View basket “The Best Of” 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 Manfred Mann The Five Faces Of Rock And Pop | Umbrella Music | 1LP Released 9th May 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Manfred Mann The Five Faces Of £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Umbrella Music SKU: UMBLP1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Frank Sinatra The World We Knew Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 6th June 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Frank Sinatra The World We Knew £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 4709551 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shed Seven See Youse At The Barras Rock And Pop | Secret Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd February 2024 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Shed Seven See Youse At The Barras £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Secret Records SKU: SECLP306Y Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Graham's picks View Product Quick View Beatles, The The Red Album 62-66 (2023 Half Speed Mastered Edition) Rock And Pop | Apple | 180g, 3LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 10th November 2023 £64.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Beatles, The The Red Album 62-66 (2023 Half Speed Mastered Edition) £64.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Apple SKU: 5592053 Formats: 180g, 3LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 10th November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Francis MacDonald & Harry Pye Bonjour Rock And Pop | Shoeshine | 1LP Released 7th July 2017 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Francis MacDonald & Harry Pye Bonjour £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Shoeshine SKU: SHOELP17001 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Amazing, The Gentle Stream Folk | Subliminal Sounds | 1LP Released 3rd October 2011 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Amazing, The Gentle Stream £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Subliminal Sounds SKU: SUB084LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Laurel Palpitations Rock And Pop | Communion | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th June 2024 £22.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Laurel Palpitations £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Communion SKU: COMM569 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th June 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gerry Rafferty & Stealers Wheel Collected Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd February 2019 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gerry Rafferty & Stealers Wheel Collected £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2283C Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mono LPs, The Shuffle/Play Rock And Pop | Fretsore Records Ltd | 1LP Released 23rd April 2021 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mono LPs, The Shuffle/Play £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fretsore Records Ltd SKU: FR23 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd April 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Altered Images Bite – Half-Speed Mastered Rock And Pop | Demon Records | 180g, 1LP, Half Speed Mastered Released 27th October 2023 £32.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Altered Images Bite – Half-Speed Mastered £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC1152 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Half Speed Mastered Released Date: 27th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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