Dirty Projectors - Mount Wittenberg Orca (Expanded Edition) '2023

Tracks list

Back in May 2009, following a conversation with Björk about the small Italian
theatres where opera was born in the 1500s, Dirty Projector David Longstreth set
about writing 'Mount Wittenburg Orca', his follow-up to the widely cherished
'Bitte Orca'. A month later it was performed a capella in a Manhattan bookstore
- recordings of which can be viewed on youtoob - but it was another year before
they laid it down proper in Brooklyn's esteemed Rare Book Room studios. The
results are truly beguiling, mixing deceptively natural three-part vocal
harmonies by Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle and Angel Deradoorian with lead shared
by Longstreth and Björk, all largely unadorned by instrumentation and allowed
to float somewhere between naif chorales and multi-layered contrapuntal
sophistication. The balance of high-brow and pop modes is intricately measured,
with no one voice dominating proceedings and managing to effortlessly sound
forward-thinking yet beautifully timeless. Oh and that 3d sleeve has to be seen
to be believed!

Tracklist:
1.01 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Ocean (2:09)
1.02 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - On and Ever Onward (2:01)
1.03 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - When the World Comes to an End (3:08)
1.04 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Beautiful Mother (2:16)
1.05 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Sharing Orb (2:48)
1.06 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - No Embrace (4:14)
1.07 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - All We Are (4:44)
1.08 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Intro (Live from Housing Works 2009) (2:17)
1.09 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Ocean (Live from Housing Works 2009) (1:15)
1.10 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - On and Ever Onward (Live from Housing Works
2009) (2:21)
1.11 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - When the World Comes to an End (Live from
Housing Works 2009) (2:28)
1.12 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Beautiful Mother (Live from Housing Works
2009) (2:00)
1.13 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Sharing Orb (Live from Housing Works 2009)
(2:25)
1.14 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - No Embrace (Live from Housing Works 2009)
(3:03)
1.15 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - All We Are (Live from Housing Works 2009)
(3:40)
1.16 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Wave Invocation (MWO I Inverness Demo)
(1:17)
1.17 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Motherwhale Song (MWO II Inverness Demo)
(2:12)
1.18 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Whale Watcher Song (MWO III Inverness Demo)
(1:55)
1.19 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Fugal Swim (MWO IV Inverness Demo) (2:03)
1.20 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - First Duet (MWO V Inverness Demo) (2:13)
1.21 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Migration (Unfinished MWO VI Inverness Demo)
(1:14)
1.22 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Jubilation (MWO VII Inverness Demo) (2:19)
1.23 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Benediction (MWO VIII Inverness Demo) (2:33)
1.24 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - When the World Comes to an End (Freewrite
Demo) (0:32)
1.25 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - When the World Comes to an End (Vocalise
Rehearsal Rough) (2:46)
1.26 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - Beautiful Mother (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough)
(1:04)
1.27 - Dirty Projectors, Björk - On and Ever Onward (Full Rehearsal Rough)
(2:38)

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