MY MUSIC
In 2023 I'll be releasing my latest album and it'll be a tribute to New Orleans and all the amazing bars and clubs and lounges that keep the spirit of the city alive! 'Songs From A Wine Stained Notebook' or in other words, Drinking Songs. Here's a tiny sample of what's coming up
This recording is a return to the songs of Kurt Weill, but this time with a jazz trio, with new arrangements by Scotland's Artist of the Year, pianist David Patrick. Slow, sultry, dark and intense. Says Bremner, "I wanted to stay true to the tradition of Weill’s music, but I also wanted to go as far as possible. I wanted to take chances that would let me dive into the heart of the songs: whether those hearts were filled with love or murder".
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Bremner's second CD was 'The Sky Was Blue', where he asked "What is a jazz standard? And why the hell aren't the pop songs I grew up with becoming standards". As an answer, Bremner created swinging arrangements of songs from the Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and others, placing them side by side with traditional jazz standards.
'33(a kabarett) was a concept album: an exploration of musical, emotional, sexual and political inspirations behind the idea of Cabaret, with new arrangements of songs by Weill, Hollaender, Noel Coward and Sondheim.
Bremner's first recording was 'Bremner Sings Kurt Weill' and was devoted to his own personal obsession, the extraordinary songs of Kurt Weill. Along with the amazing French pianist, Stan Cramer, Bremner recorded sparse, heartfelt versions of Weill's repertoire, which moves from the streets of 1920's Berlin to the dazzling lights of Broadway.
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'Nouveautes, 100 years of modern song' is an album of American Art Song from the 20th Century.
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'The Year's at The Spring', by Amy Beach, America's first professional female composer, was written in 1900. This collection goes from that song, right up to John Cage's haunting 'Experiences No. 2' and Cage's vocal roller-coaster 'Aria'. There are songs from across the 20th Century, by Paul Bowles, Charles Ives, Barbara Monk Feldman, Benjamin Britten, Jean Coulthard, William Bolcom and the three-part chamber work by Leslie Bassett, 'Time and Beyond'