The National have shared brand new song ‘Somebody Desperate’, which features in the end credits of the new film adaptation of Cyrano – check it out below, along with NME’s exclusive interview with frontman Matt Berninger.
Based on the classic play Cyrano de Bergerac – a fictionalised account of the self-conscious, swashbucking, lovelorn poet of the same name – the new adaptation of Cyrano stars Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage in the titular role, and will come to UK cinemas in January. The soundtrack arrives next week (December 10), with music from The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner and lyrics from Berninger and his wife Carin Besser.
John Coltrane’s masterpiece A Love Supreme has been certified platinum in the United States by the RIAA 56 years after its release. Universal Music announced the news today (November 10) in a press release, noting that A Love Supreme is the first jazz LP of the 1960s to achieve platinum certification by reaching one million album sales. It marks Coltrane’s first platinum record.
A Love Supreme was recorded in one session in late 1964 at Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Coltrane enlisted drummer Elvin Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner, and bassist Jimmy Garrison for the iconic recording, which was originally released by Impulse! in 1965. Earlier this year, Impulse! and UMe released A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle—a rare private recording of Coltrane’s quartet performing selections from the LP in 1965.
Today, Impulse! Records and UMe have also released a digital-only collection titled A Love Supreme: The Platinum Collection, in celebration of Coltrane’s milestone. The collection includes all commercially released versions of the LP: the original album, a live 1965 recording from Antibes, France, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle, and outtakes and alternative takes from A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters.
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The east side of the Bustard Islands was all shoals and breakers, with a broad band of granite shelves and outcroppings stretching half a mile or more offshore. Typical for Georgian Bay, I knew, where the safest routes run well outside to avoid the rocks, or follow the well-buoyed passages of the charted small-craft route that traverses Georgian Bay’s eastern shoreline.
Here in the Thirty Thousand Islands region, only kayaks and canoes—or a sail-and-oar cruiser with her board and rudder up—can manage to sneak through to the shore in most places. And even boats like my as-yet-unnamed Don Kurylko–designed Alaska beach cruiser have to pick their way carefully. Passing through the northern end of the Bustard Islands on my approach from the west, I had seen a few cottages and sailed past half a dozen larger boats in the main anchorage between Tie Island and Strawberry Island. Out here on the east side of the Bustards I was completely on my own.
