Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind

BUY FROM UK/EUROPE BUY AT YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE Catalog: AKR143Release date: September 24, 2021LP and cassette also include download card with MP3 It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies?  Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A Beginner’s Mind is their debut album that contains 14 songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular films. The source material is highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between. The music is folksy, sweet, sincere and harmonically effervescent—Simon & Garfunkel with New Age flourishes. This album runs the gamut and has fun with it, even while its songwriters remain fully rooted in the melancholy folk idioms they are known for. Stevens and De Augustine wrote everything with a deliberate sense of shoshin—the Zen Buddhist concept for which the record is named and an idea that empowered the pair to look