Sufjan Stevens: Illinois [2005]

Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, "ILLINOIS", a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State.

An engrossing musical road trip, "Illinois" takes you through ghost towns, grain mills, hospital rooms, and the City of Broad Shoulders, with guest appearances by a poet, a president, a serial murderer, UFOs, Superman, the goat that cursed the Cubs, and Decatur's famous Chickenmobile. Sufjan weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, "Illinois" ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens' emerging falsetto.

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Illinois [2005] (part1/part2)

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Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy Your Rabbit [2001]

Para que instantes intimos se nutran con amor, este disco es especialmente grato, comprende un delirio instrumental basado en estados alertas, despiertos, Sufjan Stevens cotejando momentos electrónicos, confrontándose con los medios artificiales que incubaron como vecinos, descargen y comenten.

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In order that intimate instants are nourished by love, this disc is specially pleasing, understands an instrumental delirium based on states you are alert, awake, Sufjan Stevens arranging electronic moments, confronting with the artificial means that they incubated as neighbors, come out and comment.

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Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans [2004]

En el vuelo libre siete cisnes, sus ojos contemplan el lago vacio de sueños que soltaste cuando llego la hora de dar tu alma, es cuando los cisnes se presipitan por todo lo que compone agua, aleteando, esparciendo vida y colores, un mundo perfectamente etereo entragado por las manos del mult-instrumentista Sufjan Stevens, olores a campo, hierva y barro, un pasivo control de la naturaleza, que sorprende con magia, misterios, para ellos que escriben durante largo tiempo solos, para algun día verte sonreir junto a tus hijos. Territorio virgen, imagen de tu cuarto y juntos en un inmóvil fotograma. Música que a mi gusto sana el alma, el cuerpo, que piensan ustedes detras de su monitor?.

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In the free flight seven swans, her eyes contemplate the empty lake of dreams that you gave up when I come the hour of giving your soul, ihe is when the swans falling for everything what composes water, fluttering, spreading life and colors, a world perfectly ethereal dice for the hands of the mult-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens, smells of field, he boils and I sweep, a passive control of the nature, which it is surprised with magic, mysteries, for them that they write during long time alone, for some day to meet smile together with your children. Virgin territory, image of your room and together in an immobile still. Music that to my taste cures the soul, the body, which you think behind of his(her,your) sreen?.

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Seven Swans