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Born | March 1975 (age 49) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
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Colin Stetson (born March 3, 1975)[1][2] is an American saxophonist, multireedist, and composer based in Montreal.[3][4] He is best known as a regular collaborator of the indie rock acts Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Bell Orchestre, and Ex Eye. In addition to saxophone, he plays clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, flute, and cornet.
Stetson has released various solo releases, including his debut and subsequent albums New History Warfare Vol. 1, 2, & 3, a collaborative studio album with violinist Sarah Neufeld entitled Never Were the Way She Was (2015), Sorrow: A Reimagining of Henryk Górecki's 3rd Symphony (2016),[5] and All This I Do for Glory (2017). Since 2013, Stetson has contributed the scores to several films and television series.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently based in Montreal, Quebec, Stetson started taking lessons at age 15.[2] He attended the University of Michigan School of Music with a full scholarship, where he joined Transmission Trio.[6] He also played with the groups Boostamonte and the People's Bizarre.[3]
Stetson has performed and recorded with dozens of artists, including Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, TV on the Radio, Feist, and Bon Iver.[7]
His extended saxophone techniques cover advanced circular breathing, multiphonics, altissimo, microtones, (reed) vocalizations, percussive valve-work, clicking keys, and growling.[8] The overall effect led The New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane to describe Stetson's score to the film Hereditary as having been seemingly "scored for violins, percussion, a humpback whale, and bats."[9]
His first solo album, New History Warfare, Vol. 1, was released in 2008. His second and third albums, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges and New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, were released by Constellation Records in early 2011. On June 16, the album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize,[10] and shortlisted on July 6.[4]
Stetson was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England.[11] The final album of the trilogy, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, was released by Constellation Records in April 2013, and was a longlist nominee for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.[12]
April 2015 saw the release of Never Were the Way She Was, the first recording of Stetson's duo project with his wife and long-time collaborator Sarah Neufeld.[13] Stetson's album All This I Do for Glory was released on April 28, 2017.[14] In 2022 he released the drone-inspired album Chimæra I.[15] It was followed a year later by the minimalist When We Were That What Wept for the Sea.[16] In September 2024, Stetson released The Love It Took to Leave You.[17]
With Tom Waits
With Arcade Fire
With TV on the Radio
With Jolie Holland
With Feist
With Esmerine
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With Timber Timbre
With Bon Iver
With David Gilmour
With BadBadNotGood
With Animal Collective
With Sarah Neufeld
With Marcus Hamblett
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Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2007 | Greyhounds (Short) | Kelilyn Mohr McKeever | |
2012 | Rust and Bone | Jacques Audiard | Composer, Musician: "All the Days I've Missed You (Ilaij I)" |
2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | Composer, Musician: "Awake on Foreign Shores" |
Blue Caprice | Alexandre Moors | ||
2014 | The Rover | David Michôd | Composer, Musician: "Time is Advancing with Fitful Irregularity", "As a Bird or Branch", "Groundswell", "Awake on Foreign Shores" |
2015 | La Peur | Damien Odul | |
Vi ska bli rappare | David Danial | Composer, Musician: "Stand, Walk" | |
Denis the Pirate | Sam Messer | Composed with Sarah Neufeld | |
It's About Time (Short) | Ivo Briedis | ||
Closet Monster | Stephen Dunn | Composer, Musician: "The Stars In His Head (Dark Lights Remix)" | |
2016 | Lavender | Ed Gass-Donnelly | Composed with Sarah Neufeld |
Outlaws and Angels | J. T. Mollner | ||
The War Show | Andreas Møl Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon | ||
2017 | Destierros | Hubert Caron-Guay | Partial score |
2018 | Age Out | A.J. Edwards | |
Hereditary | Ari Aster | ||
We | Rene Eller | ||
2019 | Color Out of Space | Richard Stanley | |
2021 | Mayday | Karen Cinorre | |
2022 | Texas Chainsaw Massacre | David Blue Garcia | |
2022 | The Menu | Mark Mylod |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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2012 | Shut Up and Play the Hits | Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern | cast as himself |
2014 | A City Is an Island | Timothy George Kelly | cast as himself |
2015 | An American, Portrait of Raymond Luc Levasseur | Pierre Marier | |
New York Never Sleeps | Alfonso Nogueroles | ||
Scrum | Poppy Stockell | ||
2016 | The Devil's Horn | Larry Weinstein | cast as himself |
Uncle Howard | Aaron Brookner | Composer, Musician: "In Mirrors" |
Year | Title | Network | Notes |
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2014 | The Blacklist
The Alchemist (No. 101) |
NBC | performer: " Warm Shadow" - uncredited |
2017 | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Human Is |
Channel 4 | performer: "The rest of us" - uncredited |
2018 | The First | Hulu, Channel 4 | |
2020 | Barkskins | National Geographic | |
2021 | Among the Stars | Disney Plus | Composer for all 6 Episodes |
2023 | Hogan's Castle | Netflix | Composer for all 11 Episodes |
2024 | Uzumaki[23] | Adult Swim's Toonami |
Year | Title | Studio |
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2018 | Red Dead Redemption 2[24] | Rockstar Games |