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HAUNTING, HYPNOTIC GROOVES FROM
ICONOCLASTIC TRANCE BLUESMAN OTIS TAYLOR
Otis Taylor |
Otis Taylor isn’t defined by any single category. A musical alchemist and a true innovator, Taylor has never been afraid to experiment beyond the blues tradition. He’s a master craftsman who has created his own signature “trance blues” style by melding haunting guitar and banjo work, syncopated rhythms and a combination of gruff vocals, shouts and yells with raw passion.
“When I sing, I just do what I do,” Taylor says. “Whatever comes out that’s the way I leave it. And if I make a mistake, I leave it in. I like to keep the emotion.” Otis Taylor’s Contraband is evidence of that. Set for release February 13, 2012, on Telarc, a division of Concord Music Group, Taylor’s new album finds the artist on familiar thematic terrain: love, social injustices, personal demons and war.
The album takes its title from an article that appeared in the May/June 2011 issue of Preservation Magazine about runaway slaves who during the American Civil War escaped to the Union lines at Fort Monroe, Va. Known as “contraband,” they lived in camps where conditions were often worse than life on the plantation.
On Contraband, the iconoclastic bluesman is reunited with several longtime collaborators including the supple-toned Ron Miles on cornet; pedal steel guitarist Chuck Campbell from American Sacred Steel gospel group the Campbell Brothers; djembe player Fara Tolno, a master drummer born in Guinea, West Africa; fiddler Anne Harris from Chicago, Ill.; and the Sheryl Renee Choir. Bass is handled by Taylor’s daughter Cassie and Todd Edmunds. Rounding out the band are Jon Paul Johnson on guitar, Brian Juan on organ, and Larry Thompson, former house drummer for Colorado’s world-renowned Caribou Ranch recording studio.
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NEW ALBUM OUT FEBRUARY 6;
FEATURES JACK IRONS, GREG DULLI, JOSH HOMME
Mark Lanegan |
Blues Funeral is the new Mark Lanegan Band record, the first since 2004′s Bubblegum.
It was recorded in Hollywood, California by Alain Johannes at his 11ad studio. The music was played by Johannes and Jack Irons with appearances from Greg Dulli and Josh Homme.
Mark Lanegan has sung with Screaming Trees, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Twilight Singers, The Gutter Twins, Soulsavers and Isobel Campbell.
Blues Funeral will be available digitally and on CD and LP on February 6, 2012 via 4AD.
To coincide, Mark Lanegan Band will tour Europe next year at the following destinations:
Mark Lanegan Tour Dates
02/28/12 Tue Culturecentrum de Oosterpoort Groningen, NL
02/29/12 Wed The Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
03/01/12 Thu Effenaar Eindhoven, NL
03/02/12 Fri Trix Antwerpen, BEL
03/04/12 Sun Bristol Academy Bristol, GB
03/05/12 Mon Academy 2 Manchester, GB
03/07/12 Wed Dublin Academy Dublin, IR
03/08/12 Thu Mandela Hall Belfast, GB
03/09/12 Fri ABC Glasgow, GB
03/10/12 Sat Cockpit Leeds, GB
03/12/12 Mon Library Birmingham, GB
03/13/12 Tue Shepherd’s Bush Empire London, GB
03/14/12 Wed Gloria Theater Cologne, GER
03/15/12 Thu Gruenspan Hamburg, GER
03/17/12 Sat Amager Bio Copenhagen, DK
03/18/12 Sun Columbia Halle Berlin, GER
03/19/12 Mon Proxima Warsaw, PL
03/20/12 Tue Lucerna Music Bar Prague, CZ
03/22/12 Thu Arena Vienna, AUS
03/24/12 Sat Estragon Bologna, IT
03/25/12 Sun Alcatraz Milan, IT
03/27/12 Tue Kafe Antzokia Bilbao, ES
03/28/12 Wed Capitol Santiago De Compostela, ES
03/30/12 Fri Hard Club Porto, POR
03/31/12 Sat TMN Ao Vivo Lisbon, POR
04/01/12 Sun Sala Kapital Madrid, ES
04/02/12 Mon Sala Bikini Barcelona, ES
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EVERYONE ORCHESTRA, BIG LIGHT, WASSABI COLLECTIVE,
ACORN PROJECT AND MORE ALSO ANNOUNCED
Flowmotion |
Hosted/curated by Flowmotion, the 11th Annual Summer Meltdown Festival on August 12-14 at Whitehorse Mountain Ampitheater in Darrington, WA, has announced their initial round of artists. Check out the lineup below and click here for all ticket information.
Click here for review and pictures of the 2009 Summer Meltdown Festival
Lineup
Flowmotion
Particle
New Monsoon
The Everyone Orchestra + Guests
Big Light
Clinton Fearon
Wassabi Collective
Juno What?
Acorn Project
Newfangled Wasteland
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
Andy Coe Band’s Jerry Garcia Celebration
Black Cherry Crush
The Glass Notes
Paul Benoit Trio
Quick and Easy Boys
Buzz Brump
The Endorfins
Keaton Collective
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