JAD FAIR • DANIELSON • KRAMER – “IN A LONELY PLACE”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
Today, Shimmy-Disc shares a new video for Kramer’s collaboration with Jad Fair & Danielson, “In A Lonely Place.” This new video follows the visual for Britta Phillips and Kramer’s collaboration, “Nocturne,” released earlier this year.
Wrote Kramer of the collaboration:
“When Jad Far and I set out to make THE HISTORY OF CRYING a few years ago, he said he didn’t have time to write lyrics until the end of that year, so I asked him if he might be able to write lyrics sooner if I sent him some song titles. He said yes, so I sent him 12 song titles, and two days later, I received from him a complete book of lyrics.
I employed the same tactic for this song. The phrase ‘IN A LONELY PLACE’ is evocative enough to require no supporting explanation. I created the music for the song and the video in service to those words, and the video simply illustrates the terrifying story therein. It sings soulfully, sadly, and simply, of a destiny we all potentially share, should we live long enough.”
This new track comes off a brand new LP boxset release from Shimmy-Disc entitled Rings of Saturn, a collection of six 7” LPs packaged in an ornate wooden box. Each aforementioned LP is a mini-collaboration between Kramer and artists such as Britta Phillips (Luna, Dean & Britta), Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers), Jad Fair & Danielson, Eerie Wanda, David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol), and Rob Crow (Pinback, etc). The boxset is limited to just 333 hand-numbered copies, and is only available via Shimmy-Disc.
ARTIST QUOTE
As Kramer wrote of the holistic project:
“In 2022, the pandemic seemed to be receding to the point where artists could work together again, side by side. So, returning to the spirit of my ‘Joyful Noise Recordings 2020 Artist-in-Residence’ vinyl box set…revisiting the borderless landscapes of audio art, tempered by the imaginations of the artists I chose to work with, then cast against the myriad infinities of mysteries betwixt those ageless, spinning rings… those rings that seem to sing, ‘…listen to us.’
Keep the rings open. Love cannot enter a clenched fist.”
As a preview of what the project entails, listen to Kramer and Jad Fair’s collaboration track, “In A Lonely Place,” now.
Jad Fair • Danielson • Kramer
[Video]
(Shimmy-Disc)
Release Date: May 5, 2023
Purchase Rings Of Saturn HERE
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