Discography
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DIRTY PROJECTORS ALBUMS AND EPs
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Title: The Graceful Fallen Mango
Format: long playing cd
Released: 2002
Label: This Heart Plays Records / Western Vinyl (reissue)
Catalogue number: WEST039
Comments:
Solo LP by Dave Longstreth
Tracklisting
1. Spring Is Here
2. Follow Me not If You Still Care
3. Easily Resigned
4. I Don’t Know
5. Lay Down Restless Bones
6. Constellation That’s Mine
7. Time For Bed
8. She Turns To Ash
9. What If I
10. The Graceful Fallen Mango
11. Maggie And Me
12. Everything Will Happen
13. We Are Striving
14. Yield; Be Held (Aloft)
15. At The End Of The Day
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Title: The Glad Fact
Format: long playing CD and LP
Released: 2003
Label: Western Vinyl
Catalogue number: WEST026
Links:
Western Vinyl page for this album
Pitchfork review
Review by Ezra Koenig (who then joined DPs before fronting Vampire Weekend)
Tracklisting:
1. The Glad Fact
2. My Offwhite Flag
3. Like Fake Blood In Crisp October
4. Boredom Is A Product
5. Two Brown Finches
6. Three Brown Finches
7. Off Science Hill
8. Winter Is Here
9. Ground Underfoot
10. Spirit-Future Medley
11. Naked We Made It
12. Lit From Below
13. Imaginary Love
14. The Highway Is A Foggy Knife
15. The Minutes
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Title: Morning Better Last!
Format: long playing cd
Released: 2003
Label: States Rights
Catalogue number: [not known]
Link:
Wikipedia entry for ‘Morning Better Last!’
Comments:
A compilation of three tapes recorded by Dave Longstreth that were given to friends of his.
1. The Softer Shell
2. Brother Had a Birthday
3. The Enterprising Catalyst
4. Grandfather’s Jacket
5. After Santa Monica Boulevard
6. Ghanabama (called Dahlonegabhama on the insert)
7. Further On Down the Strip
8. Katydids Calling
9. Twenty-Foot Stalks (exit 14)
10. We Could Cling
11. The Love-Prayer Book
12. To Give It Weight (Then He Gave It Cartilage)
13. Here Comes The Summer King
14. Her Freezing and Thawings
15. Hildegarde vs. Beach Boys
16. We Two Feared the Storm
17. How Does My Mind Work?
18. I Am Going to See It
19. Fake Folks
20. D and The Disordered Sprawl
21. Like Once Heated Milk
22. O! You Hungering Infants
23. Morning Had Better Last!
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Title: Slaves’ Graves and Ballads
Format: long playing cd
Released: 2004
Label: Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records / Western Vinyl
Catalogue number: WEST029
Links:
Wikipedia entry for Slaves’ Graves And Ballads
Pitchfork review
Comments:
A combination of two EPs released in 2004. The first (Slaves Graves) has Dave singing with a college orchestra called The Orchestral Society for the Preservation of the Orchestra. The second (Ballads) is all guitar/vocal.
Tracklisting:
1. Somberly, Kimberly
2. On The Beach
3. (Throw On) The Hazard Lights
4. Slaves’ Graves
5. Grandfather’s Hanging
6. We Are Swaddled
7. Hazard Lights (Reprise)
8. A Labor More Restful
9. Unmoved
10. Ladies, You Have Exiled Me
11. Because Your Light Is Turning Green
12. Obscure Wisdom
13. This Weather
14. Since I Opened
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Title: Twenty Bees #1
Format: lathe cut 7″ single
Released: 2005
Label: Twenty Bees
Catalogue number: BEE 1
Comments: Part of the Twenty Bees lathe cut 7″ subscription series 2005-2006. Limited to 20 copies.
Tracklisting
1.Dragon Lady
2. Orchard Child Moon Bear
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Title: The Getty Address
Format: long playing cd and longform music video/DVD-R
Released: 4 April 2005
Label: Western Vinyl
Catalogue number: WEST032
Links:
Western Vinyl page for The Getty Address
Marriage Records page for Getty Address DVD-R
Pitchfork review
Prefix Magazine review
Popmatters review
Comments:
An album-length narrative inspired by Aztec mythology, The Eagles, and the 9/11 aftermath, The Getty Address is a sprawling, layered glitch opera starring Don Henley. The CD includes lyrics and further explanation. DL later described it as “an adolescent attempt to make sense of the entire universe” (Gothamist article, Sept 2007).
Tracklisting:
1. I Sit on the Ridge at Dusk
2. But in the Headlights
3. Warholian Wigs
4. I Will Truck
5. D. Henley’s Dream
6. Gilt Gold Scabs
7. Ponds & Puddles
8. Not Having Found
9. Tour Along the Potomac
10. Jolly Jolly Jolly Ego
11. Time Birthed Spilled Blood
12. Drilling Profitably
13. Finches’ Song at Oceanic Parking Lot
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Title: Highlights fromThe Getty Address
Format: 5 track CD
Released: not known
Label: BV2 Produktions
Catalogue number: BV-12
Links:
Record Store X
From the sleevenotes:
“Many thanks to Heikoven Kari and Bad Vugum for enthusiastically suggesting and overseeing the release of this abridged version for the good people of Finland.”
Tracklisting:
1. I Will Truck
2. Not Having Found
3. Jolly Jolly Jolly Ego
4. Time Birthed Spilled Blood
5. Finches’ Song At Oceanic Parking Lot
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Title: New Attitude EP
Format: 7 track CD and 12″ vinyl
Released: 2006
Label: Marriage Records
Catalogue number: MAR019
Links:
Marriage Records press release (PDF)
Wikipedia entry for New Attitude EP
Comments:
Originally a tour-only EP, 6 studio recordings made with Chris Taylor (of Grizzly Bear) and one live recording.
“The basic image of New Attitude, the album, is of two sheep counting each other to fall asleep, like the old cartoon of the insomniac, but like a mirror, not a cartoon, and not an insomniac.” - DL
Tracklisting:
1. Fucked For Life
2. Two Sheep Asleep
3. Imagine It
4. Likeness of Uncles
5. Two Young Sheeps
6. Darkened Car
7. To the Mall
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Title: Rise Above
Format: long playing CD and vinyl LP
Released: 11 September 2007
Label: Dead Oceans / Rough Trade
Catalogue number: DOC001 / RTRADCD410
Links:
Wikipedia entry for Rise Above
Metacritic page for Rise above - includes links to several reviews
Comments:
Rise Above is a reimagining of Black’s Flag 1981 record Damaged. It is the first DPs release to feature the hallmark twin female vocals alongside DL, although Angel Deradoorian does not appear on the recording. Rise Above differs in its genesis from earlier studio-based DPs recordings - “With Rise Above, I basically wanted to make the arrangements up for a live band, go on a tour with a live band playing these songs, and then record them very very quickly. And that’s what happened, more or less.” (DL, from Under The Radar article)
Tracklisting:
1. What I See
2. No More
3. Depression
4. Six Pack
5. Thirsty and Miserable
6. Police Story
7. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
8. Spray Paint (The Walls)
9. Room 13
10. Rise Above
11. [untitled track]
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Title: Stillness Is The Move
Format: 12″ single (and promo video)
Released: 21 April 2009 (video released 30 June 2009)
Label: Domino
Catalogue number: DNO230
Links:
Domino Records page for ‘Stillness Is The Move’
Pitchfork track review
Comments:
This release appears to have originally been called ‘Byond Uquafina’. ‘Stillness Is The Move’ was co-written by Amber Coffman. A seven track promo CD-R adds a Jimmy Douglas mix and a radio edit.
Tracklisting:
1. Stillness Is The Move (Album Version)
2. Stillness Is The Move (A Cappella)
3. Stillness Is The Move (Lucky Dragons Remix)
4. Wave The Bloody Shirt
5. Bitte Bitte Orca
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Title: Bitte Orca
Format: long playing CD, LP, cassette, 2CD (limited edition)
Released: 8/9 June 2009
Label: Domino
Catalogue number: DNO217
Links:
Domino Records page for Bitte Orca
Slant Magazine review
Comments:
The cover features Amber and Angel, hinting at their promotion to lead vocalist on two songs (Amber on Stillness Is The Move, Angel on Two Doves). The bonus cd (WIGCD229X) tracklisting is the same as the ‘Stillness Is The Move’ 12″ single.
Tracklisting:
1. Cannibal Resource
2. Temecula Sunrise
3. The Bride
4. Stillness Is The Move
5. Two Doves
6. Useful Chamber
7. No Intention
8. Remade Horizon
9. Fluorescent Half Dome
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Title: Temecula Sunrise EP
Format: promotional CD single
Released: Sept 09
Label: Domino
Catalogue number: RUG342CDP
Originally intended as a limited edition UK-only 12″ single, the Temecula Sunrise EP was never officially released. However, it exists as a promo-only CD single. The Bitte Orca tracks are the same versions as on the album. The non-album tracks were released in Jan 2010 in their own right…
Tracklisting:
1. Temecula Sunrise
2. Cannibal Resource
3. Ascending Melody
4. Emblem Of The World
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Title: Ascending Melody
Format: 7″ and free download
Released: Jan 2010
Label: Domino
Catalogue number: DNO257
Tracklisting:
1. Ascending Melody
2. Emblem Of The World
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Title: Mount Wittenberg Orca
(by DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJÖRK)
Format: digital only (320kbps mp3 and Apple Lossless)
Released: 30 June 2010
Links:
Pitchfork review (7.7/10)
www.mountwittenbergorca.com
Tracklisting:
1. Ocean
2. On and Ever Onward
3. When The World Comes To An End
4. Beautiful Mother
5. Sharing Orb
6. No Embrace
7. All We Are
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SPLIT SINGLES
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Title: Unusual Animals Vol.2
Format: 10″ vinyl
Released: 6 March 2007
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Catalogue number: AKR402
Link:
Asthmatic Kitty page for Unusual Animals
Comments:
The second in a series of vinyl-only releases pairing Asthmatic Kitty artists “with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows”. Castanets’ track includes a brief appearance by Dave Longstreth. The DPs track is a nine-minute epic, said to be the centerpiece of the band’s set on their Spring 2006 tour and was recorded live on a stop during the tour.
Tracklisting:
Castanets - Black Water
Dirty Projectors - Silence In The Land
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Title: Fader/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #5:
Rubik’s Cube
Format: 7″ single
Released: 2008
Link:
Fader magazine page
Tracklisting:
A. Dirty Projectors - Police Story (Daytrotter Session version)
B. White Williams - Blue Steel
Comments:
Fader magazine competition giveaway only. The Daytrotter track is otherwise unreleased.
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COMPILATION ALBUMS AND OTHER STUFF
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Artist: Sidetrack
Title: Too Much Pressure
Format: mp3
Released: 2008
Comments:
Written and co-produced by David Longstreth
Link:
Brooklyn Vegan piece on Sidetrack and Dirty Projectors
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Artist: various artists
Title: Dark Was The Night
Format: triple vinyl LP and CD / charity musical project / live show
Released: 2009
Links:
Dark Was The Night official site
Stereogum piece on ‘Ambulance Man’ (includes download link)
Comments:
DPs wrote and recorded two songs with David Byrne for Dark Was The Night. ‘Knotty Pine’, opens the LP and is also available on a 7″ single. The other, ‘Ambulance Man’, has surfaced as an MP3. Both were performed at the Dark Was The Night concert at the Bowery Ballroom, New York, on 3 May 2009. DPs’ set was:
Useful Chamber / Stillness Is The Move / Ambulance Man (with David Byrne) / Knotty Pine (with David Byrne)
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Artist: White Rainbow
Title: Box
Format: 5CD and DVD box set
Released: 2006
Links:
White Rainbow myspace
Allmusic guide - White Rainbow
Comments:
White Rainbow is the solo project of Portland-based musician and artist Adam Forkner, whose music encompasses lengthy pieces inspired by La Monte Young, Tangerine Dream, and Miles Davis. He has known DPs since back in the day and played on some of their records (see DPs Myspace band members entry). The DPs track here is over 20 minutes long and is available from Amazon on mp3.
DPs track: Sleep Now We’re Really Soft (Dirty Projectors Remix)
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Artist: various artists
Title: Enjoyed: A Tribute To Bjork’s Post
Format: mp3 album
Released: 2008
DPs track: ‘Hyperballad’
Link:
Stereogum Bjork tribute page
Comments:
Free-to-download tribute album. Other participating artists include Liars, Xiu Xiu, No Age and Final Fantasy
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Artist: various artists
Title: Bro Zone
Format: mp3 album
Released:2005
DPs track: ‘Nevermind’
Comments:
Compilation album featuring artists from Portland.
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Artist: various artists
Title: Worried Noodles
Format: double CD and 100 page book
Released: 2007
DPs track: ‘Come Forward’
Link:
David Shrigley official site - Worried Noodles cd
Comments:
An album of artist David Shrigley’s lyrics set to music. Franz Ferdinand, Grizzly Bear and David Byrne also appear.
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Artist: various artists
Title: Corwood Variations - A Jandek Tribute Companion
Format: CD
Released: 2007
Label: Summersteps Records
Catalogue number: SUM HM 001
DPs track: The River
Links:
Summersteps Records product page
Wikipedia entry for Jandek
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Artist: various artists
Title: Down In A Mirror - A Second Tribute To Jandek
Format: CD
Released: 2005
Label: Summersteps Records
DPs track: ‘With U Icon (An Homage)’
Links:
Wikipedia entry for Down In A Mirror
Summersteps Records - press for Down In A Mirror
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Artist: various artists
Title: Demons And Rare Meat
Format: CD
Released: 2004
Label: Mission
DPs track: Maarket Aair
Link:
Insound product page
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Artist: various artists
Title: Grown Zone / Groan Zone
Format: “2 CDs in a rad 2 pocket stumptown package with a beautiful 11×17 poster/insert. Such a tight little package!”
Released: 2007
Label: States Rights
DPs track: Retinal Heal
Link:
States Rights product page
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Artist: various artists
Title: The Second Marriage Records Compilation
Format: double cd
Released: 2007
Label: States Rights
Catalogue number: MAR038
DPs track: Oh Yeah
Link:
Marriage Records press release (pdf)
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Artist: Grizzly Bear
Title: Friend
Format: 10 track album
Released: 2007
Label: Warp
Catalogue number: WARPCD163
Link:
Stereogum piece on Friend
Comments:
The track ‘Alligator (choir version)’, a new recording of an old GB song, features (presumably choral) contributions from Dave and Amber as well as Zach Condon of the group Beirut.
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PRE DIRTY PROJECTORS…
Adam Forkner comment post from Brooklyn Vegan:
“dave longstreth is not from portland, oregon. he lived here for a year once, and a few months another time. he has friends in portland through his brother jake, who went to college in portland in the 90’s and now lives in san francisco. Dave has released music on two portland labels, marriage and states rights records. i think the assumption that he is “from portland” stems from his connection to the portland-centric scene these two labels represent.
the brothers longstreth grew up in semi-rural connecticut. their parents are avid birders and their father became the caretaker of an estate left to the audobon society. their parents have recently moved to california.
dave’s older brother jake is a painter of some reknown on the west coast and a sometime dirty projector.
their band together back when jake was in college and dave was in high school was called American People, and it was amazing. States Rights Records released a limited edition “best-of” CD a few years ago, though it is long long gone by now. For another sort of “pre-history” of Dave’s Dirty Projector project, there is also the State’s Rights release “Morning Better Last” which i would highly recommend to fans of his new music, as well as the two full lengths on western vinyl and the EP on Marriage (not to mention the pre-projectors Dave Longstreth CD “graceful fallen mango” from, like. 2000-2001).”
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Finally, another small mention of American People in this post about the Portland music scene, on the Deerhunter blog.