plus,
chicken:thomas b.
often:shahzad.
all is well:nico muhly, valgeir, ben frost, eyvind kang, stefan amidon, aaron siegel.
Influences
buster keaton, almeda riddle, chris whitley, dock boggs, bessie jones, vera hall, arthur doyle, melville, tony millionaire, sam bartlett, black cherokee, brother blue, sachiko m, mike jones, the-dream, sullivan's travels, porco rosso, monsieur verdoux, the ice storm, two for the road, the furies
"All Is Well" is out now on Bedroom Community. It was produced/engineered by Valgeir Sigurdsson, w/musical wonders by Nico Muhly and contributions from Eyvind Kang, Stefan Amidon, Aaron Siegel, Eyvind Kang.
"In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing."
David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Amidon doesn't just update the old world to the new, but finds the roots of the new world in the old." -Pitchfork
"Young Sam has a talent for reinterpreting traditional folk standards, and in the hands of the ever-empathetic Valgeir Sigurdsson and his bedroom community, he's produced a work bordering on the timeless." -David Sylvian
"Nothing less than a goose-bump-manufacturing sonic piéce de résistance."
-CMJ New Music Monthly
"Amidon makes mistakes, lots of them..." Grapevine (Reykjavik)
"Letting your retarded friend open a show for you is either a benevolent act of charity, or a shrewd ploy to lower audience expectations; either way, after Sam Amidon’s support set that consisted of tuneless, banjo-accompanied sea shanties, each interrupted by nonsensical monologues and culminating with a break-dancing finale, any performance Jolie Holland had churned out would have been greeted with warm enthusiasm by the audience at Ruby Lounge, Manchester." -David Harfield
“Sky-scrapingly great ... All Is Well is viscerally stunning, comforting, upsetting, entrancing."
-Stylus
from vermont originally, samamidon found some ancient sounds and some other sounds. samamidon sings some of the songs and leaves some of the other songs alone. samamidon is samuel tear and thomas b (aka doveman, plays with david byrne, yoko ono, miho hatori). "but this chicken proved falsehearted" is available on plug research in the US and birdwar in europe.
absolutely love your stuff! gutted I only recently stumbled across you and so have missed your uk visits.... I will be in brussels this weekend, will miss you guys there by a week... grrrrr! one day!!
Hey Sam, listened to "All is well" all day yesterday, felt like I was in heaven with Doc Boggs and you, but you being stuck in this world still, makes me think we should get together someday. I really love your music, richie stearns
Hi Sam! Thanks for the add! Cool tunes! We wish you and your music all the best, and we hope that you enjoy our music as well! Please let us know what you think! Have a great week, and take care! (*^_^*)
yo. just wanna let you know that while i was in Iceland for Airwaves, i finally got a chance to pick up your CD over at Skifan, and boy was i impressed.
you're like, "holy shit" good, man. if you ever tour through NYC i'll be first in line.
