Name: Saint Bartlett
Brand: Damien Jurado

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SC192cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2010-05-25

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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656605019222

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Damien Jurado

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

American indie/folk singer/songwriter and guitarist. His solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, [l188419] Gaining a local cult following in Seattle, he was brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records by Sunny Day Real Estate singer [a=Jeremy Enigk].

His musical career is marked by periods of close collaboration with various musicians. Until about "I break chairs" his work was closely linked to [a=Pedro The Lion] and [a=David Bazan]. From then until "Caught In The Trees", [a=Eric Fischer] became his companion as a musician and producer. The most significant change in sound came when he met  the late [a=Richard Swift (2)], with whom he collaborated from "St. Bartlett" to "Visions Of Us On The Land."Since "The Horizon Just Laughed" [a=Josh Gordon] has been his new musical partner.

Other frequent contributors were the members of [a=Gathered In Song], [a=Rosie Thomas] and [a387255].

His full-length albums have been released on [l77343], [l35538], [l44370] and [l363414]. In 2021 he founded [l=Maraqopa Records]. From 2004 to 2007 he also co-ran  [l77015].

'saint bartlett' opens up with a grandiosity yet unheard on a damien jurado album. it strips away the many layers of paint from the house down the street where we know jurado has occupied for the last decade. the new coat is exhilarating. it makes the whole neighbourhood shine. it's a modest grandiosity; still homegrown. the mellotron swells, heavenly handclaps ring in stereo and big drums create a sky for the songs to fly in. and the words. words spring forth from within the volcano of jurado, full of hope. there's so much hope, in fact, that album opener 'cloudy shoes' turns into a call-and-response with himself, as though it were a dialogue between two halves of himself. "i wish that i could float up from the ground / i will never know what that's like" heavy stuff. richard swift's spector-esque production is spot-on. he ferries jurado across the river, where the metamorphosis occurs. he then ferries him back, and it is through swift's lens that we see jurado not as a folk singer, but as a mystic - somewhere between van morrison, scott walker and wayne coyne. 'saint bartlett' was made entirely at swift's national freedom studio in oregon, in just under a week with only jurado and swift as the performers.

Saint Bartlett

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