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JASON ISBELL: 'LIVE AT TWIST & SHOUT'
NEW WEST RECORDS: NW6139
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 31st MARCH 2008
Jason Isbell, former member of The Drive By Truckers, follows up the release of his acclaimed solo album of last year, Sirens of the Ditch, with a brand new, six-track EP recorded live at the Twist & Shout record store in Denver, Colorado on November 16th 2007.
It’s a vivid snapshot of the JI in-concert experience, and reprises only two songs from the ‘Sirens’ album, and includes a dazzling and heartfelt rendition of the Van Morrison classic, Into The Mystic.
The Live EP is released on the New West Records label, distributed in the UK by Essential, on Monday, March 31st.
Even better news is the fact that Jason will be bringing himself and his ace band The 400 Unit to the UK in April to play a bunch of shows. The UK tour dates are as follows:
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THURSDAY 3rd: GLASGOW KING TUT’S
FRIDAY 4th: NEWCASTLE, THE CLUNY
SATURDAY 5th: NOTTINGHAM, RESCUE ROOMS
SUNDAY 6th: BEDFORD, THE SHED
MONDAY 7th: LONDON, THE BORDERLINE
TUESDAY 8th: BRISTOL, ST. BONAVENTURE
Jason Isbell is available for press and radio interviews, sessions etc in promotion of the live EP, Sirens of the Ditch, and, indeed, the UK tour itself.
For more information, please contact Alan and Lesley at Indiscreet PR on
07813 290 474 or via this site for further details.
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ROBIN TROWER & JACK BRUCE: 'SEVEN MOONS'
EVENGELINE RECORDS: GEL4116
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 31st MARCH 2008
Always a good thing to report that rock’s elder statesmen can still deliver the musical goods when they’re well into the fifth decade of their careers. So, therefore, Indiscreet PR proudly announces the Monday March 31st release of Seven Moons (on the Evangeline Records label) a brand new collaborative effort from two of Brit Rock’s true legends:
Jack Bruce and Robin Trower. Both need little introduction to long time music fans; Bruce being one third of Cream, of course, but throughout his lengthy career, a fearless, endlessly creative / innovative explorer of many musical forms. Robin Trower has his antecedents in Southend R&B groovers The Paramounts, before joining Procol Harum in time to play their deathless classic A Whiter Shade of Pale on Top Of The Pops. Since pursuing a solo career in the early 1970s, Trower has blazed a unique trail with his sulphurous, soulful guitar work, and made telling contributions to several of Bryan Ferry’s solo albums of the 1990s.
Seven Moons is a refreshing restatement of classic Rock values, the simple verities of the time-honoured bass / drums / guitar eternal rock triangle vividly reprised; exquisite, lyrical guitar work, ruminative, thoughtful lyricism, sung and played with an understated grace and élan that is a delight to experience. Tracks such as Seven Moons and Distant Places of the Heart show that time has not dimmed the potency of Bruce’s vocal skills, whilst Trower’s guitar work is a model of Bluesy, soulful economy throughout; his uncanny knack of finding the right note, matched to incandescent tone, make Seven Moons a triumphant return to the fray for both of the main protagonists. I’m Home, the album’s closer, rounds things off with a Bruce vocal of typically wracked emotive power whilst Trower adds drama and tension with a mellow, understated guitar line. This is quality gear, in other words, and the kind of record that deserves to be held in high esteem by all fans of guitar-based rock music.
Robin Trower will be touring the UK in support of the release of Seven Moons. Unfortunately, owing to other commitments, Jack Bruce will not be joining him. Robin is available for interview in support of the superb Seven Moons, and his lengthy career.
For more information, please contact Alan and Lesley at Indiscreet PR on
07813 290 474 or via this site for further details.
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UTE LEMPER: 'BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW'
EDEL: 0186982CTT
RELEASE DATE: MONDAY 31st MARCH 2008
“The songs of Kurt Weill, the French, the European repertoire of chansons, with a contemporary dimension…,” that’s how the acclaimed German chanteuse Ute Lemper describes the concept which has earned her world-wide acclaim throughout the past 30 years.
Her new releases, Between Yesterday And Tomorrow, stands out among her 23 or so album recording career. For the first time, Lemper has recorded exclusively self-penned material.
In her own characteristic style, she describes experiences, memories, impressions, which develop into moments of elation, doubt, and even violence.
The German-born New York resident of eight years reflects the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers, the ascent of the moon between the sky and the Earth, and also of the atomic tests in Nevada between 1945 and 1962 – all feature in the subject matter of this demanding and diverse album. An ode to the strong faith of the nomads, an unmistakeable invitation to a stranger in a bar, an appeal to remember love, and even a caring motherly promise to… her children, her husband, a friendship? There is a variety of poetic excursions on this album, which consistently, deftly defies hasty interpretation.
Yet there are any number of references to the life of the multi-award-winning vocalist and dancer, mother and wife. “I could have told a hundred stories.” The fact that these eleven songs represent her “subjective vision of musical storytelling” is explained by the 44-year-old with an “attempt to condense this complex, tormented, and at the same time wonderful world into a poetic journey which combines musical elements from different genres and cultures.”
The result sounds by no means as heavy as it reads - in fact the opposite is the case. With great sensitivity, and not a little humour, Ute Lemper and her husband, Todd Turkisher, have produced an incisively arranged band album, which moves through all its thematic landscapes with apparent ease. Grooving rhythms create an urban feel, string sections provide musical grain, scratches or an accordion generate subtle shifts of tone and emphasis.
Lemper’s live and studio band moves effortlessly between world and pop music, touching on funk and jazz in their musical excursions. As if it were the most natural thing in the world, her compositions fan out these genres in her very own style, fusing harmonies that breathe the tango with jazz scales, without relying on tried-and-tested clichés. The bands’ consummate musicality is much too good to take the obvious route, anyway. Accentuated, multi-faceted, stylistically confident and with impressive dynamism, Turkisher (drums), Morris Pleasure (bass), Mark Lambert (guitar) and Werner Gierig (piano) play their way through complex mood changes. Frequently it’s only a break that separates a ballad from a pop-rock interlude. Kevin Killen manned the controls of the mixing desk, and Bob Ludwig mastered the material – so the overall sonic image is rich in contrast and leaves nothing to be desired.
With poetic intensity, she attends to the tragedy and tristesse which political events frequently bring about, faces the impenetrability of our emotional life, and finds a way out through positive thoughts. “Now is love, don’t live in the future or in the past”
A sound piece of advice from a true diva who has devoted herself to her art for some 30 years.
Ute Lemper will be available for interviews in support of this release.
For more information, please contact Alan & Lesley at Indiscreet PR, on
07813 290 474 or via this website.
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