A notícia do dia (li hoje mas já é de dia 12), li no Wall Street Journal, é sobre Sufjan Stevens e o seu tema "Lonely Man of Winter". E vocês dizem: nunca ouvi falar desse tema. É natural.Alec Duffy, um director de teatro, de 33 anos, a viver em Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, participou num concurso lançado em 2007, pela editora de Sufjan Stevens, em que o autor da canção de Natal que Sufjan Stevens
Yes, an exclusive Sufjan Stevens track, "The Lonely Man of Winter!" The catch? The only way you're going to hear it is to get into the living room of Brooklynite Alec Duffy's Prospect Heights apartment . Duffy won exclusive rights to the song via Sufjan's 2007 contest - and rather than uploading it to the web, he decided that the song would be exclusively played in his apartment. Fans come from near and far, taking subways or timing flights to New York City to attend listening sessions. They walk through a [...]
"This is the finest way we felt we could curate this song, It brings people together," rather than "being lost among 14,000 iTunes." - Alec Duffy on the Sufjan Steven's song The Lonely Man of Winter Alec Duffy The Wall Street Journal had an article on Alec Duffy, his winning Sufjan Stevens song contest, recieving the song The Lonely Man of Winter , his idea for how to share the song and the unbelievable responses that indie music fans have had [...]
Words and Pictures by Greg Thrasher Christmas is more than a holiday on December 25th and it's more than some fictional bearded-man's birthday, it's an institution. It's the physical and mental sabbatical we are awarded for putting up with less than favorable weather and fewer hours of daylight. It can be a coping mechanism, the light at the end of the tunnel, the notion that whatever happened during the year up to that point, can be forgiven, forgotten, or even just dwelled upon. This time of pensive reflection can't help but conjure that dreary state of being known [...]
via Brooklyn Based On January 28, I read something on Brooklyn Based that literally made my heart skip a beat. Over a year ago, Alec Duffy of Hoi Polloi received exclusive rights to "The Lonely Man of Winter" for winning Sufjan's Xmas Xchange with an original song that you can listen to here . After holding onto the song for a year, Alec decided to host listening sessions every Wednesday for about a month. With three sessions a night, each limited [...]
A few Christmases back, folk wunderkind Sufjan Stevens thought up the idea for the Xmas Song Xchange Contest. People would send Sufjan holiday songs they wrote, and Sufjan would return the favor by giving a winner of his choosing the rights to a holiday song he wrote. With over 600 entries, a man by the name of Alec Duffy, with the tune Every Day Is Christmas , prevailed. But how can you , the Christmas-song-writing loser, hear Mr. Duffy's very own Sufjan track, The Lonely Man of Winter ? You have to go [...]
Back in 2007, Sufjan Stevens conducted " The Great Sufjan Song Xmas Xchange ," in which the singer-songwriter asked fans to send him holiday tunes. The person behind the best entry would win the rights to an exclusive Sufjan Christmas track, while Sufjan would gain the rights to the winning song. As his label, Asthmatic Kitty explained: "Sufjan's song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter's first Christmas video, [...]
The writer, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy. "You're the first person to show up" said Alec Duffy, as he took my coat. My listening session was in Crown Heights, just off the Franklin 1/2/3 stop. I slip... Continue reading "Exclusive: Listening to Sufjan's "The Lonely Man of Winter" in Crown Heights" >
Alec Duffy, the winner of 2007's Great Sufjan Song Xmas Xchange, is finally offering fans a chance to hear the unreleased track "The Lonely Man of Winter." After swearing that the song will never be uploaded and closely guarding the tune for over a year, Duffy is now hosting very ...
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