Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - VINYL LP

Bear's Sonic Journals Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968, an historic and never-heard live concert recorded in San Francisco by innovative sound wizard Owsley Stanley. Captured in the heart of Haight-Ashbury, just days before the of Cash's iconic At Folsom Prison album (and over six months before the arrival of the equally revered At San Quentin), At The Carousel Ballroom serves as a third essential - and wholly unique - live document from the era, a moment of cultural collision, with Cash leaning into songs about society's outcasts, while playing a venue operated by The Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. The live album, which will be released on 2LP, features new essays by Johnny and June Carter Cash's son John Carter Cash, Owsley Stanley's son Starfinder Stanley, The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, and Widespread Panic's Dave Schools, as well as new art by Susan Archie. Album Tracks 1. Cocaine Blues (Live) 2. Long Black Veil (Live) 3. Going to Memphis (Live) 4. The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Live) 5. Rock Island Line (Live) 1. Guess Things Happen That Way (Live) 2. One Too Many Mornings (Live) 3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Live) 4. Give My Love to Rose (Live) 5. Green, Green Grass of Home (Live) 6. Old Apache Squaw (Live) 7. Lorena (Live) 1. Forty Shades of Green (Live) 2. Bad News (Live) 3. Jackson (Live) - By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash 4. Tall Lover Man (Live) - By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash 5. June Carter Medley (Live) 1. Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (Live) - By Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash 2. Ring of Fire (Live) 3. Big River (Live) 4. Don't Take Your Guns to Town (Live) 5. I Walk the Line (Live)

After two years of constant touring and near-unanimous critical acclaim, Godspeed You Black Emperor! Assembled a collection of new recordings that charted the creative evolution of the band as well as it's literal physical movement on the road, criss-crossing North America and Europe. Five expansive full-band compositions are framed by various field recordings, tape manipulations and ensemble pieces in a return to the narrative sonic collage techniques that marked their 1997 debut (F#A#8). Four seamless sides of vinyl unfold a world of aching sadness and beauty, with musical quotes ranging from heartland americana to mitteleuropa folkways, all distilled through the unique sonic filters of Godspeed's pedal-crazy orchestral rock instrumentation. Harrowing guitars, plaintive strings, pulsing basses and explosive drums combine with glockenspiels, horns and tape drones to form an overwhelming palette of sounds, always driven by fierce melodic momentum and intense emotional resonance. GYBE! #continued to paint on an impossibly large canvas, with an uncanny blend of world-weariness and naive exuberance that spoke volumes about the conflicts and contradictions permeating our political and cultural life. The tension between humility and hubris conjured an epic scope and a raw hope that such sweeping gestures might survive with some semblance of substance. Album Tracks 1. Storm Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven; Gathering 2. Static Terrible Canyons of Static; Chart #3; World Police and 1. Sleep Murray Ostril (They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach); Monheim; 2. Antennas to Heaven Moya Sings Baby-O; Edgy Swingset Acid; She

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