Being Elsewhere
Dan Mangan has announced the Being Elsewhere Mix CD, a follow up collection to his JUNO Award-nominated, Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted album Being Somewhere, bringing together everything you know and love about Dan - from reimagined acoustic versions of fan-favourites on the album, renditions of songs from Bob Dylan, the Lumineers, and Damien Jurado, as well as brand new songs like "Call Me Up High", "Say When", and "Find New Ways".
02 A.M. AM
03 Just Know It (Elsewhere Version)
04 Four Chords
05 Find New Ways
06 Maggie’s Farm
07 Fire Escape (Elsewhere Version)
08 Sleep On The Floor
09 Say When
10 All My People (Elsewhere Version)
11 Find New Ways (Acoustic)
Being Somewhere
Being Somewhere, Dan Mangan’s sixth studio album, cuts incisively but never forgets its underlying thesis: It’s cool to care.
Mangan arms the rebels in the crusade for tenderness. The album is a combative plea for mercy from a manic world and its effects on the psyche. Whittling his sharpest pen to date, Being Somewhere is marked by Mangan’s singular wit and a respectful deference to the quagmire of existence.
“I wanted this album to feel like the inside crook of a familiar elbow on the nape of your neck, a comforting embrace.” says Mangan, “These songs are tenderhearted and unfurl like an overdue conversation with a dear friend. They essentially lay out where we’re at, how I’m doing, and how I think I can help."
Under the care of producer Drew Brown’s (Radiohead, Beck) distinct touch, Being Somewhere forges sonics well beyond the tropes of modern folk music. Helming the project from Chicago, Brown sourced musical contributions from all over North America, the UK and Japan, including work from Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms for Peace), Jason Falkner (Beck, St. Vincent), Thomas Bartlett (The National, Taylor Swift), Dave Okumu (Arlo Parks, Adele) Mary Lattimore (Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten), & Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew.