Shearwater Live @ Paris

“It’s the first time that we have two encores!” said to me Kimberly Burke (bass) few minutes after she left the stage with her comrades from Shearwater. She was so excited. As well as Howard Draper (drums) who was wondering why a small town called Paris very far from Austin Texas could enjoy music like the one that Shearwater delivered last Friday at La Maroquinerie. During one hour and two encores, the audience and the band decided that it will stay amongst the finest evenings of 2008. Sure it will. Shearwater confirmed on stage all the best that I thought about Rook few months ago (read here).

Web: shearwatermusic.com
MySpace: myspace.com/shearwater
Label: matadorrecords.com

Shearwater - Leviathan, Bound .mp3
Shearwater - Rooks .mp3
Shearwater - Red Sea, Black Sea .mp3 from Palo Santo

Bonus via Misra Records
Shearwater - St Mary’s Walk .mp3
Shearwater - Whipping Boy .mp3
Shearwater - I Can't Wait .mp3

Photo: Leaky Sparrow – Shearwater – La Maroquinerie, Paris – September 12, 2008. More pictures: flickr.com

Shearwater - Rook

It’s difficult not to think about the Buckley family, Jeff and particularly Tim, when you listen to Jonathan Meiburg’s bold, soaring voice, occasionally falsetto.
Shearwater from Austin, Texas, releases their new album, Rook, this June (3rd), a hugely ambitious follow-up to Palo Santo (2006, reissued by Matador in 2007).
Essentially a prog-folk oriented performance, the music of Shearwater goes in a wide variety of styles. The album themes within meditate on man’s intersection with the natural world: the hunter and the prey; the extinction of species; the world after human beings are gone…
I just listened to Rook since a week or two but it’s a safe bet that those who will listen to Jonathan Meiburg in June wouldn’t balk at the fact that he’s a remarkable talent and one of American’s finest tunesmiths. Rook, a sublime album to listen.

Web: shearwatermusic.com
MySpace: myspace.com/shearwater
Label: matadorrecords.com

Shearwater - Rooks .mp3 from Rook
Shearwater - Red Sea, Black Sea .mp3 from Palo Santo
Shearwater - A Dame Et La Licorne .mp3 from Palo Santo via Girlpants

Bonus: Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye .mp3