Portrait by Daniel Anum Jasper / click for hi-res version
Cover art by Daniel Anum Jasper / click for hi-res version
SUFJAN STEVENS AND ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE’S COLLABORATIVE ALBUM A BEGINNER’S MIND
OUT NOW ON ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS
A Beginner’s Mind, the new collaborative album from Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, is out now on Asthmatic Kitty Records; listen to/purchase the record here and order special colored edition vinyl, other formats, and related merch including a poster of the album art, and a hat designed by De Augustine. SUFJAN STEVENS & ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE A Beginner’s Mind
A Beginner’s Mind’s 14 songs are inspired by films Sufjan and Angelo watched while writing together for a month at a friend’s cabin in upstate New York. Choosing a movie to unwind after each day’s work, they soon began finding inspiration in their nightly entertainment, using the Zen Buddhist concept of shoshin (literally “a beginner’s mind”), the I-Ching and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies as guiding principles.
The New York Times applauds A Beginner’s Mind’s “delicate vocal harmonies” and “first-person ruminations on character and fate,” while Stereogum notes that “the sound is clearly rooted in the delicate and layered indie-folk that Stevens was making when most of us first encountered him.” Consequence of Sound adds that “Stevens and De Augustine both have soothing, falsetto-reaching voices that complement one another perfectly” and NPR Music praises the pair’s “delicate vocals and instrumentals” which make “enormous themes feel floral and approachable.”
Sufjan Stevens is an artist, songwriter and composer living in New York. He has released nine widely lauded studio albums and a number of collaborations with fellow musicians, choreographers and visual artists from the New York City Ballet and the celebrated director Luca Guadagnino to his stepfather Lowell Brams and noted dancer Jalaiah Harmon.
Angelo De Augustine is an artist and songwriter living in Thousand Oaks, California—a suburb north of Los Angeles, where he grew up. He has released three albums including his self-released debut, Spirals of Silence (2014), and two for Asthmatic Kitty Records, Swim Inside The Moon (2017) and Tomb (2019).
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A BEGINNER’S MIND
1. Reach Out 3:43
2. Lady Macbeth In Chains 3:42
3. Back To Oz 4:25
4. The Pillar Of Souls 4:04
5. You Give Death A Bad Name 5:11
6. Beginner’s Mind 2:36
7. Olympus 3:07
8. Murder And Crime 3:43
9. (This Is) The Thing 3:13
10. It’s Your Own Body And Mind 2:27
11. Lost In The World 3:20
12. Fictional California 3:03
13. Cimmerian Shade 5:01
14. Lacrimae 2:05
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