Angelo De-Augustine: Last News

Sufjan Stevens has said he thinks it’s about time he took a break and stepped back from music.The prolific singer-songwriter who has released four different projects over the last two years – including this year’s ‘Convocations’ and ‘A Beginner’s Mind’, his joint album with Angelo De Augustine – has recognised that he might need some time to himself.Asked by WNYC if he had anymore music on the way, Stevens replied: “I mean, yeah, I’m always working on something and always have three albums on the sideline waiting to happen.”However, he added: “I think it’s time for me to take a break and step back, and just be. And listen.”Stevens and Augustine’s ‘A Beginner’s Mind’ arrived in September through Asthmatic Kitty.

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have released two new tracks, ‘Back To Oz’ and ‘Fictional California’.The tracks will appear on the pair’s collaborative album ‘A Beginner’s Mind’, which is due to arrive on September 24 via Asthmatic Kitty Records.As previously announced, each track on the forthcoming collection was inspired by a separate film that the labelmates watched together: ‘The results are less a ‘cinematic exegesis’ and more a ‘rambling philosophical inquiry’ that allows the songs to free-associate at will,” they said in press material.Following on from ‘Reach Out’ and ‘Olympus’, the record has been further previewed today (August 10) with ‘Back To Oz’ and ‘Fictional California’, which were inspired by 1985’s Return To Oz and

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have announced their new collaborative album ‘A Beginner’s Mind’ – you can hear two songs from the project below.The 14-track LP is set for release on September 24 via Asthmatic Kitty Records, and was written when the two labelmates decamped to a friend’s house in upstate New York for a month-long songwriting session.“Watching a movie to unwind after each day’s work, they soon found their songs reflecting the films and began investigating this connection in earnest,” a press release explains about the album, which is said to be “(loosely) based on (mostly) popular films—highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between”.“The results are less a ‘cinematic exegesis’ and more a ‘rambling philosophical inquiry’