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Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine – A Beginner's Mind

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  • Collaborative album from songwriters Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine

    Limited time album download included

    It's been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo de Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A Beginner's Mind is their debut album that contains 14 songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular films.

    The source material is highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between. The music is folksy, sweet, sincere and harmonically effervescent-Simon & Garfunkel with New Age flourishes. This album runs the gamut and has fun with it, even while it's songwriters remain fully rooted in the melancholy folk idioms they are known for. Daniel Anum Jasper, a pioneer of Ghanian movie poster painting, was commissioned to paint a series of new works for A Beginner's Mind.

    His paintings are a graphic simulacrum for the same sense of wonder, wordplay, and intrigue that shape A Beginner's Mind. By transforming old films into vital new songs, Stevens and de Augustine ask us to consider ourselves from a previously unconsidered vantage point — a new way of seeing and hearing — an exercise that's as necessary and relevant now as it's ever been.

  • Artist: Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine
    Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: Unknown
    Genre: Pop & Rock
  • A1 Reach Out
    A2 Lady Macbeth In Chains
    A3 Back To Oz
    A4 The Pillar Of Souls
    A5 You Give Death A Bad Name
    A6 Beginner'S Mind
    A7 Olympus
    B8 Murder And Crime
    B9 (This Is) The Thing
    B10 It'S Your Own Body And Mind
    B11 Lost In The World
    B12 Fictional California
    B13 Cimmerian Shade
    B14 Lacrimae