Damien Jurado

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About Damien Jurado

Welcome to Maraqopa, population 2. Damien Jurado's newest collaboration with producer Richard Swift drops us into a brutal and benevolent landscape. The bold strokes and new turns the pair made with 2010's Saint Bartlett are taken even further. He throws open the gate on his oft insular dirges and allows them do some real wilding out in the canyon. In Maraqopa, the vistas are miles-wide; the action is more dynamic; the close-ups sweaty and snarling. The strummed desert blues that begin "Nothing is the News" quickly bursts open into an Eddie Hazel-worthy supernova shred session, all of it swirling in tinny-psych and Echoplex'd howls. We've never heard anything like this from Jurado. Fifteen years into his remarkable career, and he continues to blossom. Jurado and Swift establish themselves not only as inventive, trusting collaborators, but as one another's spirit animals in American outsider songcraft —lone wolves in black sheep's clothing. Swift is the Ennio Morricone to Jurado's Sergio Leone.
At Swift's National Freedom studios, the live-to-tape ethos allowed these songs to expand and retract like a great beast's breath. Every in-the-moment bell and whistle here is hung with a natural, casual care. And from this, each song offers up its own unique gift: the enchanting children's choir that echoes each line of Jurado's lament for innocence lost on "Life Away from the Garden"; the breezy bossa nova that begins "This Time Next Year" and rises as effortless as a smoke cloud into high-noon showdown pop; "Reel to Reel"'s wobbly, Spector-symphony and its meta themes; the wonderful falsetto vocal work Jurado pulls from himself on "Museum of Flight." The Seattle Times recently called Jurado "Seattle's folk-boom godfather," a praising recognition to be sure. But also a title Jurado might not yet be ready to accept. That's a title for someone who has settled. With each visit to National Freedom, Jurado is exploring, taking risks. He's not only freeing his songs. The gate is opened wide to allow us all into his once-isolated musical universe. One gets the sense he's just now hitting his stride.
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    News in Brief: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, Damien Jurado, Peter Wolf Crier, Rolo Tomassi
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    In the video for "Nothing Is The News," the languid psych-rock first single from Damien Jurado's new album Maraquopa, a couple flees from a gang of ba...
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    Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
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    Damien Jurado Maraqopa Secretly Canadian Rating: The Seattle-based singer songwriter Damien Jurado has been plying his holistic brand of folk-rock bal...
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    It being the holidays and all, singer-songwriter Damien Jurado has teamed up with the Seattle musician Kyle Zantos to offer up a new Christmas song ca...
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    Damien Jurado Releases Video for First Original Christmas Song, "Kallas Hus"
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    Singer-songwriter Damien Jurado has always been a big fan of the holiday season. Last year he recorded and released a version of "Christmas Time is He...
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  • Jun 14 Friday
    Sonoma, CA, US Gundlach Bundschu Winery
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  • Aug 28 Wednesday
    Nijmegen, Netherlands Doornroosje
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  • Aug 30 Friday
    Salisbury, UK Unknown venue
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  • Aug 31 Saturday
    London, UK Bush Hall
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  • Sep 6 Friday
    San Sebastián, Spain Unknown venue
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Discography

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  • Maraqopa (2012)
    Damien Jurado
    Maraqopa (2012)
    Secretly Canadian
  • Saint Bartlett (2010)
    Damien Jurado
    Saint Bartlett (2010)
    Secretly Canadian
  • Caught in the Trees [Bonus Track] (2008)
    Damien Jurado
    Caught in the Trees [Bonus Track] (2008)
    Secretly Canadian
  • And Now That I'm in Your Shadow (2006)
    Damien Jurado
    And Now That I'm in Your Shadow (2006)
    Secretly Canadian
  • On My Way to Absence (2005)
    Damien Jurado
    On My Way to Absence (2005)
    Secretly Canadian
  • Where Shall You Take Me? (2003)
    Damien Jurado
    Where Shall You Take Me? (2003)
    Secretly Canadian
  • I Break Chairs (2002)
    Damien Jurado
    I Break Chairs (2002)
    Sub Pop Records
  • Four Songs (2001)
    Damien Jurado
    Four Songs (2001)
    Burnt Toast Vinyl
  • Ghost of David (2000)
    Damien Jurado
    Ghost of David (2000)
    Sub Pop Records
  • Postcards and Audio Letters (2000)
    Damien Jurado
    Postcards and Audio Letters (2000)
    Made In Mexico
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