Posts Tagged ‘Amanda Palmer’

AMANDA PALMER – ” There Will Be No Intermission “

Posted: March 9, 2019 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“There Will Be No Intermission” is out Friday, March 8th Amanda Palmer’s third solo effort and first in more than six years, is the multi-faceted artist’s most powerful and personal collection to date, with songs that tackle the big questions: life, death, grief and how we make sense with it all. While the themes may be dark, the album’s overall sonic and lyrical mood is one of triumph in the face of life’s most ineffably shitty circumstances. Beginning with the epic Bill-Hicks-inspired “The Ride”, it sees Palmer revealing her heart in total, turning the coals of fraught experience into musical diamonds. Themes of death and reproduction recur throughout, including “A Mother’s Confession”, a funny, honest, slice-of-life ramble detailing Palmer’s failings as a new mother, and “Machete” written in tribute to her best friend, Anthony following his untimely passing from cancer. “Voicemail For Jill” chronicles a different sort of death as Palmer reaches out to a friend on her way to an abortion clinic. Lead single “Drowning In The Sound” explores hidden connections between political unrest, the impending uncertainty of Hurricane Harvey, climate change, the solar eclipse, internet-hate and, bizarrely, Taylor Swift. One of the more lavishly produced songs on the album, the song combines Palmer’s singular style of piano-taming with a restrained chorus that pays sonic homage to two diverse but connected mentors: Prince and Ani DiFranco.

This album is the most personal and painfully vulnerable thing she has ever made, containing 10 of the most honest, funny, sad, dark songs. THE ALBUM, THE ARTBOOK and tickets for THE TOUR . the beautiful images you’re seeing (which are included in the artbook and are available as prints and select merchandise) were all captured by kahn & selesnick.

Amanda says, I know I say it a lot, but it bears repeating: this album would not have happened without the emotional and financial support of my 14,000 patrons. in so many ways, it just would not have been possible. if you are one of my patrons and reading this, i hope you are as proud today as I am. we did it.

The reviews and critics are weighing in….and the accolades mean a lot, but they don’t mean fuck all compared to what this music means to me and my community, and what it has meant over the past years as i’ve played these piano and ukulele in people’s houses, and in small clubs, and in living rooms, and in theaters for the people I really care about: you. you you you. fuck the critics. you’re my critics, and I listen. sometimes you make the art, and sometimes the art makes you. this record and tour feels more like the latter.

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Listen. these songs are the most vulnerable and personal I’ve ever recorded, and they all provided some kind of relief from each life-situation I was facing over the last seven years since I out our my last album (theatre is evil), it was just non-stop, the gamut of human emotion and highs and lows. everything feels inseparable now: my crowdfunding through patreon, the birth of our son, the election of trump, my TED talk, two abortions, the kavanuagh hearing, the death of my best friend, writing a book, being in Ireland for the repeal, the miscarriage i had alone on a christmas day.

i sat in a theater in london and watched hannah gadsby decimate the blurted lines between entertainment and naked truth, i saw the brave women of #metoo standing up against their rapists, and I saw nick cave in concert and on record working through his grief using art as a necessary and generous tourniquet that others could re-use. they all reminded me to try harder and harder still to tell the real, unadorned truth. I love you all so much.

Thank you for coming on this ride with me.

watch this, and you will understand everything. I made this video in our living room (w/ two of my closest friends, Michael Pope & Coco Karol to announce my forthcoming solo album,

Amanda Palmer, performer, writer, giver, taker, listener, love-lover, rule-hater and co-founder of the Brechtian punk cabaret duo, The Dresden Dolls.

Musicians:

jherek bischoff – double bass, guitar, vibraphone, prepared piano, backing vocals
john congleton – drums, synths, sequencing
max henry – synths
amanda palmer – piano, ukulele, organ, synths, vocals
joey waronker – drums
jason webley – accordion

“There Will Be No Intermission is a triumphant return of an uncompromising artist. It is singularly the best piece of work that Palmer has produced in her career.” – popmatters.com

Released March 8th, 2019

Amanda Palmer Voicemail for Jill Cover Picture

AMANDA PALMER and JASMINE POWER – ” Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now “

Posted: October 7, 2018 in MUSIC
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Last night in Los Angeles I held a free screening for this video. a few hundred people came to a cinema to watch the clip and ask questions, and  passed the mic around. many women – and it is really important to add, also men – shared painfully personal stories of their own experience with rape, assault, surviving, and their anger at what is happening in our country right now. I hugged a lot of people. there were tears. if you were there, thank you for coming and holding the space. it was a much-needed collective howl.

and now: It’s time. I‘ve been working on this video project for months and it is with a strangely heavy heart that i admit: the timing is uncanny. we set the release date for today – October 5th – because it was the one year anniversary of the new york times exposé on Harvey Weinstein.

as i sit here typing this, we await the decision of the senate to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, and the news isn’t looking particularly promising. in fact, it’s looking pretty appalling. and I feel like i’ve been holding my breath for 42 years.

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over 60 women – cast and crew – were instrumental in the creation of this video. i wrote a massive blog about the origin of the song and the process of making it,

Matt Nicholson, aka sketch & dodds, helped write and arrange this entire song. those gorgeous cinematic strings and piano are his doing. Jasmine and i wrote the lyrics, and we sang our guts out, but Matt helped provide a container. he should not get cut out of this narrative, and i find it important – and not unpoetic – that a man helped to midwive this song into being.

if you look closely at the credits, you’ll see that – beyond the director, Noémie, and the producer, Natalie – almost all the crew on this film production were women – including the steadicam operator, Lisa Sene, who literally got a round of applause from the cast and crew at the end of a very, very long day of carrying around a 60 pound thing.

AMANDA PALMER – ” Big Yellow Taxi ” Joni Mitchell Cover

Posted: June 19, 2018 in MUSIC
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This song was powered by over 11,000 patrons supporting us on patreon.com/amandapalmer. join the community and help us make more art…it’s an amazing group and WE. ARE. THE. MEDIA.

For your listening pleasure, a new patreon-fueled cover track. me, Zoe Keating, Sean ono Lennon and John Cameron Mitchell got together and covered Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”, sad folk-goth-style. this link will take you to my (public) patron post about the song here is the story behind it,

This not-quite-as-jolly-as-Joni cover was recorded live at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, new york while rehearsing for a one-night only super-group performance for Maria “Brain Pickings” Popova’s annual poetry + science event “The Universe In Verse”. (brainpickings.org).

100% of these digital sales will go to the same charity that “The Universe In Verse” worked to benefit: The Natural Resources Defense Council (www.nrdc.org), who, in their own words, “work to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.” the NRDC has been doing advocacy and litigation work on behalf of climate change, clean water and our precious earth since 1970.

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Released June 18, 2018
Sean Ono Lennon – upright bass, electric & acoustic guitar, percussion, keyboards
John Cameron Mitchell – Vocals
Zoë Keating – Cello
Amanda Palmer – Vocals

AMANDA PALMER – ” Strength Through Music “

Posted: March 1, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Today i released a new version of “Strength Through Music”, which was originally written for my first solo album, “Who Killed Amanda Palmer” in response to the Columbine shootings, which were (i cannot believe it) almost twenty years ago.

please watch. and i warn you, it’s emotional…that’s my high school, and those are kids from the drama department at Lexington high. I literally walk by my old locker. Columbine shattered the country. but since then, these shootings have simply become normal. it’s insanity.  It isn’t just these mass shootings. statistically, there is a shooting In a American Shool almost every day. It’s enough. things have to change.

I released this new video though patreon as the last “thing” of the month, and the entire $15k of patreon revenue will be given to the March For Our Lives gofundme page, which is at approximately $2.8m of a $3m goal. I am hoping we can help a little. the fact that i could get this idea in a day, call Michael Pope, re-record the song and remix the video, put it out and have the support of the patreon is nothing short of revolutionary. we are able to be changing things, with art, with power.

MAY 4TH – ST. GEORGE’S HALL / LIVERPOOL, UK – TICKETS

MAY 6TH – TOWN HALL / BIRMINGHAM, UK – TICKETS

MAY 7TH – THE SAGE / GATESHEAD, UK – TICKETS

MAY 10TH – LYRIC THEATRE / CARMARTHEN, UK – TICKETS

MAY 11TH – THE FORUM (BATH FESTIVAL) / BATH, UK – TICKETS

MAY 13TH – BRIGHTON FESTIVAL / BRIGHTON, UK – TICKETS
MAY 28TH – NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / DUBLIN, IRELAND – TICKETS

we are also adding a show in NORWICH on MAY 20TH.

AMANDA PALMER & JHEREK BISCHOFF – ” Mother “

Posted: November 18, 2017 in MUSIC
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this song & video was released on November 15th, 2017, and the funding was provided by over 11,000 people currently supporting me on patreon. if you aren’t already a patron and you want to see us make more art, please consider joining. we cannot make this kind of material – unfettered by record labels, the media, and old-school machines – without your help ,

Amanda Palmer.  says i was in australia when the presidential inauguration happened at the start of 2017. a few days later, i scripted this video while walking around the back alleys of Melbourne. then i started making phone calls to my most trusted collaborators. Jherek recorded the strings in LA, Zoë Keating recorded the searing cello solo in san francisco, and i recorded the vocal part in Hobart, Tasmania. then i needed to find the right filmmaker. i started hunting.

THE MIRROR, THE MOTHER & THE OTHER

This autumn I found myself in the 6AM pouring rain at the stone labyrinth of Opus 40 for the Amanda MOTHER video shoot and it was certainly a NEW day. A “strange ways here we come” day, a “truth is stranger than fiction” moment, an outer body experience that found me with peers in THE REAL FUTURE. THE NEW NOW future where Pink Floyd wrote a song in 1979 for Amanda to sing NOW, to tackle the new forces and questions we are facing. It often takes a shared experience to see clearly. Your friend’s eye can act as a mirror of where we are at as a collective. Amanda (meanwhile a real mother) and her friends (a lot of us also real mothers) all want to protect our babies from the President, the Government, the Wall and the Bomb. All we have is our voices and our community. It is of utter urgency that we act together and stand together now in any way to take on this new day. Through Music, Songs and Stories. By Voting, Sharing, Supporting, Loving and Unifying together HERE NOW. There is new meaning in everything. It’s not just a song, not just a vote, not just a friend. It’s UNIFICATION. COMMUNICATION. ACTION. NOW FOR THE FUTURE. We have to hope that all the breastfeeding, singing and mothering we give now, will make the OTHER FUTURE a good one for our children.