A beautiful voice creeps in from somewhere. You can’t place the source. It seems like it’s from everywhere. Everywhere at once, somehow. It makes you want to use adjectives. Heavenly. Angelic. Divine. The desire is too strong, you fold under the pressure, cracking open your thesaurus as news of a new Antony and the Johnsons live full-length (a follow up to 2012’s live album Cut the World — Antony’s last studio full-length was 2010’s Swanlights) and DVD wash over you. Celestial. Supernatural. Ambrosial. Both the album and the film are entitled Turning and they are both out November 11 via Secretly Canadian. Ethereal.
The film is a concert documentary of Antony’s tour with Charles Atlas in the fall of 2006, a tour in which Antony was joined in his performance stage by a group of 13 women toward the “revelation of a revolutionary feminine essence.” The album contains the audio of a full recording of the Turning performance, containing songs from the first three Antony and the Johnsons albums, in addition to two rare studio tracks from that period. Once you’ve exhausted yourself of all the sensible adjectives you can muster, pre-order the album here, and watch the film’s trailer below.
Turning tracklist:
01. Everything Is New
02. My Lord, My Love
03. Cripple and the Starfish
04. For Today I Am a Boy
05. Where Is My Power?
06. Spiralling
07. Find the Rhythm of Your Love
08. I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy
09. Bird Gerhl
10. Kiss My Name
11. Daylight and the Sun
12. One Dove
13. Hope There’s Someone
14. Twilight
15. You Are My Sister
16. Whose Are These
17. Tears Tears Tears
• Antony and the Johnsons: http://www.antonyandthejohnsons.com
• Secretly Canadian: http://www.secretlycanadian.com