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Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise [CD]

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Since the 2003 release of his third album MICHIGAN and 2004s SEVEN SWANS, Sufjan Stevens has been recognized as on of the most talented songwriter-performers in independent music. ILLINOIS, the follow-up to MICHIGAN in his "50 States" project, again demonstrates his ability to realize a music vision through his moving songs, musicianship (he plays 25 instrums on the album), production and arrangments. While some musical and literary influences are felt and heard, Stevens' total involvement in every phase of the project results in a thoroughly unique result. On his second meditation on an American state, a 22-track anthematic tone poem for Illinois, Stevens weaves variegated musical styles and instrumental textures into a tapestry of person famous, infamous and anonymous, and places iconic, obscure and abandoned. Love, loss, faith, the unique character of place, encounters with spiritual stength in unexpected places, incomprehensible horror and celebratory odes to the rise and fall of human works are among the themes Stevens visits in his ode to the Prairie State.

Tracklist:

  1. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
  2. Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and .
  3. Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Expos
  4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
  5. Jacksonville
  6. Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good
  7. Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
  8. One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
  9. Chicago
  10. Casimir Pulaski Day
  11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea .
  12. Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts, The
  13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
  14. Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens
  15. Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!, The
  16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Bac
  17. Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They He
  18. In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Ear
  19. Seer's Tower, The
  20. Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/P
  21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines
  22. Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, And I Shake the .

UPC: 656605892627
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Release Date: 7.5.05
Format: CD

SKU: 568651
UPC: 656605892627