Antony and the Johnsons to Release Turning Live Album and Film
In 2011 and 2012, Antony Hegarty and artist Charles Atlas screened their film Turning at theaters around the world. The film documented Antony and the Johnsons‘ fall 2006 European tour, which featured the band performing alongside 13 women. Now, it’s getting a DVD (and digital) release alongside an album of Antony and the Johnsons’ full November 2006 live set at the Barbican in London. It’s out November 11 via Secretly Canadian in the U.S. and November 10 via Rough Trade in the UK/Europe.
The Turning audio also features “Whose Are These” and “Tears Tears Tears”, two studio recordings originally released on a picture disc in 2006.
Listen to the Turning version of “Daylight and the Sun” above.
In a press release, Antony said:
I would describe Turning as some of the most significant work of my career. Charles Atlas and I spent seven years producing the film and another year and a half showing the film at select festivals. In the last three years especially, the recognition of transgendered people and the resurgence of feminist consciousness has exploded in popular culture around the world. We planted some seeds for this zeitgeist in 2006, when I travelled with thirteen courageous women across Europe and presented the concert Turning, exploring the intersection between images of contemporary trans-femininity and visions of pioneering future feminist artists such as Kembra Pfahler and Johanna Constantine. We shared this circle of modern femininity with the world, bringing it from the late night stages of NYC to some of the most highly regarded theaters in Europe.
Turning:
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 Gehrl
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
Here’s the film’s trailer:
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