Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche (CD)

Sufjan Stevens

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Label:: Asthmatic Kitty
Item number:: 6900429
UPC/EAN:: 0656605830223
Release date:: 6.12.2007

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The little secret behind Sufjan Steven's acclaimed ,Illinois"is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in-as did the opinions of others-and the project was cut in half. But as 2005 came to a close, Sufjan returned to the remaining songs on his 8-track. What he uncovered went beyond the merits of nostalgia. Sufjan gleaned 21 tracks from remaining material; some songs were in finished form, while others were merely outlines. Most of the material required substantial editing, new arrangements or vocals, and much of the work was done at the end of 2005 or in January the following year. As the title song "The Avalanche" bemuses, "I call you once my friends," Sufjan took in the odd musical misfits and gathered them together like a party of good friends.

Reviews

C. Jooss in Musikexpress 8/06: "Weitgehend mit akustischen Instrumenten werden hier Reisegeschichten, Reisegesichter erzählt. Stevens schichtet Glockenspiel über Bläser und Streicher über eine Band. Zusammen aber gibt das keinen orchestralen Protz, sondern ein immer luftdurchlässiges, polyphones Gewebe, dem die Stimme und ihre charmant schüchterne Melodie die Richtung weist, bis die Instrumente sich in eine Klangfläche verbreitern dürfen und das Bild bei geschlossenen Augen auf der Netzhaut stehenbleibt."

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 The avalanche
2 Dear Mr. Supercomputer
3 Adlai Stevenson
4 The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius And His Squadron Of
5 Benevolent Butterflies
6 Chicago (Acoustic Version)
7 The Henney Buggy band
8 Saul bellow
9 Carlyle lake
10 Springfield, or Bobby got a shadfly caught in his hair
11 The mistress witch from McClure (or, the mind that knows itself)
12 Kaskaskia river
13 Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
14 Inaugural pop music for Jane Margaret Byrne
15 No man's land
16 The palm Sunday tornado hits Crystal Lake
17 The pick-up
18 The perpetual self, or "What would Saul Alinsky do?"
19 For Clyde Tombaugh
20 Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)
21 Pittsfield
22 The undivided self (for Eppie and Popo)