If you're already hung up over the end of the holiday season, Damien Jurado released a new original Christmas tune that's so timeless, so evergreen it's well worth posting after the fact. " Kalla Hus " was written with Seattle musician Kyle Zantos with Sam Anderson on strings. Download it free via Secretly Canadian's Soundcloud (below) and check out the recently released extended edition of Jurado's excellent 2012 album Maraqopa, which features six songs that you can get separately as the Maraqopa EP [...]
It's taken an entire year and thousands of albums to get here, but I've finally managed to compile the best records of 2012 and put them in an easy-to-reference list. The top 5 all had perfect scores, so choosing this year's best was harder than usual. In the end, there can only be 12 this year and moreover, one that surpasses all. As always, I want to personally congratulate all the artists mentioned here today and thank you for your tremendous talent and dedication to your craft– You guys are the best of the best and it was a pleasure [...]
(31) Days of Good 2012 has officially begun. Enjoy the ride. After fifteen years making music with Death Cab For Cutie , 2012 saw the release of lead singer Ben Gibbard's debut solo album (as Benjamin Gibbard) — Former Lives . I enjoyed this album quite a bit, it was a good change of pace from Gibbard's more familiar Death Cab material. One track in particular really stands [...]
Photos by Mila Matveeva "How do you guys even know this song? they all start the same," said Damien Jurado after a false start during his intimate set at the Mercury Lounge on October 23rd. I like a room like the Mercury Lounge with a guy like Jurado on a night when he is only using two instruments: his voice and guitar. You can hear the room breathing, the groaning of the hinges on the door in the back; the sound of loose change as someone searches for [...]
Damien Jurado lanzó en febrero de este año su álbum número 11 con el nombre de Maraqopa , un disco de folk-rock muy bien realizado que conserva el sabor de sus melodías melancólicas, un poco de experimentación y mucha belleza. El músico terminó recientemente una gira de cinco semanas por Europa, la cual no sólo le sirvió para promocionar este disco sino para grabar el video de su nuevo sencillo: "Museum of Flight" , el cual fue estrenado el día de ayer. El video fue dirigido por [...]
Damien Jurado has released a new video for "Museum of Flight" from his album, Maraqopa. The video was directed by Tyler Kalberg and filmed during Jurado's five-week tour of Europe. Watch the new video below.
If you had never heard Damien Jurado’s previous albums before going to his show at Johnny Brenda’s Sunday night, you would not have known that his performance did not reflect his typical style. In listening to Caught in the Trees , his latest record Maraqopa , and a few songs from his earlier repertoire, I did not expect to hear such raucous, psychedelic jam sessions on the stage that night. I was pleasantly surprised. For the bulk of the set, Jurado played with a four-piece band, including a drummer, bassist, guitarist and keyboard player. They started [...]
Damien Jurado + JBM / Andy Warhol Museum / 05.17.2012 Words by Brendan Whether or not you already know about Damien Jurado , he deserves your attention, and his music deserves your ears, hearts, and minds. He signed to indie stalwart label Sub Pop back in 1997 and has been releasing album after album of impressive material since then, continually reinventing his sound, from acoustic folk to punky garage pop to pyschedelia, on his latest, Maraqopa . We're pleased to announce that (a) Jurado [...]
Seattle native Damien Jurado has strayed from the twangy guitar-picking on Rehearsals for Departure and the alt-electric rock on I Break Chairs to meld together a myriad of influences for his latest record, Maraqopa . This stylistically diverse album taps into many genres, like modern folk and ‘70s rock. He retains his trademark contemplative singing, eerie female background vocals and whimsical melodies, but his chord progressions and arrangements are more sophisticated, less cut and dry. Not to say that his earlier work lacks substance- Postcards and Audio Letters encompasses found art in the [...]
Seemingly everyone's favorite song from Damien Jurado's Maraqopa, every time I listen to "Working Titles" it gets me. Jurado's recording and Richard Swift's falsetto are so well matched and also so outside of the norm. That this song might have nearly the same effect when sung by others though? Unexpected as it may be, John [...]
Damien Jurado: Maraqopa - Damien Jurado is a singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington. I've followed Jurado's work since his debut on Sub Pop all those years ago. There are very few singer/songwriters who evoke the same imagery and tell a story like he can. In many ways, he's in a class by himself. This is what has kept people like me coming back every 2 years or so for as long as we have. The emotion in his voice drips from every lyric and creates a landscape in the listener's mind that's hard to shake. [...]
Damien Jurado Words : Drake LeLane Seattle Folk pioneer Damien Jurado releases Maraqopa this week. Another week in the shortest month sees plenty of fine releases fall into our laps. From Damien Jurado's magnum opus to the sophomore release from the sugared razor blades of Sleigh Bells, it's not a bad week at all. There's also new releases from Lambchop, Grimes, Frankie Rose, Tindersticks, Perfume Genius, Cursive, Leland Sundries and a Deluxe Master reissue of 19952s great Vee Vee [...]
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa (Maraqopa, 2012) Blog yazmaya 2006’da Müge’yle birlikte açtığımız Süveter’le başlamıştım. Birbirimize kulaklık uzatmaktan biraz daha fazlasını yapmak istiyorduk. Aklımızdan geçenler bir yerlerde yazılı dursun istiyorduk. Bugün oradaki eski post’lara baktım biraz. Aradan geçen beş buçuk yılda olanları düşündüm. Dinlediğimiz albümleri, gittiğimiz konserleri düşündüm. Müge’nin bana okulun bahçesinde The Tallest Man On Earth’ü heyecanla dinlettikten birkaç sene sonra, konserinin warm-up dj’i olmasını düşündüm. Şehirler, ülkeler, insanlar hayatımızın içinden geçiyor da biz dinlediklerimizi biriktire biriktire duruyor gibiyiz. Sadece hafızamızın hacmi artıyor. Müge geçen gün “hafızam olmasa yaşamamın anlamı olmazmış gibi geliyor” dedi. [...]
Bundan üç kış önce Paris’te öğrenciydim. “Son elli yılın en sert kışı” dedikleri yıllardan biriydi. Sekiz buçuktaki derse girmek için evden sekizde çıkıyorduk. Buz kaplı kaldırımlar ayaklarımızın altında çatırdıyordu. Radyatörsüz sınıfta paltomuza sarınıp Abbas Kiarostami dinliyorduk. Hayattaki mutluluğum çoğunlukla iki şeye bağlı; üşümemek ve aç kalmamak. Paris’te çok üşüyordum. Okulda, evde, metroda, sokakta, her yerde üşüyordum. Okulun boktan kantininde yiyecek bir şey bulamadığım için dandik sandviç ve elmalar dışında gündüzleri pek yemek de yemiyordum. Bu yüzden sürekli mutsuz olmaya meyilliydim. Mutsuz olmamak için çabalamam, bir şeyler yapmam gerekiyordu. Erasmus’a birlikte gittiğimiz ve Paris’te birlikte yaşadığımız Müge’yle neredeyse her [...]
Album of the year is coming early this 2012.
Veteran singer-songwriter Damien Jurado has returned with his twelfth LP. Fifteen years after debuting, he sounds better than ever. Maraqopa is a nearly perfect record. Read more »
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa By Russell Warfield If nothing else, ‘Nothing Is The News’ makes for an arresting and audacious opening track to Damien Jurado ’s tenth LP Maraqopa . As can be the case with long standing tortured-man-and-his-guitar acts, Jurado found himself in something of a rut sometime during the last decade, even without conceding an accompanying drop in songwriting quality. Nevertheless, having pushed out the same old (and arguably exhausted) textures and emotions for a few throws too many, Jurado’s 2010 effort Saint Barlett [...]
Damien Jurado - For fifteen years, Jurado has been the guiding creative force of the Pacific Northwest's indie alt/folk community -- "Seattle's folk-boom godfather" opined one scribe -- turning out one quietly momentous album after another...new project, his latest with producer Richard Swift, boldly crashes the stylistic boundaries with aplomb, an ever-evolving mash of stark folk, churning psychedelica, 50's-styled Latin rhythms, childrens' choirs and ramshackle retro-rock // Release : Maraqopa (February 21, Secretly Canadian) // Sounds like : from the shaggy folkster croon to the Spector-ian kitchen-sink production approach to the peyote dream [...]
Damien Jurado with Friends ::: photo by Josh Lovseth I know I said I wouldn't be writing about Damien Jurado here now that I'm part of his management team, so I'm not going to review last night's sold out record release, but I would be remiss not to share this video I shot side-stage of my [...]
Damien Jurado is a Seattle based indie folk guy that has been hanging around under the radar for over 15 years just chugging along doing his indie folk thing. He has put out over eight studio albums and garnered little attention for those albums. Jurado has a new album coming out on February 21 called Maraqopa and maybe with songs like this, he might get a little more fame. Museum Of Flight is a really chill song that takes a few listens to really hit you. Jurado's vocals remind me of Bon [...]
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