{"id":19051,"date":"2013-10-23T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19051"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:42:41","slug":"the-perfect-foggy-outlook-antidote-listen-to-sufjan-stevens-demo-of-impossible-soul-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-10\/the-perfect-foggy-outlook-antidote-listen-to-sufjan-stevens-demo-of-impossible-soul-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Foggy-Outlook Antidote: Listen to Sufjan Stevens&#8217; Demo of &#8220;Impossible Soul&#8221; Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_43431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-19060\" alt=\"IMG_4343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_43431-600x600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_43431-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_43431-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_43431-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> has recently been cleaning up his digital attic, releasing a series of odds and ends from his found-drives.\u00a0 The latest is surely the best of the lot:\u00a0 an early live jam (with piano intro and outr0) of <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sufjan.com\/post\/64789048582\/more-obsolescence-found-on-old-hard-drives-this\">It\u2019s A Long Life,<\/a><\/strong><\/em> an early jam that would eventually become the life-affirming close of the 20-minute <em><strong>Impossible Soul<\/strong> <\/em>off of <strong><em>The Age of Adz\u2019<\/em>s<\/strong> (and one of the highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-10\/the-adz-are-against-that-ole-banjo-sufjan-stevens-at-the-paramount-theatre\/\"><strong>of his tour in support of the album<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stevens<\/strong> had this to say about the recording on his blog:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More obsolescence found on old hard drives. This one is hilarious: a live jam session in Seattle, WA (circa 2009?) that evolved into the last party section of \u201cImpossible Soul.\u201d Casey on bass, James on drums, me on piano, overdub choir is a bunch of folks I don\u2019t remember who. Recorded in Casey\u2019s living room. We were just trying to have fun. For those of you suffering the darkness, remember: It\u2019s a long life. Pace yourself. Put your face together. Stay Positive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen below and stay positive!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/116563357\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufjan Stevens has recently been cleaning up his digital attic, releasing a series of odds and ends from his found-drives.\u00a0 The latest is surely the best of the lot:\u00a0 an early live jam (with piano intro and outr0) of It\u2019s A Long Life, an early jam that would eventually become the life-affirming close of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}