From Island Universe Story Two, by Helado Negro on Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Available digitally on August 27, 2013 / Cassette: Late September

Buy here:
http://asthmatickitty.com/merch/island-universe-story-two/

Helado Negro, "We Will You"

Order/listen to "A Beginner's Mind" here: 
https://sufjanangelo.ffm.to/a-beginners-mind

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Lacrimae

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Cimmerian Shade

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Fictional California

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Lost In The World

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - It’s Your Own Body And Mind

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - (This Is) The Thing

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Murder And Crime

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Olympus

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - You Give Death A Bad Name

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - Back To Oz

My Brightest Diamond, "Dreaming Awake (Son Lux Mix)"

Local record store: http://smarturl.it/akr103indies
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From the LP "This Is My Hand." 
Available September 16, 2014.

Available on CD /Vinyl /Digital including limited edition translucent red 12" from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Available in Canada from Paper Bag Records in frosted vinyl

Lyrics:
billet spied
bolt sped
across the field
crows fled
aloft and wounded
left one dead

lover killer
at the wall in the mirror

on the one side I can dream my future
on the other I can feel my nature

inside myself I have a moment to choose
to hold or to refuse
to shoot or to let loose
the cawing crow the pulsing throat

lover killer
at the wall in the mirror

on the one side I can dream my future
on the other I can feel my nature

I am a lover and a killer

My Brightest Diamond, "Lover/Killer"

From the LP: "Decimation Blues"

Available August 19, 2014 on Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Preorder it here.

Bought a Vanity Fair at the Value Village
Green tags half off, bought some old Nike shoes
Sean Penn he was smiling from the cover
The kind of smile that says there's nothing to lose just now

November, 1994.
My girl was ten
Someone might have been at war but I don't know

Rang up at seven dollars fifty for the day
A few months wear for an hours pay
Rain on the windshield shone like diamonds in the sun
May 28th, and the Blazers won in OT

And Carlisle agreed that the boys had played fair
Clean in the paint, that the calls had been square
Jason Kidd and Oden were the last ones there when the cameras had gone

Sometimes it's six to go down, three to wake up
But the days are short and the night ain't so bad
Out in the valley I can hear the last of the trains
As from the porch I hear her calling out my name from inside

Out for the West the pioneers they ran
Through Utah and the Thunder for the gold in the land
O Harvey Milk what a wonderful man
O Harvey Milk what a wonderful man

Preorder

Castanets, "Out For The West"

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From the LP "This Is My Hand." 
Available September 16, 2014.

Available on CD /Vinyl /Digital including limited edition translucent red 12" from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Available in Canada from Paper Bag Records in frosted vinyl

Tour Dates: 
9/19/14 Detroit, Michigan
9/20/14 Toronto, Ontario
9/22/14 Cambridge, Massachusetts
9/23/14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9/25/14 New York , New York
9/27/14 Washington DC
9/28/14 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9/30/14 Charlotte, North Carolina
10/1/14 Atlanta, Georgia
10/4/14 Austin, Texas
10/10/14 Austin, Texas
10/12/14 Dallas, Texas
10/17/14 Stockholm, Sweden
10/18/14 Gothenburg, Sweden
10/19/14 Copenhagen, Denmark
10/21/14 Hamburg, Germany
10/22/14 Berlin, Germany
10/24/14 Brussels, Belgium
10/25/14 Amsterdam, Netherlands
10/26/14 Paris, Ile-de-France
10/28/14 London, UK
10/29/14 Leeds, UK
10/30/14 Glasgow, UK
10/31/14 Dublin, Ireland
11/8/14 St Paul, Minnesota
11/12/14 Grand Rapids, Michigan
11/13/14 Chicago, Illinois
11/14/14 Madison, Wisconsin
11/15/14 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
11/16/14 Iowa City, Iowa
11/17/14 Minneapolis, Minnesota
11/19/14 St. Louis, Missouri
11/20/14 Indianapolis, Indiana
12/2/14 Denver, Colorado
12/3/14 Salt Lake City, Utah
12/5/14 Portland, Oregon
12/6/14 Seattle, Washington
12/7/14 Vancouver, British Columbia
12/10/14 San Francisco, California
12/12/14 Los Angeles, California
12/13/14 San Diego, California

Pre-order their upcoming album Fumes:
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Fumes will be release October 27 (EU) and October 28 (US) by Asthmatic Kitty Records. 

Lily & Madeleine, "Rabbit"

Brand new version of the title track from My Brightest Diamond's recent album 'This is My Hand' with french lyrics.

Ceci est ma main, ceci est mon poignet.
Ceci est mon bras, ceci est mon poing.
Comme une vigne entortillée, s'enveloppe et s'entrelace

Ceci est mon visage, ceci est ma bouche.
Ceci est mon œil, ceci est mon sourcil.
Comme le vin de lilas, se déversant de toi, pour toi.

Ceci est ma forme, ceci est mon moule.
Ceci est mon âge, ceci est ma charpente.
Ceci est mon esprit, ceci est ma voix.
Ceci est mon coeur, ceci est mon choix.

Ceci est ma cuisse, ceci est mon sexe.
Ceci est ma hanche, ceci est mon sein.
Ceci est mon ombre, ceci est ma haine.
Ceci est ma ligne, ceci est mon doute.

Ma mélancolie, ma flamme, ma joie, mon but d’aimer, aimer, aimer...

Ceci est ma forme, ceci est mon moule.
Ceci est mon âge, ceci est ma charpente.
Ceci est mon esprit, ceci est ma voix.
Ceci est mon coeur, ceci est mon choix.

Ceci est mon temps, ceci est mon souffle.
Ceci est ma droite, ceci est ma gauche.
Ceci est mon ombre, ceci est ma haine.
Ceci est ma ligne, ceci est mon doute.

Ma mélancolie, ma flamme, ma joie, mon but d’aimer, aimer, aimer...



My Brightest Diamond - Ceci Est Ma Main

From forthcoming new album CARRIE & LOWELL
Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:
Now that I fell into your arms
My only lover
Give out to give in
I search for the capsule I lost

Drag me to hell
In the valley of The Dalles
Like my mother
Give wings to a stone
It’s only the shadow of a cross

I slept on my back 
In the shade of the meadowlark 
Like a champion
Get drunk to get laid
I take one more hit when you depart

I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart
Lonely vampire
Inhaling its fire
I’m chasing the dragon too far

There’s blood on that blade
Fuck me, I’m falling apart
My assassin
Like Casper the ghost 
There’s no shade in the shadow of the cross

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross"

From the new album CARRIE & LOWELL by Sufjan Stevens
Get it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:

I should have known better
To see what I could see
My black shroud
Holding down my feelings
A pillar for my enemies

I should have wrote a letter
And grieve what I happen to grieve
My black shroud
I never trust my feelings
I waited for the remedy

When I was three, three maybe four
She left us at that video store
Be my rest, be my fantasy

I’m light as a feather
I’m bright as the Oregon breeze
My black shroud 
Frightened by my feelings
I only want to be a relief

No, I’m not a go-getter
The demon had a spell on me
My black shroud
Captain of my feelings
The only thing I want to believe

When I was three, and free to explore
I saw her face on the back of the door
Be my vest, be my fantasy

I should have known better
Nothing can be changed
The past is still the past
The bridge to nowhere
I should’ve wrote a letter 
Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing
The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination

Don’t back down, there is nothing left
The breakers in the bar, no reason to live
I’m a fool in the fetter
Rose of Aaron’s beard, where you can reach me

Don’t back down: nothing can be changed
Cantilever bridge, the drunken sailor
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination 

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Sufjan Stevens, "Should Have Known Better"

Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

In “Carrie and Lowell,” Sufjan Stevens is a child again or, more specifically, the child character in the family of man drama that often but not always centers on the story of love given, or love forsaken, but isn’t that the same thing to the poet? That the love Stevens sings about having left or given or been born to–thank you, Carrie–is a perceptible wound not only on the singer’s throat, but his sleeve: he wears love’s incomprehensibility, and the deep incomprehensibility of being a son, like a backing vocal on “Carrie and Lowell,” which is also filled with colors, hearts, trees, conclusions, and beginnings,

Sufjan Stevens, "Blue Bucket Of Gold"

Sufjan Stevens, "John My Beloved"

Sufjan Stevens,"Carrie & Lowell"

Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"

Sufjan Stevens, "Fourth Of July"

Sufjan Stevens, "Eugene"

Sufjan Stevens, "Drawn To The Blood"

Sufjan Stevens, "All Of Me Wants All Of You"

Available on digital and translucent yellow vinyl and tape November 24th, 2017
Preorder here http://smarturl.it/greatest-gift

As if you know the story of Wallowa Lake:
Leviathan first hid in the deep where her children sleep
She kept them hidden from the plague

But have you heard the story of my mother’s fate?
She left us in Detroit in the rain with a pillow case
Fortune for the paper weight

We followed her to Joseph, near the Indian raid
She wept among the weeds, hide and seek, for the fallen chief
Spathiphyllum on his grave

And like the cedar wax wing, she was drunk all day
We put her in the sheet, little wreath, candles on the crate
As the monster showed its face

As she waits for her children in the shade
Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade
No oblation will bring her back to our place

She stayed within the deep end of Wallowa Lake
The undertow refrained with the flame of a feathered snake
Charybdis in its shallow grave

She gave us one last feature: the fullness of her face
In the shade of “Hin-mah-too-yah…” (Red Napoleon)
As the demon took her place

As we wait for the waters to reside
Her remarkable stoicism and her pride
When the dragon submerged we knew she had died

The Greatest Gift Mixtape

Sufjan Stevens, "Wallowa Lake Monster"

Buy/listen here: http://smarturl.it/tonya-harding

Lyrics:
Tonya Harding, my star
Well this world is a cold one
But it takes one to know one
And God only knows what you are
 
Just some Portland white trash
You confronted your sorrow
Like there was no tomorrow
While the rest of the world only laughed
 
Triple axel on high
A delightful disaster
You jumped farther and faster
You were always so full of surprises
 
Are your laces untied?
What’s the frown on your face for?
And just what are the skates for now?
Tell me which is your good side?
 
Are you lonely at night?
Do you miss all the glory
And the mythical story
Of the Olympian life?
 
Yamaguchi in red
She had high rise and roses
And red-carpet poses
And her outfit was splendid
 
Nancy Kerrigan’s charm
Well she took quite a beating
So you’re not above cheating
Can you blame her for crying?  
   
Tonya, you were the brightest
Yeah you rose from the ashes
And survived all the crashes
Wiping the blood from your white tights
 
Has the world had its fun?
Yeah they’ll make such a hassle
And they’ll build you a castle
Then destroy it when they’re done
 
Tonya Harding, my friend
Well this world is a bitch, girl
Don’t end up in a ditch, girl
I’ll be watching you close to the end
 
So fight on as you are
My American princess
May God bless you with incense
You’re my shining American star

Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding (in D major)

From the album "Tomb," out on January 18th 2019.
Preorder/listen  here: https://ffm.to/angelo-tomb
Hear the studio version featuring Sufjan Stevens here: https://youtu.be/rdYCqDLafsM

Song and album produced by Thomas Bartlett.

Tomb

Angelo De Augustine - Time

Castanets, "You Are The Blood"

from the upcoming release Invisible Life on Asthmatic Kitty Records
asthmatickitty.com/merch/invisible-life/

lyrics:

and touches move over kisses
leaving me way behind
it makes me seem so right when we
leave lights on behind
there’s no one home
just the ghosts who dance alone…

Helado Negro, "Dance Ghost"

Remixed by Applescal
https://soundcloud.com/applescal

Original
https://soundcloud.com/asthmatickitty/fol-chen-200-words

Fol Chen
http://folchen.com

US Publicity
Christine Morales christine@motormouthmedia.com

EU Publicity
Lucy Hurst lucy@butilikeyou.co.uk

Label contact:
John Beeler john@asthmatickitty.com
EU/UK: Tom Davies tom@asthmatickitty.com

Fol Chen, "200 Words (Applescal Remix)"

From "Denison Witmer" available April 30th, 2013.

http://denisonwitmer.com

US Publicity
Jim Flammia jim@alleyesmedia.com

EU Publicity
Lucy Hurst lucy@butilikeyou.co.uk

Label contact:
John Beeler john@asthmatickitty.com  
EU/UK: Tom Davies tom@asthmatickitty.com

I’m determined to change
I mark the corner but I’m turning the page
To the sound of your voice
Like a distant star, my love
 
And I don’t care what they say
I mark the corner but I’m turning the page
To the sound of your voice
Like a distant star, my love
 
Keep moving brother
Keep moving sister
 
I consider my name
The one I’m given and the one I became
And the difference between
Hangs inside the stars my love
 
I played out every cliché
I’ve been a house not a home as they say
And I can’t do it anymore
I won’t do it anymore my love
 
Keep moving brother
Keep moving sister
 
I’m determined to change

Denison Witmer, "Keep Moving Brother, Keep Moving Sister"

From Fol Chen, The False Alarms (March 19, 2013)
http://asthmatickitty.com/merch/the-false-alarms/

Fol Chen
http://folchen.com

US Publicity
Christine Morales christine@motormouthmedia.com

EU Publicity
Lucy Hurst lucy@butilikeyou.co.uk

Label contact:
John Beeler john@asthmatickitty.com
EU/UK: Tom Davies tom@asthmatickitty.com

Fol Chen, "I.O.U"

From The Ascension, available September 25, 2020
Watch here: https://sufjanstevens.ffm.to/videogame

Lyrics:
I don’t wanna be your personal Jesus 
I don’t wanna live inside of that flame In a way 
I wanna be my own believer I don’t wanna play your video game 

I don’t wanna be the center of the universe 
I don’t wanna be a part of that shame In a way I
 wanna be my own redeemer 
I don’t wanna play your video game 

I don’t care if everybody else is into it 
I don’t care if it’s a popular refrain I
 don’t wanna be a puppet in a theater 
I don’t wanna play your video game 

You don’t wanna be the one who has to pay for it 
You don’t wanna be the one who has to change 
All you want is what the resumé tells you 
I don’t wanna play your video game 

Chorus... I
 don’t wanna play, I don’t wanna play (I just wanna go away) I
 don’t wanna play your video game 

I don’t wanna love you if won’t receive it 
I don’t wanna save the world that way 
I don’t wanna be your personal Jesus 
I don’t wanna play your video game 
I don’t wanna put the devil on a pedestal 

I don’t wanna put the saints in chains
I just wanna make my life a little easier 
I don’t wanna play your video game 
Chorus... 

I don’t wanna be your Julius Caesar 
I don’t want it to go down that way 
But in a way you gotta follow the procedure 
So go ahead and play your video game 
Chorus... 

Sufjan Stevens: drums and percussion, Tempest, Prophet 08, Prophet 6, vocals Casey Foubert: bass guitar* 
James McAlister: additional drums and percussion*

The Ascension

Sufjan Stevens - Video Game

Asthmatic Kitty Records is an independent record label that was co-founded by Lowell Brams and his stepson, singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, in 1999. Since its founding, AKR has released albums by a variety of artists, including Lily & Madeleine, My Brightest Diamond and Helado Negro, and is currently home to Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine, Denison Witmer and The Welcome Wagon. 

Asthmatic Kitty was named after Sara, an orange and white tabby who wandered out of the woods pregnant and starving near Holland, Michigan in 1994. For fourteen years she brought joy as a beloved friend to Lowell, enjoying a happy life despite her initial hardships. Her asthma improved after moving west to New Mexico and Wyoming, where she lived out her days as an asthmatic kitty in name only.

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