{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Clogs | image = | caption = | landscape = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = | genre = Rock, instrumental | years_active = Brassland | label = | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|http://clogsmusic.com/}} | current_members = Padma Newsome<br>Bryce Dessner<br>Rachael Elliott<br>Thomas Kozumplik | past_members = }}
'''Clogs''' are a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Padma Newsome.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-02-07 |title=Caught in the Net: Clogs show they've got plenty of sole |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/caught-in-the-net-clogs-show-they-ve-got-plenty-of-sole-8486053.html |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> Clogs have released five albums on Brassland Records—''Thom's Night Out'' (2001), ''Lullaby for Sue'' (2003), ''Stick Music'' (2004), ''Lantern'' (2006)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raper |first=Dan |date=2006-03-09 |title=Clogs: Lantern, PopMatters |url=https://www.popmatters.com/clogs_lantern-2495675589.html |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=PopMatters |language=en-US}}</ref> and ''The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton'' (2010).<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-03-24 |title=Get Your Clogs On |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/urbaneye/24ubn03.html |access-date=2023-02-08 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Snapes |first=Laura |date=2011-06-16 |title=Brassland: the record label at the centre of New York's other music scene |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/brassland-record-label-new-york-the-national |access-date=2023-02-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lang |first=Rebecca |date=13 February 2010 |title=Clogs arrives at the Southern Theater |url=https://www.startribune.com/clogs-arrives-at-the-southern-theater/84174127/ |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=Star Tribune}}</ref>
==History==
The band members, Bryce Dessner, Rachael Elliott, Thomas Kozumplik and Padma Newsome, met in the late 1990s while studying at the Yale School of Music.<ref name="Clogs History">{{Cite web |title=Clogs Biography, Songs, & Albums |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/clogs-mn0000125697/biography |access-date=13 February 2023 |publisher=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Brett |date=5 November 2013 |title=Bryce Dessner: A Musician for Every Space, and Beyond |url=https://www.sfcv.org/articles/feature/bryce-dessner-musician-every-space-and-beyond |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=www.sfcv.org |language=en}}</ref> Newsome, born in 1961 in Alice Springs, Australia,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clogsmusic.com/padma/bio.html |title=Padma Newsome | bio |publisher=Clogsmusic.com |accessdate=2015-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213211808/http://www.clogsmusic.com/padma/bio.html |archive-date=13 February 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> started his career as a concert violinist in the Sydney Symphony, before a six-year detour took him to an ashram in the remote region of New South Wales. He began composing in the 1990s at the University of Adelaide, when he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that brought him to America.<ref name="Clogs History" /> Dessner is an established soloist and veteran of groups Bang on a Can All-Stars and the National,<ref name="Clogs History" /> which has given him contact with Philip Glass and Terry Riley. Elliott released her debut album, ''Polka the Elk'', in 2011, which displays her bassoon music and includes contributions from Newsome, David Lang and Tawnie Olson.<ref name="PM Sole 1">{{cite web | url = https://www.popmatters.com/146413-rachael-elliott-polka-the-elk-2495965795.html | title = Rachael Elliott: ''Polka the Elk'' | last = Deanne | first = Sole | work =PopMatters | date = 12 September 2011 | access-date = 13 February 2023 }}</ref>
==Style== Clogs' "classical" music is the result of a peculiar writing process more akin to a rock band or a jazz quartet. The members come to rehearsals with basic ideas that the group riffs on and develops in jam sessions and live performance. Their influences include John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Philip Glass;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robson |first=Britt |date=2010-02-19 |title=The National's Bryce Dessner brings his chamber-pop band Clogs to the Southern |url=https://www.minnpost.com/arts-arena/2010/02/nationals-bryce-dessner-brings-his-chamber-pop-band-clogs-southern/ |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=MinnPost |language=en-US}}</ref> and a 16th century lute player.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daily |first=The Tufts |date=2006-02-14 |title=Clogs make mood music for the intellectual person |url=https://tuftsdaily.com/archives/2006/02/14/clogs-make-mood-music-for-the-intellectual-person/ |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=The Tufts Daily |language=en}}</ref> Newsome later arranges these ideas into elegant and complex musical narratives that meld and extend the ideas of minimalist, modernist, and romantic composers, adding sounds and melodies drawn from the folk music of India, the Jewish diaspora, and everywhere else.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zuel |first=Bernard |date=2007-01-18 |title=Clogs |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/clogs-20070119-gdp9ui.html |access-date=2023-02-08 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref>
==Members==
*Bryce Dessner – guitar, ukulele, prepared guitar, mandola *Rachael Elliott – bassoon, melodica *Thomas Kozumplik – percussion *Padma Newsome – viola, violin, melodica, voice, piano, prepared guitar, mandola, celeste
==Discography==
===Albums===
* ''Thom's Night Out'' (2001) – Brassland {{small|(HWY-002)}}<ref name="NLA Thom's Night">{{Citation | author1=Clogs (Musical group) | author2=Newsome, Padma | author3=Kozumplik, Thomas | author4=Elliott, Rachael | author5=Dessner, Bryce | author-link5=Bryce Dessner | title=Thom's Night Out | date=2001 | publisher=Brassland | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10218872 | access-date=13 February 2023 }}</ref> * ''Lullaby for Sue'' (2003)<ref name="AMG Raggett 1">{{cite web | author1=Raggett, Ned | title=Clogs: ''Lullaby for Sue'' Reviews, Songs and More | publisher=AllMusic | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/lullaby-for-sue-mw0000692289 | access-date=13 February 2023 }}</ref> * ''Stick Music'' (2004) – Brassland {{small|(HWY-007)}}<ref name="NLA Stick M">{{Citation | author1=Clogs (Musical group) | author2=Choi, Jennifer. (Performer) | author3=Friedlander, Erik. (Performer) | author4=Feeney, Tim. (Performer) | title=Stick Music | date=2004 | publisher=Brassland | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/182834820 | access-date=13 February 2023 }}</ref> * ''Lantern'' (2006) – Brassland {{small|(HWY-010)}}<ref name="NLA Lantern">{{Citation | author1=Clogs (Musical group) | title=Lantern | date=2005 | publisher=Brassland | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191849076 | access-date=13 February 2023 }}</ref> * ''The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton'' (2010) – Brassland {{small|(HWY-021)}}<ref name="NLA Creatures Garden">{{Citation | author1=Clogs (Musical group) | author2=Newsome, Padma. (Performer) | author3=Dessner, Bryce. (Performer) | author4=Kozumplik, Thomas. (Performer) | author5=Elliott, Rachael. (Performer) | title=The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton | date=2010 | publisher=Brassland | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38969675 | access-date=13 February 2023 }}</ref>
===Extended plays===
* ''Veil Waltz'' (2010) * ''Last Song'' (2010) * ''The Sundown Song'' (2013)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.clogsmusic.com/ Official website] *[http://www.myspace.com/clogsmusic Clogs] on MySpace *[http://www.brassland.org/artist.php?id=136 Clogs on Brassland Records] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061507/http://woxy.lala.com/music/loungeacts/index.php?id=66 Clogs live on WOXY.com, 28 April 2006]
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