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Comme annoncé ci-dessous il y a pile un mois, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy sortira un album live le 20 octobre, enregistré en Irlande, en Écosse et à Newcastle.

Vous pouvez écouter ce lundi l'extrait seigneurial Love Comes To Me.

Après sa dernière livraison studio Lie Down In The Light, Bonnie "le Prince" Billy va sortir un live. Ça s'appelle Is It the Sea? et ça sortira le 20 octobre en CD, digital et double vinyle. Les performances ont été saisies en 2006 lors de divers concerts donnés en Irlande, en Écosse et à Newcastle. À l'époque, Bonnie était accompagné sur scène de deux fameux musiciens traditionnels écossais : le multi-instrumentiste Harem Scarem et le tambourineur Alex Neilson.

Listage des chansons de Is It The Sea? :

01. Minor Place
02. Love Comes To Me
03. Bed Is For Sleeping
04. Arise Therefore
05. Wolf Among Wolves
06. Ain't You Wealthy, Ain't You Wise?
07. Cursed Sleep
08. Molly Bawn
09. Birch Ballad
10. New Partner
11. Is It The Sea?
12. My Home Is The Sea
13. Master And Everyone

En plus de ses innombrables sorties personnelles, Will 'Bonnie Prince Billy' Oldham s'échine toujours à gratifier de son timbre inimitable les notes composées par d'autres (du disque entier réalisé avec Tortoise jusqu'à ses associations ponctuelles avec Sage Francis, Björk, Scout Niblett, les Soulsavers etc.). C'est aujourd'hui en compagnie du trio génois Numero6 que l'on retrouve le songwriter. La comptine habitée Da Piccolissimi Pezzi, sur laquelle Will Oldham adopte avec grâce la langue italienne, est issue du Ep 5 titres Quando Arriva La Gente Si Sente Meglio, téléchargeable gratuitement ici.

Vous pouvez écouter ce lundi Da Piccolissimi Pezzi.

Listage des chansons de Quando Arriva La Gente Si Sente Meglio :

01. Da Piccolissimi Pezzi
02. Navi Stanche Di Burrasca
03. Aspetto
04. Quel Giorno Cosa Avevo
05. Un Segnale Debole

Le 23 mai dernier, on vous présentait l'opération Ask Bonny. Les fans du songwriter barbu étaient invités à lui demander conseil, l'artiste s'engageant à répondre sous peu. Voici les réponses (en version originale) diffusées par le label Drag City via une newsletter spéciale, qui nous en apprendrait finalement presque plus sur Will Oldham que bon nombre d'interviews réalisées jusqu'à présent :

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Addressing a variety of concerns from lost love and loneliness to potty training and gardening, the 'Prince' has his own personal brand of advice that can only help you fine young fans out there. We ony hope that these answers will be as illuminating to all Drag Citizens as they have been to all of us here in the office.

Take it away, Bonny -

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Why are things so hard sometimes?
Patrick

Dear Patrick,
They just are. Once my brother looked at me with shame many years ago; my head was hung low and I was in a dark and silent brood. He scorned me angrily, saying to me "What's your fucking DEAL? Things aren't so TRAGIC all of the time." And I knew he was very correct in this. If I remember right, Bill Murray led the crowd in Meatballs to chant "It just doesn't matter!" and where this is not true, it helps to throw the balance on the other side every once in a while; onto the Not True side, onto the desired-reality side. Things are also hard because hard is good. A hard penis is good for a yearning vagina or sphincter, and a hard road is better for tire traction than a soft road. Easy makes lazy, makes shallow, makes for poor company. SOME times.


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Dear Bonny,
How do you deal with the lonely times?
Patrick

Dear Patrick,
At this point in my life, I am rarely lonely. This is new for me. I am 38 years old, and it took me a good 36 or 37 years to enjoy my own company, and to enjoy fully the quietness of that state. Prior to recent times, being alone meant being scared, and I would deal with it through reading, drinking, or enjoying the proxy companionship that movie-watching provides. Or writing, or running scared. Sometimes doing objectively horrible things! But those days are not here for now. As easy at it is to deny or forget, doing maintenance was always the best way of dealing with the lonely times. Weeding, sweeping, responding to letters. Things that, unfortunately do not give immediate visceral satisfaction. Still, when the tasks were done, I would feel happier, and the time for sleep, and dreaming, would be closer at hand.


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SO, Bonnie, Slavoj Zizek, love him or leave him? Also, any helpful hints concerning potty training? Our two year old daughter just pooped on this electronic alphabet toy train track where each letter is represented by an androgynous robotic voice when the plastic letter square is pressed down, or when you roll the train over the respective letter. Her poop was heavy enough to trigger the letter "h" which kept repeating "H! HORSE! H! HORSE! H..." until I scooped it up. She's been eating a lot of cashews and cherries. I'll take my answer off the newsletter.
Loren

Dear Loren,

It seems to me that theoreticians like Zizek are putting into words what many of us take for granted. Zizek himself is charming and adorable, but the more I listen to him and try to understand what he is going on about, the stronger my exclamation "Duh!" is at the end. I am not good at Physics, Biology, Engineering... no matter how it is dumbed-down, it's all magic to me. How does a car radio give me "Booty Roll"? I don't know, and I am happy in my ignorance. But WHY does it give me "Booty Roll"? This is something I can happily ponder all day and night. And Zizek has the same, or less, tools to feed me the answer than I already have myself.

Loren, for the second part of your question I can only refer you to the following link, given to me by Matt Sweeney: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHU0LXYJdO8


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I've lived in NYC for 32 years and can't deal with this aggressive money-driven town any longer — should I check out Portland, OR, the Unicorn Forest in Colorado, a small town with a main street somewhere, or a remote cabin in the Rockies???
Julie

Dear Julie,
Good Question! Portland is a very nice place. For years it has reminded me of the place Pinocchio and his friend are taken to early in the story; the place full of everything they dream of; the place that eventually causes them to transmogrify into donkeys. This is probably sour grapes on my part; Portland is the opposite of NYC in that people seem to work in order to support their identities rather than to create their identities. And there's time and resources to be. New York has seemed to me to increasingly squeeze out anything resembling freedom of choice. Still, Portland is a city; a mass of people who have to compromise to live together peacefully. If you want to explore the more fucked-up in you, your best bet is the cabin. Plus it will be easier to prepare for the apocalypse there.


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Can one be artistic in one's personal relationships? Or is that just annoying and an excuse to avoid intimacy? Also, what's up with Ron Paul and the blimp?
anon

I'm guessing that in your use of the word "artistic" you are excising the commerce aspect of art. And if you have done that, then yes, there is room for the artistic motivation in anything you do. If you equate that with avoiding intimacy, that's a shame. I have not seen Mr. Paul's blimp. Nobody calls him Mr. Paul do they? It's as if "Ron" were his title, like Ron Corleone.


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I'm getting married this November, my Bonnie Prince, and I'm dreading the traditional "first dance" in front of our guests. It's not that I'm afraid of crowds — the problem is: I can't dance! I move like Lurch on Xanax and have hips made of stone.

Anyway. I can't afford a dance coach. This problem goes deeper than just hiring someone to teach me some "smoove moves." Can you offer some advice as to how I can bust a move without busting a nut?

P.S. Thanks for the good times! XOX
anon

Bust a move without busting a nut.... no, I cannot offer advice on how to do one without the other. You're welcome and thanks for sharing the GT's with us.


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Dear Bonny,
Your music is deeply inspired. Not having the talent of a singer/songwriter such as yourself, will you please tell me how I can convey your music in real life? If the world is a stage to act upon how can I act out a Bonnie "Prince" Billy album?
Daniel Perkins

Dear Mr. Perkins,


Whoa! I wrestle with this very question every day. So I will answer it for me, and hope that there's something you can relate to.

When I was a teenager, I did not really drink or take any drugs; I was relatively "straight edge". But I was hungry for stimuli and adrenalin and endorphins. When people or experiences or foods or weather modified my internal chemistry in an intriguing way, I wanted to bottle it for later consumption. This is what making music became good for: a possible medium for the capturing and transmitting of personal natural wonders. Making music became a parallel activity, parallel and braided with the push-me-pull-you of choice+fate. I needed to make the songs, but I needed to be in such a way that justified the songs, as best as possible. O dear, this isn't going very well. In real life? Stop, breathe, do, sleep, shit, attack, fall, swim, hug, cum, spend, smell, save, read, form, listen, play video games and deny fake boobs.


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I seem to remember reading you were coeliac. I've just been diagnosed as coeliac — how do you manage at festivals? I really want to go to the Green Man in Wales this year but thinks it's going to be a ball ache getting food.
Cheers,
Scott


Dear Scott,
We just looked up coeliac, and we am not this. We recommend herbalists, such as Weeds of Eden in Louisville, KY; or oriental medicine practitioners. On another note, tangentially, we neither care for nor attend festivals. We do play them, at times, because they pay well.


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Bonny...I am currently in the stage of losing my hair. I notice that you have lost yours. I have a beard, like yourself, and was wondering if you could recommend a hair style that might fit my non-active lifestyle...
Best,
Matthew

Dear Matthew,
The hair-loss fixation of the ad-driven consciousness is utterly incomprehensible to me. I cut my hair now as I always have: shave the head once every two years, trim the hair maybe once every year-and-a-half, and enjoy as many bad hair days now as ever...If you want to have fun, though, go "fro" with what's left while you still can.


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Dear Bonny,

First off-thanks for all you create. I tried growing pumpkins last year and they never came up — I spoke with a local "pumpkin farmer" and he said don't ever water them, let the rain take care of it. I live in New England, unpredictable summer weather. Have you grown pumpkins, if so what's your watering strategy?

Last year I took a year away from touring; this year is coming to a close in a matter of days. So, last summer was my first summer in years during which I could properly garden. I grew no pumpkins but did try for cucumbers, watermelon, and sweet potatoes, all of which share one or two superficial qualities with pumpkins. In Kentucky we experienced a drought last year, and the sweet potatoes suffered most of all, in that they came up tiny. I can't tell if you got the watering advice before or after your unsuccessful season. For the devil's sake, though, try again, maybe watering one patch and leaving the other patch to Mother Nature’s tears.

Maybe you're not a parent but...I've got a 9 yr. old son who, as of recently, has been very jealous of his 2 yr. old sister. (Started using this bullshit baby talk when the attention is fully on her.) What would you recommend as a lasting statement for me to say to him when these funky, maybe typical among 9 yr old boys, emotions/actions come up? I can't take the stress...but I'm trying.

Nathaniel

Dear Nathaniel,

Shit. In this case I would use the expanded golden rule...do unto others as you would have had others do unto you when you were nine. You may be doing this already, but just do a bunch of stuff with the 9 year old, you and him. Establish firmly that you guys have something unique that the newling can never touch. A statement won't make a difference...for one, language isn't as integral a tool for boys as it seems to be for girls; and for two, a 9 year old's mind may not discern what statements are meant to taken in as "lasting" vs. something dad said loudly and passionately without thinking. Activity and time will hold more sway.


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Howdy Will,

I recently broke up with my girlfriend of 3 years and I am having a particularly shitty time trying to keep myself together.

I've just been getting super whiny and self-pitying, and I want to get over her already.

What is the cure to my broken heart?

Ben

Please Ben, Call me Bonny. If she's not coming back, the best thing to do is teach yourself that your penis has other potential destinations, and that she does not hold the monopoly on hugging and squeezing, or on making you happy or intrigued. In addition, you might want to pick up a fresh copy of Master and Everyoneor Greatest Palace Music...


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Dear Bonny,

I'm wasting away. I'm 38 and really slim. It was a good look when I was 23 but no more. What advise do you have for a man who wants to be bigger. I hear bananas can make a man big. I hope you can help me on my quest to become a BIGMAN.

Kind Regards,
Alan

Dear Alan,
I feel you. One thing I always wanted was big calves. Never got them. Best advice: stop wanting. We're 38, and our bodies have decided how they want to be. If you like PB&J, maybe eat one of those everyday. You could go into training, but that would be a temporary fix. And we don't need any more Joe Piscopo's.


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Okay, first of all, LOVE your music, really really really.
I have a question concerning the love between the man and the woman.
My Girl loves me, she says so and I feel it’s true. But when she's feeling down, she says she needs a more 'male', more macho partner, someone giving her more assurance about her feminity. I wish she wouldn't feel it necessary to be assured by some man being the big-know-it-all type, but she can't help it. Without it, the sexual attraction towards me wanes. Do we both have to change? Or me? Or her? Or is this the way it just sometimes is?
thanx
greetings from Germany,
David

Dear David,
You are not going to change; at least not BOTH of you. And most all of us do not find peace and balance in our relationships. Unless the relationship is an arranged marriage, which I am all for. So knowing it all is macho? I guess so, when it comes to cars and lawnmowers and directions. Believe it or not, there ARE things you can do, if you want, to push her buttons in the best way when she's down. I don't know her, so I don't know her buttons. But, in addition to being individual sentient beings, we are also pretty predictable and machine-like. It takes perspective and denial of innate intuition to behave towards somebody you know well in a new and sure way. Next time she's down, get away from her for an hour or a day and get your game together and then go back and make it happen. If the whole shebang is worth it to you.


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I'm going to New York this summer, where can I find a good record store?
Love.
Gillian

I'm not sure what you mean by a good record store, Gillian. And there's probably new places there that I don't know anything about. Record stores to someone like me is maybe like a bakery to a gourmet or a beauty parlor to a...beauty. It's pretty personal and specific.


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There's this boy I like and I think he knows I like him. We made out once on Groundhog's Day (he initiated it) but since then, nothing. He may not even remember that because we were both pretty wasted on punch and root vegetables. He never says no when I invite him out to drink in a crappy bar or new wave dance night or whatever. I just don't know if I should try to take things further, or wait for his move. Our nights out usually end up with one of us leaving suddenly because maybe we are a little more drunk than necessary, so I know we are meant to be together.
~Sleepless with Cirrhosis in Punxsutawney


Hi Sleepless. Wow, what root vegetables can we get wasted on?!
If he never says no, ask him out somewhere that requires a sleep-over; like to a show at least five-hours drive away. Get wasted, get a room. You'll know more in the morning. Some of us are just weird like that. Play hard-to-get and easy-to-please.


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Dear Bonny,

Maybe you can help me out on the following subject: This summer we're going on a trip to the Southern States of the U.S. While my wife has to do some scientific research on Southern identity and culture I would be interested in places where one can feel the essence of this region.

I'm asking you this not mainly because of your origin but because of your music where apart from its manifold other matters something that I suppose to be Southern condenses.

Kind regards
Benjamin/Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Dear Benjamin,

The excursion sounds dubious. Germans condensing the identity of a group of others. Scientifically. Forgive me if I am insensitive to your plight.

In case I am reading you wrong: stay off the expressways. And be careful, but not scared. You'll get good times and education if you work hard enough.


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Sweet Willy,
How can I eliminate all email spam from my life?
CP

Dear CP,
Easy. Eliminate email from your life.
Bonny

Alors que son dernier disque Lie Down In The Light vient de paraître, Bonnie Prince Billy est prêt à vous filer des conseils pour améliorer votre quotidien. L'opération est lancée par son label Drag City . Vous avez donc jusqu'au mardi 27 mai pour envoyer vos questions et autres demandes d'avis à l'adresse suivante : askbonny@dragcity.com. Les réponses seront diffusées via une newsletter spéciale.

Will Oldham accouchera d'un Lie Down In The Light le 20 mai prochain et sera hébergé par le label Domino. Imaginé comme une suite à The Letting Go, cet opus a une nouvelle fois été produit par Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Calexico...). Pour s'en faire une petite idée, venez donc écouter So Everyone par ici. Et plus bas, voyez son listage :

Easy Does It
You Remind Me Of
Something (The Glory Goes)
So Everyone
For Every Field There's A Mole
(Keep Eye On) Other's Gain
You Want That Picture
Missing One
What's Missing Is
Where Is the Puzzle
Lie Down In The Light
Willow Trees Bend
I'll Be Glad

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy nous indique le chemin de son nouveau live

L'insaisissable Will Oldham semble plus que jamais frappé d'hyperactivité. Son dernier Ep à peine sorti, Ask Forgiveness, l’Américain schizophrène annonce déjà la sortie d'un deuxième disque live, qui fait suite à Summer In The Southeast (2005). Wilding In The West, qui paraîtra le 23 janvier prochain via le label Drag City, proposera quatorze titres issus de la vaste carrière du chanteur aux innombrables pseudonymes. En voici déjà le tracklisting :

O Let It Be

Little Small Song

Then The Letting Go

The Gator

Master & Everyone

No Such As What I Want

Naked Lion

No Bad News

Wai

Three Questions

Weaker Soldier

I Called You Back

Magnificent Billy

Is It The Sea?/My Home Is The Sea