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Slaves' Graves And Ballads
''Slaves' Graves & Ballads'' is the third studio album by American experimental rock band Dirty Projectors. It is a combination of two different recordings entitled ''Slaves' Graves'' and ''Ballads'', hence the name of the LP combination of the two. The two sessions have drastically different sounds: the first features frontman and guitarist David Longstreth David Longstreth (born December 17, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Dirty Projectors, whom he has fronted sinc ... accompanied by a chamber orchestra called ''The Orchestral Society for the Preservation of the Orchestra''; the second features Dave and his guitar recorded by Adam Forkner. On this release tracks 1-7 includes the ''Slaves' Graves'' songs while tracks 8-14 constitutes ''Ballads''. Track listing *''Tracks 1-7 recorded in Dwight Chapel, New Haven, CT in December 2002.'' *''Tra ...
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Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002. The band is the project of singer-songwriter David Longstreth, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes. The band's current line-up consists of Longstreth, alongside Maia Friedman (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Felicia Douglass (vocals, percussion, keyboards) and Olga Bell (vocals, keyboards). Since its formation, Dirty Projectors has released eight full-length studio albums, with the project featuring major contributions from co-lead vocalist and guitarist Amber Coffman from 2006 to 2013. Following the release of '' Rise Above'' (2007), an album of Black Flag songs as re-imagined from memory, Dirty Projectors released their break-through album, '' Bitte Orca'' in 2009. Featuring lead vocals from Longstreth, Coffman, and Angel Deradoorian, the album received widespread critical acclaim and increased the band's exposure significantly. Its foll ...
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Art Rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an artistic statement, opting for a more experimental and conceptual outlook on music. Biography"]. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Allmusic. Accessed 12 February 2020. Yes (band), Yes, Genesis (band), Genesis, Jethro Tull (band), Jethro Tull and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Journalist Roy Trakin said in 1981: "Of course, these stalwarts can still fill Madison Square Garden and sell a great many records, as they always have, but their days of adventurous risk-taking and musical innovation are long gone – replaced by the smug satisfaction of commercial success." In the early 1980s, the art rock genre influenced the emerging post-punk and new wave movements, as bands incorporated experimental and avant-garde elements that were hallmarks of art rock. Groups ...
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Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ...
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Chamber Music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part is played by a number of performers). However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances. Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as "the music of friends". For more than 100 years, chamber music was played primarily by amateur musicians in their homes, and even today, when chamber music performance has migrated from the home to the concert hall, many musicians, amateur and professional, still play chamber music for their own pleasure. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, that differ from the skills required for ...
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Western Vinyl
Western Vinyl is an independent record label founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas. The imprint was formed by Brian Sampson and Ryan Murphy originally to release their lo-fi indie rock projects as Win Foster and Havergal. Artists *Abram Shook *Air Waves * Aisha Burns * Alexander Turnquist *Anomoanon *Appendix Out * Ava Luna * Balmorhea *Bexar Bexar *Bonnie Prince Billy *Botany *Callers * Caroline Says *Carter Tanton *Chas. Mtn. * Christopher Tignor * Dawn Landes * Diane Coffee *Dirty Projectors * Early Day Miners * Elephant Micah *Et Ret * Gary Wilson * Glass Ghost * Goldmund *Grooms * Heather Woods Broderick *Here We Go Magic *In Tall Buildings *JBM * J. Tillman * Joseph Shabason * Julie Sokolow * Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith * Köhn * Lightning Dust * Luke Temple *Logan Farmer * Lushlife * Luxury Liners *Lymbyc Systym *Madagascar *Mint Julep *Moon Bros. * Nat Baldwin * Nightlands * Ola Podrida * Oren Ambarchi *Papa M * Peter Broderick *Peter Oren *Pierre Bastien * Rob Burger *Ro ...
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David Longstreth
David Longstreth (born December 17, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Dirty Projectors, whom he has fronted since 2002 and with whom he has recorded ten studio albums. In addition to his work with Dirty Projectors, Longstreth composed the score to the 2025 fantasy adventure film, '' The Legend of Ochi'', directed by Isaiah Saxon and released by A24. He has collaborated with Solange, Bombino and Joanna Newsom amongst others, and co-wrote the 2015 single, "FourFiveSeconds" by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney. Biography Longstreth was born in Southbury, Connecticut. Longstreth attended Yale University and majored in music shortly before dropping out halfway through his second year. He stated that "he rarely ventured out of his dorm room. He found himself completely absorbed in making his own music, though there wasn’t really anyone to play ...
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Morning Better Last!
Morning is either the period from sunrise to noon, or the period from midnight to noon. In the first definition it is preceded by the twilight period of dawn, and there are no exact times for when morning begins (also true of evening and night) because it can vary according to one's latitude, and the hours of daylight at each time of year. However, morning strictly ends at noon, when afternoon starts. Morning precedes afternoon, evening, and night in the sequence of a day. Originally, the term referred to sunrise. Etymology The Modern English words "morning" and "tomorrow" began in Middle English as , developing into , then , and eventually . English, unlike some other languages, has separate terms for "morning" and "tomorrow", despite their common root. Other languages, like Dutch, Scots and German, may use a single wordto signify both "morning" and "tomorrow". Significance Cultural implications Morning prayer is a common practice in several religions. The morning period in ...
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The Getty Address
''The Getty Address'' is the fourth studio album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors. The album is a concept album and is described as "a glitch opera" about musician Don Henley, although it also explores themes like ancient Mexico, post-9/11 America, and oil. Background and recording 25 musicians are featured on the album, most of whom contributed to the orchestral and choral backing of the album. These parts were recorded at Yale University as well as other locations in New Haven, Connecticut over a period spanning five months and were chopped up digitally to create the backings of the album. Dave Longstreth then overdubbed his own vocals, guitar, bass, and other instruments to create the songs on the album. Although the lyrics have been described as gibberish, the words actually do tell a narrative beginning with Don Henley contemplating suicide, and ending with the last of Longstreth's songs about brown finches. Jason Crock, in a review for Pitchfork, for e ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ...
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Pitchfork Media
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered Alternative rock, alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential Music magazine, music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical Hipster (contemporary subculture), hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festiv ...
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Experimental Rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics (or instrumentals), unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it was not until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended and complex compositions through advancements in multitrack recording. In 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with electronic music, avant-garde and contemporary classi ...
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Adam Forkner
Adam Forkner is a musician/producer. Discography As Airboy Express * ''LAST STOP BREATH ART'' (2018) * ''Acrylic Sleep Museum'' (2017) * ''SUNWINTER'' (2017) As White Rainbow * ''ZOME'' (2005) * ''BOX'' (2006) * ''Sun Shifts'' (2007) * ''Sky Drips Drifts'' (2007) * ''Prism Of Eternal Now'' (2007) * '' New Clouds'' (2009) * ''THRU.U'' LP (2014) * ''21 Exoticism ESCAP'' LP (2015) As VVRSSNN * '' VVRSSNN'' (2003) With World * ''s/t'' (2005) With Yume Bitsu * '' Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels from the Sky'' (1998) * ''Yume Bitsu'' (1999) * '' Auspicious Winds'' (2000) * split EP w/ Andrew Reiger (2002) * '' Golden Vessyl of Sound'' (2002) * ''Dryystonian Dreamscapes'' (2002) * ''Dryystonian Dreamscapes Volume II'' (2003) * ''Wabi Morning'' (2003) With Surface of Eceon/Surface of Eceyon * ''The King Beneath the Mountain'' (2002) * ''Dragyyn'' (2003) * ''Tussyan Ruins'' (2003) * ''Dragyyn'' (2004) Other projects * ''Clear Acrylic Thought Pattern'' podcast * Rob W ...
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