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***"One week after returning from extensive touring with my favorite irock bandi in the world, Akron/Family checked into the studio to record this album. The songs, including five of my own performed with Akron/Family serving as (my) Angels of Light, were tracked live to tape and mixed, with minimal overdubs, in just nine eight-hour days. While on the road I watched every show this band played, from beginning to end, for nearly forty consecutive nights, and was amazed every time. Audience response was astounding; these guys simply tore down the roof. iAt no time in the twenty-five years Iive been playing rock music have I come across a band that possesses the exuberant experimentation, flat-out intensity, and immediate accessibility of the Akron/Family. They generate such pure joy, coupled with such a wild sense of invention that itis impossible not to get sucked into the chaos of their world: gorgeous vocal harmonies; crazed clown marches; escalating psychedelic crescendos; backwoods country stomps; genuinely touching, plaintive songs; and on and on. A friend, struggling to describe them, declared that their music contains the entire history of rock ini roll. Preposterous, but sort of accurate. iAkron/Family are also adept accompanyists. They have an uncanny ability to step into the world of my songs-- without imposing their own aesthetic-- and lift them beyond what I could have initially imagined. Iive never had a better backing band." --Michael Gira, Angels of Light/Young God Records 30-second MP3 excerpts: Awake
Moment
We All Will
Future Myth
Dylan Pt. 2
Oceanside
Raising The Sparks
I Pity The Poor Immigrant
The Provider
One For Hope
Mother/Father
Come For My Woman If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks: go to iTunes to browse downloads for Akron Family/Angels of Light "Split" For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page. |
