Dark Matter, Randy Newman's first album of new material in nine years, is the follow-up to 2008's acclaimed Harps and Angels, which the Guardian called 'the work of a true master of popular song.'

Randy Newman was on CBS Sunday Morning's Academy Awards episode, in a feature on his family and their 'movie music dynasty,' including his uncles Alfred, Emil, and Lionel Newman, cousins David and Thomas Newman, and Randy himself. 'There are Newmans everywhere dotting Hollywood history from the beginning. It's one-of-a-kind.

It's an extraordinary story,' says film-music historian John Burlingame. 'When you look at the individuals and you see how talented each one of them is in their own way, when you put it all together, it's a bit mind-boggling.' Watch the feature and see what Randy had to say here. Nonesuch Records releases the four-LP, vinyl-only, limited-edition The Randy Newman Songbook box set on September 23, 2016.

Nonesuch's Randy Newman Songbook series—comprising solo recordings of songs from throughout Newman's five-decade career—previously included two volumes, released on CD in 2003 and 2011; the box set marks their first release on vinyl. Sixteen additional songs from a newly released third volume, along with five bonus tracks ('Feels Like Home,' 'A Wedding in Cherokee County,' 'Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman,' 'I'm Dreaming,' and 'Wandering Boy'), join those first two volumes in a new, thematic sequencing, to create this new complete Songbook box set. Mitchell Froom produced The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 and was joined on Vol. Free download speedbit video accelerator premium activation code for iphone. 3 by Newman's lifelong friend and colleague Lenny Waronker. ( The Randy Newman Songbook box set will be released on CD and digital formats in late 2016.) The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol.

3 also is available on September 23 as a stand-alone CD and digital album. The New York Times said of the first volume of The Randy Newman Songbook: 'The great craftsmanship is more apparent in the stripped-down context,' and the Associated Press said, 'Few singer-songwriters could inject more new life into solo piano versions of their work than Randy Newman.' The UK's Uncut called Vol. 2 'another subtly sublime stroll through the master's back catalogue,' noting that Newman is 'owner of a peerless canon,' and that the album 'isolates his full range of qualities: the improbable juxtapositions of caustic topicality and heart-wrenching universality, the concise character studies, and singing and piano playing that seem to emanate from the very fabric of America.'

After starting his songwriting career as a teenager, Newman began recording as a singer and pianist in 1968 with his self-titled album. Throughout the 1970s he released several other acclaimed albums such as: 12 Songs, Sail Away, and Good Old Boys.

In addition to his solo recordings and regular international touring, Newman began composing and scoring for films in the 1980s. The list of movies he has worked on since then includes The Natural, Awakenings, Ragtime, all three Toy Story pictures, Seabiscuit, James and the Giant Peach, A Bug's Life, and most recently, Disney/Pixar's Monsters University, the prequel to Monsters Inc. (which he also scored). Randy Newman's many honors include six Grammys, three Emmys, and two Academy Awards.