a Myriad of Tongues

A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.

Singer's Grave a Sea of Tongues is the 11th new full-length album from the mind, soul and voice of the man that is Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. His first solo record on Drag City in nearly three years, it is a rich and roiling time of life that is captured in a myriad of moments throughout all the songs here. There are many roads into Singer's Grave and Bonny stands at the crossroads of them all. With every album that he makes, the Prince sees an increasing number of visions coming to greet him at the old intersection: possible pasts and futures, each radiating like a mirage in the heat.

This third outing by the ZZ Quartet, co-led by guitarist Ratko Zjaca and accordionist Simone Zanchini, finds the intrepid improvisers and virtuosos on their respective instruments stretching and exploring in separate live settings last year.

The theory, history and practice of Bible translation in a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars and practitioners in honor of Ronald F. Youngblood.