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Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with diversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier ballads, narrated from parts unknown; a family of polysemic song-sets; a paranomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies; a fanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay and love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones and Moogs, clavichords and celestas and of course the harp, thrumming its threnodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of Shepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned Simulacreage…

The music of Divers is a wonder of considered arrangements a taut line, threaded with the pearls of passed and passing times…a round, a chant, an incantation…a ray of light diverted eleven ways, into eleven songs that striate, in chromatic collusion, their simultaneous arc…a span that takes in lifetimes, but is immaculately sequenced for telescoped brevity. The music speeds with dissociative dread over montaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight among the collaged quotations and sepia-toned codices of Popular Song; it ambles its carefree citational course through the public domain and down into the dustier corners of municipal parks, to lionize infamous airmen and anonymous Dutch Masters, to mourn pearl divers and Poorwills, and to elegize the ineluctable tragedy of relativity a tragedy of parochial time, anecdotal time, dubious time…
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Additional Information

Artist

Joanna Newsom

Binding

Audio CD

CatalogNumberList

DC561CD, Q91687

EAN

0781484056126

EANList

0781484056126

ItemDimensions

15, hundredths-inches, 525, hundredths-inches, 24, hundredths-pounds, 500, hundredths-inches

Label

Drag City

Languages

English, Unknown

Manufacturer

Drag City

MPN

0781484056126

NumberOfDiscs

1

NumberOfItems

1

PackageDimensions

20, hundredths-inches, 520, hundredths-inches, 10, hundredths-pounds, 520, hundredths-inches

PartNumber

0781484056126

ProductGroup

Music

ProductTypeName

ABIS_MUSIC

PublicationDate

2015

Publisher

Drag City

ReleaseDate

2015-10-23

Studio

Drag City

UPC

781484056126

UPCList

781484056126