User:Karst/sandbox/Dirty Projectors discography

The Dirty Projects discography includes 7 studio albums, 3 EPs and a number of singles and collaborations. The band is the main creative outlet for songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Longstreth. Throughout his career he has collaborated with a number of people, both under his own name and as the Dirty Projectors.

Together with his brother Jake, Longstreth spent part of the years 2001 and 2002 working on a number of musical ideas. This resulted in the first album, released under his own name, entitled The Graceful Fallen Mango of which 500 copies appeared on This Heart Plays Records in 2002. The rest of the material that had previously appeared on cassette was compiled on the album Morning Better Last!, released in September 2003 under the Dirty Projectors name. In November 2003 the Dirty Projectors released their first album The Glad Fact through Western Vinyl records. Pitchfork described the album as "some bizarrely tuned and timed Connecticut jazz", while Ezra Koenig found it a "scary, evocative music, like an Alan Lomax field recording" in Dusted Magazine. It was followed by Slaves' Graves & Ballads in June 2004, which consisted of an acoustic session recorded with Adam Forkner and six songs recorded live with a chamber orchestra.

In April 2005, the band released The Getty Address, their last album through Western Vinyl. It was described as a 'glitch opera' about Americana that involved Don Henley. Longstreth gathered a number of musicians around him and began to tour, while working on new material. This resulted in Rise Above and featured long-standing band members Amber Coffman and Brian McOmber.

Mount Wittenberg Orca
A collaboration between Dirty Projectors and Björk, this seven-track EP was released in digital format on 30 June 2010 and received a physical release by Domino Records on 24 October 2011.

In May 2009, Björk and Dirty Projectors wrote a musical suite entitled Mount Wittenberg Orca and performed it at a Manhattan benefit concert. In April 2010, Björk and Dirty Projectors recorded the suite at Brooklyn studio Rare Book Room.

Mount Wittenberg is located at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. The inspiration for the EP came when Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors saw a pod of whales off the coast while hiking at that spot. All digital sales proceeds were donated to the National Geographic Society Oceans Initiatives, which helps create international marine protected areas.

Personnel
The following people contributed to Mount Wittenberg Orca:


 * Written by: David Longstreth
 * Performed by: Nathaniel Baldwin, Björk, Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Angel Deradoorian, David Longstreth and Brian McOmber
 * Recorded at the Rare Book Room, April 28 – May 1 2010 by Nicolas Vernhes
 * Assisted by Tom Gloady
 * Produced by David Longstreth
 * Mixed by Nicolas Vernhes with David Longstreth and Björk
 * Mastered by Joe Lambert

The Graceful Fallen Mango
This album is a collection of songs recorded in Longstreth's bedroom on a 4-track machine and in his brother's basement on a computer. Dave Longstreth plays everything on the album save for some back-up vocals on two tracks, which were sung by his brother Jake and Steve in the liner notes. It was released by Western Vinyl in 2002.

Track listing

 * 1) "Spring Is Here" - 4:12
 * 2) "Follow Me Not If You Still Care" - 5:37
 * 3) "Easily Resigned" - 3:46
 * 4) "I Don't Know" - 4:38
 * 5) "Lay Down Restless Bones" - 3:52
 * 6) "Constellation That's Mine" - 3:07
 * 7) "Time For Bed" - 1:24
 * 8) "She Turns To Ash" - 5:37
 * 9) "What If I" - 1:43
 * 10) "The Graceful Fallen Mango" - 1:05
 * 11) "Maggie And Me" - 2:44
 * 12) "Everything Will Happen" - 4:14
 * 13) "We Are Striving" - 3:28
 * 14) "Yield; Be Held (Aloft)" - 1:57
 * 15) "At The End Of The Day" - 5:14