Jenny Scheinman Announces Ode To Humboldt County ‘All Species Parade’ Featuring Nels Cline, Julian Lage & More

Jenny Scheinman detailed a new album, All Species Parade, arriving on October 11 via Royal Potato Family. The 10-track, double LP sees contributions from a trio of excellent guitarists Nels Cline, Julian Lage and Bill Frisell. The latter appears on the preview track, “Ornette Goes Home.”

All Species Parade is an homage to Scheinman’s native Northern California, specifically, Humboldt County’s Lost Coast.

“Scheinman considered the project from many angles,” press materials for All Species Parade noted. “She wrote a song cycle based on the ‘crusty characters’ from her hometown and sketched out a surrealist multimedia project based on the county’s namesake, Alexander Von Humboldt. She collaborated with filmmaker Ai Aiwane on a video installation about the Mattole River (Cojo Come Home) and immersed herself in the sounds and cultural history of the region, with hopes of conjuring, in music, the extraordinary diversity of life, past and present, in the Pacific Northwest. All Species Parade is the result of these meditations.”

The new record also saw Scheinman expanding her sonic scope. Many of the tracks extend beyond 11 minutes. She gave the players on All Species Parade space to stretch out. Scheinman “wanted to let the band play. I encouraged the musicians to spill over the edges and be their most expansive selves. This is nature worship music, and I didn’t want it to feel domesticated.”

Scheinman’s longtime collaborator Bill Frisell appears throughout the record while another familiar player, Wilco’s Nels Cline, joins Frisell on “The Cape” and “House of Flowers.” Lage added acoustic guitar on three tracks: “Jaroujiji” (dedicated to the Wiyot tribe), “Shutdown Stomp” and “Nocturne for 2020.”

Along with the guitarists, All Species Parade sees contributions from pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Recorded by Eli Crews at The Bunker in Brooklyn, mixing was provided by Grammy-winner Tucker Martine and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound.

All Species Parade expresses “a charged relationship to the natural world,” Scheinman said. “A feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves. Something powerful, fragile and constantly changing. Something alive. I want to recreate that experience of awe.”

Listen to the lead single and opening track “Ornette Goes Home” below:

All Species Parade Tracklist:

1. Ornette Goes Home
2. Every Bear That Ever There Was
3. Jaroujiji
4. The Sea Also Rises
5. All Species Parade
6. Shutdown Stomp
7. House Of Flowers
8. The Cape
9. With Sea Lions
10. Nocturne For 2020