Originally conceived as a one-off collaboration between Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Kingfisher's Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater continues the tradition of detailed, reflective songwriting set by classic artists like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen and contemporary indie rock songwriters such as Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. The group began after Sheff and Meiburg had known each other for just a week with the idea that the duo wanted to make an album called
The Dissolving Room - 2001.
The pair exchanged songwriting ideas through e-mail and were so pleased with the results that they decided to make their project into a permanent, touring affair. The Dissolving Room was released in early 2001 by the Grey Flat imprint. The following year Shearwater released another album,
Everybody Makes Mistakes - 2002,
and their third album,
Winged Life - 2004.
Meiburg's influence over the direction of the band steadily increased over the years, and this trend continued on the band's fourth release,
Palo Santo - 2006.
The band moved from Misra to Matador that year, making way for the release of an expanded edition of Palo Santo in 2007.
The powerful and streamlined
Rook arrived in 2008,
followed by the dreamy
Golden Archipelago in 2010.
Shearwater joined the Sub Pop roster for the album
Animal Joy, released in February 2012,
a more direct, immediate offering featuring guest musicians such as Andy Stack (Wye Oak) and Scott Brackett (Murder by Death).
~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
Link:
Shearwater
myspace
official message board
wikipedia
Records:
The Dissolving Room - 2001
Everybody Makes Mistakes - 2002
Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral (Split CD with Okkervil River) - 2004
Winged Life - 2004
Thieves EP - 2005
Palo Santo - 2006
Palo Santo 2CD Expanded Edition - 2007
Rook - 2008
The Snow Leopard EP - 2008
Golden Archipelago - 2010
Animal Joy - 2012
Debates activos
 Elephantman escribió sobre
“Animal Joy - Out February 14, 2012” (4) Enero 2012 |
 ecorunner escribió sobre
“new album” (9) Abril 2010 |
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Elephantman escribió sobre
“Message from Jonathan 06/15 ” Junio 2009 |
 dvdjon escribió sobre
“The House of Thor” Mayo 2009 |
 Taliesinlives escribió sobre
“An interview with Jonathan Meiburg on Scientific American” Septiembre 2008 |
Últimas entradas de blog
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Shearwater @ Union Chapel, London
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19 May 2009
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Shearwater på John Dee, Oslo May 7 [posted in the Sheawater group forum)
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18 May 2009
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is playing @ Dour Festival ! D day - 7 [www.dourfestival.eu]
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10 Jul 2008
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Notas
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ed_natalia Not written, that I'm referring Shearwater... haha
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ed_natalia
When listening to music? For example, when you are sad? This is an example, of course.
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blogmeridian Elephantman, thanks very much for the link--I'm enjoying listening to it now.
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fekko interview (german) beim münchenkonzert diese woche http://www.afk.de/detail.php?afk_id=4&kat_id=14&id=7265
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Sandi71 concert to look at from 20.02.2010 in Frankreich, Saint-Malo http://liveweb.arte.tv/de/video/Shearwater_live_von_der_Route_du_Rock/
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Elephantman -
smiddy012 their new cd is amazing
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dvdjon -
dvdjon
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dvdjon
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97001174&ft=1&f=1110
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Sandi71
*medi* ;D
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dvdjon
New Shearwater album due to be released in February 2010. They played 2 new tracks at the concert in Oslo.
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Elephantman
Shearwater @ The Hi-Dive, Denver 08.31.2008 - http://tinyurl.com/dxp2rp
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Sandi71
thanks for the daytrotter-link, so good! :)
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Sandi71
just found it in your link, it's THE RAINBOW
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Sandi71
@dvdjon: which song of the spirit of eden is the covering-B-side-song?
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Sandi71
nice to meet! just discovered them with their stunning albums rook and palo santo, so amazing and athmospheric, they grow by every hearing, I'm addicted to, I agree with the similarity to spirit of eden (a few songs - opener of palo santo..) 74, 75 was my first love
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dvdjon
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dvdjon
Shearwater's 2 last albums I believe where heavily influenced bye Talk Talk's "The Spirit of eden" and " Laughing Stock" Also check out Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man "Out of season" Really good stuff. The B-side of Shearwaters single "Rooks" is a cover song taken from "The Spirit of eden" Happy listening!!! links: http://www.last.fm/music/Beth%2BGibbons%2B%2526%2BRustin%2BMan/Out+of+Season http://www.last.fm/music/Talk+Talk/Spirit+of+Eden http://www.last.fm/music/Talk+Talk/Spirit+of+Eden
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brother_james I'm getting back on the last LP, haven't heard it for months. The three tracks at the beginning are wonderful.
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- Abr 21 Shearwater An Club, Athens, Grecia
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