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NEW Peter Mulvey Album Available NOW!
Title: Message
Check
this out... It's a new one from Peter Mulvey!
(P.S.
I've got a spare copy for sale... $12 + shipping. Lemme know if you're
interested in it!)
-drew
Peter Mulvey Announcement
Contents:
I) NEW ALBUM!
II) Letter from
Peter
III) Tourdates
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I) TEN
THOUSAND MORNINGS, the new album from Peter Mulvey, won't be in stores
until August 13 but it is available online NOW! See below for
ordering details and a Special Offer from Signature Sounds...
The
Album: Recorded live in the subway stations of Boston over the past year,
Ten Thousand Mornings is a collection of songs by some of Peter's
favorite songwriters, including Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, Paul Simon, Bob
Dylan, Randy Newman, Dar Williams, Marvin Gaye, and more. The album,
which features special guest appearances by Chris Smither, Erin McKeown,
Jennifer Kimball, and others, is also an enhanced HyperCD with video footage
for play on your computer (clips Peter playing in the subway,
etc).
Special Offer: FOR A LIMITED TIME, order 2 copies
of Ten Thousand Mornings and receive a FREE BONUS EP (five-thirty
a.m.) featuring additional songs not on the album (the Radiohead song
"Airbag", a guest appearance by Kris Delmhorst, and
more)!
Soundclips and online ordering at: http://www.signature-sounds.com
II) Letter
from Peter:
hey everyone-
it's always best when a
record is about something, so that your art pulls you along instead of
you pushing it. and, luckily enough, this record turned out to be about
three somethings.
first, it's about the subway, which i can
safely call the greatest single object lesson of my performing life.
like many people who play music for commuters, i started because i was short
on gigs and short on cash in the teeming scene of early nineties boston.
but in the davis square t-stop, i found myself a calling! i quickly
learned that, down there, ego fails. charm fails, will fails, gimmicks fail.
the only thing that succeeded for me (and then only sometimes) was
immersion. immersion in the moment and the music.
i
learned to love the time after rush hour, when the crush thinned out, the
intervals between the trains widened, and a single situation would play itself
out over and over, hypnotically, like beckett's godot or bill murray's
groundhog day - a couple dozen people wander to a halt in front of you,
they wait in the silence, and you --- you just try to reach them with
music. then a train comes and they go away. it sounds simple, and
i guess it is, but i have studied that single event literally thousands
of times, and through a mass of complication it has taught me that immersion
is the target of performance, the single best focus of resource and effort,
the thing to shoot for if you wish to communicate. and my, my, when it
does happen, when you become immersed and so do they... that's sublime.
i owe this insight to years on that subway bench.
the second subject of
the record is the wealth of great songs in the world. people have
referred to this as a cover record, but, to me, that doesn't ring true.
to me, it's more a record of interpretations. emmylou harris and don
byron, for example, do exactly what I'm trying to describe here. they
write, and i write, but writing is only part of the process. another
(and certainly a larger) part is performing music in real time for real
people, and interpretation of other artists' work is an inevitable part of
that. and i guess i'm drawn to a fairly wide selection of
material. with my own songs i work until they are outside of me, so i
can approach them as an interpreter. these songs have the added bonus of
starting outside me.
the third thing (and my favorite) is communication
with other musicians. this is the best part of it all... to sit down
with sean or anita, pick a few tunes, and hammer out the way we will play and
sing them together. it's a beautiful, lively, and inspiring process, and
sadly neglected among a lot of the singer/songwriter crowd. the guys on
this record, though, are great improvisers, and it was such a treat, such a
privilege, to sit down with them and take a few swings at things.
philip glass described music as "a sublime currency between people"
and i was enriched or electrified (depending on how you take his meaning) by
making this
record.
enjoy...
peter
III)
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Peter
Mulvey Tour Schedule
http://www.petermulvey.com
7/17 Project
Arts Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, http://www.project-arts.com
7/20 Center for the Arts, Natick,
MA, 508-647-0097
8/2 Timpanogos
Intimate Concert Series, Provo, UT,
801-375-4072
8/3 Park City Art
Festival, Park City, UT, http://www.kimball-art.org/
8/16 Emmett's,
West Dundee, IL,
847-428-4500
9/14 Schubas, Chicago,
IL, 773-525-2508
9/20 Canal Street,
Dayton, OH, 937-461-9343
9/21 Calvin
College, Grand Rapids,
MI
10/4 Burlington Coffeehouse,
Burlington, VT,
802-864-5888
10/5 Somerville Theatre,
Somerville, MA (Tickets on sale
SOON)
10/11 Happy Endings, Syracuse, NY,
315-475-1853
10/18 Andy's, Chestertown, MD,
410-778-6779
10/23 A State of Bean, Ludlow,
VT, 802-228-5216
10/25 Acoustic Cafe,
Bridgeport, CT, 203-335-3655
12/6 The
Cellar, Amherst, WI,
715-824-2400
12/7 Blue Moon
Coffeehouse, Bloomington, IL
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