the orchestration on this is just wonderful - the woodwinds at the beggining so fabulous - and voice wonderful as alwayss

Exquisite arrangements and stunning vocal, one of my favourite tracks from the album X

I love this transition!  How cool.  Great song.

a lovely, topsy turvy listening experience :)

SHARA

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Antony & The Johnsons - "Daylight And The Sun (Live)" from the film 'Turning', directed by Charles Atlas. DVD and soundtrack out November 11, 2014 on Secretly Canadian

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Antony & The Johnsons - "Daylight And The Sun (Live)" from the film 'Turning', directed by Charles Atlas. DVD and soundtrack out November 11, 2014 on Secretly Canadian

Daylight And The Sun (Live)

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Antony & The Johnsons - "Daylight And The Sun (Live)"

On the merry-go-round
Tess has finally found
The white horse of her dreams
In her eyes there are gleams
The white horse of her dreams
In her eyes there are gleams
She seems to have so fun
As if Time had frozen

Today she’s five years old
Her carefreeness is gold
This horse is her best friend
And her laugh has no end
This horse is her best friend
And her laugh has no end
She seems to have so fun
As if Time had frozen

On the floor you will stay
Your heart will fly away
So, happy birthday Tess
Enjoy your carefreeness
So, happy birthday Tess
Enjoy your carefreeness
You seem to have so fun
As if Time had frozen

On the merry-go-round

Cover #21 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini
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Since I first started up Songs I Love, the series has been a way for me to share songs with some of the different friends and artists that I play with.  So last summer while recording Jenny Lysander's album Northern Folk, we also found the time late one August evening, to record a cover for the ongoing Volume II of the series. 
Nottamun Town is an old English folk song that I first discovered on Fairport Convention's 1969 album 'What we did on our holidays', their version was sung by the great Sandy Denny. Between takes recording Jenny's album, we'd spend a lot of the down time listening to music. I love playing records for friends and seeing the excitement on their faces as they discover new music. I played Jenny some of my favorite singers like Anne Briggs, June Tabor or Joni Mitchell. 
Listening to Nottamun Town, some of you may be reminded of Bob Dylan and he used the same melody for his song Masters of War. There's a trance like cadence to the strange and original lyrics in Nottamun Town and Dylan used this relentless and hypnotic rhythm to great effect in his timeless anti-war anthem. According to various sources the original song dates back to medieval times and there's a theory that the surreal nature of the text relates to the traditional day The Feast of Fools, during which time which power was briefly conferred on those in a subordinate position. On this day, the fool took his revenge, the servant beat his master and the cat chased the hounds! So for the full sensory experience as you listen to this song, picture a Hieronymous Bosch painting in your mind and enjoy!

"Met the King and the Queen and the company more
Came a riding behind and a walking before
Come a stark naked drummer -a beating a drum
With his heels in his bosom come marching along"

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The impending demise of the Adélie penguins. The death of composer Henryk Górecki. The bombing of South Korea. The house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Alarming increases in human trafficking and sexual slavery. Tsunami in Chile. Oil spills. The flood in Pakistan.

“Be Brave,” the first video from My Brightest Diamond’s third and forthcoming album All Things Will Unwind, is frontwoman Shara Worden’s response to a world unwinding. It is her rain dance, her attempt to influence and change things seemingly outside her control. But it’s also an inner dialogue, Shara to Shara, a blistering plea/lecture/pep talk to get her gameface on and do something tangible and real about injustice - including singing and dancing.

“In November,” says Worden, “the great composer Gorecki died and I remember that weekend clearly, listening to the work and reading the lyrics in his beautiful Symphony No. 3, the lament of a mother who has lost her son in war. This was the context in which I started writing [‘Be Brave’].”

Prefuse 73 provides a remix of "Be Brave" that expands the song's foundation into a an echoed chamber, like a parade through labyrinthian caves.



My Brightest Diamond, "Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix)"

My Brightest Diamond, "We Added It Up"

Taken from the album "Strangers" out on May 20th 2016.

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May 18 – Brooklyn NY – Union Pool (SOLD OUT)
May 24 - Brighton, UK - Prince Albert ^ 
May 25 - London, UK - St John on Bethnal Green
May 26 - Manchester, UK - Soup Kitchen ^
May 27 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast ^
 May 28 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory ^
May 29 - Cork, IE - Cyprus Avenue ^
May 31 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club ^
June 1 - Bristol, UK - The Louisiana
June 2 - Lille, FR - La Péniche
June 3 - Paris, FR - FGO-Barbara
June 4 - Brugge, BE - Cactus Muziekcentrum
June 5 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso ^
June 7 - Hamburg, DE - MS Stubnitz
June 8 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA ^
June 9 - Berlin, DE - Roter Salon
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July 5 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^*
July 6 - Boise, ID - Neurolux ^*
July 8 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court ^*
July 9 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake Lounge ^*
July 10 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge ^*
July 11 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry ^*
July 12 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^*
July 13 - Detroit, MI - El Club ^*
July 14 - Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel ^*
July 15 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa ^*
July 16 - Hudson, NY - The Half Moon ^* 
July 19 - Boston, MA - Great Scott ^*
July 20 - Providence, RI - Aurora ^*
July 21 - NYC - Bowery Ballroom ^*
July 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's ^*
July 24 - Washington, D.C. - DC9 ^*
July 25 - Raleigh, NC - Cat's Cradle Back Room ^*
July 26 - Atlanta, GA - The EARL ^*
July 27 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa ^*
July 29 - Austin, TX - The Sidewinder ^*
July 30 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves ^*
August 1 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar ^*
August 2 - San Diego, CA - Casbah ^*
August 3 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo ^*
August 4 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel ^*
August 5 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library ^*
August 7 - Vancouver, BC - Cobalt ^*
August 8 - Seattle, WA - Barbosa ^*

^ with Wrekmeister Harmonies
* with Muscle and Marrow

My Brightest Diamond, "We Added It Up"

My Brightest Diamond

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