| Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (2010) |
[Sep. 26th, 2010|01:14 am] |
The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds) is an upcoming album by Sufjan Stevens to be released October 12, 2010, by Asthmatic Kitty Records. It is Stevens' first song-based full length album in five years. According to Asthmatic Kitty, the album will feature a heavy use of electronics, augmented by heavy orchestration and will not have any conceptual underpinning. The album's title is a reference to the apocalyptic artwork of schizophrenic artist Royal Robertson.
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| Sufjan Stevens - The BQE (2009) |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|11:17 pm] |
The BQE is a mixed-medium artistic exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by Sufjan Stevens. The project originally manifested in the form of a live show, performed Nov. 1-3, 2007. The show consisted of an original film, directed and written by Stevens, accompanied by an orchestra performing a live soundtrack. On July 21, 2009 it was announced that the multimedia package would be released on October 20, 2009. It will consist of a CD of the show's soundtrack, a DVD of Brooklyn-Queen Expressway footage that accompanied the original performance (not a film of the performance itself), a 40-page booklet with liner notes and photos, and a stereoscopic 3D View-Master reel. There will also be a limited edition version that features the soundtrack on 180-gram vinyl and a 40-page BQE-themed comic book starring the show's hula hooping wonder women, the Hooper Heroes.
1. Prelude On The Esplanade
2. Introductory Fanfare For The Hooper Heroes
3. Movement I: In The Countenance Of Kings
4. Movement II: Sleeping Invader
5. Interlude I: Dream Sequence In Subi Circumnavigation
6. Movement III: Linear Tableau With Intersecting Suprise
7. Movement IV: Traffic Shock
8. Movement V: Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns
9. Interlude II: Subi Power Waltz
10. Interlude III: Invisible Accidents
11. Movement VI: Isorhythmic Night Dance With Interchanges
12. Movement VII (Finale): The Emperor Of Centrifuge
13. Postlude: Critical Mass |
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| Sufjan Stevens - Run Rabbit Run (2009) |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|11:13 pm] |
Run Rabbit Run is an upcoming album by American indie folk singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, due for release on October 6, 2009. It is a re-working of his 2001 instrumental album Enjoy Your Rabbit. The songs, originally performed with electronic instruments, have been re-arranged by New York composers Michael Atkinson, Olivier Manchon, Maxim Moston, Nico Muhly, and Gabriel Kahane and are performed by the Osso String Quartet. All of the original sounds—glitches, white noise, etc.—will be reproduced by these string instruments.
1. Year of the Ox
2. Enjoy Your Rabbit
3. Year of the Monkey
4. Year of the Tiger
5. Year of the Dragon
6. Year of the Snake
7. Year of the Horse
8. Year of the Sheep
9. Year of the Rat
10. Year of the Rooster
11. Year of the Dog
12. Year of the Boar
13. Year of Our Lord |
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