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"Red River"

by Rocky Votolato
This song comes from Rocky Votolato's new record True Devotion. He'll celebrating it's release at Neumos on March 13th

Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames

At Neumos ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth
Laura Veirs is at the Tractor Tavern March 13th with the Old Believers and Cataldo

The Round 58

March 9th at the Fremont Abbey, Tacoma's Goldfinch play the Round with local potters as the featured artists

September 15, 2009

The BQE at NWFF -OR- all Seattle is likely to see of Sufjan this year

THE BQE- A Film By Sufjan Stevens from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.

September 20th through 22nd, Capitol Hill’s Northwest Film Forum will be screening the the BQE, a joint film and orchestral creation from the mind of Sufjan Stevens. Initial commissioned as a part of a 2007 Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) event, the film that’s inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is the only peep out of Sufjan Seattle is likely to get this year. We weren’t lucky enough to be in New York last weekend for his ATP Seven Swans set and his upcoming tour reinterpreting Enjoy Your Rabbit doesn’t bring him across the Rocky Mountains, so us Western Sufjanites will just have to do. Check the hula-hoop filled trailer above and then download one of the tracks below.

MP3: Movement VI–Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges by Sufjan Stevens from the BQE courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty Records

The BQE plays NWFF Sunday September 20th through Tuesday September 22nd, at 7pm and 9pm daily.

The BQE arrives on DVD October 20th. Pre-order it from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

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November 8, 2007

A Taste of Sufjan’s ‘The BQE’

Recently Sufjan was commissioned to write a 25-minute musical arrangement for a New York festival called “The Next Wave Festival” put on by the Brooklyn Art Museum. The festival took place last week, and Sufjan dropped by the WNYC studio to preview a couple of the songs on air. The entire piece is called ‘The BQE’, named after the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a prominent slice of freeway in New York City. The interview is quite informative, covering alot of ground, but focusing on his creative process for this piece and how it’s different from his other work. Sufjan hints a recording of the entire ‘The BQE’ complete with the visuals as it appeared at the festival may appear one day, but for now, this is the best we’re going to get. They couldn’t get the entire 30-piece into the studio, so it’s a pared down version, but it’s still identifiably Sufjan, and those with a love for his hyper-active oboe’s will definitely be pleased. 

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