Sufjan Stevens mixes autobiography, religious fantasy, and regional history to create folk songs of grand proportions. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois) and an electronic album for the animals of the
Z’ is an album of rebirth infused with the hope that things might turn alright; it’s about mourning the loss of partners and lovers, but also celebrating the emergence of new friends and the potential inherent in each day.
Their first new music since The Waterfall (2015) Jim James engineered/produced at 64 Sound in LA where the band spent weeks in intentional seclusion. Gatefold Jacket, Clear 2 LP.
Joao Gilberto's debut LP, 1959's Chega de Saudade was one of the most important bossa nova recordings and credited by many as the album that started bossa nova.