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I Mean To Live Here Still

David Karsten Daniels and Fight The Big Bull

I Mean To Live Here Still

The San Francisco indie folk singer-songwriter in a collaboration with a 9-piece Virginia avant-jazz ensemble based on the poems of Henry David Thoreau

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Fat Cat
UK Release date
21/06/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A brave and beautiful album, marrying the North American folk vernacular with interesting free-jazz textures and atmospheres
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    An intriguing coming together of musicians successfully transcending their musical boundaries, firing invention and beauty in random directions. It shouldn't work, but it certainly does
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  3. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    Daniels is still working his way through some equivocation between art music and folk music, but this is the closest he's come yet to sealing the seams
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