Suf Jan Stevens 'Carrie & Lowell Live' Out Now on Asthmatic Kitty
By: Caryn Robbins Apr. 28, 2017
Sufjan Stevens's latest collaboration with New York City Ballet choreographer Justin Peck, a solo piano score to new ballet The Decalogue, will debut May 12 at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater. The collaboration is the pair's third, following the success of 2012's Year of the Rabbit and 2014's Everywhere We Go. Furthermore, Carrie & Lowell Live, a new album recorded on the tour for Stevens' universally celebrated 2015 album, is out now via his own Asthmatic Kitty. Recorded at Stevens' November 9, 2015 performance at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center the live show was shot and produced by We Are Films and the Art Counsel, edited by Keith Bradshaw, and mixed by Casey Foubert, and is available on Vimeo, and the audio will be available for purchase and/or streaming on all platforms (iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, and Bandcamp, etc.).
Additionally, Planetarium, Stevens' collaborative album with Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhlyand longtime touring percussionist James McAlister, is set for release June 9 via 4AD. The album is an experimental chamber music song cycle with some of Stevens' most ambitious lyrics and vocal performances to date. Listen to the latest track to be released from the project, "Mercury," here.
A singer-songwriter currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Stevens' preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (Seven Swans), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), two Christmas box sets (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1-5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6-10), and a BAM-commissioned programmatic tone poem for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (The BQE). In 2010 Stevens released an expansive EP (All Delighted People) and the full length The Age of Adz, a collection of songs partly inspired by the outsider artist Royal Robertson.
Stevens' second BAM commission Round-Up, an instrumental accompaniment to slow-motion rodeo footage, premiered at BAM's Harvey Theater in 2015.
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