Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers - VINYL LP

Like a passenger riding shotgun on a road trip, The Villagers Companion offers it's own unique perspective and story to tell. Featuring tracks recorded alongside last year's acclaimed villagers, TVC captures the miles between the start and destination-the faded gas station pit stops, the plastic saint statue stuck to the dashboard for safe travels or luck. It embodies the essence of the journey without the burden of driving-the experience of the ride itself.The album takes us through the heart of Califone's magic reverb-drenched piano chords, electronic whirs, and layers of experimental noise. Guided by Tim Rutili's abstract, fragmented lyrics-both strange and familiar-delivered through his warm, well-worn vocals, it creates an experience as evocative as it is haunting. Often passing through what seem to be the spaces between radio frequencies, the stations never meant to be heard. Crackles of static, feedback loops, and fleeting signals bloom into meditative moments, with each sound given space to breathe, unravel, and shimmer in slow decay. The result resonates deeply, transforming what might be noise into something profound, hypnotic, and totally immersive.As with villagers, Rutili and company continue to explore what it means to get lost while surrounded by modern technology. Like a ghost in a machine or a whispered prayer stuck in a telephone line, Califone adds soul-be it damned or saved. And they do so with the kind of transformative magic granted perhaps only to artists a quarter of a century into their craft. The kind that turns a photograph into a tableau, or any darkened space with a microphone into a makeshift confessional. A song into a hymn, and a hymn into a soundtrack to a life.

Limited vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Funeral is the debut studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on September 14, 2004. Preliminary recordings for Funeral were made during the course of a week in August 2003 at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal, Quebec, and the recording was completed later that year all in an analogue recording . The album produced five singles. The most successful, InchRebellion (Lies)Inch, peaked at #19 on the UK Singles Chart. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Alternative Music Album. It received widespread critical acclaim and topped many year-end and decade-end lists.

Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580-1651) is today better known for it's amazing lute and Theorbenstücke, but his work is far more versatile and includes some with radio vocal music. 1630 published Kapsperger in Rome his oratorio InchI Pastori di Bette Lemme Nella Nascita di NS Giesu Christo Inch. Kapsperger appropriate, it's noble status, the piece but not written for the Inchcommon peopleInch in one of the city Roman prayer halls, but exclusively for his patron Cardinal Francesco Barberini. As a lyricist came naturally only the highest ranking Poet Rome in question Giulio Rospigliosi. He was a close friend of Pope Urban VII., Later cardinal, and finally as Clement IX. (1667-1669) Successor of Peter himself. The delightful score is enriched with some 'pastoral instruments', and thus create bagpipe and psaltery a pastoral atmosphere.