'Saro' from the Sam Amidon album 'All Is Well' released on Bedroom Community 2008 Video by
'Saro' from the Sam Amidon album 'All Is Well' released on Bedroom Community 2008 Video by Jeremy Blatter
Here is what the press has to say about the album:
PRESS: "sky-scrapingly great ... All Is Well is viscerally stunning, comforting, upsetting, entrancing; as long as he can make art like this, Amidon can skip the formality of 'writing songs' forever" -Stylus Magazine
"With All Is Well, Sam Amidon has crafted a precious gem of a record, all in nuances and shades, with delicate overtones and airy harmonies. Sigurðsson's production is light and subtle yet it gives these songs fantastic depth and contrast without ever overshadowing Amidon's delivery. " -The Milk Factory
"A soaring and beautiful butterfly of an album, rich with tuneful wonder and epic song craft." -MusiqueMachine.com
" A veritable classic, a standard for comparisons in this genre from now on. Not to be missed." -Touching Extremes
"a great leap forward... the trio of artists responsible for the record [...] create a very specific space with these arrangements... a very forward-thinking album... Amidon doesn't just update the old world to the new, but finds the roots of the new world in the old. - Pitchfork
"...something of a revelation. Amidon took a collection of traditional songs, wrote new arrangements and [...] turned them into a bedroom rock classic." -Dusted Magazine
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"Evolutions of Waters" by Valgeir Sigurðsson & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy from Valgeir's album
"Evolutions of Waters" by Valgeir Sigurðsson & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy from Valgeir's album 'Ekvílibríum'.
Notes by director/animator Una Lorenenzen: The video is made with a mixture of three different methods; The main part is made with oil paint that is animated frame by frame on top of underlitt glass. Linedrawings are scratched with a needle on the surface of a 35mm film and layered on top of the painted animation. The third visual is a recording of an experimental 16mm film performance by the artist Miles A. Martinez.
The usage of these different textures in these handcrafted and often slightly rough visuals are meant to illustrate the different textures and layers in the song. The visuals are also illustrating the lyrics of the song that can be interpreted as either metaphors or real situations. Most of the video seems to happen underwater or perhaps in the mind of one man. There are glimpses into scenes that suggest a lovestory but it is left to the audience to put the puzzles together and create their own version of it.
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The second preview trailer from Valgeir Sigurdsson's forthcoming album 'Ekvílibríum'. This
The second preview trailer from Valgeir Sigurdsson's forthcoming album 'Ekvílibríum'. This one features vocals by J. Walker and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
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