Archive for September, 2009

Dirty Projectors on the Jimmy Fallon show

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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Dirty Projectors debuted a new song on yesterday’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show, When The World Comes To An End.  If you’ve seen them on tour recently, you might have heard it already.  The tv clip is already on YouTube, as are performances of the song from Berlin and Amsterdam.  There’s even backstage rehearsal footage on Twitvid.

The Temecula Sunrise EP release date has gone back to 19 October, so there’s a bit longer to wait to hear those other two unreleased songs, Ascending Melody and Emblem Of The World.  If that news puts you in the mood for a sad song, well, you’re in luck.  Fader has a clip of Angel duetting with Phosphorescent, aka Matthew Houck, on his version of It’s Not Supposed To Be That Way.  The song is from the 2009 Phosphorescent album, To Willie, a collection of Willie Nelson covers, out now on Dead Oceans.

Transcribed lyrics for these three new DPs songs, but not the Willie Nelson one, are on the Useful Chamber lyrics page.

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Minor treats: Bonnaroo, ABC radio, Take Cover

Monday, September 21st, 2009

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So, despite sounding like ‘kangaroo’, it turns out Bonnaroo isn’t in Australia but Tennessee. Who knew? Dirty Projectors’ appearance at the festival there earlier this year ended with a guest appearance from David Byrne, joining the band for Knotty Pine. There’s a nice audience recording of this and the rest of the set by, confusingly, an Aussie guy called Morris, here.

Definitely located in Australia is ABC - the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A few weeks back, Dave did a phone interview with the ABC/Triple J’s Mornings With Zan radio programme. No surprises - who wants to delve too deep at nine in the morning? - but it’s worth a listen.

For more depth, and some surface, try Pitchfork’s Take Cover interview with Rob Carmichael, discussing his design of the Bitte Orca album cover.  The piece touches on, but doesn’t explain, Nietzsche’s appearance opposite Dave on the back cover. Maybe unconnected but in the Making Music interview, Dave mentioned being into Wagner whilst at college.  Nietzsche was a contemporary of Wagner and, for a time, a big advocate of Wagner’s music, with characteristically strong ideas about art and its role as a palliative against the chaos of the world. If you’re still in need of something to listen to after Bonnaroo and ABC, Philosophy Bites has two excellent podcasts covering Nietzsche’s take on art, truth and morality.

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Cloak & Dagger Radio session, 2007

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

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OK, here’s a real gem for you. You might have seen Dave’s contribution to Pitchfork’s P2K Guest List 2000s Edition wherein various musicians list their favourite albums of the decade. Dave’s is a diverse list, ranging from Radiohead to Usher to Group Doueh. But a pick that won’t come as a surprise to close DPs followers is B’Day by Beyonce.

This 2007 session contains further evidence of B’Day’s place in the Dirty Projectors canon - track one consists of two minutes of the girls warming up their voices and Suga Mama from B’Day is joyfully prominent.

As if that’s not enough, the session was recorded outdoors, in an Ann Arbor parking lot, and was followed by some funny business with a stranger playing piano in the back of a truck. Angel accompanied him on flute (did you think she only sang and played guitar, bass and keyboards?) and, this being the uh-ohs, someone captured it all on video and posted it on myspace.

It looks as if this was the penultimate session that Cloak & Dagger ever did - among the most recent content on the site is a 2007 top ten page in which Rise Above is #1 for three out of four of the staff. Let’s hope they are putting their talents to good use elsewhere.

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Temecula Sunrise ep - more details

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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Here’s a preview of the cover of the Temecula Sunrise/Cannibal Resource EP - the cd promo, anyway.  The two lead tracks are the same as the versions on Bitte Orca.  The new songs are Ascending Melody and Emblem Of The World.

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