Brooklyn Paper Previews Sufjan Stevens and Ray Raposa's Live Score For Beyond This Place

"The perfectly paced score — which Stevens and Raposa wrote and recorded over the course of one week in Stevens’s waterfront recording studio last year — rests against “Beyond This Place” filmmaker Kaleo La Belle’s portrait of his own turbulent relationship with his father. The film, written, photographed and directed by La Belle, documents his attempt to reconnect with his estranged hippie dad — a lightly toasted free spirit who abandoned his family to ride bikes and make hallucinogenic drugs — by embarking on a 500-mile bicycle trip from Portland, Oregon to Mount St. Helens with him." Check out Brooklyn Paper's full write up on Beyond This Place.

The Vinyl District Talks With Ray Raposa About His Collaboration For "Beyond This Place"

"I hadn’t seen the film yet, and Sufjan hadn’t either. But Kaleo flew out there from Switzerland, and I flew out from Portland. The first session that we did was about a week at Sufjan’s studio in Dumbo, which is a part of Brooklyn there. And we watched the film a couple times. We did it sort of piece by piece. And I think for every section of music that ended up getting used in the film, there’s probably about five or six alternate takes or alternate approaches because Kaleo was trying to communicate as a filmmaker what he wanted out of us. And we’re both capable enough guys that we can give him different things." Read the complete interview with Raposa on The Vinyl District.

Pitchfork premiers the title track from Raymond Raposa and Sufjan Stevens from the OST for the film Beyond This Place!

Head over to Pitchfork to download the new single from Raymond Raposa (Castanets) and Sufjan Stevens... it's from the OST for the film Beyond This Place which screens in four cities around the country with a live performance of the soundtrack by Raposa and Stevens.

Pitchfork Announces Sufjan Stevens and Ray Raposa To Perform Live Score For "Beyond This Place"

"Last year, we reported that Sufjan Stevens collaborated with Castanets' Ray Raposa to score a documentary called Beyond This Place, which follows the fractured relationship between filmmaker Kaleo La Belle (a childhood friend of Stevens) and his freewheeling stoner father. The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced that Stevens will join Raposa to perform the soundtrack live at a screening of Beyond This Place on Sunday, October 30 at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House." Click on over to Pitchfork for their full write up and a video clip of Beyond This Place.

The Huffington Post Reviews MAKE

"The poignancy of the brilliantly paced, nearly 70-minute Make comes from its unwavering focus on the individual creator's connection to his or her creation. The resulting implication is that the ultimate value of art has little to do with the completed object that others admire. Rather, the real beauty of art is in the process, and in the conception and development of visions." Read the complete review of MAKE on The Huffington Post.

Download Sufjan Stevens' "Get Real, Get Right" in celebration of the release of MAKE!

To celebrate the release of MAKE, the inspiration behind Sufjan Stevens’ The Age of Adz, Asthmatic Kitty is offering up a free download of "Get Real, Get Right" off of the much celebrated album! The film is a wonderfully intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. Isolated and struggling with the disabilities life has dealt them, these artists all find their most powerful voice through art.

Download and share "Get Real, Get Right" with your readership - http://music.sufjan.com/track/get-real-get-right-2

Early press:

"Transforming the quotidian into the sublime is no small task, but for the four artists featured in MAKE--a new film by local documentarians Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn--it's been their life’s work.MAKE is a love letter to the artistic process in its purest form, at a time when we are becoming increasingly estranged from examining the elusive origins of creative impulse." Ready Made

"Isolated by their disabilities, they find a voice and try to make sense of a world that shuns them, through incredible works of art." IFC

"Here, art is totally divorced from commerce and created without regard to an audience. It’s art at its most viscerally personal — a live-saving lifeline even more than a form of personal expression." BlogCritics

"Make is a truly moving testament to the perseverance of man’s bond with art and the innate force that drives us to create in order to be fulfilled." The Vinyl District

Introducing MAKE: the documentary that inspired Sufjan Stevens' The Age of Adz.