JOSEPH ARTHUR - THE GRADUATION CEREMONY (LP)

Joseph Arthur The Graduation Ceremony on LP

Co-produced with John Alagia, The Graduation Ceremony marks Jospeh Arthur’s first solo album since Nuclear Daydream (2006) and follow-up to Fistful of Mercy, his 2010 collaboration with Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison. “I wanted to make something simple,” says Arthur, who originally planned to release the project as a duo with the album’s drummer, the legendary Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, John Lennon). The Graduation Ceremony began as a minimally produced, acoustic album of classic songwriting that grew to be an elegantly orchestrated, haunting body of work.

Joseph Arthur’s music has been described as “a dynamic swirl of noise that somehow appears magically around him” (NPR), “emotional (but tuneful) exorcisms” (Entertainment Weekly), and “lush, poetic, squalling, spiritual, and strange. Just like life” (Boston Globe). Vanity Fair has hailed him as “one of our most emotionally revealing and talented singer-songwriters.” Michael Stipe once told the Los Angeles Times, “Jo is one of those rare writer-performers where you get the sense, whatever you believe, that something greater is being channeled through his music and voice. It touches something very deep and universal.”

Joseph Arthur The Graduation Ceremony Track Listing:

1.  Out On A Limb
2.  Horses
3.  Almost Blue
4.  Someone To Love
5.  Watch Our Shadows Run
6.  This Is Still My World
7.  Over The Sun
8.  Face In The Crowd
9.  Midwest
10. Gypsy Faded
11. Call
12. Love Never Asks You To Lie