{"id":22406,"date":"2025-02-27T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22406"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:04:22","slug":"david-longstreth-shares-three-song-suite-at-home-circled-in-purple-and-our-green-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22406","title":{"rendered":"David Longstreth shares three-song suite, ‘At Home’, ‘Circled in Purple’ and ‘Our Green Garden’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter David Longstreth<\/a> announced the release of Song of the Earth<\/em>, a song cycle for orchestra and voices performed by him with his band Dirty Projectors<\/a> and Berlin-based experimental ensemble\u00a0s t a r g a z e<\/a>, and conducted by Andr\u00e9 de Ridder. The forthcoming Song of the Earth<\/em> features a stellar cast of guest contributors including Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and it also includes words by journalist David Wallace-Wells.<\/p>\n

Following \u2018Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One<\/a>\u2019, Longstreth is teasing the album again with a three-song suite from the album, ‘At Home’, ‘Circled in Purple’ and ‘Our Green Garden’. Of the suite, he says:<\/p>\n

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\u201cPast reports of Dirty Projectors going full prog are greatly exaggerated; until now I\u2019ve never released an album with a straight-up suite of songs. As the slashes in the title imply, this is a three-song suite. It\u2019s just the way it happened. Consider it an entry in your \u2018A Day in the Life\u2019 \/ \u2018Paranoid Android\u2019 \/ \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 \/ \u2018Sicko Mode\u2019 category: a sprawling journey that feels like slipping into a dream. A kaleidoscopic river-of-consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The suite is offered with an accompanying lyric video and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n