Sufjan Stevens contributes music to inspiring documentary

Sufjan Stevens does not only not want to keep his influences secret, he wants to lend them a helping hand as well. The artist has made music for the documentary MAKE, which was one of the main influences for his Age of Adz album that was released last year. It is a documentary made by Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn and it is about four outsider artists. The DVD of this (with the music we assume) will be released on the 21^st of June on Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label.

The Age of Adz is, in actual fact, a sort of dystopic future in which everything (and by that I mean EVERYTHING) is a sort of advertisement. Where everything is advertising something, one way or another. Whether it is a film, a product, or a certain religion: everything is presented in such a way as to make you think, Wow, that is great, I should do that/get that/be like that. What we are doing is really great, or What they are doing is really great, I have to be a part of that. Luckily in these times everything is presented in a much more objective fashion, thank God for that! For what would we be without him? You see what would happen if we didn’t have him, an Age of Adz, the horror! But thanks to this divine divinity we can be assured that none such manipulation will ever happen (though, on the one positive note, an Age of Adz would make everything a bit more glossier, and who wouldn’t want that?).