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Sufjan/Son Lux/Serengeti “Museum Day” & Björk “Hollow (video)
As previously announced, Sufjan Stevens will team up with Anticon artists Son Lux and Serengeti under the name s / s / s for an EP, Beak & Claw, that will drop on March 20th (the vinyl is available for pre-order now).
Yesterday, they posted a song from the release called “Museum Day,” a slow-building jam with some big, auto-tuned hooks from Sufjan.
Hear it below:
Yesterday also saw the release of the official music video for Björk’s “Hollow” (from Biophilia)…quite colorful and science-y… HD video below:
Talking about the video, Björk says:
It’s just the feeling when you start thinking about your ancestors and DNA that the grounds open below you and you can feel your mother and her mother, and her mother, and her mother, and her mother 30,000 years back. So suddenly you’re this kinda tunnel, or trunk of DNA… All these ghosts come up so it ended up begin a Halloween song and quite gothic in a way… It’s like being part of this everlasting necklace when you’re just a bead on a chain and you sort of want to belong and be a part of it and it’s just like a miracle.
Which is what we were all thinking, of course.
~Dan – np: John Zorn – Moonchild: Songs Without Words
Sufjan Stevens to Collaborate with Son Lux, Serengeti EP
Sufjan Stevens is set to release his first set of new music since 2010’s The Age of Adz with a new project titled s/s/s. The project also includes Son Lux and the rapper Serengeti. The group’s four-track EP, which is titled Beak & Claw, is set for a March 20 release through Anticon. (It’s available for pre-order on vinyl now.)
The six-minute track “Museum Day” features Sufjan singing Auto-Tuned lines alongside rap verses from Serengeti.
The EP features vocal contributions from Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond on “If This Is Real“, while Doseone from Subtle & Themselves appears on the closer, “Octomom.” Stevens and Serengeti collaborated in 2009 on a track for the Dark Was the Night compilation.
Beak & Claw Tracklist
1. Museum Day
2. Beyond Any Doubt
3. If This Is Real
4. Octomom
~Dan – np: John Zorn – From Silence to Sorcery
My Brightest Diamond Remix EP #4
As previously reported here, the fourth and final remix EP for My Brightest Diamond‘s A Thousand Shark’s Teeth will finally be coming out – set for January 26, 2010. It’s a remix EP by DM Stith and a “fancy box set” of all 4 EPs will also be coming out on Asthmatic Kitty at the same time. All four remixers being: Alfred Brown, Son Lux, Roberto C. Lange, and DM Stith.
The Shark Demos, a 1KST pre-order special, will be available for free download beginning December 12th as well…
http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/
http://www.asthmatickitty.com/
UPDATE: Shark Remix boxset now available for pre-order: http://asthmatickitty.com/shark-remixes
~Dan – np: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 
Shark Remixes & Holy F’s Mia Remix
Last fall, Asthmatic Kitty released My Brightest Diamond‘s Shark Remixes Volume 1 (by Alfred Brown). It is a great remix EP… yet, the initial press release said something about a Vol 2 in Nov and Vol 3 in Dec. Well, our Thanksgiving gift has now arrived…
Shark Remixes, Volume 2 is done by Son Lux. It’s only $1.99 on iTunes for four songs… you can try out two of the tracks for free over at Asthmatic Kitty’s website (right click links below, “Save As”):
- Inside a Boy (remixed by Son Lux)
- To Pluto’s Moon (remixed by Son Lux)
- the other 2 songs are on iTunes
Our Christmas gift (i.e.- Volume 3)… well, maybe March? Whenever it comes out, I’m sure it’ll be great…
EDIT / UPDATE (1/28/09): a 4th volume was just announced, and the four EPs are slated for a hardcopy release in the spring/summer.
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And, in true blog fashion, as I’m writing one up I stumble on some other good news…
Canadian live electronic / post rock band of awesomeness, Holy Fuck, have done a remix of Mia‘s “Paper Planes.” You can get a copy of the track over on Nialler9’s blog.
~Dan – np: AsvA – Futurists Against the Ocean
-Eyvind Kang
-Frank Zappa
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