Jim James, Teddy Abrams and members of the Louisville Orchestra performed “Back to the End of the World” on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (10/21). “Back to the End of the World” is a song from James and Abrams’ new album, The Order of Nature, out now on Decca Gold. Check it out below…
This “magical collaboration” (NPR) was born of a friendship between Jim and Teddy and the fertile music scene of their hometown of Louisville, KY. The Order Of Nature comprises brand-new songs penned by James and orchestrated by Abrams into cinematic, lush soundscapes that presents James’ voice and words in a whole new light. James’ and Abrams also include works from James’ solo projects (Uniform Distortion, Uniform Clarity, Eternally Even), as well as works by Leonard Bernstein and Nina Simone. Together, these songs make up an album that seeks to explore the absence of hate in nature. As James says in the album text,
“Animals kill each other, but only out of hunger, while humans daily choose to hate – we choose to ignore the order of nature and that choice is wreaking havoc.”
