New Alec Ounsworth - "Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song For New Orleans)" (Stereogum Premiere)
This new song adds to a growing mass of music circulating the Internet this year from Clap Your Hands mastermind Alec Ounsworth. First there was CYHSY's song premiere on Fallon, then the great "Skin And Bones" from the record he just released under his Flashy Python moniker (which is still streaming in full). "Holy, Holy, Holy Moses" comes from Alec's third active project of '09, credited simply to Alec Ounsworth though incorporating many more, namely a backing band of New Orleans heavies featuring George Porter, Jr. on bass, Stanton Moore on drums, Robert Walter on keys, and Matt Sutton on baritone and pedal-steel guitars. We already dropped a bunch of details, but this is the first listen from the forthcoming Anti- release. Ounsworth says, "New Orleans informed the spirit of the record, as it should. It's not a New Orleans record, though, because, besides 'Holy, Holy, Holy Moses,' most of the songs weren't written specifically for New Orleans." Even then, don't expect "Holy" to recall your lost weekend in the Big Easy; this is a somber spiritual born of pianos, keyboards, and guitars, Alec kneeling, pleading, and praying his way through a wash of post-Katrina imagery. It's haunted though not without notes of hopefulness, and so very much a song for New Orleans.
Alec Ounsworth - "Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (Song For New Orleans)" (MP3)
Alec Ounsworth - "That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)" (MP3)
Mo Beauty is out 10/20 via Anti-.
[Photo by Amrit Singh from ACL 2007]
Posted at 5:06 PM by amrit in MP3
Tags: Alec Ounsworth | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Wow. Not giving up on him after Some Loud Thunder was almost worth it just so I could eventually hear this.
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I liked Some Loud Thunder.
and I like this.
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I really liked that.
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really nice song... this guy has a great talent in every band he participates
what I loved the most was the e-mail I received from "him":
My name is Alec Ounsworth. I have completed a project called FLASHY PYTHON: SKIN AND BONES. You can listen to the album (and buy it if you feel so inclined) here.
As you may or may not know, and I suppose the reason I'm writing you directly, another project that I have been working on for several years now is called CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH. This is not that and that is this nor is it the other (the other often tragically confused with him or her) . . .
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This sounds great.
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Some Loud Thunder was amazing - one of the best albums of 2007, and one of the most underrated albums of the zeroes. I've been loving Flashy Python, and this one sounds great, too - I'm very much looking forward to his solo album.
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