Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra's) “PIERCED ARROWS,” from their 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH. Segarra calls “Pierced Arrows,” “A heartbreak song, lost in the realm of memory. Being stuck in the past, and finding the rapidly changing world uncanny and bizarre. Trying to outrun trauma. Finding a meeting place between tough and tender. Memory replaying inside/beside you, triggering fight or flight responses.” The video is designed, directed, and edited by Lucia Honey.

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs "Until" from her Nonesuch Records debut, Ghost Song. Video directed by Matthew Edginton with animation by Salvant. "This is the weirdest, moodiest set of lyrics," Salvant says. "I feel like lyrics can morph into what you want them to be depending on when you listen. Of course it’s about love and romance, but there are these weird turns it takes, the dance at the center of the song. And that idea of catching the world in an hourglass is so great to me. I’m obsessed with hourglasses; I draw a lot of them in my visual art. It’s one of my favorite memento mori moments—the beauty of it and also the finality of it."

"To Be American," from Gabriel Kahane's 2022 album Magnificent Bird. Kahane both mines and interrogates nostalgia in the song, which he wrote during the roiling, national tumult of October 2020. "It's fitting,” he says, “that a song preoccupied with the past would feature musicians who are some of my oldest friends. This song, as much as any on the album, is a showcase of my musical community." The video, directed by Robert Edridge-Waks, contains excerpts from “ALCF James Kilgore Films Clip 5220” by James Kilgore (CC BY 4.0) and “West Palm Beach FL Candlelight Vigil -Occupy Our Homes- 12-6-2011” by flymaus (CC BY 3.0).

Brad Mehldau's "Tom Sawyer," from his 2022 album, Jacob's Ladder. The song, Mehldau’s interpretation of the Rush classic, features his Nonesuch Records label mate Chris Thile on lead vocals and mandolin as well as Joel Frahm on saxophones and Mark Guiliana on drums; Mehldau plays keyboards and provides additional vocals. Video animated by Robert Edridge-Waks with artwork by Mehldau.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform “Dooley's Farm,” from Tuttle’s 2022 Nonesuch Records debut, Crooked Tree. Filmed at Hartland Studios in Nashville, the video features Tuttle on guitar and vocals alongside her band of bluegrass virtuosos—mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means. It was directed and edited by Michael Kessler, recorded and mixed by Ryan McFadden, and mastered by Edsel Holden. Special guest Billy Strings features on guitar on the album track.

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder perform "I Shall Not Be Moved" from their 2022 album, GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE. Cooder and Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite nearly sixty years after they first played together with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives. With Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Video by Jeff Coffman.

The video for Tigran Hamasyan’s rendition of Elmo Hope’s “De-Dah,” from his 2022 album StandArt. The album comprises American standards from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, David Raksin, and others, as well as a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates. Paintings by Gaguik Martirosyan. Animated by Robert Edridge-Waks.

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder perform "Hooray Hooray" from their 2022 album, GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE. Cooder and Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite nearly sixty years after they first played together with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives. With Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Video by Jeff Coffman.

Brad Mehldau's "maybe as his skies are wide," from his 2022 album, Jacob's Ladder. Video edited by Robert Edridge-Waks.

"Sit Shiva," from Gabriel Kahane's 2022 album Magnificent Bird, finds the composer/singer/songwriter skirting the rules of his digital hiatus in order to mourn, online, the death of his maternal grandmother; in typical fashion, he mines not just pathos, but humor and grace amidst his family’s grief. The video, directed by Kahane and Robert Edridge-Waks, contains excerpt from "New York stock shots" by Urban Safari Film Inc. (C) 1995 City of Vancouver (CC BY 3.0).