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Damien Jurado
Damien Jurado is an American singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington, United States. Over the years, he has released albums on Sub Pop, Secretly Canadian, Loose, and is currently on his own label Maraqopa Records. Music career Jurado's solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, Casa Recordings. Gaining a local cult following in Seattle, he was brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records by Sunny Day Real Estate singer Jeremy Enigk. After two 7-inch releases (''Motorbike'' and ''Trampoline'') Sub Pop issued his first full album, '' Waters Ave S.'' in 1997. His second album '' Rehearsals for Departure'', was released in 1999, produced by Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star, R.E.M.). He often makes use of found sound and field recording techniques, and has experimented with different forms of tape recordings. In 2000 he released ''Postcards and Audio Letters'', a collection of found audio letters and fragmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peabody Opera House
The Stifel Theatre (originally known as the Municipal Opera House and formerly the Kiel Opera House and Peabody Opera House) is a civic performing arts building located in St. Louis, Missouri. About the venue Founded as the "Kiel Opera House" (in honor of former St. Louis Mayor Henry Kiel), opened in 1934 as a part of the "Municipal Auditorium and Opera House". The theatre operated until 1991, when it and the adjacent Kiel Auditorium were closed so the auditorium could be demolished and replaced by the Kiel Center, now known as Enterprise Center. When the auditorium was slated for demolition, the local consortium who owned the St. Louis Blues, Kiel Center's main tenant, promised to rehabilitate the opera house as well. Neither that group nor the Bill Laurie family who bought the Blues in 1998, however, renovated the building, instead claiming that they had fulfilled their financial obligations. In June 2009, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted 25–1 to subsidize the renovati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Break Chairs
''I Break Chairs'' is Damien Jurado's fourth album, and first with his backing band, Gathered in Song. The album was produced by the lead singer of Pedro the Lion and Headphones (band), Headphones, David Bazan. Track listing All songs written by Damien Jurado, except Air Show Disaster written by Josh Golden. #"Paperwings" – 2:55 #"Dancing" – 4:02 #"Birdcage" – 2:13 #"Inevitable" – 2:11 #"Air Show Disaster" – 2:24 #"Never Ending Tide" – 4:44 #"Big Deal" – 2:23 #"The Way You Look" – 3:12 #"Castles" – 2:25 #"Like Titanic" – 3:26 #"Parade" – 2:34 #"Lose My Head" – 5:21 Personnel *Damien Jurado – guitar, singing, vocals *Eric Fisher – guitar, glockenspiel, Electronic keyboard, keyboards *Andrew Myers – drum kit, drums, glockenspiel *Josh Golden - Bass, Guitar, Vocals *David Bazan – Record producer, producer, Audio engineering, engineer, Audio mixing (recorded music), mixing *Jesse LeDoux – design *Aaron Sprinkle – mixing *Rick Fisher – Audio mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
''Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son '' is the eleventh studio album by American rock musician Damien Jurado. It was released January 21, 2014, by Secretly Canadian. The album was announced in the middle of October with a short trailer and an essay by Father John Misty."Secret Canadian announcement" Andrew Rose, 'Album Announce: Damien Jurado’s ‘Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son’ Coming in January' ''Secret Canadian'', October 16th, 2013. Jurado described the album as "sort of a sequel to Maraqopa... it is about a guy who disappears on a search, if you will, for himself and never goes home". The album cover a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maraqopa
''Maraqopa'' is the tenth studio album by American rock musician Damien Jurado, produced by Richard Swift. It was released on February 21, 2012, on Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Secretly Canadian is a label included in Secretly Group, which .... The story follows a man who disappears from society. He takes nothing with him except a couple hundred dollars and stumbles upon a mysterious place called Maraqopa. "He's discovering a lot of interesting things about who he is," Jurado explains. "He ends up leaving Maraqopa after a while, and then he gets into a car accident."Miller, Joshua M"Damien Jurado relocates a Wisconsin landmark to the cover of new album Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son" '' The Daily Page ISTHMUS'', 23 January 2014. Retrieved on 26 January 2014. Track listing References {{Autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Kay And His Weathered Underground
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground is an indie band started by Kirk Huffman and Kyle O'Quin of Gatsbys American Dream. Like Gatsbys, the band is influenced by a wide variety of musical genres. Though the band only has three official members, they have been known to perform with as many as 11 additional musicians on stage. History Kay Kay got its start when Gatsbys American Dream went on hiatus, shortly after the release of their 2006 self-titled album. Huffman and O'Quin had been writing songs together while on tour and brought in Huffman's friend Phil Peterson to round out the group. The band first released a handful of tracks for streaming on Purevolume and MySpace. These songs later appeared on a cassette single released by ECA Records in 2006. A copy of the band's cassette found its way to John Sidel of V2 Records. The band signed an initial agreement to record a full-length album, but V2 was bought out by Universal Music shortly thereafter and a finalized contract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Swift (singer-songwriter)
Richard Swift (born Ricardo Ochoa; March 16, 1977 – July 3, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and short-film maker. He was the founder, owner, and recording engineer of National Freedom, a recording studio located in Oregon, and worked as producer, collaborator, muse and influencer for acts including The Shins, Damien Jurado, David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion), Foxygen, Jessie Baylin, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lucius, Lonnie Holley, The Mynabirds, Wake Owl, Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Gardens & Villa, Cayucas, Fleet Foxes, Mango Safari and Guster. Swift was a former member of indie rock band The Shins and The Arcs. He was also a part of The Black Keys' live band during their 2014–2015 tour, performing as their touring bassist and backing singer. Early life Born in California on March 16, 1977 with the name Ricardo Ochoa, into a musical Quaker family, Swift started performing and singing in churches at an early age. In his youth, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Bartlett
''Saint Bartlett'' is Damien Jurado's ninth studio album. It was released in May 2010 by Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Secretly Canadian is a label included in Secretly Group, which .... Track listing # "Cloudy Shoes" # "Arkansas" # "Rachel & Cali" # "Throwing Your Voice" # "Wallingford" # "Pear" # "Kansas City" # "Harborview" # "Kalama" # "The Falling Snow" # "Beacon Hill" # "With Lightning In Your Hands" ''Our Turn to Shine'' Some Independent Music stores in the USA and UK and Amazon UK sold the album with a 5-track bonus EP called ''Our Turn to Shine'' #"Josephine" #"Everyone a Star" #"Three to Be Seen" #"Wyoming Birds" #"You for a While" References 2010 albums Secretly Canadian albums Damien Jurado albums Albums produced by Richard Swift (singer-songwriter) {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Jurado
Damien Jurado is an American singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington, United States. Over the years, he has released albums on Sub Pop, Secretly Canadian, Loose, and is currently on his own label Maraqopa Records. Music career Jurado's solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, Casa Recordings. Gaining a local cult following in Seattle, he was brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records by Sunny Day Real Estate singer Jeremy Enigk. After two 7-inch releases (''Motorbike'' and ''Trampoline'') Sub Pop issued his first full album, '' Waters Ave S.'' in 1997. His second album '' Rehearsals for Departure'', was released in 1999, produced by Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star, R.E.M.). He often makes use of found sound and field recording techniques, and has experimented with different forms of tape recordings. In 2000 he released ''Postcards and Audio Letters'', a collection of found audio letters and fragmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caught In The Trees
''Caught in the Trees'' is a 2008 album released by Indie rock musician Damien Jurado. It is his eighth full-length album release. Pitchfork Media gave the album a favorable review, calling it "a rock solid outing from backing bandmates Jenna Conrad and Eric Fisher supporting some of Jurado's best songwriting to date". ''Paste Magazine ''Paste'' is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group. The magazine began as a website in 1998. It ran as a print publication fro ...'' also praised the album, writing that it "alternates between lean, biting folk-rock and haunting ballads that seem to float up from deep, dark wells. With his pair of bandmate friends by his side, he sounds less alone than ever before, and Conrad's pliant harmonies are a great boon." Track listing References External links Album page on Secretly Canadian 2008 albums Secretly Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Now That I'm In Your Shadow
''And Now That I'm in Your Shadow'' is the sixth studio album by American rock musician Damien Jurado. It was released on 10 October 2006 by Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Secretly Canadian is a label included in Secretly Group, which .... Track listing References {{Authority control 2006 albums Damien Jurado albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On My Way To Absence
''On My Way to Absence'' is Damien Jurado's sixth full-length album. It was released in 2005 and was Jurado's second release on Secretly Canadian records. The album was produced by his frequent collaborator Eric Fisher. Jurado has referred to the album as "a tribute to jealousy". Songs "White Center" In the album's opening track, "White Center", Jurado's barely comprehensible vocal slur tells a tale of small town murder. The instrumentation combines "lush strings", a "quiet acoustic guitar strum and gentle piano". "Lottery" "Lottery" features backing vocals by Rosie Thomas. The track is "gentle, almost like a lullaby" and is comparable to "Matinee" from Jurado's preceding LP, '' Where Shall You Take Me?''. "Big Decision" "Big Decision" combines "minimal electronics, keyboards, and samples" with "quivering strings" and "melancholic understate vocals to create one of the most optimistic tracks on the album. "Lion Tamer" "Lion Tamer" is reminiscent of his 1999 LP '' Rehearsals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
