Yo La Tengo – “Super Kiwi”
Earlier this year, New Jersey indie royalty Yo La Tengo released their truly excellent new album Fade, and you should make a real effort to hear it if you haven’t already. One song that came from that album’s sessions but didn’t make the cut for the album is “Super Kiwi,” and the band is releasing it next month as a 7″ single, with a cover of the Beach Boys’ “A Day In The Life Of A Tree” as the B-side. Tortoise’s John McEntire produced “Super Kiwi,” just as he did on Fade, and it’s a gorgeous krautrock hymn with a few bursts of guitar discordance. Listen to it below.
The “Super Kiwi” 7″ is out 11/5 on Matador. Also on the way is a set of Yo La Tengo soft vinyl dolls. Via Matablog:
Experience the magical collaboration of Yo La Tengo and Jim Woodring. The three band members, Ira, Georgia and James come to life as 3 original characters in the land of “the Tree!”
Present/past/future, the real/unreal, visible/invisible, sadness/joy……”the Tree” will grow, enveloping all. And the ecstatic creatures that inhabit “the Tree” are the 3 beings blessed by the god of music. The curtain has been raised for Woodring’s mysterious and psychedelic dream land. But the story has just begun……
This product is a set of DVD and 3 soft-vinyl dolls. The DVD contains an original animation (5:20 minutes) of a mind-blowing colorful dream world that centers on “the Tree” and the 3 whimsical characters. It is made by a Japanese production company that specialize in hand-drawn animation: drop. And of course, All NEW music by Yo La Tengo! The 3 colorful soft-vinyl dolls were sculpted by Japanese master sculptor: Tomohiro Yasui. Beautiful packaging design by Jim Woodring with a bonus comic on the back.
Product Details
Soft-vinyl dolls:
prototype by: Tomohiro Yasui
material: soft vinyl
height: Ira 90mm/3.54″, Georgia 90mm/3.54″, James 100mm/3.93″
articulation: neckAnimation
length: 5:19
full color
characters and storyboard by: Jim Woodring
music by: Yo La Tengo
animation production by: dropPackaging
blister pack:300mm x 300mm
3 soft-vinyl dolls
1 DVD-NTSC / region free???
Pre-order those here.