Good heavens five years go by what can one do? Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with diversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier ballads,

Divers (Cassette)

Good heavens five years go by what can one do? Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with diversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier ballads, narrated from parts unknown; a family of polysemic song-sets; a paranomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies; a fanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay and love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones and Moogs, clavichords and celestas and of course the harp, thrumming its threnodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of Shepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned Simulacreage... The music ofÂ DiversÂ is a wonder of considered arrangements a taut line, threaded with the pearls of passed and passing times...a round, a chant, an incantation...a ray of light diverted eleven ways, into eleven songs that striate, in chromatic collusion, their simultaneous arc...a span that takes in lifetimes, but is immaculately sequenced for telescoped brevity. The music speeds with dissociative dread over montaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight among the collaged quotations and sepia-toned codices of Popular Song; it ambles its carefree citational course through the public domain and down into the dustier corners of municipal parks, to lionize infamous airmen and anonymous Dutch Masters, to mourn pearl divers and Poorwills, and to elegize the ineluctable tragedy of relativity a tragedy of parochial time, anecdotal time, dubious time... At the center of the mythos and the maelstrom is the woman.Â DiversÂ reminds us that NewsomÂ is a melodist, above all an acolyte of melody and beauty in form, a crackerjack of emotional truth conveyed with undiluted immediacy. The Things I Say seems a naked admission, after the epic swales of war and peace that precede it, and yet this sudden moment of piano and voice falls seamlessly into the flow, buffeted by the haunting winds of a musical saw and time-slipping reversal at the finish. ...so that, at the aortic confluence of such a complexity of strings and wires, winking beneath the lacquered layers of instrumental nacre, biding quietly between the ranges of rhapsodic arrangement including those byÂ Nico Muhly,Â Ryan Francesconi,Â Dave Longstreth,Â Dan Cantrell, andÂ Newsom herself there lies an intimacy seldom achieved, and simply heard.Â DiversÂ dives forth with a pure love and respect for the traditions and mysteries of man, such that we can feel the surge of life itself passing over our bones as we hear the songs and sounds, the players among themÂ Kevin Barker,Â Peter Newsom,Â NealÂ Morgan, and theÂ City of Prague Philharmonic OrchestraÂ and the arrangements; as basic maths are reviewed to uncover heights of joy and sorrow, all traced in triumphal arches and supernumerary rainbows through eternal amber, gleaming in analog entrapment with that VOICE riding high atop; the vast embodiments and boundless refinements of her singing suffused amid the tidal intake and outtake of cellulose acetate recorded with snow-bright, high-noon verity byÂ Steve AlbiniÂ andÂ Noah Georgeson, mixed in mphantasmagoric, deep-sea saturation byÂ NoahÂ andÂ Joanna, and loosed, fuckin FINALLY, on October 23rdÂ by Drag City Records. We have reached PeakÂ Newsom.Â DiversÂ is coming, to incline into your many and varied lifelines, for now and then and the rest of the moments that will always return in your lifetimes again.
Country USA
Artist Joanna Newsom
Binding Audio Cassette
EAN 0781484056140
Label Drag City
Manufacturer Drag City
NumberOfDiscs 1
NumberOfItems 1
Publisher Drag City
ReleaseDate 2015-10-23
Studio Drag City

Country	USA
Artist	Joanna Newsom
Binding	Audio Cassette
EAN	0781484056140
Label	Drag City
Manufacturer	Drag City
NumberOfDiscs	1
NumberOfItems	1
Publisher	Drag City
ReleaseDate	2015-10-23
Studio	Drag City

Divers (Cassette)

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