TwentyFourBit

24B's Feed

News for your muse.

Facebook

Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe Documentary, Big Easy Express, Announced

We’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out if director Emmett Malloy’s planned Nick Drake documentary comes to fruition, but in the meantime, his latest project looks like a promising follow-up to 2009’s The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights. Remember the Railroad Revival Tour, which featured folk-rock troupes Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and the Old Crow Medicine Show traveling to perform at various American venues from Oakland to New Orleans via train? Well, Malloy was there to capture footage of the event on video, resulting in a new documentary that will make its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in Austin, TX next month.

Titled Big Easy Express, the hour-long featured documents “the bands’ railway adventures; the high canyons, joyous crowds, blasted skies, late-night laughter, endless music…and a train that was bound for glory.”

“Bound for glory” being an allusion to folk pioneer Woody Guthrie, of course, not to mention the trio of bands’ collective take on the song “This Trains Is Bound for Glory” we saw in this awesome video clip last spring. No trailer or further release info is available at this time, but we’ll keep you posted when new details arrive. Update: Here’s the trailer…

Conor Oberst Documentary, Outtakes Album Announced

We were just revisiting Conor Oberst’s solo work via the Bright Eyes singer’s recent live set in Omaha when along comes an even more extensive trip back to his work with the Mystic Valley Band: One of My Kind, a full-length documentary accompanied by an LP of outtakes from the group’s sessions, will arrive later this spring on Oberst’s own label, Team Love Records. While a previous version of this film was shared online a few years back, today’s announcement notes that this DVD/CD/LP release includes the official final cut. Directed by Philip Schaffart, One of My Kind: The Story of the Mystic Valley Band hits stores on May 15th while pre-orders will be sent out earlier in the month.

As someone who’s seen the earlier version of this film, I can confirm that it provides wonderful insight into not only the formation of the group, behind-the-scenes moments, and their recording work in the studio, but also offers one of most candid looks at Oberst’s creative process we’ve seen to date. In short, it’s well worth the cost of admission for any fan. For a teaser on what’s to come, check out the trailer and tracklist for the outtakes set below:

01. “One of My Kind”
02. “Gentleman’s Pact”
03. “Corina, Corina”
04. “Synesthete Song”
05. “Breezy”
06. “Central City”
07. “I Got the Reason #1”
08. “Phil’s Song (Learn to Stop Time)”
09. “Normal
10. “Kodachrome”
11. “White Shoes (Reprise)”

Video: Bjork on Colbert

We’ve heard cuts off Björk’s new album, Biophilia, in a variety of formats — as an art installment, a Michel Gondry-directed music video, and as an iPad app — but now for a more traditional take: live on Stephen Colbert’s satirical cable show, The Colbert Report. While her precise, half-a cappella rendition of “Cosmogony” certainly did the LP justice, it was the meeting of intriguing Colbert-Björk minds that stole the show around here. In addition to one of the more straightforward explanations by Björk on her use of a touchscreen for composition and presentation of the music (it helped her play an instrument and sing simultaneously), Colbert lightened up the conversation brilliantly, as usual, with fun quips and a foray into the topic of Icelandic elves.

All told, we got yet another memorable music moment from the folks at Comedy Central, so let’s revisit both segments below (via Audio Perv):

Interview

“Cosmogony”