Sylva (Snarky Puppy album)

Sylva
Studio album by Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest
Released May 26, 2015
Recorded April 19–20, 2014
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 54:32
Label Impulse Records
Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest chronology
We Like It Here
(2014)We Like It Here2014		 Sylva
(2015)		 Family Dinner – Volume 2
(2016)Family Dinner – Volume 22016

Sylva is the tenth album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy, released on May 26, 2015. It was a collaboration between the band and the Metropole Orkest from the Netherlands. It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.[1]

Track listing

All songs composed and arranged by Michael League. According to him, each song on the album is about a different forest.[2]

No.TitleLength
1."Sintra"3:32
2."Flight"6:03
3."Atchafalaya"6:04
4."The Curtain"15:09
5."Gretel"4:21
6."The Clearing"19:23
Total length:54:32

Personnel

Snarky Puppy
  • Michael League – Electric bass, Moog bass
  • Bob Lanzetti – electric guitar
  • Mark Lettieri – electric guitar
  • Chris McQueen – electric guitar
  • Nate Werth – percussion
  • Robert “Sput” Searight – drum set
  • Bill Laurance – piano, Wurlitzer, Moog
  • Cory Henry – Hammond B3 organ, Moog, clavinet
  • Justin Stanton – Fender Rhodes, Moog, clavinet, piano, trumpet
  • Mike “Maz” Maher – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Jay Jennings – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Chris Bullock – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/02/16/grammy-win-has-dutch-metropole-orchestra-feeling-enormously-proud/
  2. ↑ Snarky Puppy feat. Metropole Orkest (full concert) - Live @ Jazz sous les pommiers 2015, around minute 23.
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