View basket “To Each His Own” has been added to your basket. When We Are Inhuman Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bryce Dessner, Eighth Blackbird SKU: 37D03D004 Barcode: 0843563115800 24.00 £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 37d03d Released Date: 30th August 2019 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “Julius Eastman and Will Oldham are kindred spirits. Self-styled provocateurs, they have positioned themselves on the outskirts of distinct traditions, pulling all manners of musical influence towards their outré stance. Eastman, who passed away in 1990 and whose work is experiencing a necessary revival, harnessed the vocabulary of minimalism for joyfully insurgent ends; Oldham’s songwriting regularly conjures a pantheon that Greil Marcus called ‘the old, weird America’. “Last spring, these two visionaries collided at Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival and any distance between them was mediated by curator Bryce Dessner and ensemble Eighth Blackbird. On this album, woven between new arrangements of Oldham’s cryptic songs and Eastman’s iconic ‘Stay On It’ are several of Dessner’s ‘Murder Ballades’, works that tease out the homicidal strain of old folk tunes. In ‘Down In The Willow Garden’, a classic Appalachian tune, Oldham sings bleary-eyed atop harshly twanging timbres; ‘Underneath The Floorboards’ takes inspiration from a recent murderous classic by Sufjan Stevens. “These explorations of violence are natural fits for Oldham, who has always examined the interstices between intimacy and cruelty. Four of his songs appear here in new, sumptuous arrangements by pianist Lisa Kaplan. In Cincinnati, Oldham compared working with Eighth Blackbird to becoming acquainted with a ‘haunted house’, continually returning to the same spot and observing how his fear was interlaced with a charged energy. The arrangements push Oldham’s voice to new heights, as in the ecstatic refrain of ‘New Partner’ or the lithe polyrhythms of ‘Beast For Thee’. On ‘One With The Birds’ and ‘When Thy Song’, shimmering introductions deploy avantgarde effects as a window into Oldham’s bleak, poignant sound world. “Musicologist Matthew Mendez has identified the web of influences on Eastman’s ‘Stay On It’: a post-Stonewall queer subjectivity, which the composer-performer flaunted; disco hits by Diana Ross, to which Eastman regularly danced at a Buffalo gay bar; and 1970s minimalism, via Eastman’s emphasis on what he called not ‘the pulse’ but ‘the beat’. “‘Stay On It’ was worked out in performance in the ‘70s and no complete score exists. This live rendition, based on archival recordings, sharpens the edges of Eastman’s music while still capturing its anarchic ideal. Oldham’s repetitions of ‘Stay On it’ are subversively subdued and Dessner’s guitar inserts a punch of the urbane. The riff mutates, changes, fades away, returns triumphantly. It overpowers and is overpowered. Boundaries between musicians and audience dissolve – in concert, percussionist Matthew Duvall ran off the stage to make a surround-sound ruckus – addressing the broader political hierarchies that Eastman sought to triumphantly topple. The party is political.” – Will Robin Artist Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bryce Dessner, Eighth Blackbird Genre Rock And Pop Label 37d03d Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Beast For Thee Down In The Willow Gardern New Partner Underneath The Floorboards One With The Birds When Thy Song Banks Of Red Roses Stay On It Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Adam Green That Fucking Feeling Rock And Pop | Capitane Records | 1LP Released 25th November 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adam Green That Fucking Feeling £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Capitane Records SKU: CAPI052LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nazareth Hair of The Dog Rock And Pop | Back on Black | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th May 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nazareth Hair of The Dog £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Back on Black SKU: RCV096LP Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steve Mason And Dennis Bovell Ghosts Outside Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP Released 20th July 2011 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Mason And Dennis Bovell Ghosts Outside £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: DS044LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th July 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View City Yelps City Yelps Half Hour Rock And Pop | Odd Box Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th May 2017 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders City Yelps City Yelps Half Hour £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Odd Box Records SKU: BOX035LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Idles Model Village Rock And Pop | Partisan Records | 7", Single Released 22nd October 2021 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Idles Model Village £9.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF1254-7 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 22nd October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Baxter Dury Mr. Maserati – Best Of Baxter Dury 2001 – 2021 Rock And Pop | Heavenly | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 10th June 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baxter Dury Mr. Maserati – Best Of Baxter Dury 2001 – 2021 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Heavenly SKU: HVNLP201 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band Black Power Flower Rock And Pop | Napalm Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 12th November 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band Black Power Flower £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Napalm Records SKU: NPR569LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 12th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Grateful Dead American Beauty (50th Anniversary) Rock And Pop | Rhino | 180g, 1LP Released 27th September 2011 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Grateful Dead American Beauty (50th Anniversary) £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: 603497847778 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Astroid Boys Broke Rock And Pop | Music For Nations | 1LP Released 25th September 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Astroid Boys Broke £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music For Nations SKU: 88985467051 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Inflorescence, The Remember What I Look Like Rock And Pop | Kill Rock Stars | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th June 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Inflorescence, The Remember What I Look Like £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Kill Rock Stars SKU: LPKRS716LEC Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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