Asthmatic Kitty Records
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind (Emerald Green Vinyl)
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It’s
been
said
that
writing
about
music
is
like
dancing
about
architecture
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
and
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
its
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.
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