A.A. BONDY
On sale: Friday, August 5 at 12:00pm CST
A.A. BONDY
Believers is the new A.A. Bondy record, out September 13, 2011 on Fat Possum. A few thoughts from those who have crossed paths with him:
"They brought him in from a motorcycle wreck. I could hear him singing from all the way down the hall. It was weird, but kinda pretty."- Rita Jenkins (emergency room nurse, Kingston, NY)
“My wife and I are deaf so I can't say what his music sounds like. Seemed nice enough. He did set fire to his whole back yard once though.” - Charles & Anne McTier (former neighbors)
"The tall thin guy? Oh yeah, he came in here every morning for three weeks, bought the same thing every day - one tube of krazy glue, and a sausage biscuit. I couldn't tell you what he did for money." - Ray Anne Murphy (Spring Mart)
"Not many people know this, but he's not a bad horn player, but he only played during particular celestial events. At least that's what he told me." - Gladys Broussard (secretary, B&O Railroad)
Made of scenes gathered in actual places (upstate New York, Mississippi, California), but also scenes from an other place. A finger on a dream globe. One foot in the dirt, one in the ether, unseen voice at your ear. On the tide with the Surfer King. Recording took place in the spring of 2011 with Rob Schnapf in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, at Mant/Kingsize Studios. It’s Bondy’s third for Fat Possum Records. Songs were worked on until they told us not to work on them anymore. Ben Lester played drums and pedal steel, Macey Taylor played bass. Proof in zeros. Proof in ones. Believers.
GOLD LEAVES
"Nothing gold can stay." Even as he tried to capture it in verse, Robert Frost appreciated the ephemeral nature of beauty. And so does Grant Olsen. Yet a nod to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is only one of the reasons the Seattle-based songwriter—best known as half of the duo Arthur & Yu—christened his new project Gold Leaves. An autumnal character imbues these nine originals. Just as foliage buds, changes color, and eventually falls from the branches every season, so too do themes of birth, death, and regeneration permeate The Ornament.
