This item has now sold out but take a look at what else we have in by shearwater or similar artists. It allows you to download and manage your dive logs and also update the firmware on your shearwater dive computers. Sheerwater, the golden archipelago teaser on vimeo1. Shearwaters jonathan meiburg and designer mark ohe created a deluxe 75page dossier of exotic images and documents to accompany sws new album. Jan, 2010 shearwater deleted is raising funds for shearwater the golden archipelago limited edition dossier on kickstarter. Rook is the fifth studio album by american indie rock band shearwater. Downloads and gift vouchers do not count towards free shipping. Its been an exciting six months since the campaign for the new shearwater album smashed all our expectations.
We present the 2008 year in news, a roundup of musicrelated triumph, tragedy, and kookery from the pages of over the past year. We use cookies for a number of reasons, such as keeping ft sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to. Mar 01, 2010 three months into working on the golden archipelago, the new album by shearwater, the groups vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, jonathan meiburg, listened to a recording of the bikini atoll national anthem on the internet. The snow leopard ep october 14, 2008, digital download. The golden archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly beautiful, dense and ambitious excursions about mans impact on the natural world. It opens with a choir of islanders singing the national anthem of bikini atoll, and straight away you know youre not in for a normal record. Meiburgs voice is a wonder throughout, wonderfully fragile on hidden lakes, tearing it up on corridors. In order to sync your dives with cloud mobile you have to download shearwater cloud desktop by clicking here. The album was recorded in the spring of 2010 and includes live material recorded at a performance under the pseudonym enron. Shearwater is an american indie rock band from austin, texas, led by multiinstrumentalist and lead singer jonathan meiburg the band was formed by two members of okkervil river, backup vocalist and accordionkeyboard player jonathan meiburg and singer and guitarist will sheff, so they could write quieter songs. Shearwater downloads dive computer dive log software. Includes free mp3 download of album, plus pdf of 52page fullcolor dossier.
They craft music that feels very personal in a wide open field. Meiburgs a keen ornithologist hence the band name and with the golden archipelago wraps up a trilogy of albums drawing themes from the impact human beings have had on the environment. Check out the golden archipelago amazon exclusive edition by shearwater on amazon music. See, the golden archipelago is shearwaters most visual project yet. Shearwater the golden archipelago 2010, vinyl discogs. The best way to describe shearwaters new album the golden archipelago is by using an oxymoron. Features song lyrics for shearwater s the golden archipelago album.
This time singersongwriter jonathan meiburg turns his attention to life on islands a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden cataclysms. Shearwater desktop downloads dive log desktop software for. Matador texan indie outfit shearwater dont lack ambition, or for that matter, pretension. Subscribe to entries all content 2020 by shearwater site questions. While their records have always been packaged in beautiful cases illustrated by watercolours or drawings of various species frontman jonathan meiburg is a welldocumented birdwatcher and voyager, for this album they went the extra mile. Includes unlimited streaming via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac and more. Okkervils singer and guitarist, will sheff, and backup vocalist and accordionkeyboard player, jonathan meiburg formed shearwater so they could write softer, more folkinfluenced music. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cooki.
The golden archipelago amazon exclusive edition by. If anything trips this album up, itll likely be that the tracks, taken individually, dont do justice to the whole. Originally conceived as a oneoff collaboration between okkervil rivers will sheff and kingfishers jonathan meiburg, shearwater continues the tradition of detailed, reflective songwriting set by classic artists like nick drake and leonard cohen and contemporary indie rock songwriters such as bill callahan and will oldham. On november 6, 2010, the band released an instrumental album, shearwater is enron, via bandcamp. It was released on february 23, 2010, on the matador records label. The golden archipelago is the third in a loose trilogy also comprising 2006s palo santo, and finds meiburg broadly contemplating life on remote islands, many of which hes actually visited. Numerous acts have plied similar waters in recent years fine offerings from bowerbirds, midlake and andrew bird spring to mind, but with the golden archipelago, shearwater really go for broke a limited run of meiburgassembled dossiers were even made available, illuminating its central themes via his studies. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology. Shearwater was formed by two bandmembers of austin, txs okkervil river. Visit our website to update shearwater firmware, downloads product manuals and documentation or get the shearwater desktop diving software for free. The golden archipelago, a toothy, epic examination of island life, both physical and metaphysical, is enigmatic to say the least the deluxe edition includes a massive sepiatone 75page dossier that could have easily served as the foundation for an episode of abcs lost, but it lacks the magic of rooks more muscular moments. The track black eyes is the first single from the album. Based on the golden archipelago, shearwater are perfectly served by the medium.
Features song lyrics for shearwaters the golden archipelago album. On january 15, 2011, shearwater presented the three albums of their thematicallylinked island arc trilogy palo santo, rook, and the golden archipelago in a soldout, 3hour epic concert with longtime friends and collaborators at austins central presbyterian church. Feb 22, 2010 its fitting that shearwater conceived their latest album, the golden archipelago, as an escape fantasy about life on an isolated island, considering how insular the group has become. The record has just a couple of tracks that would be especially striking outside of their context on the lp. Stream ad free or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. The golden archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly beautiful, dense and ambitious excursions about mans impact on the natural world from austins shearwater. Listen free to shearwater the golden archipelago meridian, black eyes and more. Its the kind of atmosphere that resonates, as if a deep magnetic presence is matching the vocal gusto and the shimmering instrumentals of the band itself. Listening to the golden archipelago, youll realize that the last three shearwater albums really are all one big movement.
So its something of a credit that shearwaters the golden archipelago ends up providing at least a rough sketch of what we can assume life is like on a string of islands. The question facing shearwater upon the release of the third in a trilogy of albums is how to follow up, in rook, what has quietly become somewhat of a defining work. The golden archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly. Jun 05, 2011 from the album the golden archipelago lyrics a calm then the roaring wall of the eye as we sailed to the world from an insular life from the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives from. The golden archipelago, an album by shearwater on spotify. Shearwater the golden archipelago limited edition dossier. As contradictory a phrase that small scale grandeur might be, it seems incredibly apt when listening to the band. Shearwater desktop links your desktop computer to your shearwater dive computer.
Dec 03, 2009 so its something of a credit that shearwaters the golden archipelago ends up providing at least a rough sketch of what we can assume life is like on a string of islands. This is sheerwater, the golden archipelago teaser on vimeo1 by reijnders producties on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love. The golden archipelago concluded the bands island arc trilogy, a project also encompassing palo santo and rook. Shearwaters golden archipelago sounds mighty familiar. The golden archipelago is the sixth studio album by american indie rock band shearwater. Read on wikipedia edit history talk page print download pdf.
The golden archipelago has much in common with its predecessors palo alto and rook both thematically and musically but an added muscle has been added to provide steel upon which to construct the yearning fragility that has now. Subscribe for recording news, tour announcements, and the occasional exclusive free download. Since their split from their sister band okkervil river a half. Shearwater the golden archipelago releases discogs. Shearwater released the album on both cd and vinyl. There is a thickness in the air on shearwaters new album the golden archipelago. Shearwater is an american indie rock band from austin, texas, led by multi instrumentalist. This album is the final instalment of a triptych of records about environmental and personal decay. Shearwater is a rather more quietened and nuanced project than okkervil, however, and seems inextricably linked to the natural world.