Ezra Furman

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Ezra Furman (2018)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Perpetual motion people
  UK 23 07/16/2015 (2 weeks)
Transangelic Exodus
  AT 45 02/23/2018 (1 week)
  CH 100 02/18/2018 (1 week)
  UK 51 02/22/2018 (1 week)
Twelve nudes
  UK 95 09/12/2019 (1 week)

Ezra Furman (born September 5, 1986 ) is an American musician and songwriter . Furman has been performing with the band Ezra Furman and the Visions, previously called Ezra Furman & the Boy-Friends, since 2017. Prior to that, Furman was front person at Ezra Furman and the Harpoons . Ezra Furman describes himself as a bisexual transgender person.

Career

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

In 2006, Furman founded the band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons at Boston Tufts University with fellow students Job Mukkada, Adam Abrutyn and Andrew Langer . Furman did the vocals and played the guitar. The band released four albums. The first work Beat Beat Beat was self-published in 2006 and was recorded again in 2007 and released under the name Banging Down the Doors on the Chicago label Minty Fresh. Inside the Human Body followed on the same label in 2008 .

The band's third and fourth album, Mysterious Power (2011), received critical acclaim, but achieved only modest sales. It was the band's last album. According to Furman, the other band members wanted to devote themselves to professional careers apart from pop music after the continued lack of commercial success of the band.

Solo album and formation of the new band

In 2012 Furman, meanwhile returned to Chicago from Boston, released the solo album The Year of No Returning . Furman collected the costs for the recording and publication via the Kickstarter fundraising platform .

The work on the album marked the beginning of the collaboration with Tim Sandusky, who has since produced the Furman releases and has also been part of his band as a saxophonist since 2013. In late 2012, Furman signed with Hoboken Bar / None Records , which re-released the album in the summer of 2013.

After the recordings, Furman put together a live band in spring 2012 and went on tour with them as Ezra Furman and the Boy Friends. Until Sandusky joined the band, alongside Furman, the band consisted of Jorgen Jorgensen (bass), Ben Joseph (keyboard, guitar) and Sam Durkes (drums).

Breakthrough in Great Britain

In October 2013 Ezra Furman released the album Day of the Dog , also on Bar / None Records. The renowned daily newspaper The Guardian published an exuberant review and awarded five out of five stars for a "living, breathing piece of self-expression".

The performances of their tour in the UK in 2014 also received consistently positive reviews.

In May 2015, Ezra Furman and the Boy-friends appeared on the BBC show Later with Jools Holland and reached a wide audience. The album Perpetual Motion People , which was released in the summer of 2015 on the London label Bella Union , reached number 23 in the UK charts.

In 2016 Furman announced a musical style change after the EP Big Fugitive Life (Bella Union). This was also reflected in the renaming of the band in The Visions. In 2018 the first album was released under the name Ezra Furman and The Visions, Transangelic Exodus .

In 2019 the album 12 Nudes was released on Bella Union.

Furman participated in the soundtrack of the Netflix series Sex Education . Furman's band made a guest appearance on the series.

Private

Ezra Furman has three siblings, an older brother, a younger brother and a sister. The openly bisexual transgender person is cross-dresser and of Jewish faith and occasionally wears a kippah . Furman also accepts both she and he pronouns for himself.

Trivia

In a 2017 interview with the NME , Furman stated that he never performed on Fridays for religious reasons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Banging Down The Doors. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ezra Furman and the Harpoons: Inside the Human Body . In: PopMatters . December 10, 2008 ( online [accessed February 7, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Album Review: Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Mysterious Power . In: Consequence of Sound . April 1, 2011 ( online [accessed February 7, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Episode 886 - Ezra Furman / David Wain . In: WTF with Marc Maron Podcast . ( Online [accessed February 7, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Be a part of the new Ezra Furman record. (It will be good.). Retrieved February 7, 2018 (American English).
  7. ↑ Ezra Furman. Retrieved February 7, 2018 (American English).
  8. ↑ Michael Hann: Ezra Furman: Day of the Dog - review. December 5, 2013, accessed February 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ezra Furman performs "Restless Year" on Later with Jools Holland - The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music . In: The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music . May 27, 2015 ( online [accessed February 7, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Ezra Furman announces new album, Transangelic Exodus, unveiled “Love You So Bad”: Stream . In: Consequence of Sound . October 23, 2017 ( online [accessed February 7, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Ezra Furman Announces New Album Twelve Nudes, Shares New Song: Listen. In: pitchfork.com. May 21, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Sarah Midkiff: Sex Education, Complete Soundtrack, Season 1. In: Refinery29. Vice Media, January 13, 2019, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  13. ^ Samuel Spencer: Sex Education, Complete Soundtrack, Season 2. In: Newsweek. Newsweek Media Group, January 7, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  14. ↑ brigitte.schokarth: Ezra Furman in the conflict between exclusion and demarcation . ( Online [accessed February 7, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Ezra Furman: Ezra Furman on Twitter :. [...] why I as a trans person don't care about gendered pronouns, [...] In: Twitter. Ezra Furman, November 30, 2018, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  16. ↑ NME: Ezra Furman | In Conversation With NME. December 4, 2017, accessed February 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Furman, Ezra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1986