Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams have made an instrumental new age album called Aporia, which will be released on AKR March 27, 2020. Read more here.

Listen to the first single here. Pre-order the limited edition yellow LP, yellow cassette, or CD here.

Sufjan & Lowell have curated a New Age listening playlist in celebration of the release here. Follow the playlist as we’ll be adding more tracks as we get closer to release date.

On October 18th, Sufjan will release his score for Justin Peck’s ballet The Decalogue —ten etudes for solo piano—on digital platforms and a vinyl deluxe edition. CD and standard edition vinyl will follow on December 6, 2019.

You can watch a trailer for the recording above, or the first track release from The Decalogue, “III,” below.

The Decalogue is the fifth collaboration between New York City Ballet Resident Choreographer Peck and Sufjan, following 2012’s Year of the Rabbit, 2014’s Everywhere We Go, 2016’s The Countenance of Kings and most recently, 2019’s Principia.

Performed by the pianist Timo Andres, this recording of The Decalogue is the first time the score, originally premiered during the New York City Ballet’s 2017 season, is available to the public.

Brooklyn-based composer-pianist Timo Andres has written major works for the Boston Symphony, Carnegie Hall, the Barbican, the Takács Quartet, the Concertgebouw, and elsewhere. He performs regularly with Gabriel Kahane, and has frequently appeared with Philip Glass, Becca Stevens, Nadia Sirota, the Kronos Quartet, John Adams, Ted Hearne, and others.

As a pianist, Timo has performed at Lincoln Center, for the New York Philharmonic, the LA Phil, at Wigmore Hall, for San Francisco Performances, and at (le) Poisson Rouge. Upcoming highlights include a curated program for the Cincinnati Symphony (featuring Dance Heginbotham and a performance of Andres’s cello concerto, Upstate Obscura), and a solo piano recital for Carnegie Hall. Previous work with Sufjan includes the orchestration of Principia.

The deluxe, limited edition of The Decalogue includes a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket, 180-gram vinyl, a 40-page song chart book, a monotype print from visual artist Charlotte de Mezamat, and a download card. If purchased directly from AKR, the deluxe edition also includes a 20-page 12×12 photo booklet.

Preorder the album from AKR here, or check with your favorite local record store.

Sufjan has also released a short trailer, and “III,” the third track from The Decalogue. Both pull iconography from the design of The Decalogue physical product and set to visuals by frequent collaborator Stephen Halker of Unreasonable Studios.

Angelo De Augustine today shared a video for the title track of his new album, Tomb, along with a video directed by Jess Collins, featuring shots of Angelo in the hills of California.

The video follows The FADER premiere of an intimate live video of lead single “Time,” featuring Sufjan Stevens on grand piano and filmed in Manhattan’s Reservoir Studios (where Tomb was also recorded), released alongside the album version.

Tomb, the album, arrives in stores and on streaming platforms in January. We have limited edition red and yellow vinyl available for preorder here.

We’re also pleased to announce a tour in February

Angelo De Augustine tour dates:

02/17/19 – Bristol, UK @ The Folk House (Tickets)
02/18/19 – London, UK @ Oslo
02/20/19 – Stockholm, SE @ Obaren
02/21/19 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
02/23/19 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg, Club Nine (Tickets)
02/24/19 – Ghent, BE @ Democrazy (Tickets)
02/25/19 – Paris, FR @ Le Pop Up du Label (Tickets)
02/26/19 – Amsterdam, NL @ Upstairs at Paradiso (Tickets)
02/27/19 – Berlin, DE @ Privatclub (Tickets)
02/28/19 – Malmo, SE @ Babel (Bar) (Tickets)

On November 9 we are proud to release two versions of Sufjan Stevens’ song, “Lonely Man of Winter,” along with Alec Duffy’s song, “Every Day is Christmas” on digital platforms. On December 7 we will release a limited pressing on seven-inch vinyl featuring the two versions of “Lonely Man of Winter.”

Proceeds will benefit Brooklyn non-profit performance venue JACK (of which Alec Duffy is founder & artistic director) in its mission to fuel experimentation in art and activism and help it serve as a launch pad for the next generation of artists. Pre-save on your favorite streaming platform here, or pre-order the limited edition 7-inch vinyl here.

In 2007, Alec Duffy won Sufjan Stevens’ Xmas Song Xchange Contest with his song, “Every Day is Christmas” and exchanged the rights to the song for Stevens’ “The Lonely Man of Winter,” (a song that Stevens wrote and recorded specifically in response to Duffy’s song). Using the opportunity to recreate a time before the internet, Duffy and his friend, composer Dave Malloy decided to create an experience in listening to the song. They held listening sessions, which started at their homes and soon expanded across the country, as well as a few sessions in Europe.

By 2012, Duffy had founded JACK, and soon found himself without time to continue the sessions. He approached Asthmatic Kitty to see if they would release the song as a way to raise money for JACK.

In addition to the song by Duffy, the release includes Sufjan’s own newer version of “Lonely Man in Winter” recorded in 2018. This new version is produced by Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) and features a performance by Melissa Mary Ahern.