Track Listing 1. Year of the Ox - (with Osso) 2. Enjoy Your Rabbit - (with Osso) 3. Year of the Monkey - (with Osso) 4. Year of the Tiger - (with Osso) 5. Year of the Dragon - (with Osso) 6. Year of the Snake - (with Osso) 7. Year of the Horse - (with Osso) 8. Year of the Sheep - (with Osso) 9. Year of the Rat - (with Osso) 10. Year of the Rooster - (with Osso) 11. Year of the Dog - (with Osso) 12. Year of the Boar - (with Osso) 13. Year of Our Lord - (with Osso)
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Album Notes Personnel: Rob Moose, Olivier Manchon (violin); Marla Hansen (viola). Audio Mixer: Alex Venguer. Recording information: Skyline Studio, New York, NY; St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, NY. Editor: Alex Venguer. The four women of New York and Berlin-based string quartet Osso are no strangers to the indie rock scene. As the meat and potatoes for singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden's opera/cabaret/chamber music/rock outfit My Brightest Diamond, they've honed both their classical and pop music skills with quiet ferocity, collaborating outside of that project with everyone from Jay-Z and the New Pornographers to Alice and Ravi Coltrane and Kanye West. Somewhere in the eye of that musical tornado they found themselves in the capable hands of indie pop spokesman Sufjan Stevens, providing strings for both studio and stage, so it comes as no surprise that the quartet's first "official" release is a chamber music rendering of ENJOY YOUR RABBIT, Stevens' 2001 electronic, instrumental collection of songs based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. The resulting RUN RABBIT RUN dutifully recreates its creator's hypnotic, quirky and oddly sweet song cycle, and peppers it with enough dissonant bow slides and odd harmonics to please the avant garde crowd while keeping the twee melodies intact for the casual indie pop fan.
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