Bon Iver and poet Ross Gay have llaborated on a new piece to help lnch Jagjaguwar's 25th-anniversary mpaign.
Contents:
- ROSS GAY & BON IVER – “CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU”
- ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN
- BON IVER, POET ROSS GAY TEAM UP TO LNCH JAGJAGUWAR 25TH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN
- ROSS GAY
- 218. CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU - ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN – THE STANFORD DAILY
- ROSS GAY
ROSS GAY & BON IVER – “CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU”
“Friends,” Ross Gay addrs listeners the first sends of “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu.” Wh that, he wel to a poetic orchard where he cultivat thanks for both the mundane and tragic experienc that make human. * ross gay bon iver *
Dilate Your Heart om the poet Ross Gay. On the LP, Gay reads his poetry over unreleased mic om artists like Mary Lattimore, Angel Bat Dawid, Gia Margaret, and Sam Genl.
The album’s first sgle is “Catalog Of Unabashed Gratu, ” a 14-mute llaboratn between Bon Iver and the poet Ross Gay.
ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN
* ross gay bon iver *
Ross Gay is a poet and sayist who’s wrten a bunch of books. Gay is the clear foc of the piece, not Jt Vernon.
BON IVER, POET ROSS GAY TEAM UP TO LNCH JAGJAGUWAR 25TH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN
Watch the mic vio for “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (feat. Bon Iver)” by Ross Gay on Apple Mic. * ross gay bon iver *
The mic forms a twkly backdrop, drawg your attentn to Gay’s joyo livery.
“Friends, ” Ross Gay addrs listeners the first sends of “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu. Set agast a shimmerg soundspe by Bon Iver, Gay performs the tular poem om his wily-ld 2015 book.
ROSS GAY
“Friends,” Ross Gay addrs listeners the first sends of “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu.” Wh that, he wel to a poetic orchard where he cultivat thanks for both the mundane and tragic experienc that make human. Set agast a shimmerg soundspe by Bon Iver, Gay performs the tular poem om his wily-ld 2015 * ross gay bon iver *
In fact, the drone-filled mic behd “Catalog” echo Vernon’s ver of Van Etten’s “Love More, ” cementg Gay’s track as a te plement to Jagjaguwar’s well-curated lp of die mic. Gay reads a voice that is proclamatory, ronant and clear. ” However, rather than spectators to an onstage slam performance, Gay’s readg suat as visors his home, stg on “the rduroy uch [he has] put [] on.
218. CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATU - ROSS GAY
After all, Gay tak to “the realt place” he knows: a muny garn Indiana. Gay even produc “a bowl of blackberri om the garn, ” and jt as quickly as he njur that sweetns, he giv away to , sayg, “I picked them jt for you. Poets and creative wrers om the morn workshop era — which wrers are often enuraged to hone, cut and pare down language — will likely regnize that the tumblg excs and meanrgs of Gay’s language is different.
That is not to say that Gay’s language is cluttered or imprecise. The poem succeeds bee Gay’s tailed, expansive talog prov jt how much we have to appreciate the world, om the “znia, and gooseberry, dbeckia and pawpaw” flowers to the “baggie of dreadlocks [Gay] found a drawer / while washg and foldg the cloth of [his] murred iend. In rponse to Gay’s bloomg language, Bon Iver’s mic tak on a subtle yet powerful supportg role.
ROSS GAY, BON IVER SHAPE THE POETICS OF GRATU NEW LLABORATN – THE STANFORD DAILY
Vernon creat a soundspe wh two ma layers: the tremendo rattlg of background synths set agast clear ton that weave and out, acmodatg Gay’s words the way we might image a “river bends around the elephant’s / solemn tnk. Gay mov to the fal qutn of his poem, and the mic starts to fa.
Gay’s voice meets on the other si of that dream.
ROSS GAY
” I’d like to s that song next to Gay’s poem and image how Gay would answer that worry. After all, Gay acknowledg that life is “so much worse than we thk, ” and s end sooner than we ever expect. Gay’s entire poem has been risg to give the answer he affirms, the end, so simply.