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― Beer Can (Beer Can), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:34 (10 years ago) Permalink
In an experiment of collaboration, songstress Nina Nastasia and the incomparable percussionist Jim White have announced the release of their album, You Follow Me. The album, which will be released on May 28th, 2007, is Nastasia’s second release on Fat Cat Records. White – who is best known for his work with the highly regarded instrumental group Dirty Three as well as lending his hand to the projects of Will Oldham, The Boxhead Ensemble, Smog, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey – thought up the idea of a collaboration between himself and Nastasia after the recording of her album, On Leaving, for which he played drums. The album was recorded with the legendary Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio studio in Chicago after White and Nastasia worked together with musical organizer Kennan Gudjonsson with the process of fine tuning the album in New York.
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she was on blistering form in glasgow last night. this is the 4th time i have seen her and the first time i have seen her play solo. i was quite disappointed when i saw the setup, i thought i would miss jim white, but when she started playing... oh wow. much rawer than before. the rawness is usually lurking there under a fairly demure surface but this time it was all there for us to see. really amazingly great.
― jed_, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
Looking forward to seeing her at Green Man.
― Neil S, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
happy to hear that. when i saw her solo here in Mtl last, it was dull.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
she is a genius
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 4 August 2008 15:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Nina w/ orchestra? Fuck yeah.
This could be very good.
― Turangalila, Monday, 22 March 2010 06:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/n_lp_ninanastasia_10.jpg
― Turangalila, Monday, 22 March 2010 06:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
Track off the new album available for download here:
http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/nina-nastasia-album-preview
Another track appeared on a FatCat sampler not so long back: "You Can Take Your Time" which for me was the highlight of her last Peel Acres session (6 years ago, give or take a few months!) The album version is great, but the live-at-Peel-Acres version was better, for my money at least.
― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 1 April 2010 17:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
A bit of street-teaming here so forgive me. Today at 5:30 GMT, there's an interview with Nina that I engineered, three live tracks including an untitled new one, it's on Resonance FM, the show is called Arctic Circle.
― Dick Move's Wardrobe (MaresNest), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh shit! thanks for the heads up
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 22:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/3/4/7/347cb6d6c36d33cb/Resonance__51_24-05-12.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01cb803ed9c15a528e&c_id=4560123
^^just listened! great stuff! sounds awesome btw, good job engineering.
she is a staggering talent, every performace i've seen or watched on youtube, it's just flawless playing and singing....
also she seems really cool and funny, way less serious than i thought she would be.
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 May 2012 23:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
thanks, MaresNest x
― jed_, Saturday, 26 May 2012 00:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
Thanks guys!
It was a little problematic, the idea of meeting her as I'm a big fan, it could only be a letdown? In truth, NN and Kennan were incredibly gracious and nice to us, we plied them both with whisky and they hung out in the studio and chatted with us and some London friends of theirs for a good while afterwards. I really can't say enough nice things about them. And, of course the added bonus of watching/listening to her perform, well...damn.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 May 2012 15:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
I spoke to her twice after gigs when she was milling around. one feels like one shouldn't say hello and thanks to artists but she was lovely and, i think, even appreciated it. i have to say that the second gig was really special though, maybe my favourite gig ever, in fact.
― jed_, Saturday, 26 May 2012 16:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
I was lucky enough to see her and Jim white perform as a duo on that tour, what a show
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 26 May 2012 16:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
her & jim white clanking along is still some sort of transcendent moment in acoustic-guitar-player-presentation, to me, like it was some amazingly novel moment, & record, that demonstrated making something that's more than the sum of its parts. so good.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Sunday, 27 May 2012 09:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
couldn't get the above link to work today, but found this one:
http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1769
― koogs, Monday, 28 May 2012 15:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
the best
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2012 06:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
truth bomb^
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 19:49 (7 months ago) Permalink
she really is.
― jed_, Monday, 22 October 2012 20:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
So how does Outlaster stack up?
― Evan, Monday, 22 October 2012 21:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
i think it's great....though honestly i have my personal favorites but i think all her albums are of super high quality
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:45 (7 months ago) Permalink
I have "Dogs" on socialist records and really like it. Have always been looking for the album with Jim White, and saw Outlaster on vinyl recently for pretty cheap, like $9.99. I wasn't sure about it though. Always considered her a less alienating alternative to Mirah, and not in a bad way.
― Evan, Monday, 22 October 2012 21:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
don't know mirah....outlaster on vinyl for $10 is a bargain
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh! Give her a shot. Try the "Advisory Committee" album.
― Evan, Monday, 22 October 2012 22:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
Got Outlaster on vinyl the other week. As scott mentions in an Outlaster thread, it sounds great and the packaging is fantastic. I used to be a total stan for the simpler arrangements in Dogs, but the strings in Outlaster won me over in the end. I have to add Dogs to the vinyls wanted list, though. I first heard Dogs while visiting a friend in the Audio Recording program at IU. A professor let him borrow it as an example of a great recording.
― overfaded aeropostale bootcuts I have owned (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
Dogs has been reissued at least once on vinyl, I bought it from her when she played in mpls w/Jim White
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
Reissued in Europe maybe? All of the copies on discogs ship from Germany/the Netherlands
― overfaded aeropostale bootcuts I have owned (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah no idea, but there's no way it was the orig. press...unless she had a box leftoever that she brought on tour
the jim white record is kinda hard to find i think, now...i grabbed the last copy she had from the merch table and bummed everyone behind me out
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
btw, evan - mirah (the name) was bugging me and i realized a friend of mine put out a bunch of her records (or at least the vinyl versions)
Jim white collab on lp recently went for 80+ on eebs.
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2012 22:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
damn, i don't think i'd part w/it though
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
when amazon says it's "temporarily out of stock", does it really mean "probably out of stock forever"?
― overfaded aeropostale bootcuts I have owned (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah probably gone...
honestly, sometimes if you have a decent bigger indie record store in your town you could call over and see if they have one collecting dust for list price, i've found stuff like that before
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
That's neat your friend put out some Mirah records! She's really great, though her last album was OK.
Passing on Outlaster for $9.99 is going to bug me like crazy, though it would only have saved me what $6 or so?
It's going to cost me at least $5 in metro to make a trip if it is still there so I don't know if it'll remain such a bargain.
― Evan, Monday, 22 October 2012 23:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
jim white album is straight fire, big ol bango drums
― j., Monday, 22 October 2012 23:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah that record is the shit. i was gonna say outlaster was my fav (tbh there is something pretty about the first couple of records that turns me off a lil, all of which is buried by you follow me) but i feel like it's such an exemplary & singular example of a successful combination of two instruments, like sunship or something, that it earns extra points.
outlaster slays though. side two. the best instrumentation, some of her spookiest songs. like writing wakes, it's so confident, the first line is just such a stray intriguing opening image.
― *buffs lens* (schlump), Monday, 22 October 2012 23:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
i like them all
dogs and blackened air maybe have a bit of a vibe where someone might have once described her as "alt country"? (though i think even then she's very distinctive, but she had more conventional elements to her songwriting that were shed as she went on)
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 23:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Blackened air is some p dark shit. Love the strings on that one
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2012 23:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
At the risk of extreme challops, the moment where the instruments land on 'Run, All You' might be the single greatest entry in recorded music history.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:19 (6 months ago) Permalink
Me too! I realized that when I was writing a review of Outlaster -- she's made six good-to-great albums in a row. I have personal favorites, both albums and songs, but I think everything she's done is worth having.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:56 (6 months ago) Permalink
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― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:23 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
No one close
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i'm only one lp away from completing my NN discography but unfortch it's 'you follow me'.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:45 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
yfm is the bomb
sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:49 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
there was that weird show she did w/kim deal, which was supposedly 'a new project' but i never heard anything about it other than that show.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 2 May 2013 00:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
sorry schlump, i just needed to post something cos i'm eager for new material.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 2 May 2013 01:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 2 May 2013 04:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
"sad this isn't a bump announcing a new record, I am ready"
argh! yeah got excited there for a second.
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 May 2013 14:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
ready for a new rekkid too
― ヘイシグ・ブローズ (MaresNest), Thursday, 2 May 2013 23:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
she keeps pretty quiet on the social media front so there's not much in the way of recent updates. her last five tweets are over the past 18 months and are either a heads-up about shows or a quick mourning for christopher hitchens.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 2 May 2013 23:15 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
the peel sessions on that blog got a takedown request from the record company with the promise of a proper release in the works. that was, what, 2 years ago now?
― koogs, Friday, 3 May 2013 06:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink