Out today, as a gift to fans, via Nonesuch/New Amsterdam/Transgressive Records is a new instrumental version of David Longstreth’s Song Of The Earth, performed by Dirty Projectors and Stargaze. The song cycle for voices and chamber orchestra takes on a new feel stripped of the Dirty Projectors vocalists.

David Longstreth on Song of the Earth Instrumentals:

“They say a song is a landscape, but if you add even a single voice it becomes a portrait. So we’re rewilding the meadows. For an album inspired by natural places, this is an organic development. Song of the Earth Without Us.

I love listening this way because it feels closer to the experience of dreaming. melody floats, harmony shimmers, rhythms swirl. words, those tethers into the hard world of discrete materials, are nowhere.

Here in the deepest embrace of summertime, i hope you’re somewhere with a light breeze and light dappling through leaves. I hope you’re managing to maintain a good grip on the things you love. And i hope you can smash the volume-up button on your barrel-shaped bluetooth speaker til it makes the loud annoying beep. Please enjoy Song of the Earth Instrumentals!”

Order Song Of The Earth HERE