Buy: http://music.sufjan.com/album/the-bqe

Sufjan Stevens is proud to present The BQE, a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007.

The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is an incidental 12.7 miles of urban roadway built over the course of several decades (1939-1964), spear-headed by the master architect Robert Moses to accommodate for the increase of commercial and commuter traffic in New York City‘s outer boroughs. The roadway was a painstaking piecemeal project, poorly planned, badly built, and relentlessly encumbered by the obvious obstacles of the era: red tape, neighborhood protests, World War II, and a congested borough whose sequestering layout proved ill-fitting for the automobile. The resulting expressway-a pockmarked, serpentine, congested BQE-has become one of Brooklyn‘s most notable icons of urban blight. And, for Sufjan Stevens, an object of unmitigated inspiration.

Sufjan Stevens, The BQE

Japanese Breakfast on Audiotree Live

Everybody Wants to Love You (Audiotree Live Version)

Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You

japanese breakfast - kokomo, in

Phoebe Bridgers plays live acoustic at Kyoto Muse

Live at Kyoto Muse

Garden Song Phoebe Bridgers Live at Kyoto Muse

Sufjan Stevens, "Interlude I—Dream Sequence In Subi Circumnavigation"

Sufjan Stevens, "Movement II—Sleeping Invader"

Sufjan Stevens, "Movement I—In The Countenance Of Kings"

Sufjan Stevens, "Introductory Fanfare For The Hooper Heroes"

Sufjan Stevens, "Prelude On The Esplanade"

Happy 10th Anniversary to Carrie & Lowell, one of the true great albums.

Death with Dignity (Sufjan Stevens Cover)

Will Anybody Ever Love Me ? (Sufjan Stevens Cover)

Sam Smith, Mae Smith and Conor Lynch on vocals
Conor on guitar/bass
Sam on trumpet

SALAD -  For Emma (Bon Iver Cover)

Original track taken from the 2010 album The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
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Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix)

Wolf Alice performs in Studio Z on April 9th, 2018

Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses

Dreams Tonite - Alvvays (Slowed And Reverb)

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.

Sufjan Stevens, "Prelude On The Esplanade"

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