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NPR Premieres Agnes Obel's "Dorian" Music Video

NPR Premieres New Agnes Obel Video, "Dorian" Stunning Clip Features Metropolitan Ballet Company Dancers LOS ANGELES, CA  - MONDAY, May 12, 2014 - Today NPR premieres "Dorian," the brand new music video from Danish singer/songwriter/pianist Agnes Obel, one of the most intriguing and captivating artists to land on American sol in some time.  Click HERE to see the video.
The "Dorian" clip was edited by Alex Brüel Flagstad (who has directed and edited most of Obel's videos), and is comprised of visuals from pioneering filmmaker Maya Deren's 1958 black and white short "The Very Eye of Night," that features students from the Metropolitan Ballet Company.  The dancers are shown in photographic negative performing a series of ballet moves, gliding and rotating untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing star field background - doubly-magical with Obel's "Dorian" as the score.  Deren, a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of the 1940's and 1950's avant-garde period. 
"Dorian" is from Obel's most recent album, Aventine (Play It Again Sam/[PI(AS} America), released in late 2013 to widespread critical acclaim.  As the Boston Globe wrote, "Agnes Obel blends pop melodies with classical precision and an air of elegance bordering on art songs."  Obel is set to headline three very special concerts late this summer:
AUGUST12   World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA13   9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.14   Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY

Horse Thief Announce Summer Tour Dates With The Paper Kites

Horse Thief Announce Summer Tour Dates With The Paper Kites"Fear In Bliss" LP Out Now On Bella Union


Tour Dates With Paper KitesJuly 8 - Hamilton, Ontario -  The Casbah
July 9 - Waterloo, Ontario - Starlight
July 11 -  Montreal, Quebec - Lion d’Or
July 14 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
July 16 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
July 17 - Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live - Upstairs
July 18 - Vienna, VA - Jammin’ Java

Psycho De Mayo @ The Observatory

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LA Psych Fest @ Bootleg Theater

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Anton Newcombe Interview 2014 (part 2)

PART TWO of Brian Jonestown MassacreInterview with Anton Newcombe (2014)
By Alexander Laurence
This past week, Brian Jonestown Massacre played Austin Psych Fest and two shows in California, to packed houses at The Observatory, and the Fox Theater in Oakland. The shows have been wild and energetic, and many new fans are seeing the BJM for the first time. It’s the tenth year anniversary of DIG The Movie documentary. Anton Newcombe has seemed to have touched many generations of people with his songs and his own personal story. This summer BJM will be playing all over Europe, and many festivals. They have just been announced to play Glastonbury. The excitement continues. The new album REVELATION is coming out, and the new songs have gone down well. I am looking forward to the show tomorrow night at the Wiltern. It’s on May 10th, 2014, and The Three O’Clock and Joel Gion and the Primary Colours are opening up. The Three O’Clock are an LA band that was part of the psychedelic movement of the early 1980s, which may have been an influence on Anton Newcombe. In the second part of this interview we talk about the new album and other things.

AL: When are you going to be in Ex-Berliner Magazine?
Anton: We should be hitting up David Strauss and publish this interview in Ex-Berliner. I press all my fucking records in Germany. Strauss might not think it’s a big deal but we sold out Postbahnhof. That is a big deal. It would be funny to be in that magazine.
AL: You have been posting a lot of pictures of food on Twitter. I think when you got to Austinthere was a picture of a Reuben Sandwich. You can’t get that over in Berlin?
Anton: Everything is pork right? It would be something else. The reason why a Reuben is beef in Americais because it’s a Jewish thing. They don’t eat pork. The rye bread and sauerkraut, and all that shit. I will have to figure it out. I haven’t located a German deli. Instead of a deli, in Germany, you would go to a little beer garden. It’s like having worker’s food. I haven’t seen a deli there.
AL: What type of food do you like when you come back here?
Anton: Mexican. Real fucking Mexican. Like El Farolito in the Mission District (San Francisco). Any place that is like lard, beans, carne asada, and chopping beef on the grill. A line of real Mexicans sitting there and eating. I also love Japanese and Korean food. Now in Germany, they have these sushi places everywhere. You go there and the fish is frozen. In LA, the guys are making it right in front of you. I will post some pictures of that. Maybe Friday, I will do the late night Korean. Maybe after the show. There are a lot of great places around the Wiltern.
AL: So you have the new album REVELATION coming out next week. The first song is called “Vad Hande Med Dem?” What is that about?
Anton: It means “What Ever Happened To Them?” Remember when The Strokes were all over the place and everybody was talking about them? They were all in your face for years. And then, boom, it’s gone. Out of sight, out of mind. Every single thing can be like that. So important and central one minute, and then gone. That is what that is about.
AL: Then there is “What You Isn’t.” It has a classic BJM riff and sound. It has an aggressive vocal. Are you talking to yourself or some specific person?
Anton: Yeah. Just mumbling to myself. When I make up all the songs and ideas it’s like conceptual art, and then I tweak it a little bit. When we play live it’s like performance art. I leave it unfinished. I screw it together the best that I can. That keeps it interesting for me. I am finishing up the words every time I play it live. It’s not exactly what is on the record. The words will float a little bit. And that is something that I have done since the beginning. I am refining things on stage. It’s almost like method acting. I am really liking this song live when we are in the pocket. It’s like Let It Be, with elements of Roxy Music and Velvet Underground. It chugs along.
AL: How did you write these songs?
Anton: It’s really a surprise to keep coming up with songs after some many records. I didn’t know what I was going to do for this album. I was goofing around on my Moogs for nine months. I was making imaginary film music. I was collecting old gear for years and making music. I was talking to the other guys at the label and in the studio, and they said “If you want to tour in 2014, you have to make a new album.” So there was a deadline for me. I had to get back into BJM mode because I am the only one who writes the music.
AL: There is “Days, Weeks, and Moths.”
Anton: That one sounds really good live. It comes off way better than the record even.
AL: What is “Xibalba?”
Anton: That is about a battle at the gates of hell, that allowed the last Mayan earth cycle to go through. The army of God is fighting the army of the underworld.
AL: You are playing three or four new songs in the set?
Anton: Yeah. Set times fluctuate. It’s hard to make everyone happy. I have people in my band who don’t want to play certain songs. And then there are problems with the voice. I am not going to be able to pull off that song. I frown when people say “It’s been 20 years since Methodrone came out. Let’s go to Australiaand do an album tour.” I don’t want to do that. I know people get off when J Mascis plays the whole record.
AL: Bands like Wire and The Fall don’t do that specific album stuff. But I guess there are others like Echo and The Bunnymen and Primal Scream who do.
Anton: I like to keep it forward thinking. I like to keep whatever it says on the tin. There are fourteen albums. We get stuck playing some of the same songs because my band are so lazy. They are slackers. We have added a few old songs that we have never played before. It’s just a set of stuff and I hope people can enjoy it for what it is. In Europethe trains shut down at an early hour. It’s such a pleasure in Americawhen they let us play for over two hours. We are one of those bands that can actually do it really well when we are in good form. It doesn’t get old at all. What the fuck actually happens when you hear that many songs? The shows this week should be good. But the shows in Europe this summer, we should be hitting our stride, and people will trip out.
AL: Have you seen Joel Gion’s new band?
Anton: Not yet. But he is opening up the next few shows. I will see him then.
AL: And you are playing with The Three O’Clock at the Wiltern.
Anton: How funny is that? They just popped out of the woodwork. I was excited about that because I used to watch MV3 back in the day. Before that when I was a kid, we loved The Salvation Army. Those guys were the coolest band. There is a big psychedelic vein that runs through me. It’s not just the Paisley Underground thing. It’s not just the punk thing with the attitude. It’s the psychedelic thing where anything can happen. I can try to play the sitar. I can try to orchestrate something. I can try to play the blues. It’s like the Rolling Stones: anything can happen next. That is what psychedelic music is about for me. Even when The Three O’Clock were a punk band, they were clued in to the psychedelic thing. My friends were into them because they knew about music. They weren’t doing the usual thing and saying “Fuck Hendrix and The Byrds.” No way. They played like punk rockers and played Rickenbackers and played real melodies.
AL: Hardcore punk had this really narrow unmusical view of the world. Bands like Three O’Clock were an opening of the mind for a lot of people.
Anton: Yeah. We reached out to them, and now they are on the bill. We have three bands now.
AL: The Three O’Clock and many of the bands of the Paisley Underground never broke out of the 1980s mindset.

Anton: The only band to really make it out of that world was Mazzy Star. They were in Opal and Rain Parade from before that. They blew it because they stopped making records. They should have said “fuck off” to Capitol Records and kept on making weird records. They should just make beautiful music. People would still be into them if they continued. The world moves on. 
AL: There has been an article about you in the NME. You are on the cover of some European magazines now. You are playing Glastonburyand all these Festivals. There are 50+ shows in Europethis summer. It seems like there is more interest in BJM now than there usually is.
Anton: The press is even crazier than you can imagine. I don’t even share all it. There is stuff in Sweden. I am not paying any attention to it. It’s strange when things click like that. It could not be the best record, but if all the ducks are in a row, then things can happen for you.
AL: It’s your time.
Anton: Well, yeah. It’s like how it was for The Strokes. People were ready for a guitar band of that caliber at that time. It clicked for them. People were willing to write about the band even if it was pushed by the label. Everyone was ready for that at the time. It’s a shame. I think that they should have done more records. Out of all those guys, I really like Albert Hammond jr.
AL: Since you are more popular, do you have stalkers and people sending you weird emails?
Anton: People stalk me. I try to block them. People show up when we play. All kinds of weird shit. There is this fucking weirdo who moved to Berlin who thinks he is me. He has dyed his hair. He looks like me and wears the same clothes. He has a facebook profile with my name and pretends to be me, and he tries to communicate with people that I know. I am not on facebook. People ask me if I am on there. I told him if he comes close to me or my family I will break him in half. Germanyis usually non-confrontational.
AL: Time to get a restraining order.
Anton: I got mobbed in Bordeauxby fifteen teenagers. My tour manager gave me a cell phone and told me to pretend that I was on a call. I was backstage and I had to walk towards the tour bus. I felt bad because it was a Hollywood trick.
AL: You have these three shows in California. You go back to Berlin. What happens after that?
Anton: I fly back home and chill with my baby for a little bit. Then the gear arrives. We change the recording studio into a cramped rehearsal studio. We only have a few days to get tuned up and get ready for the next leg of the tour. There will be some dinners and some parties. Then we are on the bus to France.




SEE PART ONE HERE

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ The Wiltern

Don’t miss infamous psychedelic rockers The Brian Jonestown Massacre here May 10th! Tickets: http://cncrt.ly/1tSlhuj 

La Sera - Hour of the Dawn

La Sera - Hour of the DawnStreet Date, May 13th, 2014, Hardly Art
As La Sera, Katy Goodman turned an aching heart into two marvelous, alluring yet bittersweet break-up albums (2011’s self-titled debut and 2012’s Sees the Light). On her latest, though, the former Vivian Girl is through crying.                                                                        Hour of the Dawn sees Goodman waking up, throwing open the bedroom windows and welcoming the day. "I wanted the new La Sera record to sound like Lesley Gore fronting Black Flag,” Goodman says. “I didn’t want it to be another record of me sad, alone in my room. I wanted to have fun playing music and writing songs with a band.” To back her nimble basslines and enchanting vocals, Goodman assembled a new band helmed by guitarist Todd Wisenbaker. "We started playing faster, louder and more aggressively,” Goodman says. “I wanted to get that energy onto the album.” The forceful new La Sera line-up set about fleshing out Goodman’s melodies and lyrics into strapping rock anthems, debuting them to enthusiastic crowds on tour, and refining them with a new-found obsession to detail. After a year of perfecting their new material, La Sera was ready to commit it to tape. In the summer of 2013, the group decamped to a sweltering studio in East Los Angeles with engineer Joel Jerome and banged out the ten songs that would become Hour of the Dawn—an album that never walks, but runs, a collision of unleashed punk and ‘80s power-pop. "We wanted to make a classic American record,” Wisenbaker says. “The album was inspired by a lot of bands: The Pretenders, Minor Threat, X, The Smiths, The Cars and more.” The sound that emerged from these disparate influences combined hardcore energy with tuneful harmony, as exemplified by opening track “Losing to the Dark.” Title track “Hour of the Dawn,” meanwhile, rides a steady groove towards a long horizon of sunrise. It’s the record’s thematic center: a final wave goodbye to a messy past and the beginning of a new day. In a burst of bright, immediate and jangly Smiths-inspired pop, “Fall in Place” captures La Sera at an emotional and musical crossroads. Hour of the Dawn, as its title suggests, heralds the beginning of a radiant and energetic new chapter in La Sera’s evolution—the summit of Goodman’s steady ascent to rock and roll queendom. La SeraHour of the Dawn(Hardly Art)May 13, 2013 1. Losing to the Dark2. Summer of Love3. Running Wild4. Fall in Place5. All My Love is For You6. Hour of the Dawn7. Kiss This Town Away8. Control9. 10 Headed Goat Wizard10. Storm’s End

THE FAINT DOOM ABUSE out now on SQE Music

THE FAINT DOOM ABUSE Out Now On SQE Music       Esquire Premieres "Your Stranger" Video    "Doom Abuse is a cathartic slap in the face from a band that sounds completely revitalized after its multi-year slumber" - Filter "Doom Abuse is pure synth-pop mania" - NME 
"it's uptempo, it's unashamedly hooky" - Pitchfork  Watch: "Your Stranger" video via Esquire or YouTube THE FAINT is excited to reveal the video "Your Stranger" from their new album DOOM ABUSE out now on SQE Music. The video, which was directed by Gabriel Younes & Gage Maul, premiered onEsquire and is also available to share via YouTube. DOOM ABUSE, THE FAINT's first release since 2008's Fasciinatiion can be ordered on LP and CD in the SQE online store. Additionally, the album is available digitally on iTunes.  The Faint is currently on a national headlining tour in support of DOOM ABUSE. The tour will make stops in major markets such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Portland, Seattle and includes two SOLD OUT shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The tour will conclude on June 13th in the band's hometown of Omaha at the Sokol Auditorium. All upcoming shows and ticket links can be found on THE FAINT's official website. 
The Faint's Upcoming Tour Dates
May 9 - Jacksonville Beach, FL @ Freebird LiveMay 10 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade - HeavenMay 13 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero TheatreMay 14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of WillamsburgMay 16 - Boston, MA @ Royale NightClubMay 17 - New York, NY @ Webster HallMay 19 - New York, NY @ Bowery BallroomMay 20 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 ClubMay 22 - Cleveland, OH @ House of BluesMay 23 - Chicago, IL @ MetroMay 24 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue May 27 - Boise, ID @ Knitting FactoryMay 28 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting FactoryMay 30 - Seattle, WA @ NeptuneMay 31 - Portland, OR @ Roseland TheaterJune 1 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent - Sold OutJune 2 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent - Sold OutJune 3 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent June 5 - Santa Ana, CA @ The ObservatoryJune 6 - Los Angeles,, CA @ The Roxy Theatre - Sold OutJune 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy Theatre - Sold Out 
June 8 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy Theatre June 11 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The DepotJune 12 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic TheatreJune 13 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
For more info, please visit:
http://thefaint.com/https://www.facebook.com/thefainthttps://twitter.com/thefaint

Reverence Festival: Line-Up Additions Announced

Reverence Festival

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Valada, Portugal // 12th-13th SeptemberANNOUNCEMENT: LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE LINE UP INCLUDE BARDO POND & SLEEPY SUNRounding out the just added line-up being announced today and joining the likes of Hawkwind, Electric Wizard and Red Fang on the stellar line up are Cave, Wooden Wand, The Feeling of Love & Daughters of The SunHAWKWIND // ELECTRIC WIZARD // MAO MORTA // RED FANG // PSYCHIC TV // CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX // MOON DUO // THE WYTCHES // SWERVEDRIVER // WOODS // SLEEPY SUN // CAVE // BARDO POND //  WOODEN WAND // RINGO DEATHSTARR // WHITE HILLS // SPINDRIFT // BLACK BOMBAIM // NAAM // THE COSMIC DEAD // THE OSCILLATION // PROCESS OF GUILT // EXIT CALM // ASIMOV // THE FEELING OF LOVE //WHITE MANNA // THE TELESCOPES // SONIC JESUS // SUNFLARE // DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN // JIBOIA // THE QUARTET OF WOAH! // KEEP RAZORS SHARP // KILLIMANJARO // MURDERING TRIPPING BLUES // AIR FORMATION // BLACK LEATHER // ONE OF THESE DAYS & THEE HEAVY RANDOM TONE COLOUR LAB 

On the 12th and 13th September Reverence Festival celebrates the best in psych, stoner, shoegaze, doom, prog, garage and beyond, with some sixty bands playing over two days on four stages, including the hugely influential spacerock titans Hawkwind - performing in Portugal for the very first time.The resurgence of far out, heavy rock-based music and a booming live music network across Europe has given rise to huge demand, with Reverence already causing a stir online amongst fans bustling with anticipation and excitement.Reverence offers the chance for like-minded heads from across the world to congregate at one of the biggest and most ambitious events of its kind, one that features a unique line-up of revered titans and rising talent.The heady, hazy and tripped-out sounds will make for the perfect outdoors summer soundtrack to the balmy and picturesque setting of Valada. When the sun sets, kaleidoscopic lights and psychedelic visuals will adorn the stages, adding an aesthetic accompaniment to the mind-expanding aural delights, which will run all night.Blazing a trail from the 60s right through to today with unparalleled status, Hawkwind are spiritual and sonic godfathers, whose influence has permeated through hundreds of bands over five decades, not least many of those sharing the bill at Reverence. Formed  in 1969, their trademark single ‘Silver Machine’ was a huge hit that brought the band to the attention of the wider public, with albums like ‘Warrior On The Edge Of Time’ and ‘Masters Of The Universe’  lauded as classics.Joining them at the top of the bill and bringing their own brand of heavy cerebral stoner/doom to the stage are Electric Wizard - writers of some of the most important records of the genre like ‘Come My Fanatics’, ‘Dopethrone’ and ‘Black Masses’.The bone-crushingly heavy Red Fang fit perfectly with the reverence ethos, along with ambient doom collective Crippled Black Phoenix as bands that have gained cult following for refusing to compromise – an attitude also held by Reverence itself. More talent comes from local heroes, Mao Morta, arguably one of the most important Portuguese alternative rock bands on the scene, with a career spanning back to the mid-eighties. If all that wasn’t enticing enough, Psychic TV, the respected experimental art and music group fronted by pioneer and visionary Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, will be making an appearance. Not to mention Oxford shoegazers Swervedriver who split in the late 90s only to be met with huge success when they re-emerged in 2008.Reverence’s powerful line-up is strengthened by their choice to include some of the biggest names in the current shoegaze and garage revival such as dark garage rockers The Wytches, ambient kosmische drone combo Telescopesand motorik spacerockers White Hills.Many bands that have secured positions on the prestigious line-up have highly respectable followings in their own right, in particular the MBV-style Ringo Deathstarr (who inadvertently  got the festival kick-started by inspiring the partnership of Cartaxo Sessions and Club AC30), along with baggy space rockers Exit Calm, psychedelic maestros The Oscillation(featuring Fanfarlo’s drummer) and sludgers Asimov.Pitchfork’s favourite spooky campfire folk band Woods and Moon Duo, initially seen by many as a side project to co-founder Ripley Jonson’s more established outfit Wooden Shjips. However, along with co-conspirator Sanae Yamada, they’ve gone on to produce a highly acclaimed body of work, elevating them to the upper echelons of the new psychedelia movement.Process of Guilt bring their own brand of doom music from nearby Evora and Italian collective Sonic Jesus showcase their distinctive hypnotic sounds, drenched in sixties inspired psychedelia and shoegaze nuance. Black Leather and One of These Days & Thee Heavy Random Tone Colour Lab complete the just added line-up.  The latest additions to the stellar line-up include pysche-rocker Bardo Pond, currently signed to London-based label Fire Records, and fellow Americans Sleepy Sun who released their 4th studio album 'Maui Tears' on Dine Alone Records back in January. Chicago drone-lovers Cave and acid-folk singer songwriter Wooden Wand will also be making an appearance, with The Feeling of Love bringing their dreamy shoe-gaze from Strasbourg and Daughters of The Sun making the journey from Minneapolis.Aiming to capture the spirit of early, pre-branded and pre-corporate events, Reverence harks back to the golden age of free spirited festivals, where the music comes first.The choice of said music makes it abundantly clear that Reverence is a festival with integrity, that isn’t a box-ticking exercise where bands from every genre are booked in a ‘throw it all against the wall and see what sticks’ approach, but a labour of love.The festival features a variety of cult bands that have been bought together not purely for profit, but because a group of promoters wanted to bring something to Valada for the fans.  They’re pulling together what they see as the best bands from all over the world, because it’s what the fans want to see and, being fans themselves, what they want to see themselves.The event takes place in the relaxed surroundings of Parque de Merendas, which runs along the banks of the Tejo river and includes a fluvial beach, picnic areas and coffee shops. Traditional Portuguese food and drinks including vegan and vegetarian will be available, as well as camping facilities adjacent to the festival site with toilets and showers.Valada is a small picturesque village, famous for agriculture and wine production. Located approximately 60kms inland from Lisbon and 550km from Madrid, easily accessible via train from Lisbon where shuttle buses will be running from nearest station Reguengo to the festival site.

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Rodrigo Amarante - Cavalo

Rodrigo Amarante - CavaloStreet Date, May 6th, 2014, Easy Sound
This is my first solo record. It was made during an unexpected but very welcome exile, in a land I wouldn’t predict I’d moor my boat for long but that, given such difference and a refreshingly nameless arrival, gave me the opportunity to re-cognize my nature, to recoup my ascendance and to disclose a new perspective over myself. It was as a foreigner, separated from others and yet still somehow attached to the furniture I had left behind, bits of myself I hung up around me like dead mirrors I could no longer turn my face to, that came to focus the beauty of the empty room ahead, a hint. I became enamoured by space, by distance, and began to see the double that looks at me from the outside, that reflects the vision I call mine, vehicle and invented accomplice to which I am also a channel, the one I name Cavalo.I have always felt like a foreigner, imagined myself as an explorer, moving from city to city every three years as a kid, pretending to have the forbearance and courage i ended up forging while secretly carrying the resentment of the imposed detour, of the wait to return. When I finally arrived back in Rio no longer a child and with an accent three times tampered I realized that my home town was mine only because I had invented it, its memory a dream of smells and hope that didn’t exist in space, maybe in time. I discovered myself a stranger, what I had been since I first left, what I knew I would forever be. And it was light and warm, I felt free and grateful, strong, and like this I departed again. I ended up finding myself in a type of desert, happy to be alone, overwhelmed with the void, with silence, the place where I wrote these songs from. I believe that everybody can feel foreign in one way or another, in the way that they feel they’re perceived by others, in their bodies, their streets, in their fate perhaps, so I dream that this vehicle, an unpredictable mirror that i fill, that serves me and that moves me, can also move you, serve yet others, with luck.
To give room to this double that appears as an echo, that shows itself with distance reflected, I opened up space as much as I knew how, subtracted all undue, threw adjectives away and using different languages I was forced to a new conciseness, gathering codes that wouldn’t always be understood as a whole and therefore can create other spaces, allow diversions, inventions. I also threw away the cover. Everything that was inside protected by the cover came out, became exposed, clean of directions or colors, unashamed, open. And the simple beauty of the page revealed itself, black and white that we like to use as a synonym of things clear and exact but that is where the infinite delight of interpretation resides, where the biggest gap is, a lacuna. Inside only the music. And there was yet another separation, another double: inside and outside, the thing and the name of the thing, me and the notion I have of myself. Between one and the other the open hand, the train at the station, an opening in the veil, your own dream. With luck!
Thank you for the chance.
R. Amarante
Rodrigo Amarante 
Cavalo
[Easy Sound]
Street Date: May 6, 2014
TRACK LIST
1. Nada Em Vão
2. Hourglass
3. Mon Nom
4. Irene
5. Maná
6. Fall Asleep
7. The Ribbon
8. O Cometa
9. Cavalo
10. I’m Ready
11. Tardei