welcome to sam amidon's website.
hello friends. this site is being re-done. in the meantime, for various iterations of my current activities, go to these places that you know:
and feel free to join my email list::
for the rest of the old website, look down
the old site :
music - albums,
projects, & assorted mp3s
tanuki - some videos
misc. - comics, interviews, whatnot
calendar. bio/press. contact/friends.
old news:
Wednesday October 8: I'm on my way to Iceland to do some recording and play at the Airwaves festival wohoo! I have a lot of dates coming up in UK & Europe over the next six months - check my myspace for the most frequently updated info.
Monday september 15: new interview:
found in the margins interview
February 26: David Fricke chooses "All Is Well" as a "Fricke Pick" in Rolling Stone magazine.... "In an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing..."
i'm in the uk. i ate a good pastry yesterday at the badger bakery. tour
dates on ye old myspace.
"All
Is Well" is out. Buy it directly from bedroom
community, or from amazon.com,
or digitally through other
music, or itunes,
or emusic.
or walk to a CD store and maybe they have it?
"These songs inhabit their own world, closed off from the
rest of humanity...Amidon doesn't just update the old world to the new,
but finds the roots of the new world in the old."
-Pitchfork (7.8 rating) read the whole
review.
here's a little video i made:
All Is Well was recorded and produced by Valgeir Sigur∂sson
in Iceland and has brass/string/woodwind arrangements by my friend Nico
and contributions from Ben Frost, Aaron Siegel, Eyvind Kang & Stefan
Amidon. Oh, cool, I can't wait to hear it!