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With hints of fitness music and video game soundtracks, Halos \u0026amp; Lassos festively tromps through 19 songs like a mostly-sunny afternoon in Berkeley, California, home of main singer and songwriter John Ringhofer. With the modal purity of Moondog, symphonic elements of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and the ancient art of punning, the album boasts pleasant acoustic melodies arranged around the ambidextrous Omnichord, a kidney-shaped electronic auto-harp\/drum machine\/synthesizer from the 1980′s. This odd instrument accounts for much of the unique coloring on the album: accordion-like chords, scrupulous drum beats, pre-set bass-lines, and a rectangular pressure pad strummed for gurgling “effects.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded\/mixed by Brandon Buckner in May 2005 at Ears of Corn Studio in Iowa City, Halos \u0026amp; Lassos is Half-handed Cloud’s fourth full-length album for Asthmatic Kitty; 2001′s acclaimed, Learning About Your Scale (also mixed by Buckner) was his first, followed by, We Haven’t Just Been Told, We have been Loved (2002), and 2005′s Thy is a Word \u0026amp; Feet Need Lamps. 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The album includes collaborations with artists such as Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National), Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBox set includes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5 CDs\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eChristmas \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003esticker sheet\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eTemporary tattoo sheet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eA paper ornament (self-assembly with\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edirections)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eAn apocalyptic pull-out poster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eSong lyrics and chord charts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eHallucinogenic photographs and psychedelic graphic design\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eExtensive liner notes (introductory salutations and an essay on the Christmas tree by Sufjan Stevens, and a few theological words on the End Times by Pastor Vito Aiuto)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Sufjan Stevens","offers":[{"title":"CD Boxset","offer_id":254799204,"sku":"AKR100CD","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/9528\/files\/APD_SufjanStevens_Silver_Gold19_Square_Bandcamp.png?v=1725465890"},{"product_id":"sufjan-stevens-michigan-tshirt-blue","title":"Sufjan Stevens - \"Greetings From Michigan\" T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassic \"Greetings from Michigan\" t-shirt celebrating Sufjan Stevens' Great Lake State album with vintage postcard styling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nextlevelapparel.com\/products\/unisex-cotton-t-shirt-midnight-navy\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNext Level 3600.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sufjan Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Mens Small","offer_id":254963992,"sku":"AKR007-T-MEN-S","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mens Medium","offer_id":254963994,"sku":"AKR007-T-MEN-M","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Mens Large","offer_id":254963996,"sku":"AKR007-T-MEN-L","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mens XL","offer_id":254963998,"sku":"AKR007-T-MEN-XL","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mens 2X","offer_id":40148380745799,"sku":"AKR007-T-MEN-XXL","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/9528\/files\/Mich_Standard.png?v=1758033928"},{"product_id":"the-welcome-wagon-precious-remedies-against-satans-devices","title":"The Welcome Wagon - Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the twelfth year of the twenty-first century dawned, the economy was still in the tank, jobs were still scarce. 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That the love Stevens sings about having left or given or been born to--thank you, Carrie--is a perceptible wound not only on the singer's throat, but his sleeve: he wears love's incomprehensibility, and the deep incomprehensibility of being a son, like a backing vocal on \"Carrie and Lowell,\" which is also filled with colors, hearts, trees, conclusions, and beginnings, all adding up to the kind of intimacy that caught my eye the morning I sat in the diner waiting for the sun to get stronger as I saw intimacy pass by while going about it's business, like something sung and felt by Sufjan Stevens on his new beautiful solitary and rich record filled with faith and disbelief and the resurrection of trust and dreams. - HILTON ALS \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sufjan Stevens","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":1093662124,"sku":"AKR099LP","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/9528\/products\/AKR099_Cover.jpg?v=1619868951"},{"product_id":"sufjan-stevens-exploding-whale","title":"Sufjan Stevens - Exploding Whale 7 inch","description":"\u003cp\u003eSufjan Stevens released this song just after\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarrie \u0026amp; Lowell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand it was originally intended to be a tour-only 7\", but was later distributed by AKR in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the exploding whale incident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike many songs on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarrie \u0026amp; Lowell\u003c\/em\u003e, this song has references to Oregon. The Exploding Whale Incident was a famous “epic fail” incident that happened in Florence, Oregon in 1970, when a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach. 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Like-minded spirit Daniel Smith of the Danielson Family produced, and other Family members provide accompaniment that's considerably more structured than their own free-wheeling recordings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sufjan Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31402023177,"sku":"AKR130LP","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0185\/9528\/products\/a3840232503_10.jpg?v=1619870375"},{"product_id":"angelo-de-augustine-truly-gone","title":"Angelo De Augustine - Truly Gone 7\"","description":"This limited edition 7 inch marks the signing of Angelo De Augustine to Asthmatic Kitty Records. \"Truly Gone\" will appear on a forthcoming record, while \"Magical\" is exclusive to this 7 inch. Includes digital download. 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On Side A is Blue Bucket of Gold and its outro, and on Side B is Hotline Bling featuring Gallant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased in March 2015, \u003cem\u003eCarrie \u0026amp; Lowell\u003c\/em\u003e is perhaps Sufjan’s bleakest album, tracing the songwriter’s struggle with grief and depression following the sudden death of his mother. To promote the album, Sufjan set out on an extensive worldwide tour, playing almost 100 concerts performing almost exclusively songs from the new record. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe show, which was designed by Marc Janowitz, incorporated an expansive lighting display and cathedral-like LED columns featuring home videos shot by Sufjan’s maternal grandfather, Nick Marabeas. Much of this vintage footage highlights family birthdays, graduations, and weddings of Carrie and her siblings from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, lending the performances the emotional arc of a memorial, celebrating Carrie’s life and meditating on her death with a sweeping transcendence that gave testament to Sufjan’s central thesis of mourning: that in spite of death, we must go on living in fullness and joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe live show featured many new interpretations, re-workings and expansions of the songs from Carrie \u0026amp; Lowell, itself a spare album. On stage, acoustic guitars, ukuleles, and piano were augmented by drums and percussion, electronics, and a motley of synthesizers to create an expansive sonic environment that moved from intimate to psychedelic without sacrificing the solemn nature of the material. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarrie \u0026amp; Lowell Live captures Sufjan at his most vulnerable and persuasive, and it features a proficient, multiple-instrumentalist crew of musicians, including Dawn Landes (vocals, guitar, guitalin, piano, synthesizer, vocoder, percussion), Casey Foubert (vocals, guitar, lap steel, bass, piano, ukulele, synthesizer), Steve Moore (vocals, synthesizer, bass synth, trombone, Casiotone, piano) and James McAlister (drums, percussion, electronics, synthesizer, piano). 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Released via Asthmatic Kitty Records, \u003cem\u003eReflections\u003c\/em\u003e is, in Stevens words, about “energy, light and duality.” This piece follows on from several scores Stevens has created with Peck, including \u003cem\u003eYear of the Rabbit\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eEverywhere We Go\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003cem\u003eIn the Countenance of Kings\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eThe Decalogue\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003ePrincipia\u003c\/em\u003e (2019). “We have been working together for many years now,” says Stevens. “We respect and trust each other's work.” Peck and Stevens are currently collaborating on a dance theater piece based on Stevens’ songs from the acclaimed album, Illinois, to premiere at Fisher Center at Bard in June of 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is a long tradition of using pianos to accompany dance – whether it is during lessons at the barre or for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erehearsals when hiring a full orchestra is prohibitively expensive – and Stevens was happy to further explore the instrument's capabilities. “Although I've never taken a lesson,” he says, “the piano was my first true love.” Self-taught as both a pianist and a composer, Stevens’ first instrument was the oboe, which he started playing in 5th grade. He played in orchestras from high school through college and listened voraciously to recordings of classical music alongside pop radio. He would often take breaks from the oboe by improvising on the piano, working out music he had heard in passing – pieces by Chopin, Rachmaninov and Bach. “I learned by ear, in a very rudimentary way, inspired by a wide range of music,” he says. “A lot of the work that I compose is anachronistic as it doesn't follow a genealogy of aesthetic. It can be a cornucopia of styles.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat's the case with \u003cem\u003eReflections\u003c\/em\u003e, where listeners may detect a hint of Debussy, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, and even Bruce Hornsby. Born in 1975, New York-based Stevens is best known as a singer-songwriter. He has recorded over a dozen solo and collaborative albums. 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In creating such an all-enveloping body of work, the Southern California-based artist spent nearly three years working alone and exploring the vast expanse of his imagination. “This album came from thinking about the madness of the world right now and how overwhelming that can be,” says De Augustine. “I used a sort of counter-world as a guide to try to gain some understanding of what’s actually going on here—I had to take myself out of reality in order to try to understand reality.” At turns bewitching and devastating and ineffably lovely, the result is the most visionary work yet from a singular songwriter, revealing his profound capacity to alchemize pain into extraordinary beauty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArriving on the heels of 2021’s \u003cem\u003eA Beginner’s Mind\u003c\/em\u003e—a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sufjan Stevens—\u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e marks De Augustine’s first solo effort since his breakthrough album Tomb (produced by Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman). In a return to the self-contained approach of his 2015 debut Spirals of Silence and 2017’s Swim Inside the Moon, De Augustine wrote, arranged\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, recorded, produced, and mixed \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e, shaping the album’s ornately detailed sound by performing on 27 different instruments (including such oddities as a xylophone made of glass). In the midst of that highly experimental process, he endured an ephemeral but nightmarish period of otherworldly sensations and supernatural visions—an experience that briefly disrupted the album’s creation but in the end helped to enrich \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble’s\u003c\/em\u003e immense emotional depth.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough an abundance of original and mythical characters populate the songs of \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e—Peter Pan, Miss Havisham, Christopher Robin, to name a few—the album opens on the quiet sorrow of “Home Town,” a despairing yet dreamlike track born from De Augustine’s reflection on a tragic mass shooting that occurred near his former residence. “It felt like if something like that could happen in this little town, then nowhere was safe,” he says. “And that feeling of not being safe anywhere is what led me to start thinking about a lot of themes on this record.” Next, on “The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill,” De Augustine mines inspiration from one of the stranger chapters of human history: the account of a rural New Hampshire couple who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in the early 1960s. “It’s a bizarre story, and of course nobody knows if it’s true, but it’s probably the UFO abduction story that’s got the most credibility,” De Augustine notes. Spotlighting the unbridled ingenuity of his sound design, “The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill” unfolds in unearthly textures achieved in part through his use of elegantly warped field recordings of ambient noises like cars, frogs, and teapots, as well as the extremely rare DG-1 Stepp Guitar synthesizer (an item invented in the 1980s by a British instrument designer named Stephen Randall). “It is a mysterious instrument unlike anything I have encountered,” says De Augustine, who adds that “there are entire worlds waiting to be discovered within it.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll throughout \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e, De Augustine magnifies the mesmeric effect of his songwriting by uncovering new and wholly unexpected possibilities within the album’s vast array of instruments, many of which he’d never worked with before. “Memory Palace,” for instance, interweaves lush Mellotron tones and delicately layered percussion with the bell-like timbres of a Mustel celeste (a type of small piano invented by Auguste Mustel in 1886). “I loved that instrument since I was a kid and went to see The Nutcracker, and found out that the magical sound you hear in ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ is the celeste and the Glockenspiel piano playing together,” De Augustine explains. “The celeste I have now was made by Auguste Mustel, who gave Tchaikovsky the celeste he used to compose parts of The Nutcracker ballet, so that feels very special to me.” Meanwhile, on “Another Universe,” a Japanese guitar synthesizer known as the Unisynth lends a gloriously cosmic quality to a track whose lyrics echo the intense longing at the heart of \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e (e.g., “If I created my own world\/Minds would be open and unfurled…The galaxy would be a guide for love”).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnother piece laced with the celeste’s sweetly luminous tones, \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble’s\u003c\/em\u003e title track closes the album with a heavy-hearted reverie reflected in the cover art: a painting created by Ghanaian artist Daniel Anum Jasper, depicting an anthropomorphized and wild-eyed cauldron surrounded by test tubes and spell books and brightly blooming opium poppies. “After three years of creating everything myself, I’d gotten to a place of feeling stuck and not knowing how to finish this record—but the moment when I got the cover art from Daniel, I knew the way out,” De Augustine recalls.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile De Augustine refers to the making of \u003cem\u003eToil and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e as a painful and emotionally demanding process, each track embodies the kind of rarefied grace that can only come from a certain purity of expression. “For me songwriting has always felt like something that I need to do, and even if I don’t understand why, I completely trust that feeling,” he says. 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