View basket “See Youse At The Barras” 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 China Crisis Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms Rock And Pop | Last Night From Glasgow | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th August 2023 £21.00 Select options China Crisis Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Last Night From Glasgow Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th August 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Theme Park Theme Park Rock And Pop | Transgressive | 1LP, Includes CD Released 25th February 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Theme Park Theme Park £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Transgressive SKU: TRANS156X Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 25th February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eagles, The The Eagles – UltraDisc One-Step Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 3rd November 2021 £175.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eagles, The The Eagles – UltraDisc One-Step £175.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: UD1S2-024 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 3rd November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Erika Wennerstrom Sweet Unknown Rock And Pop | Partisan Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 23rd March 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Erika Wennerstrom Sweet Unknown £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF2153-3 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nightshift Zöe Rock And Pop | Trouble In Mind | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th February 2021 £18.00 Select options Nightshift Zöe £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Trouble In Mind Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th February 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Neil Young With The Santa Monica Flyers Somewhere Under The Rainbow Rock And Pop | Warner Records | 2LP Released 14th April 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neil Young With The Santa Monica Flyers Somewhere Under The Rainbow £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Records SKU: 0093624885047 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jamie T Panic Prevention Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th January 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jamie T Panic Prevention £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 4519372 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Turtles, The It Ain’t Me Babe Rock And Pop | Manifesto | 2LP Released 7th August 2020 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Turtles, The It Ain’t Me Babe £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Manifesto SKU: MFO480411 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 7th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stranglers, The Dark Matters Rock And Pop | Coursegood | 180g, 1LP Released 10th September 2021 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stranglers, The Dark Matters £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Coursegood SKU: CGLP12 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Leo Sayer Northern Songs – Leo Sayer Sings The Beatles Rock And Pop | Demon | 2LP Released 17th June 2022 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Leo Sayer Northern Songs – Leo Sayer Sings The Beatles £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1008 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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