Sylva (Remixed & Remastered) Metropole Orkest & Snarky Puppy

• 1 Sintra - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Remixed & Remastered) 03:32
• 2 Flight- Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Remixed & Remastered) 06:02
• 3 Atchafalaya - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Remixed & Remastered) 06:12
• 4 The Curtain - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Remixed & Remastered) 15:03
• 5 Gretel - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Remixed & Remastered) 04:32
• 6 The Clearing - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Remixed & Remastered) 19:29
• 7 The Curtain - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Bonus Version) 14:40
• 8 The Clearing - Live From Dordrecht, Het Energiehuis / 2014 (Bonus Version) 06:09
• Total Runtime 01:15:39

Info for Sylva (Remixed & Remastered)

5-time GRAMMY-winners Snarky Puppy are set to re-release their popular album Sylva. The re-release will include the 6 original tracks along with 2 alternate takes of "The Curtain" and "The Clearing." Originally released by Impulse! with over 14 million streams, this re-release comes upon the reclamation by GroundUP Music of the original masters and is a celebration of independent music. Since reclaiming the masters in October 2024, the original album has seen over 550,000 streams. This will be Snarky Puppy's first release since 2022's GRAMMY-winning album Empire Central. Outside of the US market, Snarky Puppy sees high streaming numbers and sales in the United Kingdom followed by Canada, France, and Germany.

Snarky Puppy:
Michael League, electric bass, Moog bass
Bob Lanzetti, electric guitar
Mark Lettieri, electric guitar
Chris McQueen, electric guitar
Bill Laurance, piano, Wurlitzer, Moog
Cory Henry, organ, Clavinet, Moog
Justin Stanton, Fender Rhodes, Moog, clavinet, piano, trumpet
Jay Jennings, trumpet and flugelhorn
Mike "Maz" Maher, trumpet and flugelhorn
Chris Bullock, tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Nate Werth, percussion
Robert "Sput" Searight, drums
Metropole Orkest
Jules Buckley, conductor

Recorded live in early 2015, Sylva is a noted creative departure for Snarky Puppy, and marks their first collaboration with an orchestra - namely Holland's The Metropole Orkest.

Digitally remastered

Snarky Puppy
The once Texan, now New York-based, Grammy award-winning quasi-collective Snarky Puppy has gone from the best-kept secret to one of the most respected names in instrumental music. Although still "underground" in many respects, the band has earned high praise from critical stalwarts like the BBC, Village Voice, Guardian, and Boston Herald, and has performed at some of the best venues and festivals in Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America.

The band has always used live performance as its chief form of evangelism, and maintains a more intense tour schedule than almost any band in the idiom. Over the course of 2013, Snarky Puppy gave almost 200 performances and workshops on four continents, including North Sea Jazz, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz á Vienne, Blue Note Tokyo, and the Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Their most recent album, “Family Dinner - Volume One,” earned a Grammy for Best R&B Performance with featured guest Lalah Hathaway, as well as charting #1 on the ITUNES Jazz Charts.

Snarky Puppy seamlessly fuses a deep knowledge and respect for musical tradition with sonic and conceptual innovation in a way that is able to reach the most critical- or most carefree- audience. The convergence of musicians from white and black America (who also perform regularly with artists like Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Kirk Franklin, Justin Timberlake, Roy Hargrove, and Marcus Miller among others), which occurred while the band was in its adolescence at the University of North Texas, has naturally established a system of balance that instantly draws listeners to the music- raw funk and sensitive dynamics, relentless pocket and lyrical melodicism, lush harmony and soulful simplicity, and most importantly, a delicate mixture of composition and improvisation.

The group is led by award-winning bassist/guitarist/composer/arranger Michael League, whose creative grass-roots approach to a tougher-than-ever industry has created a new model for independent artists. Snarky Puppy is a three-headed creature: first, and most obviously- an original music ensemble. Second- a production team and session band for individual artists. Third, and probably most importantly- Snarky Puppy is a group of musicians enthusiastically committed to music education and community outreach. Working with groups like ROAM (Roots Of American Music) in inner city Cleveland and the Music Lab at Jefferson Center in Roanoke, as well as giving clinics at hundreds of colleges, high schools, and middle schools worldwide, the band has made a strong commitment to spreading their love of music and general positivity to a young generation looking for something real to be inspired by.

This album contains no booklet.