Torrent sufjan stevens

A cornerstone of zombie horror Night of the Living Dead , a touchstone psychological thriller Silence of the Lambs , a high-octane action flick Point Break , and a Bette Davis classic All About Eve are inspiration for songs that seek to investigate the meaning of life, the meaning of death, and everything in between. The movies are only catalysts; the songs take liberty with their source material, allowing for bold tangents often running wild with existential inquiry.

This album runs the gamut and has fun with it, even while its songwriters remain fully rooted in the melancholy folk idioms they are known for. Their method was simple: watch films at night, sketch songs in the morning. Rigorous editing and rewriting ensued. Plot-points, scene summaries, and leading characters are often displaced by esoteric interpolations that ask the bigger question: what does it mean to be human in a broken world?

Stevens and De Augustine wrote everything with a deliberate sense of shoshin—the Zen Buddhist concept for which the record is named and an idea that empowered the pair to look for and write about unlikely inspiration without preconceived notions of what a film had to say. The movies became rhetorical prompts in a meta-textual game of broken telephone, with the songwriters letting their distinct reactions and creative instincts govern their process. The underlying objective was empathy and openness, absent of judgment: to observe what is pure and good—or seemingly dark and villainous—with the eyes of a child.

To advertise the movies, Ghanaian artists painted alternate posters, inspired only by the scant information they had about each film. Information about the project was deliberately kept vague so that Mr. Jasper could work without restraint. Mythical deities and monsters, zombies, skydivers and a celebrated American director Jonathan Demme, to whom the album is dedicated were submitted as visual cues.

Track Listing: 1. Reach Out 2. Lady Macbeth In Chains 3. Back To Oz 4. The Pillar Of Souls 5. Olympus 8. Murder And Crime 9. Belly Button Rice Pudding Godzuki Super Sexy Woman The Oracle Said Wander Happy Birthday Jason Kill Ya Leil A Sun Came Satan's Saxophones Year Of The Asthmatic Cat Year Of The Monkey Year Of The Rat Year Of The Ox Year Of The Boar Year Of The Tiger Year Of The Snake Year Of The Sheep Year Of The Rooster Year Of The Dragon Enjoy Your Rabbit Year Of The Dog Year Of The Horse All Good Naysayers, Speak Up!

Or Forever Hold Your Peace! Say Yes! The Upper Peninsula Tahquamenon Falls Holland Romulus Alanson, Crooked River Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie In Pickeral Lake? Vito's Ordination Song Marching Band In The Devil's Territory To Be Alone With You Abraham Sister Size Too Small He Woke Me Up Again Seven Swans Come On!

Feel The Illinoise! John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Jacksonville Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!

Chicago Casimir Pulaski Day Prairie Fire That Wanders About They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! The Seer's Tower The Avalanche Dear Mr.

Supercomputer Adlai Stevenson Chicago acoustic version The Henney Buggy Band Saul Bellow Carlyle Lake