european tour may '08 ensemble:
me on sing guitar banjo
Una Sveinbjarnardóttir on violin/mandolin
Sigríður Sunna Reynisdóttir on accordion
Rebekka Bryndís Björnsdóttir on bassoon/cello
Valgeir Sigurdsson on bass
chicken:thomas b.
often:shahzad.
all is well:nico muhly, valgeir, ben frost, eyvind kang, stefan amidon, aaron siegel.
Influences
buster keaton, almeda riddle, chris whitley, dock boggs, vera hall, arthur doyle, mellville, tony millionaire, sam bartlett, black cherokee, brother blue, sachiko m, mike jones,
Sounds Like
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sam just released his second album of songs, "all is well," on the bedroom community label. it is a collaboration with composer nico muhly and producer-engineer valgeir sigurðsson, and was recorded in iceland throughout 2007. includes contributions from eyvind kang, aaron siegel, ben frost, stefan amidon, and a 9-piece brass/woodwinds/strings ensemble arranged by muhly.
"An album of fragile, spooky loveiness." Entertainment Weekly
"In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing."
David Fricke, Rolling Stone (click the link for the full review)
"These songs inhabit their own world, closed off from the rest of humanity...Amidon doesn't just update the old world to the new, but finds the roots of the new world in the old."
-Pitchfork
“Sky-scrapingly great ... All Is Well is viscerally stunning, comforting, upsetting, entrancing."
-Stylus
"A soaring and beautiful butterfly of an album, rich with tuneful wonder and epic song craft."
-Musique Machine
here's a song:
from vermont originally, samamidon found some ancient sounds and some other sounds. samamidon sings some of the songs and leaves some of the other songs alone. samamidon is samuel tear and thomas b (aka doveman, plays with david byrne, yoko ono, miho hatori). "but this chicken proved falsehearted" is available on plug research in the US and birdwar in europe.
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Fabulous tour you have lined up but where is Carbondale Colorado? Can you get us some music to play onair? Keep up the creativity Lynette www. kdnk. org streaming worldwide
i have to agree! great music! ...gave me the goosebumps, and that's just about as rare as a breakdancing buzzard thanks! and hats off to the "icelandic people" best concert in a long time good luck, jason
Hey Sam ,Thank you so much for the wonderful concerts at Organ Saturday night , your music is wonderful,real and sincere ,music needs more people like you :) Hope the Tour will be fun :) Take care -Andri Már (The guy who sang Head Over heels with you ;)
Rest and look at this goddamned wheelbarrow. Whatever It is. Dogs and crocodiles, sunlamps. Not For their significance. For their significant. For being human The signs escape you. You, who aren't very bright Are a signal for them. Not, I mean, the dogs and crocodiles, sunlamps. Not Their significance.
