SUFJAN STEVENS - Convocations - 5LP - Assorted Coloured Vinyl Boxset

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Barcode: 729920164844

Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records SKU: 16090 Catalogue ID: AKR145LP Format: Vinyl Boxset
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SUFJAN STEVENS - Convocations - 5LP - Assorted Coloured Vinyl Boxset

SUFJAN STEVENS - Convocations - 5LP - Assorted Coloured Vinyl Boxset

€79.99

 

LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty Records

CAT NO: AKR145LP

BARCODE: 729920164844

 

Tracklisting:

 

1.
Meditation I 03:40
2.
Meditation II 02:27
3.
Meditation III 04:04
4.
Meditation IV 02:10
5.
Meditation V 02:10
6.
Meditation VI 02:16
7.
Meditation VII 02:34
8.
Meditation VIII 01:48
9.
Meditation IX 02:12
10.
Meditation X 03:40
11.
Lamentation I 03:48
12.
Lamentation II 02:25
13.
Lamentation III 03:17
14.
Lamentation IV 01:59
15.
Lamentation V 04:11
16.
Lamentation VI 04:43
17.
Lamentation VII 01:51
18.
Lamentation VIII 03:35
19.
Lamentation IX 03:29
20.
Lamentation X 01:57
21.
Revelation I 03:21
22.
Revelation II 02:53
23.
Revelation III 02:01
24.
Revelation IV 04:09
25.
Revelation V 02:51
26.
Revelation VI 03:34
27.
Revelation VII 04:03
28.
Revelation VIII 02:51
29.
Revelation IX 04:38
30.
Revelation X 04:18
31.
Celebration I 02:19
32.
Celebration II 05:55
33.
Celebration III 03:09
34.
Celebration IV 03:22
35.
Celebration V 02:59
36.
Celebration VI 04:01
37.
Celebration VII 03:41
38.
Celebration VIII 03:25
39.
Celebration IX 01:35
40.
Celebration X 04:10
41.
Incantation I 02:17
42.
Incantation II 01:58
43.
Incantation III 01:36
44.
Incantation IV 02:00
45.
Incantation V 03:15
46.
Incantation VI 01:49
47.
Incantation VII 01:53
48.
Incantation VIII 02:55
49.
Incantation IX 04:28

 


SUFJAN STEVENS – Convocations

5LP – Limited Edition Blue, Green, Orange, Purple and Pink Vinyl Boxset.
(*Only 2,000 copies)


Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.

Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

See below for tracklisting…