While Stevens has clearly done his requisite homework forIllinois, investigating the lore of the state’s smaller towns and strengthening his fluency in the likes of Lincoln, Sandburg, and even Gacy Jr., the state proper is but a starting point both for his insightful self-analytical streak and...
Sufjan Stevens在2003年出版了一張歌頌自己家鄉的唱片《Michigan》,並表示過希望替美國的每一個州都寫一張專輯(後來他也承認所謂的The Fifty States Project只是一個宣傳手段),其中05年推出的《Illinois》,便是這「計劃」的第二部曲。Sufjan Stevens為了做好此專輯,既參閱了不少有關伊利諾州(Illinois)的背景文獻,更...
stevens chokes, voice shaking over a haze of drums, strings, and shimmering keyboards. "john wayne gacy, jr." traces, with alarming accuracy, and over a hazy swirl of acoustic guitar and piano, the pathology of illinois' most infamous serial killer: from 1972 until his arrest in 1978, ...
As with Michigan, Stevens used the state of Illinois as a leaping-off point for his more personal explorations of faith, family, love, and location. The widely acclaimed Come On Feel The Illinoise! was the highest rated album of 2005 on the Metacritic review aggregator site, based on ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzeaEFGlYcI 原视频发布于2024.3.21 Director and choreographer Justin Peck is joined by American writer and academic Hua Hsu to discuss the creative process and development of Illinoise, from concept album to fully realized theatrical production. Artist Talk: "...
而在《Javelin》中,这种宏大的场景不再是简单的形象化,Sufjan Stevens仍然运用极繁主义与和声编写,依靠叠加攀爬的气质升起歌曲走势,但带来的却是更加贴近私人化的沉浸效果。单曲"Goodbye Evergreen"猛然响起的电子声仿佛让人回到了《The Age of Adz》,"Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" 中共鸣的和声是《Illinois》和《...
Illinoise, the dance musical by Justin Peck based on Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album Illinois, has won Best Choreography at tonight’s 2024 Tony Awards. Peck earned the honor over Here Lies Love’s Annie-B Parson, Hell’s Kitchen’s Camille A. Brown, The Outsiders’ Rick Kuperman and Jeff ...
Swans, which is this one’s most obvious point of reference in the rest of Stevens’s oeuvre. And he’s never produced one this nakedly autobiographical, so stripped of complex conceptual trappings (such as the proposed, then abandoned, 50 States Project that resulted inMichiganandIllinois). ...
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