wolfmama:

Kimya Dawson—Utopian Futures

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justasterisms:

Here’s something from the rich soil of the past we think you’ll dig — the sound of Joanna Newsomcirca 1999. No singing here — no songs per se to be sung yet! At this stage, young Jo was writing her heart and mind out, with an eye towards modern classical music. Hours of music were taped, capturing everything from motive to theme to variations and intervals and all those other things we here at the record company don’t understand. ‘99 found Newsom, newly armed with a driver’s license and a Dodge Caravan, making waves in the greater Tahoe-area wedding-music circuit, and dreaming of a musical world somewhere between fin de siècle Symbolism and West African counterpoint. Alone with her ideas in a tiny town, untouched by the currents of the world outside, she was free in the caves of her imagination, mining a vein that has yielded different elements over time while maintaining a voice that has coalesced into something never before heard.

(This track also appears on the CD compilation “Harpfelt Connections,” a fundraiser for The Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation. Please visit their site and donate your heart out.)

(Source: dragcity.com)

burtmacklin:

Joanna Newsom — Sawdust & Diamonds

Sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay, just to lift your long face.