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Perhaps the new music video for “High Low Middle” from My Brightest Diamond is an unofficial theme song for the Occupy Wall Street movement (albiet unintentional – as it was in the can long before #OWS)… directed by Murat Eyuboglu, filmed in Detroit and featuring dancers from RunJitRun and Jitting Jesus:

When you’re privileged you don’t even know you’re privileged
When you’re not, you know
When you’re happy you don’t even know you’re happy
When you’re not, you know
full lyrics (link)

Fellow Detroit musician Blue Stahli makes an appearance in the video.  If he or (*gasp*) labelmate Celldweller remixed some MBD tunes, that would be RAD as HELL!  Afternoon Update: Blue Stahli responded with a “Funny you should say that…” twitter reply. Nice!

More MBD Stuff:

• There’s a 9-10 minute session with Shara/MBD on NPR’s All Things Considered right HERE.
• Check out my 11/5 review of the MBD show at Mississippi Studios in Portland Oregon right HERE.
• I’d also highly recommend you pick up her latest album, All Things Will Unwind… it’s right HERE (and amazing).

~Dan – np: Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood – In Case the World Changes Its Mind

Shara Worden aka My Brightest Diamond has a new album out today… Oct 18th.  All Things Will Unwind is only her third studio album under the MBD moniker, but she’s put out a ton of other material (pre-MBD bands, side projects).  Here’s a full (but not necessarily complete) chronological video walk through her career.  And a quick & easy link on how to get her FANTASTIC new album at the bottom…

AwRy
“Brave Elephant” (2001)
song only, not official music video

My Brightest Diamond
“Dragonfly” from Bring Me the Workhorse (2006)

“Magic Rabbit” from Workhorse

“We Were Sparkling” from Workhorse

“Something of an End” from Workhorse (2006)

“Disappear” (remix) from Tear It Down (2007)

“Inside a Boy” from A Thousand Shark’s Teeth (2008)

“From the Top of the World” from Shark’s (2008)

“Apples” (live) from Shark’s (2008)

“Crazy On You (Heart cover)” with the Decemberists (live 2009)

“The Lotus Eaters” from Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Penelope (2010)

“The Sea” from Letters to Distant Cities (2011)

“I’m On Fire” with Stateless (2011)

“Be Brave” from All Things Will Unwind (2011)

“We Added It Up” from All Things Will Unwind (2011)

Hopefully now you see why I love her so… if you like what you hear, swing by the Amazons and pick up her newest album.  CD, vinyl or mp3 download (on Asthmatic Kitty).  It came out today…

~Dan – np: Puscifer – Conditions of My Parole

My Brightest Diamond’s new album, All Things Will Unwind, came out yesterday in the EU (10/10) and it hits the U.S. next week (10/18).  You can stream the entire album here on NPR First Listen.  You can pre-order it from Amazon on CD, vinyl, and mp3 download.

She recently allowed the French video bloggers, La Blogothèque, a peak into her life… similar to back in 2007:

It’s a gorgeous album.  If I could only rave about two vocal albums in 2011, it’d be this one and Wussy’s Strawberry.  Go get ‘em both.

My Brightest Diamond is also doing a little tour (of which I’m happy to be going to Portland)…

• 14-Oct-11 -Littlefield -Brooklyn (record release party)
• 19-Oct-11 -Fitzgerald’s -Houston, TX
• 05-Nov-11 -St. Mark’s Cathedral -Seattle, WA
• 06-Nov-11 -Mississippi Studios -Portland, OR
• 17-Nov-11 -St. Giles-in-the-Fields-London
• 21-Nov-11 -Circolo degli Artisti-Rome
• 22-Nov-11 -Teatro Martinitt-Milan
• 23-Nov-11 -Papiersaal-Zurich
• 24-Nov-11 -Club ADS-Berlin
• 26-Nov-11 -Gebaude 9-Köln
• 27-Nov-11 -Le Guess Who? Festival-Utrecht
• 28-Nov-11 -Stuk-Leuven
• 29-Nov-11 -Café de la Danse-Paris

MBD’s release party is this Friday night at Littlefields (NYC), though tickets are going fast! Doors open at 8pm, and DM Stith opens shortly thereafter. 21+, tickets just $15; buy them here.

~Dan – np: Tool – Undertow

My Brightest Diamond’s new album, All Things Will Unwind, is now available for pre-order on Asthmatic Kitty (CD / LP) or Amazon (CD / LP).  It drops October 18th in the U.S.  The lead-off single, “Be Brave,” is out on iTunes with two remixes.  The part in-studio, part Shara being trippy in masks video is below…

Directed by longtime MBD collaborator Murat Eyuboglu, the video captures the studio recording of the song with a bit of performance from frontwoman Shara Worden and dancer Jessica Dessner. Emilliner created the facsinators, Lake Simons made the mask, and Noelle Marinelli did makeup. Our good friend DM Stith provides background vocals. Read more info about the song here.

She also has a  few tour dates pulled together for the fall (not necessarily a complete listing thus far):

• 24-Sep-11 -Carlsbad Music Festival -Carlsbad, CA
• 14-Oct-11 -Littlefield -Brooklyn
• 19-Oct-11 -Fitzgerald’s -Houston, TX
• 05-Nov-11 -St. Mark’s Cathedral -Seattle, WA
• 06-Nov-11 -Mississippi Studios -Portland, OR
• 17-Nov-11 -St. Giles-in-the-Fields-London
• 21-Nov-11 -Circolo degli Artisti-Rome
• 22-Nov-11 -Teatro Martinitt-Milan
• 23-Nov-11 -Papiersaal-Zurich
• 24-Nov-11 -Club ADS-Berlin
• 26-Nov-11 -Gebaude 9-Köln
• 27-Nov-11 -Le Guess Who? Festival-Utrecht
• 28-Nov-11 -Stuk-Leuven
• 29-Nov-11 -Café de la Danse-Paris

~Dan – np: Buckethead – Captian Eo’s Voyage

One of the most gorgeous songs from The Age of Adz… Sufjan Stevens plays “Futile Devices” on WNYC Soundcheck.

The video for “Pleasure Principle” was posted earlier this week.  The full show (audio) is available as a podcast and on WNYC.com.  On the audio, he also performs “Heirloom” and talks with host John Schaefer.  The album, which came out last year, is for sale on Amazon for only $5 (digital version).

~Dan – np: Wadada Leo Smith & Jack DeJohnette – America

Fol Chen makes some pretty fun, electronic indie rock (check the videos at the bottom).  They are also about to venture into the realm of making some impromptu music with a “Verbal Algorithm Composer-Free Song Generator.”

Walker Art Center – Open Field
Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, July 28th, 2-7pm

Samuel Bing and Sinosa Loa of the band Fol Chen (Asthmatic Kitty) will produce a customized, one-of-a-kind song for each person who participates in the Fol Chen Verbal Algorithm Composer-Free Song Generator. This is a one-day event only!

Come fill out a survey about your experience at the Walker, turn your survey in to Bing and Sinosa Loa, and receive a CD of your very own custom song minutes later. At the end of Summer Jubilee, they will release the songs as a digital download Open Field EP.

Samuel Bing is a songwriter and co-producer for Fol Chen, whose two albums of danceable, art-pop have garnered praise from the likes of The New York Times, NME and Pitchfork. They have remixed and/or been remixed by David Bowie, Liars, Baths, and legendary club producer Junior Vasquez. They also covered Prince for SPIN’s “Purplish Rain” compilation. Their song “In Ruins” was featured on Showtime’s Weeds and an episode of CSI: NY in which a victim is murdered over Chat Roulette.

artwork and survey

If you live in Minneapolis, go!  It’s FREE.
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=6385

~Dan – np: The Spanish Donkey – XYX

Fol Chen youtube…

“Cable TV“

“In Ruins“

Sufjan Stevens and his winning smile playing “Pleasure Principle” (a portion of “The Impossible Soul” on The Age of Adz) on WNYC Soundcheck with Bryce Dessner of The National…

The full show (audio) is available as a podcast and on WNYC.com.  On the audio, he also performs “Heirloom” and “Futile Devices” and talks with host John Schaefer.

~Dan – np: Incubus – If Not Now, When?

So, if I could have a blog solely dedicated to the music of Shara Worden/My Brightest Diamond, I would.  I ‘found’ her via her opening slot for Sufjan Stevens’ Avalanche tour (Indianapolis 2006?).  Her voice amazed me, and she has quickly become one of my favorite vocalists.  She has operatic voice training, a clever wit, charming lyrics, and an indie-rock DIY mentality.

Her third studio album under the My Brightest Diamond moniker* has been announced… All Things Will Unwind will be released October 18, 2011.

For those unfamiliar, MBD creates some fantastic orchestral indie pop.  She’s offering a FREE download of a song from the forthcoming album…

Free mp3 Download:
“Reaching Through to the Other Side“

All Things Will Unwind track list
01 We Added It Up
(Studio 360 live video)
02 Reaching Through to the Other Side
(MusicNow 2011 video)
03 In the Beginning
04 Escape Routes
05 Be Brave
06 She Does Not Brave the War
07 Ding Dang
08 There’s a Rat
09 High Low Middle
10 Everything Is in Line
11 I Have Never Loved Someone

*- She has a few MBD precursors under the band name “AwRy” (harder to find), plus a few remix EPs, several cover tunes on compilations, and several fantastic side-projects like Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Penelope, the spoken word Letters From Distant Cities, and the upcoming Kickstarter for her backing band yMusic’s debut album – Beautiful Mechanical.  All worth checking out as well.

~Dan – np: Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs

If you’re like me and you missed My Brightest Diamond + yMusic at the Cincinnati-based MusicNow Festival 2011, here’s a neato 8+ 4+ minute video from the performance…

“We Added It Up” redacted
“Reaching Through”
(thanks comment people
for the 2nd song name)

Now, get out there and enjoy the sunshine!

~Dan – np: Radiohead – Hail to the Thief

WQXR/WNYC just posted 2+ hours of live streaming music from Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and yMusic’s performance at the Ecstatic Music Festival at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall.

This show features Shara Worden wearing both her composer and performer hats. yMusic premieres a work written for them by Shara and the classical/indie vocalist joins the instrumentalists on stage in selections from Sarah Kirkland Snider’s recent 2010 release, Penelope, one of my favorite albums of 2010 – which features Shara’s stunning vocals.

The webcast link

This performance by Shara Worden and yMusic is the third of four New Sounds Live broadcasts on Q2 from Merkin’s Hall’s Ecstatic Music Festival. Check out the other two webcasts – the 2011 People’s Commissioning Fund concert and Newspeak and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. The final broadcast on March 28 features So Percussion and Bobby Previte.

~Dan – np: Pedro the Lion – The Only Reason I Feel Secure Is That I Am Validated By My Peers

Some new collaborative pieces from Sufjan Stevens and cellist/experimental music Gaspar Claus have shown up on an official.fm artist site.

Sufjan meets Gaspar

Click the song names for streaming mp3s of the electronic meets cello of “Romance Cave,” the noisy experimentation of ”Invalid Skin,” and the rain & electronic monstrosity that is ”Alien Vs Predator.”

~Dan - np: Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die,  But You Will

I just had a post with some Shara Worden / My Brightest Diamond news the other day (lots of collaborations hitting us SOON)… here’s an in-studio video from her recent session with yMusic at Studio 360:

“We Added It Up”

You can stream or download (for free) the entire audio from Shara’s Studio 360 session at:
http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2011/01/21

¡ ♥ Shara.

~Dan – np: No-Man – Returning Jesus

Thanks to Between Hipsters and God… two Christmas rarities of Sufjan Stevens (from 2006) have been unearthed.  They are off the still unreleased Songs for Christmas Volume 6 (Gloria!) featuring The National‘s Aaron & Bryce Dessner as well as The Arcade Fire‘s Richard Reed Parry.  They were out via the National & Arcade Fire DJ set on BBC6.

• Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree) is available for streaming & download HERE
• Silent Night is available for streaming & download HERE

The 6th Christmas EP is yet to be released officially… Xmas EP #8 came out in 2008… so, maybe next year, Asthmatic Kitty will release another 5 EP boxset?  We can only hope…

~Dan – np: Ty Tabor - Trip Magnet EP 

Sufjan Stevens made his network TV debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Friday 11/19 (♥), and now the release of the “official music video” for “Too Much” from The Age of Adz today…

It is the video that played behind his band during the recent tour (my photo from the Portland show above).  The video is as energetic and enigmatic as the Fallon performance.  I’m digging it.

~Dan – np:  Múm – Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Ok 

FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM

So, the last few months has been a flurry of unexpected, yet superbly exciting information coming from Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty.  First was the tour announcement (on Aug 9th), then a week and a half later came the immediate release of the All Delighted People EP, and less than a week later came the news of the new full length album The Age of Adz (pronounced ‘odds’).  Outside of the orchestral The BQE piece, Sufjan had been silent for a couple years (which we recently found out was due to nervous system health issues).  Within the past two months, he came roaring back in 2010 with a North American-spanning tour and two new adventurous albums (the “EP” is 58+ minutes).

The new music from Delighted and Adz is a little less accessible compared to Seven Swans or his “State” albums, but a little more poppy/accessible compared to BQE or Rabbit.  I think the new music strikes a nice balance between the adventurousness and electronic-ness in his past music… possibly “A Sun Came! updated for the Sufjan listener in 2010.”  While I don’t think it’s a repeat of A Sun Came! (at all) – that’s the best Sufjan repertoire comparison I can muster.  It’s sweeping and glitchy, quiet and loud.  But how would it translate into a live show?

Before we could find out, labelmate DM Stith hit the stage.  He only played 20 minutes, but was a good warm-up.  Nice singer-songwriter fare, with Sufjans’ horn section on “Thanksgiving Moon.” I’d heard DM’s music via AK samplers and free downloads.  It never struck me as solidly as Sufjan has, but in the live setting, he seemed to carry himself well.  After he did his tunes, he left to go put on shiny pants for Sufjan’s band.  I was slightly disappointed that he left after only 20 minutes, but that disappointment soon went away as the anticipation for Sufjan mounted.

Sufjan and his 10 piece band hit the stage around 10 ’til 9pm in shiny outfits.  His band was comprised of DM Stith on keyboards, two drummers, a 3-member torn section, a guitarist, bassist, and two backup singers/dancers.  After a short hello, they went immediate into “All Delighted People” and didn’t stop with the new material until 10:30.  I’d been listening to the new material for the past week, and glad they played some personal favorites: Heirloom, Futile Devices, The Owl and the Tanager, and the 20+ minute Impossible Soul.

Sufjan’s “slow jam” dancing to “I Walked” was charming.  The projected graphics and dark, hallowed lighting during “Vesuvius” made my friend mention that it seemed like a weird, ancient worship service.  The auto tune hip-hop near the end of “Impossible Soul” is one of my favorite parts, and it really worked in the live setting. I wish cameras had been allowed near the end, as a large luminescent diamond descended*, and Sufjan busted out the jams in front of the back-lit, strobe-diamond facade.  While that was his most “rockstar moment,” most of the show, he was talkative, yet unassuming and grateful to the audience.

* Amanda McAuley got some photos of it (some shown below), plus I found an “Impossible Soul” part 2 video snippet – see alphaleonis’ youtube for more from the show.

Setlist: about 2 1/4 hours

• All Delighted People
  
• Too Much
• Age of Adz
• Heirloom
• I Walked
• Futile Devices
• Vesuvius
• The Owl and the Tanager [Sufjan solo with backing vocals]
  
• Get Real Get Right [with story about Royal Robertson]
• Enchanting Ghost
• Impossible Soul
• Chicago
• Encore: Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois [Sufjan solo piano]
  
• Casimir Pulaski Day

It was a brilliant show.  He was quirky and subdued, gentle and cacophonous, amusing and bewildering, and all around charming.  He saved the old tunes for last, and only three Illinois tracks made the cut.  I got goosebumps as he hit the intro for “Concerning the UFO Sighting.”  While the older tunes were nice (and I wish there had been more sprinkled in), I can honestly say that the new tunes hold their own.  There’s a reason Sufjan has a piece of our hearts.  Seeing the new songs live definitely elevated those albums to being amongst my favoritesfor 2010.  After seeing them performed live, I think they fit better within his catalogue, too.  I hope it’s not another 3+ years until I get to see Sufjan and his band of musicians again.

Sidenote: Sufjan’s one of the only artists who could have pulled me away from a reported, equally awesome Nellie McKay show in Eugene (check back tomorrow for Nellie McKay photos from Margaret O’Brien – who went in my place).

many more photos below

The Appropriate Linkage:

• Sufjan’s Site / Asthmatic Kitty
• Sufjan’s Social Media Links (see below)
• DM Stith’s Site
• DM Stith’s MySpace / Twitter
• Alphaleonis’ balcony YouTube videos from the Portland 2010 show (far away, but good sound quality)
• Amanda McAuley’s Flickr shots from Portland
  
• Related Reviews~
  • Chris Young‘s Portland 2010 review on OMN (with my photos)
  • BrooklynVegan‘s Chicago review (10/15/2010)
  • My MusicNow Fest 2007 (Cincinnati – Apr 2007)
• PCPA/Schnitzer’s Site

Check out more tour dates below.

~Dan -Dave Douglas & Keystone – Spark of Being: Expand

SUFJAN STEVENS PHOTOS
all pictures (cc) 2010 Daniel Temmesfeld,
you may use freely under a creative commons attribution

(click for larger)

Sufjan’s 2010 Tour Dates

• Tuesday, 12 October – Metropolis Theater, Montreal QC
• Wednesday, 13 October – Massey Hall, Toronto ON
• Thursday, 14 October – Royal Oak Music Theater, Royal Oak MI
• Friday, 15 October – Chicago Theater, Chicago IL
• Saturday, 16 October – Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis MN
• Sunday, 17 October – Uptown Theater, Kansas City MO
• Tuesday, 19 October – The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin TX
• Wednesday, 20 October – McFarlin Memorial Auditorium, Dallas TX
• Friday, 22 October – Mesa Arts Center – Ikeda Theater, Mesa AZ
• Saturday, 23 October – The Wiltern, Los Angeles CA
• Tuesday, 26 October – The Paramount Theater, Oakland CA
• Thursday, 28 October – Orpheum Theater, Vancouver BC
• Friday, 29 October – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland OR
• Saturday, 30 October – The Paramount Theatre, Seattle WA
• Monday, 1 November – Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City UT
• Tuesday, 2 November – Paramount Theatre, Denver CO
• Thursday, 4 November – Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis IN
• Friday, 5 November – Bijou Theater, Knoxville TN
• Saturday, 6 November – The Tabernacle, Atlanta GA
• Sunday, 7 November – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville NC
• Wednesday, 10 November – Kimmel Center, Philadelphia PA
• Thursday, 11 November – Orpheum Theatre, Boston MA
• Sunday, 14 November – Beacon Theatre, New York NY
• Monday, 15 November – Beacon Theatre, New York NY

New info from Sufjan Stevens during his recent Toronto show…

“I probably shouldn’t go into the gory details of what I went through, but I will say that I did get very sick last year and had some serious health issues that were really confusing and mysterious and debilitating. For several months, I couldn’t really work and was forced to focus on my physicality and restoring myself. It took several months before I could even get back to working again and recording music…It was a virus I had that affected my nervous system and I no longer had control of my responses to circumstances and events…It was really bizarre.”

Read the rest over at Exclaim.

His Fall 2010 tour is underway now.  One week until the Portland show… squeeee…

~Dan – np: Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz

no free download of mp3 flac torrent on this site, ever.  if you like music, support it.  buy it.

On October 18th, at (le) Poisson Rouge in NYC, Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) will be performing the music of Sarah Kirkland Snider backed by yMusic, a six piece chamber ensemble with violinist Rob Moose at the helm (who has played on MBD’s albums).

The album, entitled Penelope (which comes out on October 26th) is a 60-minute song cycle composed by Snider for Worden and the orchestral group, Signal, based on texts by playwright Ellen McLaughlin, derived from the music theater piece of the same name she and Snider wrote together in 2007-2008.

Here is a free taste: “This is What You’re Like” mp3

Penelope is up for pre-order on the Amazons…

The songs loosely tell a story: A woman’s husband appears at her door after an absence of 20 years, suffering from brain damage. A veteran of a modern war, he doesn’t know who he is and she doesn’t know who he’s become. While they wait together for his return to himself, she reads him Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, and in the journey of that book, she finds a way into her former husband’s memory and the terror and trauma of war.

Oh, and sorta related to My Brightest Diamond… her labelhead, Sufjan Stevens‘ new album The Age of Adz comes out today, and it’s on special deal over at the Amazons.  $3.99 for the download version (for a limited time).

But it’s also out on CD & vinyl, and you know those are better for your diet anyway. :)

~Dan – np: Holy Fuck – Latin

no free mp3 download or flac torrent ever. if you like music, support it by buying it

The entire Sufjan Stevens‘ album The Age of Adz is streaming over at NPR until its release date (October 12th).

THE NPR LINK

You can pre-order the record here: CD / VINYL / digital

~Dan – np: Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz

no free flac torrent of mp3 download here ever.  if you like music, support it – buy it

Last week they announced the All Delighted People EP. And the week before the fall tour was announced. And today, Asthmatic Kitty announced the upcoming release of The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds), the first song-based full-length from Sufjan Stevens since 2005′s Illinois.

8/27 update: Preview of “I Walked” HERE.

http://asthmatickitty.com/the-age-of-adz

The Age of Adz tracklist
1. Futile Devices – 2:11
2. Too Much – 6:44
3. Age of Adz – 8:00
4. I Walked – 5:01 preview
5. Now That I’m Older – 4:56
6. Get Real Get Right – 5:10
7. Bad Communication – 2:24
8. Vesuvius – 5:26
9. All for Myself – 2:55
10. I Want To Be Well – 6:27
11. Impossible Soul – 25:35

The Age of Adz will drop on October 12th (CD, MP3) with a double-LP following on November 9th. For the next three weeks you can pre-order the CD or LP, and receive an MP3 download on September 28th, two weeks before the release date.

Per Asthmatic Kitty:

“It’s much too soon to cast descriptive lots, but we can say the new album sounds nothing like the All Delighted EP (although it shares similar themes of love, loss, and the apocalypse). Nor is this new album built around any conceptual underpinning (no odes to states, astrology, or urban expressways). We can say it shows an extensive use of electronics (banjos and acoustic guitars give way to drum machines and analog synthesizers), and an obsession with cosmic fantasies (space, heaven, aliens, love), to create an explicit pop-song extravaganza, augmented by heavy orchestration, and maybe even a few danceable moments. Enjoy Your Rabbit meets the BQE. But with songs. Verse, chorus, bridge, backbeat. Gated reverb. Space echo. Get your boogey on. The ‘Adz’ of the title loosely refers to the apocalyptic paintings of outsider artist Royal Robertson (1930-1997), whose work is used for the album cover, interior design, and as general inspiration for the tone of the album.”

Wow… 2010 is the Year of the Sufjan.

~Dan – np: John Zorn, Bill Frisell/Marc Ribot/Tim Sparks – Masada Guitars 

no free mp3 download or flac torrent here ever.  if you like music, support it.  buy it.

So, announced and released today, August 20th… Sufjan Stevens‘ All Delighted People EP…

http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/

1. All Delighted People (Original Version) 11:38
2. Enchanting Ghost 03:39
3. Heirloom 02:55
4. From The Mouth Of Gabriel 04:03
5. The Owl And The Tanager 06:38
6. All Delighted People (Classic Rock Version) 08:07
7. Arnika 05:13
8. Djohariah 17:02

A near hour-long “EP”… yippie… also from Asthmatic Kitty:

The EP, All Delighted People, is built around two different versions of Sufjan’s long-form epic ballad “All Delighted People,” a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon’s “Sounds of Silence.” Sounds delightful, yes! The song was originally workshopped (oh we hate making workshop a verb, but time is money!) on Sufjan’s previous tour in the fall of 2009. Other songs on the EP include the 17-minute guitar jam-for-single-mothers “Djohariah,” and the gothic piano ballad “The Owl and the Tanager,” a live-show mainstay (and Debbie Downer if you ask us; what’s it doing on a “Delighted” EP?). If you don’t have five dollars, you can stream the EP for free right on Bandcamp. Or if you’re into tactile sensations, we are making All Delighted People available on single-CD and double-LP formats later in 2010 (we’re aiming for December, fingers crossed). 180-gram vinyl.

~Dan – np: Masada – Live at Tonic 2001

no free mp3 download or flac torrent here ever.  if you like music, support it.  buy it.