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. Iscriviti a prime ciao, accedi account e liste accedi account e liste ordini iscriviti a prime carrello. Eight years later, hegarty relocated to new york city and found a world more accepting of avantgarde sensibilities and sexual ambiguity. 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 hegarty on his new book, album, and plan for mandatory estrogen treatments for world leaders. Antony and the johnsons swanlights and book yen mag. Hegarty s work can be best understood by considering the life and art of the australianborn performance artist leigh bowery. Antony and the johnson swanlights cd and book cover. 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. Antony and the johnsons have released their most recent album swanlights along with a special edition art book. 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. Antony hegarty on his new book, album, and plan for. In the artists statement that closes the book, antony writes, i dont want your future. Swanlights by antony and the johnsons album, chamber pop.
The intersecting mediums inform each other and create an interesting dialogue with antony s music, his creative muse, and personal mythology. 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. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most. Antony and the johnsons takeover music the guardian. Antony hegarty on his new book, album, and plan for mandatory. Often fragmentary images, these pieces capture liminal states and elements of the unconscious. Swanlights is neither antonys most immediate nor best album. Antony and the johnsons get visual in their latest record and book. Words by antony hegarty of antony and the johnsons exclusively for vogue. You can also get the album with a 144page hardcover book.
Each copy includes the album and is designed to give fans a glimpse into the creative process and personal. 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. Her family moved to the san francisco bay area in 1981. Along with the willfully chaotic new album, hegarty is releasing a book, also called swanlights, which includes collages, photographs, and. She was formerly known as antony, the lead singer of the band antony and the johnsons anohni was born in chichester, england. Hegarty is releasing a book, also called swanlights, which includes collages, photographs.
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. 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 swanlights by hegarty, antony. Swanlights, the forthcoming album from new yorkbased collective antony. Antony hegarty supplements album with art book reuters. Swanlights is the fourth studio album by antony and the johnsons, released on 12 october. 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. 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 gets synesthetic for swanlights blackbook. 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. 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. Antony hegarty makes his visual arts debut with this tome comprised of drawings, paintings, collages and song lyrics. Swanlights by antony johnsons and antony hegarty 2010, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. 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. The swanlights book is a collection of thoughtprovoking paintings, drawings, collages, photography, and writings. 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. 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. Antony and the johnsons fourth album, swanlights, is released in october, preceded by an ep at the end of august. Antony hegarty is one of those artists that america produces but never seems to quite know what to do with. Antony and the johnsons swanlights 2010, hardcover book, cd. Fistful of love, hope theres someone, knockin on heavens door, you are my sister, bird gerhl live, biography.
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. An early incarnation was the cabaret ensemble blacklips. Some images are reclaimed and reconfigured in order to. Cut the world, swanlights, the crying light, turning, i am a bird now, singles. Antony and the johnsons fourth studio album, swanlights, arrived the following year. 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. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and. 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.
While swanlights shares its predecessors themes, it shuns its insularity, with antony stretching his arms across a vast landscape. In 1990, she moved to manhattan, new york to study at the experimental theater wing at new. Knockin on heavens door, swanlights, thank you for your love, aeon, epilepsy is dancing, top tracks. Antony and the johnsons to release swanlights album and art book. Antony hegarty bittersweet memories of the voice of. Antony and the johnsons will release their new album swanlights in october 2010. 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. 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. 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. Antony hegarty of antony and the johnsons has always been an innovator and iconoclast. The luminous ghosts and animal spirits that haunt the 144page art book that accompanies swanlights point the way toward this redemption.