adeline Fantasy
Side: 2
1. Between the Bars
2. The White Lady Loves You More
3. Ride into the Sun: Part I
4. Thirteen
Side: 3
1. Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
2. Somebody Cares, Somebody Understands
3. Southern Belle (feat. Daniel Rossen)
4. Satellite
Side: 4
1. Colorbars (feat. Chris Thile)
2. Sunday
3. Ride into the Sun: Conclusion
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Warner Jazz
£39.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Nonesuch
£27.99 £21.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Nonesuch
£15.99
Release Date: 13 September 2019
Format: LP Triple Vinyl
Label: Nonesuch
£44.99
