{"id":9192,"date":"2012-01-22T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T08:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2012-01-22T07:04:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T15:04:32","slug":"joseph-arthur-releases-new-double-album-and-and-kills-on-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-01\/joseph-arthur-releases-new-double-album-and-and-kills-on-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Arthur Releases New Double-Album and Kills on Letterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the comparatively unheralded greats, <strong>Joseph Arthur<\/strong>, appeared on the <strong>Letterman Show<\/strong> Friday night to perform his new song,<em><strong> In the Dark of Graveyard Chatter,<\/strong><\/em> off his brand new double-album, <strong>Redemption City.\u00a0 <\/strong>While he played every instrument and sang every note on the new album, on Letterman he showed up with a big, powerful band (replete with four backup singers and a bevy of instrumentalists, some wearing leathers, some not).\u00a0 Check the performance below.\u00a0 <strong>Oh my!!<\/strong>\u00a0 He does rock n&#8217; roll proud.\u00a0 Once again.\u00a0 And you can tell Dave and Paul are appropriately wowed.\u00a0 After the video (courtesy of the <strong>Audio Perv<\/strong>), check out Arthur&#8217;s pertinent words regarding the new album, its release and its downloadable options <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josepharthur.com\/\"><strong>on his website<\/strong><\/a>. Give what you can to support great art from one of our art greats.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VideoBam video player\" src=\"http:\/\/videobam.com\/widget\/JaoJw\/3\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Arthur:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please don\u2019t take the method or the freedom of this release<br \/>\nto be any judgment on its value.<br \/>\nI think it\u2019s top notch,<br \/>\nbut it\u2019s great to take advantage of what the internet is actually good at &#8211;<br \/>\nIMMEDIACY.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I\u2019ve released something while still<br \/>\ninhabiting its space,<br \/>\nI\u2019m alive in the nowness of it!<br \/>\nJoin me there or here or here and there.<\/p>\n<p>Around the time I was putting out Redemption\u2019s Son,<br \/>\nI met Peter Beard in\u00a0Montauk.<br \/>\nLucky enough to stay with friends at the old Andy Warhol<br \/>\nhouse,<br \/>\nwhere the Rolling Stones had rehearsed.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of us were there<br \/>\npartying, playing cards, trying to do yoga,<br \/>\nbut mostly partying.<br \/>\nIt was fun.<br \/>\n(Thank you Rene and Suzy.)<\/p>\n<p>One night I told Peter the name of my record that was<br \/>\nabout to come out<br \/>\n&#8220;Redemption\u2019s Son,&#8221; I said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Too religious,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe was probably right but that\u2019s what it was called, though<br \/>\nit wasn\u2019t out yet.<\/p>\n<p>The next day he said, \u201cI thought of a better title for you.\u201d<br \/>\nI asked, \u201cWhat?\u201d<br \/>\nHe paused for drama and then said,<br \/>\n\u201cRedemption City.\u201d<br \/>\n9\/11 had just happened,<br \/>\nit was a crazy title and I instantly liked it better than<br \/>\n\u201cRedemption\u2019s Son\u201d,<br \/>\nbut it was too late,<br \/>\nthat record was already on its way to stores.<br \/>\n(that\u2019s where we used to get music back in the day.)<br \/>\nBut I held onto that title.<br \/>\nI made a giant painting of a city when I opened the<br \/>\n\u2018Museum of Modern Arthur\u2019<br \/>\nand called it \u201cRedemption City\u201d<br \/>\nbut somehow its destiny is to be a title of a record.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Beard is a deep cat,<br \/>\nanimal blood on huge beautiful prints must awaken the<br \/>\nfavor of the gods<br \/>\nbecause his will for this title has chased me down the years,<br \/>\nand a few years ago I set about making it.<br \/>\nThe record inspired by the title.<br \/>\nWhat would a city of redemption sound like?<br \/>\nWhat kind of characters would inhabit it?<br \/>\nThe files for this record date back to \u201909 and one track<br \/>\nfurther than that.<br \/>\nI work on it, get burned out and then reopen it weeks later.<br \/>\nI built a studio (with the help of Matt Becker) in Brooklyn<br \/>\nto make it,<br \/>\nand it\u2019s the only record I\u2019ve made where I\u2019ve done<br \/>\neverything on it,<br \/>\nplayed all the things that make all the noise, drums, bass,<br \/>\nsynths and guitars,<br \/>\nproduced it mixed it, you name it.<br \/>\nNot that i haven\u2019t been helped.<br \/>\nJen Michel used to come around and listen to tracks and<br \/>\nsay,<br \/>\n&#8220;Man, this is the record.&#8221;<br \/>\nshe wanted this one out for awhile,<br \/>\nbut it wasn&#8217;t ready;<br \/>\na few more buildings had to go up and a few more roads<br \/>\nhad to be paved.<br \/>\nCarla Podgurecki snapped the cover photo one night on<br \/>\nmy roof overlooking the city of NYC<br \/>\nand Merritt Jacob came in at the end of it all and helped<br \/>\nme make final mix choices<br \/>\nand nudged the thing along in the right direction towards<br \/>\nhome.<br \/>\nActually, that\u2019s an understatement; he became the partner I<br \/>\nneeded to help find the finish.<br \/>\nFinally, it was mastered by the great Fred Kevorkian.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been one hell of a process,<br \/>\nand I hope you like it.<br \/>\nIf you do, pass it along and spread the word!<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve set this up so you can just have the record.<br \/>\nYou can donate,<br \/>\npay what you want,<br \/>\nor nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Passing it on, spreading the word, is better than money,<br \/>\nbut records are hard to make and expensive so if you dig it,<br \/>\nDig in!<\/p>\n<p>PS<\/p>\n<p>There is lots of interesting low-end stuff on this record so&#8230;<br \/>\nI\u2019m talking to you with the laptop on your chest listening to<br \/>\nthis thing,<br \/>\nlazy in your bed and not wanting to connect it to fancy<br \/>\nheadphones or decent speakers<br \/>\nfor shame!<\/p>\n<p>PPS<\/p>\n<p>Part 1<\/p>\n<p>Is complete as a record and for those who are generally<br \/>\nagainst the idea of an artist making a double record (of<br \/>\nwhich there are many) you can stop there and you have it.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2<\/p>\n<p>Is the deep cuts,<br \/>\nWhich would have otherwise remained on the cutting room<br \/>\nfloor or else been leaked out over time in various ways,<br \/>\nfragmented beings with no brothers or sisters or home.<br \/>\nI think both parts serve to strengthen the whole.\u00a0 They are<br \/>\nrelating to each other and breathing back and forth.<br \/>\nThey are each other\u2019s shadow and hold hands when no one<br \/>\nis watching.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s true that often less is more but sometimes more is more<br \/>\nand that is something that, in this case, will be down to<br \/>\ntaste.<\/p>\n<p>With the Internet and new ways of releasing music it seems<br \/>\nthat the doors are open to broader perspectives on what&#8217;s<br \/>\ntoo much.<br \/>\nHere you have both a double and a single record,<br \/>\ndepending on how you want it or your level of interest.<br \/>\nAlso it&#8217;s not important (or possible!)\u00a0to listen to all of it in<br \/>\none sitting.<br \/>\nTake in Part 1 and then move slowly into part 2.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a city.<br \/>\nThere are lots of avenues and side streets,<br \/>\nAbandoned buildings and bodegas,<br \/>\nCars parked on the side of oblivion with cats in them.<br \/>\nCome in and walk around.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0without further ado,<\/p>\n<p>for Peter Beard and the others who helped me get here,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to<\/p>\n<p>Redemption City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve listened to a good part of the album, and he&#8217;s done it again&#8211;musical magic.\u00a0 Go over to his site, and give what you can to download the album.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the comparatively unheralded greats, Joseph Arthur, appeared on the Letterman Show Friday night to perform his new song, In the Dark of Graveyard Chatter, off his brand new double-album, Redemption City.\u00a0 While he played every instrument and sang every note on the new album, on Letterman he showed up with a big, powerful [&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-9192","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\/9192","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=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}