New album “Are’s & Els” featuring Magik*Magik
Orchestra to be released June 5th.
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Michael
Gerard Levasseur of Michael The Blind. Photo Credit: Rachael Renee’ Levasseur.
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“Sympathies” is the latest single and
video from the upcoming Michael The Blind album “Are’s & Els”
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“Michael’s
songs create a rare phenomenon. …this cavernous space feels almost too
intimate.” – Willamette Week (Portland, OR)
“...the
velocity of punk rock with mellifluous traditional folk instrumentation... ...
one of Portland’s most exceptional musicians.” – Portland Mercury
My Old
Kentucky Blog has exclusively
premiered the video for the new single “Sympathies”
by Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Michael Gerard Levasseur aka Michael
The Blind at http://www.myoldkentuckyblog.com/?p=29624.
The clip was shot a mere 12 days ago in New York by director
Dominic DeJoseph (REM, Dandy Warhols, The Stills)
at a new private writers and artists club called The Oracle. The cast of “Sympathies”
includes local New York-based artists, comedians and musicians including
photographer Kelsey Bennett and her
sister, actor Remy Bennett, both of
whom happen to be granddaughters of singer Tony
Bennett.
Of the clip’s stark imagery, DeJoseph says, “The image of Michael
lying on his back singing while others lie down next to him occurred to me as
the choral section came in the first time I heard the song. I didn’t want to
see an actual chorus singing, but this image seemed to create a similar effect
of togetherness.”
According to Levasseur,
“Sympathies” was written as an
attempt at illustrating the plasticity of the relationships we have with the
objects that make up our personal environment. The “things that we adore”
referred to in the song point to our obsessions with cultural icons (t-shirts
of Ché, postcards with radioactivity symbols, stock footage of the A-bomb, etc.),
as well as old love letters, sentimental jewelry or other near and dear objects
that we use as a touchstones in our personal narrative.
Levasseur explains, “I think this idea has fascinated me for a
long time and the ways in which it affects my own relationships with the
objects and people that I choose to surround myself with are thoroughly pervasive
yet difficult to pin down.”
Michael The
Blind’s latest album Are’s
& Els will be released by Alder
Street Records on June 5th. Michael Gerard Levasseur is available
for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Michael The Blind
Are’s &
Els
(Alder Street Records, June 5th,
2012)
02. Instead
03. Can’t Stay
04. Metaphor Life
06. Who Is She?
07. Just Life A Song
08. Depth Perception
09. All & More
10. Have It Out
11. My Regards
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Michael The Blind Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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