Shearwater

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Leader: Elephantman
Criteri di appartenenza: Aperto
Data creazione: 22 Ott 2005
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About:
Originally conceived as a one-off collaboration between Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Kingfisher's Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater continues the tradition of detailed, reflective songwriting set by classic artists like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen and contemporary indie rock songwriters such as Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. The group began after Sheff and Meiburg had known each other for just a week with the idea that the duo wanted to make an album called
The Dissolving Room - 2001.
The pair exchanged songwriting ideas through e-mail and were so pleased with the results that they decided to make their project into a permanent, touring affair. The Dissolving Room was released in early 2001 by the Grey Flat imprint. The following year Shearwater released another album,
Everybody Makes Mistakes - 2002,
and their third album,
Winged Life - 2004.
Meiburg's influence over the direction of the band steadily increased over the years, and this trend continued on the band's fourth release,
Palo Santo - 2006.
The band moved from Misra to Matador that year, making way for the release of an expanded edition of Palo Santo in 2007.
The powerful and streamlined
Rook arrived in 2008,
followed by the dreamy
Golden Archipelago in 2010.
Shearwater joined the Sub Pop roster for the album
Animal Joy, released in February 2012,
a more direct, immediate offering featuring guest musicians such as Andy Stack (Wye Oak) and Scott Brackett (Murder by Death).
~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Link:
Shearwater
myspace
official message board
wikipedia

Records:

The Dissolving Room - 2001

Everybody Makes Mistakes - 2002

Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral (Split CD with Okkervil River) - 2004

Winged Life - 2004

Thieves EP - 2005

Palo Santo - 2006

Palo Santo 2CD Expanded Edition - 2007

Rook - 2008

The Snow Leopard EP - 2008

Golden Archipelago - 2010

Animal Joy - 2012

Discussioni attive

Elephantman ha inserito un commento su
"Animal Joy - Out February 14, 2012" (4) Gennaio 2012

ecorunner ha inserito un commento su
"new album" (9) Aprile 2010

Elephantman ha inserito un commento su
"Message from Jonathan 06/15 " Giugno 2009

dvdjon ha inserito un commento su
"The House of Thor" Maggio 2009

Taliesinlives ha inserito un commento su
"An interview with Jonathan Meiburg on Scientific American" Settembre 2008

Articoli recenti

Shearwater @ Union Chapel, London di dvdjon | 19 Mag 2009
Shearwater på John Dee, Oslo May 7 [posted in the Sheawater group forum) di dvdjon | 18 Mag 2009
is playing @ Dour Festival ! D day - 7 [www.dourfestival.eu] di dourfestival | 10 Lug 2008 | 6 commenti

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ed_natalia

Not written, that I'm referring Shearwater... haha

Maggio 2010
ed_natalia

When listening to music? For example, when you are sad? This is an example, of course.

Maggio 2010
blogmeridian

Elephantman, thanks very much for the link--I'm enjoying listening to it now.

Aprile 2010
fekko

interview (german) beim münchenkonzert diese woche http://www.afk.de/detail.php?afk_id=4&kat_id=14&id=7265

Marzo 2010
Sandi71

concert to look at from 20.02.2010 in Frankreich, Saint-Malo http://liveweb.arte.tv/de/video/Shearwater_live_von_der_Route_du_Rock/

Marzo 2010
Elephantman

Shearwater: "Baby's On Fire" (Brian Eno cover)

Febbraio 2010
smiddy012

their new cd is amazing

Gennaio 2010
dvdjon

Shearwater: The Rainbow (Talk Talk cover)

Maggio 2009
dvdjon

Shearwater interwiev

Maggio 2009
dvdjon

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97001174&ft=1&f=1110

Maggio 2009
Sandi71

*medi* ;D

Maggio 2009
dvdjon

New Shearwater album due to be released in February 2010. They played 2 new tracks at the concert in Oslo.

Maggio 2009
Elephantman

Shearwater @ The Hi-Dive, Denver 08.31.2008 - http://tinyurl.com/dxp2rp

Febbraio 2009
Sandi71

thanks for the daytrotter-link, so good! :)

Febbraio 2009
Sandi71

just found it in your link, it's THE RAINBOW

Febbraio 2009
Sandi71

@dvdjon: which song of the spirit of eden is the covering-B-side-song?

Febbraio 2009
Sandi71

nice to meet! just discovered them with their stunning albums rook and palo santo, so amazing and athmospheric, they grow by every hearing, I'm addicted to, I agree with the similarity to spirit of eden (a few songs - opener of palo santo..) 74, 75 was my first love

Febbraio 2009
dvdjon

http://stereogum.com/archives/tour-dates/shearwater-cover-talk-talk-jonathan-meiburg-leaves_009819.html

Febbraio 2009
dvdjon

Shearwater's 2 last albums I believe where heavily influenced bye Talk Talk's "The Spirit of eden" and " Laughing Stock" Also check out Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man "Out of season" Really good stuff. The B-side of Shearwaters single "Rooks" is a cover song taken from "The Spirit of eden" Happy listening!!! links: http://www.last.fm/music/Beth%2BGibbons%2B%2526%2BRustin%2BMan/Out+of+Season http://www.last.fm/music/Talk+Talk/Spirit+of+Eden http://www.last.fm/music/Talk+Talk/Spirit+of+Eden

Febbraio 2009
brother_james

I'm getting back on the last LP, haven't heard it for months. The three tracks at the beginning are wonderful.

Febbraio 2009