Archive for September, 2010

Competition: win Bitte Orca Expanded

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

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The expanded version of Bitte Orca is released this week.  Added to the original album is a second cd, containing unreleased “Live at Other Music” acoustic tracks, hard to find b-sides and a new recording of Bob Dylan’s As I Went Out One Morning.

To win a copy (we have two to give away), take a look at the photo above and tell us…

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

Answers to the email address above by Friday 1 October.  First two correct answers out of the virtual hat win the booty.

Prizes are courtesy of Domino U.S., so the competition is open to U.S. residents only.

Terminal 5 live recording available

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

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NYCtaper has released an authorised bootleg of Dirty Projectors’ 11 Sept show at Terminal 5.  It’s a beautiful document, fuller sounding than the Bowery Ballroom one from almost a year ago.  The set was different too, including the entire Bitte Orca album on shuffle, as well as several songs previously unheard on live recordings of this quality.  On standouts such as I Will Truck and Beautiful Mother, the audience response is testimony to DPs’ enduring capacity to thrill - an attribute arguably more common to practitioners of other musics, such as metal or teen pop, than indie/alternative.

Dirty Projectors: September 11, 2010 Terminal 5 - Flac and MP3 Downloads (nyctaper)

NYCtaper encourages anyone enjoying their recording to support Dirty Projectors - and what better way than by picking up the expanded edition of Bitte Orca, released next week.  Your non-expanded copy would make an excellent recycled Christmas present. If you can’t afford it, check back here in a week or so for this site’s first ever competition.

The T5 show also got the Brooklyn Vegan treatment, with photos not just of the headliners but of the merch stand, support Owen Pallett, audience members and even a couple of security staff.   For some pro photos from T5, see here.  The photo above is by Johnny, who recorded T5 for NYCtaper.

Other important things you need to know - the Milwaukee Express has a short interview with Dave and last weekend I heard the Rusko/Amber song playing on the in-store stereo at TK Maxx.

Bitte Orca expanded, Other Music vinyl

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

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A 2cd version of Bitte Orca is set for release 27 September.  It features five songs from DPs’ June 2009 acoustic show at NYC’s Other Music record store, plus some b-sides and a new recording of Bob Dylan’s As I Went Out One Morning.  Full tracklisting here.

Accompanying this will be a 500-only vinyl release of the Other Music set, which can be preordered from the Other Music online shop.

The never-ending tour continues, mostly in the US, with two UK dates in December - see Tour Dates.

A few more links for you…

Krist Novoselic, Nirvana’s bassist, has been listening to Two Sheeps Asleep

Is there a physical release of Mount Wittenberg Orca in the offing? This Clash Magazine feature on Bjork seems to suggest so.

Click Track has a new Dave interview, with Part 2 following tomorrow.

That up there is Dirty Projectors’ fall 2010 press photo by NYC photographer Tom Hines.