Sufjan Stevens - Convocations

Name: Sufjan Stevens - Convocations
Brand: Asthmatic Kitty Records
SKU: AKR 145
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Genre: AMBIENT / NEW AGE / ELECTRONIC

Format: 5CD Edition

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5CD Edition
Release Date: 24/9/2021
Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

2LP Multi-colored Edition, Boxset
Release Date: 24/9/2021
Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic / ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.

Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime.

It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

5CD Edition 2LP Multi-colored Edition, Boxset

1-1 Meditation I
1-2 Meditation II
1-3 Meditation III
1-4 Meditation IV
1-5 Meditation V
1-6 Meditation VI
1-7 Meditation VII
1-8 Meditation VIII
1-9 Meditation IX
1-10 Meditation X
2-1 Lamentation I
2-2 Lamentation II
2-3 Lamentation III
2-4 Lamentation IV
2-5 Lamentation V
2-6 Lamentation VI
2-7 Lamentation VII
2-8 Lamentation VIII
2-9 Lamentation IX
2-10 Lamentation X
3-1 Revelation I
3-2 Revelation II
3-3 Revelation III
3-4 Revelation IV
3-5 Revelation V
3-6 Revelation VI
3-7 Revelation VII
3-8 Revelation VIII
3-9 Revelation IX
3-10 Revelation X
4-1 Celebration I
4-2 Celebration II
4-3 Celebration III
4-4 Celebration IV
4-5 Celebration V
4-6 Celebration VI
4-7 Celebration VII
4-8 Celebration VIII
4-9 Celebration IX
4-10 Celebration X
5-1 Incantation I
5-2 Incantation II
5-3 Incantation III
5-4 Incantation IV
5-5 Incantation V
5-6 Incantation VI
5-7 Incantation VII
5-8 Incantation VIII
5-9 Incantation IX

Meditations
A1 Meditation I
A2 Meditation II
A3 Meditation III
A4 Meditation IV
A5 Meditation V
B1 Meditation VI
B2 Meditation VII
B3 Meditation VIII
B4 Meditation IX
B5 Meditation X

Lamentations
C1 Lamentation I
C2 Lamentation II
C3 Lamentation III
C4 Lamentation IV
C5 Lamentation V
D1 Lamentation VI
D2 Lamentation VII
D3 Lamentation VIII
D4 Lamentation IX
D5 Lamentation X

Revelations
E1 Revelation I
E2 Revelation II
E3 Revelation III
E4 Revelation IV
E5 Revelation V
F1 Revelation VI
F2 Revelation VII
F3 Revelation VIII
F4 Revelation IX
F5 Revelation X

Celebrations
G1 Celebration I
G2 Celebration II
G3 Celebration III
G4 Celebration IV
G5 Celebration V
H1 Celebration VI
H2 Celebration VII
H3 Celebration VIII
H4 Celebration IX
H5 Celebration X

Incantations
I1 Incantation I
I2 Incantation II
I3 Incantation III
I4 Incantation IV
I5 Incantation V
J1 Incantation VI
J2 Incantation VII
J3 Incantation VIII
J4 Incantation IX

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