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ARTiST....: dm stith
TiTLE.....: curtain speech
LABEL.....: Asthmatic Kitty
GENRE.....: indie
SOURCE....: cdda
ENCODER...: i'm too lame to change the defaul
SiZE......: 22,1 MB
REL.DATE..: nov-24-2008
Catalognr.: n/a
Quality...: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / joint
Url.......: http://dmstith.com/
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01] around the lion legs 03:43
02] curtain speech 01:43
03] just once 07:37
04] hoarse sorrows and the whole blind earth... 02:51
05] abraham's song (firebird) 01:50
TOTAL TiME : 17:44 min
David grew up in a musical family but often kept
his own songs to himself. After moving to NYC to
write and work on art, he stumbled into the
Asthmatic Kitty family via Shara Worden of My
Brightest Diamond, who recruited him for design
help on her albums, and even to contribute backup
vocals and prepared piano to a few songs on Bring
Me The Workhorse. Shara encouraged David to share
his private songs with Asthmatic Kitty Records,
and after hearing only two demo songs, the label
invited David Stith to write and record an album.
Stith's debut comes in the form of Curtain Speech,
an aptly titled EP that serves as an introductory
tease for his forthcoming full-length, Heavy Ghost
(due in early 2009).
The songs on Curtain Speech reflect a literal
autobiography, referencing the songwriter's own
apprehension to emerge from behind the veil of
anonymity (from closet songwriter to recording
artist), as well as his recent nomadic ventures
from Brooklyn to Buffalo to Bloomington, Indiana,
where he's currently enrolled at the graduate
school for design at Indiana University. Written
and recorded over a year in Brooklyn, Houghton and
Holland, Michigan (an odd coincidence with the
label's own history), and mixed in San Diego with
Rafter Roberts, the final EP features appearances
by many of the extended label community including
Sufjan Stevens, Shara Worden, Rafter, Sebastian
Krueger and string quartet Osso.
The music on the EP redefines the listener's sense
of spaceùDavid's voice alternates between a bawdy
cavalcade of shouts and wails, a near whisper,
soaring lyrical falsettos, and clouds of ethereal
choral effects. The voice is the key here: the
widely varied instrumentation always serves to
support the vocal gestures. Some of the songs are
structured as suites, or mini-soundtracks, using
repeated themes but not always sticking to a
traditional verse-chorus-verse model. This
approach calls to mind contemporaries Antony and
the Johnsons, Grizzly Bear, and sometimes the
explosiveness of Animal Collective. However, a
handful of other influences cloud the comparison
as hints of the dissonance of Sonic Youth,
expressive vocal techniques of Caetano Veloso, and
the rhythm and textures of Phillip Glass underpin
even the simplest of gestures.
David's delicate yet confident voice sits among
lush arrangements of piano, guitar, strings,
electronics, choir, percussion and penny whistles.
He may have taken coaxing from friends to get on
stage, but now that he is there he stands
confidently and ready to perform the first act.
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