05 March 2009

Elvis Perkins on Saturday Morning

Hi All,

 

I got hold of an advanced copy of Elvis Perkins new album, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, and will be featuring it on the show this Saturday.  Elvis is a contemporary folk musician who mixes inspired lyrics with a range of musical influences from New Orleans Jazz to funeral derges.  He is the son of Anthony Perkins of “Psycho” fame (who died of AIDS in 1992) and Berry Berneson, a Life magazine photographer.  She died on American Airlines flight 11 after it was crashed into the World Trade centers on September 11, 2001.  He was in the process of writing his first album, Ash Wednesday, when his mother was killed, leading him to interrupt the process for a year.  Ash Wednesday was ultimately released in 2007, and was strongly influenced by these two great losses in his life.  While Elvis Perkins continues to explore issues of life and death in Elvis Perkins in Dearland (also the name of his band), there is more is more celebratory tone on this album.  I think it will prove to be one of the best albums of the year. 

 

I will also be playing new music from Laura Gibson’s haunting and beautiful Beasts of Seasons

 

Hope you can tune in.

 

B

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