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Agnes Obel's new single 'The Curse' is now available from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/thecurseitunes

The track is taken from 'Aventine' the new album out now and available order here: http://www.agnesobel.com

The Curse

I Want to See Pulaski at Night

Pulaski at Night

Watermark

Orinoco Flow (2009 Remaster)

Lungs

Cosmic Love

Roseland NYC Live

Humming (Live)

Wu-Tang Forever

Reunited (feat. GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, RZA & Method Man)

Greatest Hits

Joga

Songs For The Deaf

Mosquito Song (Album Version)

MTV Unplugged In New York

Something In The Way (Live)

Nuyorican Soul

I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (feat. Jocelyn Brown)

Ágætis byrjun

Starálfur

Kubo and the Two Strings (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

In Conflict

Soldiers Rock

Neon Bible

No Cars Go

DAMN.

LUST.

The Ugly Organ

The Recluse

Monkey Gone to Heaven

This is the first of a three song triptych written in a friend’s cabin upstate.  I took myself on an eight day self created residency with some gear, big speakers, my dog and a commission deadline.  I lost myself there, listened to so much music loud in the house, David Bowie felt like a visitor on the day of the big eclipse.  I listened to old country, and to soul music.  I started a playlist called “For now, Forever” which became a bible over the course of making the record.  I needed a sonic home to rest in when i’d gone too deeply into my own rooms of making.  I read in a camping hammock out by the pond in the woods each day.  I tried to meditate.  There was no such thing as silence.  I was in the company of gods — mortals who make things with their hands and bodies and voices, Immortals who know how to live and die in a harmony like breathing.  The woods spoke to me each night when the bugs turned out, giving over to their desires, just like they should.  I wrote.  I cleansed myself in baptism of song each day.  And each day the wildness I’ve learned to quell made its way up through my belly, into my chest, my throat pressed.  And each day I encountered a form of friendship with all those who had been artists before me, all reaching out to touch this thing we don’t name unless we call it god.  You heard the cry and you want to cry back.   The “friends” are artists and what they’ve made…  it’s just there for us.

Stay Up

All is Dream

The Dark Is Rising

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Love song

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