View basket “The Neon Live” has been added to your basket. Half-Light Rostam SKU: 0075597935684 Barcode: 075597935684 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Nonesuch Released Date: 8th September 2017 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Nonesuch Records releases Half-Light, the debut album from Rostam. Rostam is known for his work in Vampire Weekend and produced each of their three albums. His kaleidoscopic debut album features fifteen songs that were written, produced, and performed by Rostam in his Los Angeles home studio. Rostam will tour the album throughout 2017 into 2018 – dates to be announced. “It wasn’t until I had almost finished this album and was trying to decide what I should call it that I took the time to look up the word ’half-light’,” Rostam says of the album’s title. “That lyric, and a large part of that song Half-Light, had come to me in a stream of consciousness sitting in front of a piano years ago, captured in a voice memo on my phone. I had never stopped to figure out what that word meant exactly. But when I read its definition, and found that it had a double meaning – that it referred to both dawn and dusk – I started to think of how those times of day are part of so many lyrics on this album. “I was also struck by the fact that it was a word with a double meaning. That felt important to this record. It made me think back to a friend in Japan who told me that the word ’double’ was becoming more and more popular than ’half’ for people to describe their split ethnicities. Any person growing up in America with immigrant parents experiences this dichotomy, of feeling both double and half. It’s something a lot of us who identify as queer experienced growing up as well, slipping between straight and gay worlds, code-switching. I say experienced in the past tense because I don’t know that that’s the experience today’s kids will have. Things are changing,” he continues. “I think what draws me to dawn and dusk as a songwriter is that those are the moments where we feel change deepest in a day. Those are the moments where I seem to experience the onset of a realization and the strongest feelings of optimism about the future. With this record, I’m trying to share some of those realizations and some of that optimism.” Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Rostam Batmanglij was born to Iranian refugee parents in Washington, DC in 1983. He attended Columbia University, where he studied classical music and simultaneously focused on songwriting, recording, and production in his own time. In his last year at Columbia, he began producing the first full-length album of his career, Vampire Weekend’s self-titled debut. That album would be the first of the band’s three gold records with Rostam as producer. Rostam announced his departure from Vampire Weekend in the beginning of 2016. By the end of that year he had contributed songwriting and production to several of the most important albums of the year – including Frank Ocean’s Blonde, Solange’s A Seat at the Table, and a collaborative full length with The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser. Artist Rostam Genre Rock And Pop Label Nonesuch Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Sumer 2. Bike Dream 3. Half-Light ft. Kelly Zutrau 4. Thatch Snow 5. Wood 6. Never Going To Catch Me 7. Don’t Let It Get To You 8. I Will See You Again 9. Hold You ft. Angel Deradoorian 10. When 11. Rudy 12. Warning Intruders 13. EOS 14. Gwan 15. 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