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Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & s t a r g a z e - Song Of The Earth 2x Vinyl LP
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2x Black Vinyl LP
Release Year: 2025
Catalogue Number: TRANS780X
Barcode: 5400863154127
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Condition Note: Brand New
Track Listing / Description
A1 Summer Light
A2 Gimme Bread
A3 At Home
A4 Circled in Purple
A5 Our Green Garden
A6 Walk the Edge
B1 Opposable Thumb
B2 More Mania
B3 Spiderweb at Water's Edge
B4 Mallet Hocket
B5 So Blue the Lake
B6 Dancing on our Eyelids
B7 Same River Twice
B8 Armfuls of Flowers
C1 Twin Aspens
C2 Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One
C3 Kyrie / About My Day
C4 Shifting Shalestones
C5 Appetite
D1 Bank On
D2 Paper Birches, Whole Scroll
D3 Raven Ascends
D4 Blue of Dreaming
D5 Raised Brow
Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth & s t a r g a ze announce their album 'Song Of The Earth', with the first single 'Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One'.
Song of the Earth is performed by Longstreth with members of his band Dirty Projectors — Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell — and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, the album also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells.
Longstreth wrote the first draft in six manic weeks for a commission arranged by s t a r g a z e. He felt disoriented and also galvanized by the moment: the pandemic chaos, the 'radical psychedelia' of new fatherhood, the novelty of writing for large ensemble. Then he spent three years revising, rewriting, rearranging, and recording in studios and homes in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Song of the Earth marks Longstreth's biggest-yet foray into the field of concert music. It received its US premiere in a March 2024 sold-out performance at Disney Hall in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. Work-in-progress performances also took place between 2022 and 2024 at the Barbican in London, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam.
Just as Dirty Projectors' Rise Above sounds nothing like Damaged — the Black Flag album upon which is based — Song of the Earth bears little resemblance to its namesake, Gustav Mahler's 1908 song-poem Das Lied Von Der Erde. But Longstreth notes that "it is saturated with the Mahler work's themes, feelings and spirit of dissolved contradiction."