Knockin on heavens door, swanlights, thank you for your love, aeon, epilepsy is dancing, top tracks. Swanlights is the fourth studio album by antony and the johnsons, released on 12 october 2010 worldwide through secretly canadian, and 11 october 2010 in the united kingdom through rough trade. Each copy includes the album and is designed to give fans a glimpse into the creative process and personal. Hegarty is releasing a book, also called swanlights, which includes collages, photographs. Swanlights, due october 6 on secretly canadian, features a duet with bjork who previously tapped hegarty for the 2007 album volta as well as a 144page supplemental book. Swanlights by antony johnsons and antony hegarty 2010, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. An early incarnation was the cabaret ensemble blacklips. The intersecting mediums inform each other and create an interesting dialogue with antony s music, his creative muse, and personal mythology. Swanlights is the fourth studio album by antony and the johnsons, released on 12 october. Antony hegarty supplements album with art book reuters. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most. The new antony and the johnsons album, swanlights, out today, has an almost apocalyptic preoccupation with the human body and its relationship to the earth. Antony hegarty ended thank you for your love, the ep that preceded his fourth lp, swanlights, with a pair of covers pressing on by bob dylan, and. Antony and the johnsons will release their new album swanlights in october 2010.
Hegarty s work can be best understood by considering the life and art of the australianborn performance artist leigh bowery. Antony hegarty gets synesthetic for swanlights blackbook. There was a sense that antony hegarty was at a creative crossroads on last years swanlights, struggling to free himself from the rueful corner hed. Antony hegarty, lead singer of the critically acclaimed band antony and the johnsons, presents his debut book collection of art a gorgeous combination of visual art, song lyrics and other various mediums painting, drawing, photography and collage that inform each other and provide an interesting commentary on antony s music, his own personal mythology and gender identity issues. In 2011, the albums publisher, abrams, issued a companion edition of swanlights collected in book form, with hegarty s paintings, drawings, photography, collages, song lyrics, and writings. She was formerly known as antony, the lead singer of the band antony and the johnsons anohni was born in chichester, england. While swanlights shares its predecessors themes, it shuns its insularity, with antony stretching his arms across a vast landscape.
Swanlights isnt exactly a beach record, but for antony hegarty, it does sound like a rough approximation of feeling good or at least a sincere attempt to pursue happiness and growth. You can also get the album with a 144page hardcover book. Antony and the johnsons have released their most recent album swanlights along with a special edition art book. In 1990, she moved to manhattan, new york to study at the experimental theater wing at new.
Swanlights is neither antonys most immediate nor best album. Antony and the johnsons swanlights by hegarty, antony author oct112010 hardback. Antony and the johnsons to release swanlights album and art book. Often fragmentary images, these pieces capture liminal states and elements of the unconscious. Fans and collectors will relish this lavishly produced volume, which includes antony s newest fulllength cd swanlights, and reveals the creative process of one of the worlds most gifted artists. Antony hegarty on his new book, album, and plan for mandatory estrogen treatments for world leaders. Its another achingly beautiful piece of work, and one that announces itself with the resoundingly positive everything is new a song that hovers in a minor key populated by harps and. Antony and the johnsons fourth album, swanlights, is released in october, preceded by an ep at the end of august. The swanlights book is a collection of thoughtprovoking paintings, drawings, collages, photography, and writings. Her family moved to the san francisco bay area in 1981. Antony and the johnsons takeover music the guardian.
The luminous ghosts and animal spirits that haunt the 144page art book that accompanies swanlights point the way toward this redemption. Academy award nominee for best original song, antony of antony and the johnsons presents his. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and. Eight years later, hegarty relocated to new york city and found a world more accepting of avantgarde sensibilities and sexual ambiguity. Antony hegarty, lead singer of the critically acclaimed band antony and the johnsons, presents his debut book collection of art a gorgeous combination of visual art, song lyrics and other various mediums painting, drawing, photography and collage that inform each other and provide an interesting commentary on antony s music. Antony and the johnson swanlights cd and book cover. Swanlights by antony and the johnsons album, chamber pop. Dreamlike and often bleakly environmental, antony depicts a. Antony hegarty of antony and the johnsons has always been an innovator and iconoclast. Antony and the johnsons have just released their new album, swanlights, with a 144page hardback book filled with collages and sketches by hegarty. Antony and the johnsons fourth studio album, swanlights, arrived the following year. Iscriviti a prime ciao, accedi account e liste accedi account e liste ordini iscriviti a prime carrello. Its being trailed as a lush, verdant contrast to the sparse crying light of 2008, partly because thats how publicity works, but also because it will be available alongside a book containing antony s paintings, writing and photography.
To accompany the album release, the band has produced a 144page art book also titled swanlights, which includes paintings, collages, photography and writing by antony. February 5, 2009 much of antony and the johnsons music has revolved around singer antony hegarty s efforts to come to terms with and explore his sexual identity. When antony mournfully intones on swanlights final track, christinas farm, everything is newevery sock and shoe, over a warm and stormy piano figure that echoes with the ghost of keith jarrett, it becomes apparent that swanlights truly is an album. Along with the willfully chaotic new album, hegarty is releasing a book, also called swanlights, which includes collages, photographs, and. While that albums tunes about acceptance, death, transformation, and loss were added to immeasurably by nico muhlys gorgeous string arrangements, swanlights employs the same band, this time augmented. Technically born in england, yes, hegarty grew up in america, and its where his music, under the name antony and the johnsons, became moreorless famous for its ethereal, emotional nature, and the way repeated phrases grow new tendrils of meaning through repetition and hegarty s. Antony hegarty makes his visual arts debut with this tome comprised of drawings, paintings, collages and song lyrics. Antony hegarty on his new book, album, and plan for mandatory. Antony hegarty on his new book, album, and plan for. Antony and the johnsons swanlights and book yen mag. Antony hegarty bittersweet memories of the voice of. Some images are reclaimed and reconfigured in order to.
Antony and the johnsons swanlights 2010, hardcover book, cd. Antony and the johnsons get visual in their latest record and book. Swanlights, the forthcoming album from new yorkbased collective antony. Antony and the johnsons swanlights by hegarty, antony. Swanlights, the fourth fulllength by antony and the johnsons, reveals that 2009s the crying light was a stepping stone that furthered his sophistication as a songwriter, arranger, and singer. Stare off antony hegarty is quite comfortable discussing his own death in his book swanlights, also the name of the latest cd from his band of antony and the johnsons. The accompanying text tells how the bear was shot in the heart but then ran across the ice for 200 yards before collapsing to his death. When you unwrap the slipcase it is in a nice transparent book cover with the antony and the johnsons logo and a sticker on the back that states the debut collection of visual art by antony of antony and the johnsons which includes his latest fulllength cd, swanlights. Technically born in england, yes, hegarty grew up in america, and its where his music, under the name antony and the johnsons, became moreorless famous for its ethereal, emotional nature, and the way repeated phrases grow new tendrils of meaning through repetition and hegarty. On possibly his most demanding record to date, antony hegarty displays. Words by antony hegarty of antony and the johnsons exclusively for vogue. Antony hegarty is one of those artists that america produces but never seems to quite know what to do with.
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