Trumans Water, O Zeta Zunis "None of their original fire and intensity has waned over the years,
their drive to intersect tune with noise at extreme velocity..." Line of Best Fit "5-7-10 Split"(Download)
We are proud to present our first visual compilation: Encyclopedia AsthmaticaVolume 1, a collection of distinctively Asthmatic Kitty visuals; the odd, the sublime, and the delectable. Gala and Zack Bent, have meticulously designed the box art and transferred their imaginative perceptions of our roster into the DVD's stop-animation menus, all set to characteristic music arrangements by jingle-virtuoso Rafter.
Everyone's here somewhere among these 30-some videos, from the playful choreography of the Think Dance Collective frolicking in shoes made of bread to the music of Half-handed Cloud, to the lovely abstraction of Sufjan Stevens' music by video artist Deborah Johnson; from the haunting and raw post-apocalypse video fuzz of live Castanets, to the crisp color footage of My Brightest Diamond at Northsix, there are visual pieces that hopscotch the chasm between the professionalism of a music-visual DVD to the rabid eccentricity of a five-copy, underground video-zine. Our patent homemade aesthetic is here too, with Bunky's bizarre yet appropriate space alien video, and a selection from Liz Janes that employs found footage. The Shapes and Sizes videos turn the incidental and accidental into a hidden design, while a video from the Curtains subverts the banality of surveillance video by rendering it magical.
Click on more to see a trailer for the DVD.
We are releasing Encyclopedia Asthmatica on March 4, but you can preorder it for a limited and slightly discounted price of $12.50 (+S&H) at Secretly Canadian Distribution's website here.
Track List BUNKY Hippopotamus (Live, SXSW 2005) Baba Space Alien CASTANETS A Song is not the Song of the World Smallest Bones Good Friend, Yr Hunger (Live, SXSW 2007) HALF-HANDED CLOUD You Wouldn't Embarass Me Would You? Tongues Possess the Earth Instead Think/Dance Collective performance LIZ JANES Jesus is a Dying Bed Maker All the Pretty Horses MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND Freak Out! Live @ Northsix Dragonfly Gone Away Magic Rabbit RAFTER Adventurers ZZZPenchant Gentlemen Hope Monsters Encouragement SHAPES AND SIZES Teller/Seller Jinker/That Fat Hand Can't Stop that (Sinking) Feeling SUFJAN STEVENS Jacksonville (Live, Calvin College 2007) Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake The Undivided Self (for Eppie & Popo) The Vivian Girls... Put the Lights on the Tree THE CURTAINS Go Lucky Spinning Top
Shapes and Sizes, Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner "...pleasantly surprises by reeling in the disparate styles and influences to make a comprehensive pastiche of sound, which can be both jolting and soothing, sometimes even within the same song." Pop Matters
