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Post by wolfticketsden on Sept 25, 2019 3:17:09 GMT -5
Just announced on pweleverumandsun.com - new album "ELV045 – Lost Wisdom pt. 2 by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron, LP (Nov. 8th, 2019)"
Phil also played a show with Julie Doiron a few days ago, September 22, in Montreal.
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Post by woolymammoth on Sept 25, 2019 13:02:47 GMT -5
Phil's statement on the new album:
What is it about a bonfire?
The flames are charismatic and dance, the sparks billow and flicker off. But what is beneath? In smoldering embers that stay alive until the next morning there is a slow endlessness. The flashing whims of light and dark pass by without stopping, but the glowing coals beneath the action offer a new perspective. Something approaching permanence in the relentlessly impermanent world.
In all these years of making up songs, the aim has always been to just say the thing as directly as possible. Name it, don’t decorate. Nonetheless, what has come out has often appeared as billowing clouds of metaphor and half-formed feelings. Then in the shadow of close real death in 2016 I made a couple of records that managed a little better to speak directly. The terror in opening up so unreservedly to an abstract public was blown away by the higher stakes of actual death.
Nothing stops changing. Love returned. With this love came a new understanding of the weird balances between real life and art projects, between home and exposure. I moved into a new world and happily angled the work inward, keeping more quiet.
But nothing stops changing. It didn’t work out and I had to move again. Finding myself staring into another fire, disoriented by the changes, these songs came out.
I hoped to write songs about the smoldering foundation beneath all of this surface chaos, a love that doesn’t die, songs beyond mere sorrow. If I again mined the circumstances of my life for these words, I tried to do it with liberation in mind for everyone. I tried to make songs that did not rely at all on who I am or who I am singing about. “The song, not the singer” is my guide, even while singing inescapably as and about myself.
Knowing that anyone with internet access might have questions about my specifics, I don’t want to say anything personal that isn’t already in the songs. My fingers are crossed that when I push them out to sea they will be met with calm humane understanding. That’s what they’re about after all.
In a grab for deeper continuity, I called and asked Julie Doiron if she could join me in the recording. She has been my favorite singer since 1993 when I first heard her band Eric’s Trip and subsequently devoted my life to music and art. This 26 year path from teenage obsession to collaborator has made me feel very fortunate. We made another record in 2008 called Lost Wisdom, more flames, more love, more turmoil. Now we get to do some more singing and playing together.
In 2019 life on earth can feel insane, but in the early hours before the sun comes up, I look out and the world is blank. Everyone deserves liberation, and as the sky gets blue and loud with the day I try to remember this blank peace and I hope that it will stay with us into the wild arriving future.
- Phil Elverum
Sept. 5th, 2019
Tracklist:
01 Belief
02 When I Walk Out of the Museum
03 Enduring the Waves
04 Love Without Possession
05 Real Lost Wisdom
06 Widows
07 Pink Light
08 Belief pt. 2
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sam
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Post by sam on Sept 26, 2019 1:12:22 GMT -5
This was a welcome surprise. Hoping to grab tix to the Hollywood Forever show in December once they go on sale (Friday).
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Post by woolymammoth on Nov 8, 2019 9:42:26 GMT -5
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Post by wolfticketsden on Mar 4, 2020 14:27:01 GMT -5
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boynirvana
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I am non binary but that wasn't an option. Still a Phil fan.
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Post by boynirvana on Jun 10, 2020 21:52:31 GMT -5
Being able to see this performed live was out of body. Lost Wisdom Pt. 1 has been my favorite album since maybe 2014 (I know late to the game but in 2008 I think I was still listening to Ludacris and I have no regrets about that). The performance was in Boston in maybe November I forget now. Phil had accidentally shipped too many vinyls / cds to the show.... a miss calculation I think he called it. Both him and JD sang both one and two. It was out of this world... I really never thought I would hear part one in person. Actually honestly, I never thought I would hear him live like ever? idk typing that feels dumb .... just because I think the mystique around him I guess? idk. But yea it was truly a blessed experience for me (tho phil boy seemed stressed as ever)
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