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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, "John My Beloved"

Sufjan Stevens,"Carrie & Lowell"

Sufjan Stevens, "Fourth Of July"

Carrie & Lowell Tour Exclusive 7" Vinyl
To quote Asthmatic Kitty "No download card. Sorry about that. At first we thought it would be more interesting to let this be vinyl only. Then we realized that's a dumb idea. Then we ran out of time. So no download? Of course someone will digitize and put on the internet, so good job internet! This is what happens when we all work together! Go team!" 

Exploding Whale by Sufjan Stevens

Nils Frahm writes his first score for one-take feature film ‘Victoria’ and is nominated for German film prize

LABEL: Erased Tapes RELEASE DATE: June 15th, 2015 CAT.NO: ERATP071 CD/LP/DL EAN: 4050486110577

ABOUT:
Nils Frahm has always said that he’s just waiting for something real special when being asked if he would ever score the music for a film. And that’s exactly what German director Sebastian Schipper presented to him with his one-take feature ‘Victoria’. Filmed in Berlin, Victoria’s plot sees a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town, but their wild night of partying suddenly turns into a bank robbery as the music changes from techno to subdued piano sounds.

For the recording session at Studio P4 in Berlin, Frahm enlisted the help of long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, violist Viktor Orri Árnason and ambient artist Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center on guitar.

IN HIS OWN WORDS:

Dear viewer and listener,

I’ve finally written music for a film. It took me some time to do so, as I was patiently waiting for a movie that would truly speak to me. When director Sebastian Schipper invited me to work on Victoria, I knew it was worth the long wait. Does such a strong film even need music? I realised it wouldn’t be easy to create a score that embraces these bold pictures.

Luckily we were given unusual creative freedom by approaching the movie together with Sebastian Schipper, who was keeping the production and direction to one single team. The score was recorded in a special location, the former GDR broadcasting production facilities that today host Studio P4. We simply put a big screen in the middle of the room, filled it with microphones and instruments, set the movie on loop and kept improvising on top of it together – my good friends and I.

The guest musicians started their recording session by playing a cohesive take over the course of the whole movie. This was the most interesting part of the day, since they hadn’t seen the film before. They became spectators and creators at once, intuitively recording hundreds of different cues that way. You are about to listen to some of its highlights. I hope they do Victoria and your ears justice.

With love, Nils Frahm

‘Music for the Motion Picture Victoria’ will be released by Erased Tapes on LP/CD/Digital June 15th.

‘Victoria’ won the Berlinale Film Festival prize for Best Cinematography and has also received seven nominations including Best Soundtrack for the Deutscher Filmpreis – Germany’s highest movie award, and will be released in cinemas across Germany on June 11th with plans to release it in the UK and other countries soon.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK:

The cover illustration was drawn by Stephanie Franziska Scholz based on a still from a key scene in the film, with additional design by Torsten Posselt at FELD.

TRACK LISTING:

1 Burn With Me (Victoria Edit) by DJ Koze 2 Our Own Roof 3 A Stolen Car 4 In The Parking Garage 5 Them 6 The Bank 7 The Shooting 8 Nobody Knows Who You Are 9 Pendulum

The soundtrack opens with an edit of ‘Burn With Me’ by German producer DJ Koze. The digital Bonus Track Version features a previously unreleased track by Hamburg’s electro-punks Deichkind titled ‘Happy New Fear’ plus an additional DJ Koze track titled ‘Marilyn Whirlwind’ from his 2013 album.

PRESS:

‘Frahm's soothing electro-orchestral pieces prove especially effective, washing over the throbbing dance beats like a flood of endorphins.’ – Hollywood Reporter

‘Nils Frahm’s score is an equally flexible asset, veering from juddering electronic chaos to dreamy intrusions of piano and cello — a sonic approximation of the alternating noise in the title character’s wrecked head.’ – Variety

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: nilsfrahm.com · facebook.com/nilsfrahm · twitter.com/nilsfrahm · erasedtapes.com

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

Our Own Roof

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Nils Frahm – Our Own Roof

The first single off the forthcoming EP - Can I Go With You To Go Back To My Country

Vinyl: https://solitairerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/can-i-go-with-you-to-go-back-to-my-country

Let Me Have Just One

Support the "Where Are Ü Now" Remixes:
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Where Are Ü Now (with Justin Bieber)

Where Are Ü Now (with Justin Bieber) (Ember Island Remix)

We linked up with Houston rapper/producer https://soundcloud.com/con_tour  to give you his latest track “Resolve”, a stirring, layered soundscape. Inspired by a viewing of the Stones Throw documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, the emotive track is reminiscent of sounds provided by Brainfeeder’s own Teebs and the Godfather of the beats scene himself, Prefuse 73.

Artwork by InfiniteFreeFall.


free download

Contour - Resolve

The second single off the forthcoming EP - 'Can I Go With You To Go Back To My Country'

Vinyl: https://solitairerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/can-i-go-with-you-to-go-back-to-my-country

Keep

Hypersleep - Emigre (Waveless Edit)

goggi & orri unveil ‘lila’, the first song from their forthcoming album ‘circe’

‘circe’ is released on august 21st, available via itunes: http://sgr.is/circe-itunes or cd/vinyl & download: http://sgr.is/circe-store

Circe

Circe - Lila

Taken from 'Intermission' by Shigeto, out October 30, 2015.

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/shigeto-intermission

Shigeto - Pulse

Mixed and mastered by @andreieremin at Jack The Bear studios
Released through @TEEFrecords, August 19
Artwork by Rory McKay - www.rorymckay.net/

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Away (ft. Tash Parker)

Unalaska - Unalaska is out October 16th on Light Organ Records. 
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/unalaska-ep/id1032893714
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0JxAff9250N5pX8t7LrCSO
Follow:
https://www.facebook.com/unalaskaxyz

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A few years ago, leads Edo Van Breemen and Zachary Gray got a gig playing members of a fictional band in the cult vampire thriller hit Afflicted. Given the constraints of the film’s indie budget, there wasn’t enough money to rent a sound-stage and hire actors for their concert scenes, so the producers worked some black magic and booked the band to play some legit gigs on their made-up European tour, shooting the scenes guerrilla-style with real crowds, the music improvised on the spot.

While playing one of these weirdly verité shows in a Parisian nightclub, Gray and Van Breemen realized that they might be on to something. So when they returned to their respective home bases in Brooklyn and Vancouver, they began to piece together their self-titled debut EP, a cross-continental correspondence that mixes the two’s seemingly disparate styles into a spooky, loopy, chorused-out post-cinematic groove.

Skeleton

Download:  http://hyperurl.co/OneEPiTunes 
Stream:       http://hyperurl.co/OneEPSpotify

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One EP

Available On Spotify

Found

Mix & Master Isaac Barter
Photography Jody Wong.

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'Two Dones' is taken from Andrei Eremin's debut EP 'Pale Blue', due out August 28.

www.facebook.com/AndreiEreminMusic
www.facebook.com/NearlyOratorio

Lyrics & vocals by Simon Lam (Nearly Oratorio)
Everything else composed & performed by Andrei Eremin

Artwork by Jack Vanzet

Special thanks to Josh Delaney & Paul Bender

Two Dones (x Nearly Oratorio)

Deepface Remix of  "Thumb Wars" by Melbourne act Hypersleep - please check this Melbourne act out and show them some love and support at:

http://hypersleepmusic.bandcamp.com/



Thumb Wars (Deepface Remix)

I am a baritone vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from the outer suburbs of Melbourne. I write and perform in a wide variety of musical contexts, and I am currently studying at the Victorian College of the Arts.

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Dougal James