Bird on Your Grave [MP3]
Dying Breed [MP3]

Dear Marissa, will you play your famous song
your little song,
the one drifting over me
so light, and lovely
so fresh, and so old
will you play your little song for me?
I loved all the things you saw,
your little warbirds in the dark
I loved all the things you saw,
the ways in which the sounds fall
the ways in which your voice floats
into me

Marissa Nadler’s new album, titled Songs III: Bird on the Water, will be released on March 12th. It’s not as wonderful as the others were, it brings a whole new batch of wonders, packed neatly in a sack, to you, especially to you. Will you be the one say nay? This album is so full of wonders, one can only feel sorrow for letting only two flowers bloom here, but one can only hope that you will follow them and discover the miracles yourself, make them your own.
Marissa will be touring the US and Europe deep into May. Check out the dates on her MySpace page.
Relevant posts:
Live @ Resonance 104.4FM
The Saga of Mayflower May
Links:
Official website
Marissa Nadler MySpace page
Peacefrog Records

Dead Queen [MP3]
Children Of Stone [MP3]
Moon Occults The Sun [MP3]
From the diary of a music lover:

My musical exploration is chaotic, and by that I mean that it lacks any order, missing a method and even against forming one. At times all good music that I hear is wonderful, enchanting and spells me for life. At other times, it’s still good music, but it doesn’t touch. And thus, one of the main ideas of my musical world was born, the idea of missing. I miss a lot, and I can miss for years, and even for decades. Sometimes I find what I missed, I bump into it along the way, and what sounded good for such along time, sinks in, and sounds exciting, enchanting and grabs me. Some things I never find, and I miss them forever. Missing has been with me forever, it’s hunting me, and, actually, I don’t wish to get rid of it. By missing things, I give them the opportunity to come to me later. Yes, music comes to me. I think I was born this way, it just comes to me. It took me a while to understand it, grab it when it comes and hug it tightly, but it always came, even before I was ready for it. This is how I missed Björk, Stina Nordenstam, Neko Case, DJ Shadow, Devendra Banhart and many more. I know I missed them because today I have them, they came to me, loving and calling. This is how, a while ago, I missed Espers. Today, Espers came to me, and it grabbed me. Haunting, enchanting, freakish, it came to me wearing its best clothes, armed to make me fall in love. It worked, I fell in love. With Espers. Missing is wonderful, as long as they come back to you. What a shame it doesn’t work with people.

Links:
Espers by Espers post @ tinyways
Espers @ MySpace
Official website

Emily [MP3]
Cosmia [MP3]
Between 1848 and 1874 Richard Wagner made his attempt to create an ultimate work of art by creating his Ring Cycle. Four operas, totaling in 15 hours. Through stories loosely based on Germanic paganism, he create an encompassing work of art, a most powerful (and Wagnerian) work of art, which holds over its plot an entire cultural world. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe created Faust, on its two parts, between 1772 and 1832 (with only his death putting an end to the creative process). Faust also envelopes in it, upon the plot, a whole world of cultural ideas and references. Faust is over 12000 lines long, covering around 700 pages. It seems as if both men tried to summarize an entire cultural world in their works, and not just tell a story or deliver a message. Both pieces are lengthliy and full of cultural references, which it mights take the reader a life time to wholly uncover.
Joanna Newsom in her new album - YS - seems to wish to create her ultimate work of art. She takes her time, and the songs develop to enchanting tales of up to almost 17 minutes. The record contains only five tracks, but each track is a huge piece, containing both her elfish storytelling and a full fledged instrumental creation, both entwined one into the other, but both stand as brilliant on their own, and together from a true masterpiece. Joanna wished to do a lot, like great people before, and, like them, succeeded in creating a wholesome work of art, which, in a similar way to some progressive rock albums, manages to catch the listener and attract him into her world, her whole cultural world. This record is not just an idea, it’s not just a single message, it’s a whole cultural universe.
Links:
Joanna Newsom @ Dragcity
Milkymoon (fan site)