| Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship (2012) |
[Feb. 1st, 2013|11:34 pm] |
Despite an incubation period of nearly a year, and a writing process that spanned two continents, the ten songs of A Different Ship carry a consistent thematic concern -- what the band describes as an "unresolved tension between valuing being alone and valuing being connected." Says Temple: "The music is beautiful, but feels like it's brittle and about to crack. It's always suspended in between major and minor, happy and sad, trying to find that middle ambiguous place. A lot of the endings of these songs just kind of stop, like things are left suspended, floating in space. That's a real characteristic of us as a band -- moving forward, even when we're sort of unsure, and knowing we'll find happy accidents along the way."
Alone But Moving // A Different Ship |
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| Shugo Tokumaru - In Focus (2012) |
[Feb. 1st, 2013|10:40 pm] |
Shugo Tokumaru is a multi-instrumentalist creating childlike yet beautiful melodies on a variety of instruments ranging from bells to bongos, glokenspiels to guitars.
Katachi // Decorate |
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| Sufjan Stevens - Songs for Christmas (2006) |
[Dec. 4th, 2010|03:28 pm] |
Songs for Christmas is a box set of five separate EPs of Christmas-related songs and carols recorded by independent musician Sufjan Stevens between 2001 and 2006. The EPs had been given as gifts to friends and family of Stevens over the past six years, except for 2004 where he was too busy recording the Illinois album. Though the first three EPs have been available on Sufjan Stevens-related fansites for several years, Songs for Christmas is the first official release of these EPs.
That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!
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| 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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| Laura Marling |
[Mar. 16th, 2010|10:41 am] |
Viņa ir klāt ar savu otro albumu.
I speak because I can
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[Feb. 9th, 2010|02:41 pm] |
Kaut kas no Beirut, kaut kas no Arcade Fire un Noah and the Whale, bet kopumā patīkami. |
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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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