{"id":5412,"date":"2013-05-03T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:33:52","slug":"eluvium-streams-new-single-featuring-yo-la-tengos-ira-kaplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=5412","title":{"rendered":"Eluvium streams new single featuring Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eluvium<\/p>\n

In less than two weeks, the new double album from Portland based ambient composer Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium<\/a> will see the light of day. Nightmare Ending<\/em> is the follow-up to his 2010’s album Smiles<\/em> and drops on May 14th via Temporary Residence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘Happiness’, the closing track from the album, sees Eluvium collaborate with Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. Here’s what Cooper said about this joint effort:<\/p>\n

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“When I wrote ‘Happiness’, I knew that vocals would play an important part, but I wasn’t sure how to express them myself. Being the last song on the album, would it be a grand statement \u2013 or a smaller piece focused on minute details? At some point in time the fantasy of having Ira singing just came to me: “That would be amazing,” I thought. I mentioned this off-handedly (and most likely a little jokingly) to Jeremy at Temporary Residence, and he responded by saying something to the effect of “Well…why don’t we look into it? The next thing I knew, Ira was responding with words of affection about the music and then sending me recordings that he and James (McNew, also in Yo La Tengo) had made. I was astounded at how close to home the words felt; somehow Ira had managed to express this feeling of having courage and finding comfort in a way I would have never imagined.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Listen to ‘Happiness’ beneath.<\/p>\n