#3 Seller of 2005! Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, ILLINOIS, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Stevens weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infa   [ read more ]

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Asthmatic Kitty Records and Sounds Familyre are proud to launch THE 50 STATES by Sufjan Stevens, a cumulative recording project unparalleled in its panoramic enterprise: a record for each state. Stevens inaugurates the event with a collection of songs for his birth-state: "Michigan: The Great Lake State." Composed as a geographical tone poem, "Michigan" follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America. Drawing from personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, Steven   [ read more ]

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In December 2001, Sufjan Stevens set out to create a Christmas gift for his friends and family. The result was a 7-song recording that he called, Noel Volume 1. Over each of the next few Christmas seasons Sufjan would create a new EP to add to the collection. As he was recording Peace Volume V (in the summer of 2006), he considered how best to 'officially' release this music in to the world. He said he was, "determined to present the EPs in their original form - flaws, blemishes, mistakes and all. A compil   [ read more ]

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The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was Originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in - as did the opinions of others - and the project was cut in half. But as 2005 came to a close, Sufjan returned to the old, forsaken songs on his 8-track like a grandfather remembering his youth, indulging in old journals and newspaper clippings. What he uncovered went beyo   [ read more ]

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Follow-up to his critically acclaimed album, Michigan. Stevens actually penned this material for Michigan, but found he had too many songs for one record. Instead of shelving them, he recorded them with Daniel Smith (Danielson Famile frontman) and released them here. Even more intimate and personal than Michigan, Seven Swans lyrically focuses on themes of love and religion and highlights Stevens' banjo playing. Word on the street: pretty amazing.

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Almost two years in the making, Sufjan Steven's Enjoy Your Rabbit, an album of programmatic songs for the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, is now available for your listening pleasure. Departing from the singer-songwriter format of his first Asthmatic Kitty album, A Sun Came, this collection of 14 colorful instrumental compositions combines Sufjan's noted gift for melody with electronic sounds to create an unusually playful and human -- not to mention humane -- electronic experience. Great for d   [ read more ]

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Asthmatic Kitty announces the reissue of Sufjan Stevens' 1999 debut album, "A Sun Came." Widely acclaimed for "Michigan" (2003), and "Seven Swans" (2004), singer/songwriter Stevens' first solo collection has been skillfully remastered, with two previously unreleased tracks and new art by Stephen Halker. Recorded on 4-track while still in college, "A Sun Came" first demonstrated Sufjan's eclectic instrumentalism (he plays over a dozen instruments here), noted production skills, and heartfelt songwriting. Tho   [ read more ]

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Sufjan Stevens is proud to present The BQE, a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Next Wave Festival in October of 2007. This special CD+DVD edition of The BQE contains the original 16mm/8mm film (in widescreen "triptych" display), the original motion picture soundtrack, a 40-page book   [ read more ]

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In 2001, Sufjan Stevens followed up his debut album, A Sun Came, with Enjoy Your Rabbit, a series of fourteen instrumentals programmatically inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Much later, in 2006, Bryce Dessner (The National, Dark Was the Night compilation, Clogs) suggested that Sufjan re-arrange the entirety of Enjoy Your Rabbit for Osso, a string quartet that had previously contributed strings to Sufjan's Illinois and My Brightest Diamond's Bring Me the Wo   [ read more ]

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