Michael Pisaro - Tombstones

The long-awaited, groundbreaking, pop album by acclaimed composer MICHAEL PISARO. Featuring JULIA HOLTER, TASHI WADA, CASSIA STREB and ROB ESLER. MICHAEL PISARO is Co-Chair of the Composition and Experimental Sound Practices department at the California Institute for the Arts. Mentor and collaborator to JULIA HOTER and JOHN MAUS, his time at CalArts has coincided with the nascent years of JOHN MAUS, ARIEL PINK and Human Ear Music leader, JASON GRIER, among many, many more to whom he has been of great influence. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals worldwide. Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Seattle, Jerusalem, Madrid, Santiago, Vienna, New York, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Charleston, Toronto, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere. "A new, postapocalyptic folk music constructed from the wreckage of 20th-century pop." - MOJO "Tombstones - like Bowie's Pin Ups, perhaps, is Pisaro's look back at pop. Everything is spectral, vibrato-free and very slow.. just beautiful and haunting music." - THE WIRE "Pisaro pays homage while simultaneously magnifying [DJ] Screw's already magnified version." - THE VILLAGE CD, Album