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The Abilene, Texas composer and producer John Mark Lapham records under the name Old Fire, and he’s recruited an eye-popping list of vocalists for his new album Voids. In addition to appearances from Julia Holter, Adam Torres, and Emily Cross (Cross Record, Loma), the album features living legend Bill Callahan on three songs. One of them, a haunting cover of John Martyn’s “Don’t You Go,” is out today. It also features piano by Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman. If you’ve ever wondered what Bill Callahan singing a Radiohead dirge might sound like, it would probably sound a lot like this.
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The resurgence of Bill Callahan, a truly classic underground American songwriter, is appreciated — New Yorker and NY Times profiles; positive, historicizing Pitchfork review for newest dispatch Apocalypse — but it’s strange that his early, noisy, and especially dark albums have, more or less, been left out of the di...
submitted by Nick May 2nd 2011 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
NAME: Bill CallahanPROGRESS REPORT: One of music’s most mysterious songwriters talks about the Apocalypse, explores writing songs with a quill, and addresses the apparent futility of hope. Bill Callahan is the kind of musician that — even if you don’t happen to enjoy or understand what he’s doing — makes music that is a...
submitted by Nick Mar 23rd 2011 11:00 pm (stereogum.com)
“Baby’s Breath” is the first taste from Bill Callahan’s upcoming album Apocalypse. The first sound you hear is a quick uptake of breath. The next several minutes are Callahan’s beautifully rich voice up close. The tempo speeds up and slows underneath his vocals, while he picks out a hypnotic, spa...
Yesterday Bill Callahan stopped into Columbus, Ohio's Used Kids Record Store to promote his fantastic new record Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle. The intimate environment suits "Rococo Zephyr," with its lingering fingerpicking and ripple ripple rippling riverside imagery. Stripped of parenthesis and out of his Smog, Bill sits here sporting a f...
Bill Callahan settled in Plano, Texas last summer to record second solo LP I Wish We Were An Eagle. He completed basic tracking in four sleepless days, then handed the tapes off to arranger Brian Beattie. In a recent Progress Report, Bill explained his songwriting process: "I'm more about literal meaning or clarity. I pretty much have to write t...


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