Anjimile: Giver Taker (Limited Edition) (Maroon Vinyl) on LP
Giver Taker (Limited Edition) (Maroon Vinyl)
The good old vinyl record.
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- Label:
- Father/Daughter
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2020
- Item number:
- 10237527
- UPC/EAN:
- 0731946464372
- Release date:
- 18.9.2020
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On Giver Taker, the gorgeous debut album by Anjimile, death and life are always entwined, wrapping around each other in a dance of reverence, reciprocity, and, ultimately, rebirth. Giver Taker is confident, intentional and introspective. Anjimile Chithambo (they/them, he/him) wrote much of the album while in treatment for drug and alcohol abuse, as well as while in the process of living more fully as a nonbinary trans person.
Loss hovers over the album, whose songs grieve for lost friends (»Giver Taker«) and family members (»1978«) along with lost selves (»Maker,« »Baby No More,« »In Your Eyes.«) But here, grief yields an opening: a chance for new growth. Each song on the album is its own micro-journey, adding up to a transformative epic cycle created in collaboration with bandmate Justine Bowe of Photocomfort and New-York based artist/producer Gabe Goodman.
»1978« and »Maker« both begin as Sufjan Stevens-esque pastoral ballads with Chithambo's mesmerizing voice foregrounded against minimal instrumentation and swell into the realm of the majestic through the addition of warm, steady instrumentation (informed by the mix of 80's pop and African music Chithambo's Malawi-born parents played around the house) and harmonies by Bowe.
»In Your Eyes« starts out hushed and builds to a crescendo via a mighty chorus inspired by none other than the Lion King. The allusion is fitting: each song encapsulates a heroic voyage, walked alone until accompanied by kindred souls. The choirs present throughout are equally deliberate. Chithambo grew up as a choir boy himself, and several songs (notably »Maker«) grasp not only towards reconciliation between his trans identity and his parents' strong religious beliefs, but towards reclaiming his trans identity as an essential part of his own spirituality.
The audio samples belong to the article Anjimile: Giver Taker (CD). The track list may differ for this item.
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1 Your Tree
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2 Baby No More
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3 In Your Eyes
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4 1978
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5 Not Another Word
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6 Maker
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7 Ndimakukonda
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8 Giver Taker
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9 To Meet You There
