View basket “Africa Speaks” 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 Heavenly Le Jardin De Heavenly Rock And Pop | Skep Wax Records | 1LP Released 12th May 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Heavenly Le Jardin De Heavenly £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Skep Wax Records SKU: SKEPWAX012LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steve Lukather Transition Rock And Pop | Mascot | 1LP Released 21st January 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steve Lukather Transition £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mascot SKU: M74001 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st January 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Small Faces, The Greatest Hits – The Immediate Years Rock And Pop | BMG | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th April 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Small Faces, The Greatest Hits – The Immediate Years £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 5060767444245 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jimmy Eat World Futures Rock And Pop | Universal Music | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th November 2014 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jimmy Eat World Futures £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Universal Music SKU: 3795260 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fools Gold Fools Gold Rock And Pop | Iamsound | 1LP Released 16th June 2010 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fools Gold Fools Gold £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Iamsound SKU: IAM002UL Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th June 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thelma Thelma Rock And Pop | Tiny Engines | 1LP Released 10th March 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thelma Thelma £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Tiny Engines SKU: LPTE165 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alfie Templeman Forever Isn’t Long Enough Rock And Pop | Chess Club | 1LP Released 7th May 2021 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alfie Templeman Forever Isn’t Long Enough £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Chess Club SKU: CCLP11 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th May 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gossip, The Joyful Noise Rock And Pop | Columbia | 1LP Released 14th May 2012 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gossip, The Joyful Noise £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Columbia SKU: 88691982651 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th May 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Crabby Appleton Rotten To The Core (rare cutout) Rock And Pop | 1LP Released 14th September 2008 £4.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crabby Appleton Rotten To The Core (rare cutout) £4.00 Genre: Rock And Pop SKU: EKS74106 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th September 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Dawson The Glass Trunk Rock And Pop | Domino | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 4th December 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Dawson The Glass Trunk £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: REWIGLP95 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th December 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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