![]() It's not so much looking backwards as it is just looking around, reflections on all that is human and divine and present, and the roads we've taken to get us there. Cook has always been a hugely collaborative artist, crafting inspiring music with Justin Vernon in their Wisconsin band DeYarmond Edison, with his brother Brad. He distills decades of friendship, brotherhood, family, love, learning, and loss into flickering piano portraits - impressionistic and fluid and reverent. Cook has gained notoriety over the years releasing albums. Through composing the music, he began to reflect on specific and important presences in his life, and ends up capturing their essence via keys here. Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1924 - 1930 Roles Represented in DAHR: speaker, composer, author, lyricist, tiple, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, guitar Notes: Victor ledgers: 'Known as Radio Chef.' Also performs as 'The Ventriloquist and his Dummy.' Victor ledgers: 'Known as Radio Chef. Phil Cook is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and interpreter based in Durham, North Carolina. When Cook began these songs, he was in the headspace of meditating on the people in his support network, and those closest to him. All These Years is near hymn-like, a collection of prayers or meditations, improvisations threaded together by feeling, by the things that matter most. Since then, his versatility and multi-instrumentalist approach has led to him working on several number one albums as well as developing some exciting projects. After graduating from LIPA in 2012, Phil quickly found his way onto working on several A-list projects including Little Mix and Birdy. All These Years was recorded at NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, NC by his cousin and collaborator Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Indigo Girls), on a long-cared-for and much-loved one-hundred year-old Steinway piano. Phil Cook is a London based music producer/songwriter whose recent credits include artists such as Lewis Capaldi, Liam Payne, Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne, and Paloma Faith. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - here, Cook returns to his primary instrument, the piano, back where it all began. This was the first stop for the pair, who are working their way up the west coast to Pickathon this coming weekend and wrapping up in Seattle on August 8th.All These Years is Phil Cook's first fully instrumental piano release. When Cook began these songs, he was in the headspace of meditating on the people in his support network, and those closest to him. The North Carolinian, who’s also a member of Hiss Golden Messenger, Megafaun, and The Shouting Matches, is currently touring in support of his second solo release, the soulful People Are My Drug. Joining Norgren on this tour is prolific multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Phil Cook. Norgren was joined by his longtime companions Anders Grahn on upright bass and drummer Erik Berntsson. ![]() Some new songs were also played, which are soon to be recorded as Norgren and his band head into the studio after their tour concludes in August. The folk crooner’s set, often reminiscent of rhythmic, elongated Neil Young-style Americana roots jams with the addition of catchy melodies and minimalistic guitar riffs, featured a setlist of tracks that span across his five official releases, the most recent of which is 2015’s The Green Stone. Swedish singer-songwriter Daniel Norgren made a stop at the Teragram Ballroom.
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