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On September 26, My Morning Jacket will release Okonokos: Double Live Album, which, as the title implies, is an expansive two-disc documentation of their kinetic and frenetic live show. But that's not all. The following month, MMJ will drop the "Okonokos" live DVD, filmed at an "undisclosed" stop on the band's 2005 tour in support of their Z album and featuring "a cast of characters draped in Victorian-era costume, along with one alpaca [a.k.a. a llama]." Awesome. If you think the whole thing sounds a bit high-concept, you're right. According to a spokesperson for My Morning Jacket, it all sprung from the fertile imagination of frontman Jim James, who envisions the project "as much as a question as it is an answer. It is an enigma wrapped around a riddle."

I think...that could very well be....the best news I've heard about an upcoming release in a long time.

I'm stoked!

if theres some good stuff from the good yrs then i might pick it up

from things id rather be doing:



7.7.2006

Okonokos... isn't that a Beach Boys song?

My Morning Jacket has announced that its next release will be a two-CD, one-DVD live set called Okonokos. The press release from the folks at Girlie Action is a bit hyperbolic. This isn't just a live album, it's something that will become "their quintessential body of work, gathering"their most dynamic, otherworldly compositions to date."

Silly me, I thought it sounded like something new, as if the band decided to create some sort of two-hour improvisational jam fest and record it. Then I saw the song titles: "Wordless Chorus," "One Big Holiday" and "Mahgeeta." So, it's a double live album. With a to-be-released-later DVD.

Don't get me wrong; few bands deserve a live album more than MMJ -- and I'm excited at hearing "a glacially expansive" "One Big Holiday" -- but that moment of hoping that the band was actually going to do something different left me disappointed with reality.

The DVD does sound a bit left of center: "Inspired by a fairytale-like performance in Tokyo, the band decided to adorn their mysterious set with qualities akin to an old growth forest, capturing the essence of a timeless, nameless, anonymous place. The theme of straddling the line between the surreal and the actual is introduced at the film's prologue when a cast of characters draped in Victorian-era costume, along with one alpaca, are introduced. And so emerges a truly authentic live compendium."

Oh, I get it. So this is their The Song Remains the Same. Gotcha.

The CD drops Sept. 26; the DVD on Oct. 31.

I 'm so there on both fronts.

Here is the CD track list for "Okonokos":

Disc one:
"Wordless Chorus"
"It Beats 4 U"
"Gideon"
"One Big Holiday"
"I Will Sing You Songs"
"Lowdown"
"The Way That He Sings"
"What a Wonderful Man"
"Off the Record"
"Golden"
"Lay Low"

Disc two:
"Dondante"
"Run Thru"
"At Dawn"
"Xmas Curtain"
"O Is the One That Is Real"
"Hell"
"Steam"
"Dancefloors"
"Anytime"
"Mahgeeta"

Ooooo......I need to see these guys, badly.

when they were good i drove all the way to minneapolis to see em

Get over yourself and f*cking listen to "It Still Moves" and "Z"!!!

i own it still sucks ... got it the day it was released ... ive given it multiple spins on different occasions and ive even tried slipping songs into mix cds and hoping id hear it unexpectedly and be won over by it

not happening

zee - well - as dubya said:

fool me once - shame on ... shame on you

fool me - you cant get fooled again