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Asthmatic Kitty
Asthmatic Kitty Records is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by a community of musicians from Holland, Michigan led by Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams. Some were Holland natives, and others had come to attend local colleges and universities. While the original Holland nucleus has dispersed across the country, the community has grown, with new artists and shared projects with other independent record labels. The Library Catalog Music Series, inaugurated in 2009, showcases instrumental music from a wide variety of musicians, with eighteen albums in print as of February 2013, and more scheduled for release. Asthmatic Kitty is now based in Lander, Wyoming, Atlanta, Georgia and Brooklyn, New York. The label's name refers to Sara, a stray with feline asthma adopted by Lowell in 1994. From 2002 on, she lived in Lander, Wyoming (elevation 5,358 ft / 1,633 m), where the thin, dry air alleviated most of her asthma symptoms. Sara died in December 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations. His debut album, ''A Sun Came'', was released in 2000 on the Asthmatic Kitty label, which he co-founded with his stepfather. He received wide recognition for his 2005 album ''Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album), Illinois'', which hit number one on the Billboard charts, ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single "Chicago (Sufjan Stevens song), Chicago" from that album. Stevens later contributed to the soundtrack of the 2017 film ''Call Me by Your Name (film), Call Me by Your Name''. He received an 90th Academy Awards, Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song and a Grammy nomination for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, Best Song Written for Visual Media for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisyphus (hip-hop Group)
Sisyphus (formerly S / S / S) is a collaborative project between Serengeti, Ryan Lott (under the moniker Son Lux) and Sufjan Stevens. History The trio released their debut EP, ''Beak & Claw'', on Anticon in 2012. It features vocal contributions from Shara Worden and Doseone. In 2013 the trio changed their name to Sisyphus. In an interview, Stevens said, "S/S/S started to sound like the Nazi Schutzstaffel with a lisp, so we had to change it." The name is inspired in part by the art of Jim Hodges, whose work is featured on the cover of their self-titled debut full-length album, which was released on March 18, 2014. Stevens says the "gold and metallic boulders Jim made were an obvious influence on our name change"—a reference to four steel-clad boulders installed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Sisyphus performed at opening of Hodges' retrospective at the Walker on February 14, 2014. Discography * ''Beak & Claw'' EP (Anticon, 2012) * ''Sisyphus'' (Asthmatic Kitty/ Joyfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepe Deluxé
Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music-oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow (Vellu Maurola) JA-Jazz (Tomi Castrén, formerly Paajanen) and James Spectrum (Jari Salo) in Helsinki, Finland. They started to experiment with sounds of hip hop, big beat, breakbeat and downtempo. With the 2007 release Spare Time Machine the band gave up on sampling and concentrated on vintage music styles including psychedelia, baroque pop and surf rock. DJ Slow left the band in 2001 to pursue solo projects. JA-Jazz has been off-duty since 2008. Multi-instrumentalist Paul Malmström became an official member of the band in 2008. The Pepe Deluxé live line-up consists of Mirkka Paajanen (vocals), Miikka Paatelainen (guitar, theremin), Markku Reinikainen (drums), Ville Riippa (keyboards), James Spectrum (mixing, percussion) and Edward Greendanger (VJ). History The band's first release was a song called "Call Me Goldfinger". It was released in 1997 on the "Return of the DJ, Vol. II" scratch-DJ co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Perhacs
Linda Perhacs (born 21 September 1943) is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her first album, '' Parallelograms'', in 1970 to scant notice or sales. The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and reissued numerous times beginning in 1998, growing in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet. In 2014, she released a second album titled ''The Soul of All Natural Things'', and a third, '' I'm a Harmony'', in 2017. Biography Perhacs was born Linda Jeanne Arnold in 1943 in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Mill Valley. In the late 1960s, Perhacs relocated to Topanga Canyon and worked as a dental hygienist in Beverly Hills under a professor she had met while on a student scholarship at the University of Southern California. In her spare time, she wrote songs. One of her dental clients, Oscar-winning film composer Leonard Rosenman, was impressed by one of her demos and brought her into a studio during 1969–1970, producing he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Brightest Diamond
My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Nova. The band has released five studio albums and a remix album, five studio EPs and four remix EPs, and made several tours across the United States. History Nova began performing and recording music while she was a student at the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. She released an album, entitled ''Word'' in 1998, under the name Shara. Following her completion of a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Vocal Performance, Nova moved to Moscow, Russia, where she documented several newly written songs and released them on CD-R's as an album entitled ''Session I'', which included hand-made artwork. In 1999, she moved to Brooklyn, New York City, writing music that blended elements of her classical training with chamber music, and avant-garde rock music she discovered in the underground rock scene, at venues such at Tonic, The Living Room, and the Knitting Factory. She began performing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily & Madeleine
Lily & Madeleine are an American folk pop duo from Indianapolis, Indiana consisting of the sisters Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz. They have released five full-length studio albums, ''Lily & Madeleine'' (2013) and ''Fumes'' (2014) on Asthmatic Kitty, ''Keep It Together'' (2016) and '' Canterbury Girls'' (2019) on New West Records, and the self-released ''Nite Swim'' (2023). Biography Lily & Madeleine began singing together as high school students, uploading home videos of cover songs to YouTube. On the strength of those videos, the Bloomington, Indiana, producer Paul Mahern invited them into his studio to record their first EP, ''The Weight of the Globe'', when their class schedules permitted. With the help of Kenny Childers (Gentleman Caller), they co-wrote their first original songs for the EP, and a video of Lily & Madeleine singing in Mahern's studio appeared on the front page of ''Reddit'', a news aggregator site. ''The Weight of the Globe'' was picked as a 2013 release by Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julianna Barwick
Julianna Barwick is an American musician who composes using electronic loops. Her first album, '' The Magic Place'', was released in 2011. Music career Barwick has said that her music is influenced by her participation in church choir while growing up in Louisiana. She composes with a machine to create electronic loops built around her vocalizing. She self-released her debut EP, ''Sanguine'', in 2006. The songs are wordless with vocal overdubs, vocal percussion, and improvisation. On the EP, ''Florine'', she uses a loop station and pedals to create minimalist repetition accompanied by layers of vocals and synthesizers. In 2010, Barwick was commissioned to remix " Reckoner" by Radiohead. During the next year, she released an album of improvisational music, ''FRKWYS Vol. 6'', with Ikue Mori. She recorded her first full-length album, '' The Magic Place'', on a rehearsal stage because it was soundproof and had a piano. The title of the album refers to a tree on her family's farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helado Negro
Roberto Carlos Lange (born 1980), better known by his stage name Helado Negro, is an American musician. In 2019 he was awarded a United States Artists Fellow in Music and also the recipient of a 2019 Grants to Artists award in Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2015 he received a Joyce Foundation award. Lange's songs are bilingual in English and Spanish and explore Latino identity, drawing on his upbringing in South Florida as the child of Ecuadoran immigrants. Helado Negro released his 2019 album '' This Is How You Smile'' through RVNG Intl., a Brooklyn-based music institution. ''This Is How You Smile'' received an 8.5 rating and Best New Music from Pitchfork. Early life The son of Ecuadoran immigrants, Helado Negro (Roberto Carlos Lange) was born in South Florida in 1980. He grew up in Lauderhill and Davie. As a high school student during the early 1990s, Roberto Carlos Lange would stay up late watching "Liquid Television" on MTV. Intrigued by the experimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fol Chen
Fol Chen is an American Electronic music, electronic band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2009.Staff (undated)"Fol Chen" Asthmatic Kitty Records. Retrieved February 18, 2013. The band is signed to Asthmatic Kitty Records and has released three full-length albums. ''Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made'' The band "maintained utmost secrecy from the start", working under aliases and disguising their faces during recorded shows, including KCRW radio's ''Morning Becomes Eclectic'' program and the 2009 South by Southwest festival. The cover art for their first album, ''Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made'', release in 2009, features silhouettes, and music videos replace band members with actors and animation, such as the video of the song "No Wedding Cake" where band members appear as animals. ''Part II: The New December'' In 2010, the band released ''Part II: The New December'', described by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as "screwball pastiche pop ''[that]'' sounds li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dots Will Echo
Dots Will Echo is an indie rock group from Ridgewood, New Jersey. The band consists of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Nick Berry and drummer Kurt Biroc. History Musician William Ackerman produced and released Dots Will Echo's first official album ''Dots Will Echo'' in 1991 on High Street Records. The album sold 10,000 copies. In 1996, the group independently released their second album ''Get Your Hands Off My Modem, You Weasel''. In 2001, lead singer Nick Berry appeared on William Ackerman's Grammy nominated album ''Hearing Voices''. He played guitar and lent background vocals for the song "Fear Not Mary" with Ugandan-American musician Samite. On July 24, 2012, Dots Will Echo released a double-length album entitled Drunk Is The New Sober/Stupid Is The New Dumb on the Asthmatic Kitty Asthmatic Kitty Records is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by a community of musicians from Holland, Michigan led by Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams. Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DM Stith
David Michael Stith is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who released his first album ''Heavy Ghost'' in 2009 on the Asthmatic Kitty label. He currently resides in Rochester, New York. Stith comes from a musical family: his father was a college wind ensemble director and former church choir director; his grandfather is professor emeritus in the music department at Cornell University; his mother is a pianist; and his sisters sing opera and play piano and percussion. Stith's involvement in the music industry began as graphic designer and visual artist for musicians on the Asthmatic Kitty Records label, art directing and designing for artists such as Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond, Castanets and Son Lux. Through working with these artists on their projects, Stith began to write and record his own music, for which he was signed by Asthmatic Kitty Records. From 2016 to 2019, Stith worked in the design department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptacize
Cryptacize is a California pop band founded by Nedelle Torrisi and Chris Cohen in 2006. They released two records on the Asthmatic Kitty label. After seeing percussionist Michael Carreira's solo cowbell videos on YouTube, Cohen and Torrisi asked him to join the band and they recorded their debut album Dig That Treasure (which was named after a musical written by Cohen's father in 1958). Cryptacize generated some controversy in 2008 with their cover of Steely Dan's ''Peg'' when some readers posted angry comments on Stereogum. They toured the US many times, opening for bands such as Why?, Danielson, Sufjan Stevens, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, and The Fiery Furnaces The Fiery Furnaces are an American indie rock band, formed in 2000 in Brooklyn, New York.. - ''In 2000 they moved Brooklyn... and began playing as the Fiery Furnaces late in the year''. - Allmusic The band's primary members are Matthew and El .... Discography Albums * '' Dig That Treasure'' CD/LPAsthmatic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
