View basket “Bite – Half-Speed Mastered” 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 Correatown Pleiades Rock And Pop | Highline Records | 1LP Released 27th August 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Correatown Pleiades £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Highline Records SKU: HL013LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mindless Self Indulgence If Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 30th June 2023 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mindless Self Indulgence If £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3327C Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 30th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mr. Oizo Lambs Anger Rock And Pop | Because Music | 2LP, CD Released 14th October 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mr. Oizo Lambs Anger £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music SKU: 5060421562100 Formats: 2LP, CD Released Date: 14th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Little Mix Confetti Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 1LP Released 6th November 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Little Mix Confetti £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music Released Date: 6th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fatboy Slim You’ve Come A Long Way Baby Rock And Pop | Skint | 2LP Released 17th July 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fatboy Slim You’ve Come A Long Way Baby £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Skint SKU: BRASSIC011LPS Formats: 2LP Released Date: 17th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman One Man Revolution Rock And Pop | New West | 2LP Released 27th February 2012 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman One Man Revolution £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: New West SKU: NW5039 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 27th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eric Clapton Unplugged Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | SACD Released 23rd June 2022 £37.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Eric Clapton Unplugged £37.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: CMFSA2224 Formats: SACD Released Date: 23rd June 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Lee Hazlewood Love And Other Crimes Rock And Pop | 1972 | 1LP Released 4th September 2014 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lee Hazlewood Love And Other Crimes £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 1972 SKU: IF75 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Man & The Echo Man & The Echo Rock And Pop | 1965 Records Limited | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 11th November 2016 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Man & The Echo Man & The Echo £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 1965 Records Limited SKU: OLIVE1020V Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Poppy Ajudha The Power in Us Rock And Pop | Virgin | 1LP Released 22nd April 2022 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Poppy Ajudha The Power in Us £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin SKU: PA002LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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