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.
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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
Sufjan Stevens, Enjoy Your Rabbit "...an academic jam session of Stereolab and Luke Vibert conducted by Steve Reich." - XLR8R "Enjoy Your Dog"(Download)
