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AMAZON UK25.08.2010 10:37 0 AM’s new album comes out in the UK August 30 digitally and September 6 in record stores. Planning US and UK tours for November. Support the album now on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Sons-Daughters-Bonus-Tracks/dp/B003UAW91K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1279040010&sr=8-1-spell
Album Of The Week- Rough TradeAM’s new album “Future Sons & Daughters” is Album Of The Week at Rough Trade in the UK. AM’s ‘Future Sons & Daughters’ is a moody and inspired album that touches on all of the New Orleans-musician’s favourite styles from baroque chamber pieces to mid-tempo country rockers. in that sense, such tracks as the atmospheric phil spector-ish number ‘the other side,’ the lead single ‘grand opinion,’ and the mellow country-rock anthem ‘fortunate family tree’ deliver on AM’s knack for quirky ’60s pop-inspired songs. similarly, the duet with Angela Correa, ‘it’s been so long,’ is pleasantly reminiscent of the classic lee hazlewood / nancy sinatra pairings. fans of introspective, classicist pop with more than a bit of wit and charm should find much to enjoy on ‘Future Sons & Daughters’. Starbucks & iTunesFree! Starbucks is giving away a free itunes download card of AM’s song “It’s Been So Long” from the album Future Sons & Daughters.
KCRW Morning Becomes EclecticAM guests on friend Shawn Lee’s KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic performance on August 25, 2010 with DJ Jason Bentley. Shawn Lee has a new album called “Into The Wind” (Ubiquity) which is a collaboration with Bei Bei. Check it out. Watch AM’s own KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic performance here: “Local favorite AM adds a Brazilian twist to the expertly-crafted songs on his new album, Future Sons & Daughters.”- KCRW, 89.9 Los Angeles AM Interview on Musique PlusWatch AM’s interview on French Canadian Musique Plus TV where he talks about touring with AIR and also Charlotte Gainsbourg. What They SayArtist: AM Album: Future Sons & Daughters By J. Poet, Crawdaddy There’s a Portuguese word that perfectly fits the music of AM: Saudade. There’s no word in English that means exactly the same thing, but saudade is a feeling most romantic souls are aware of; an emotional state that can only be expressed by a long, unwieldy English definition. In English vernacular, you might say saudade is an aching desire to recapture a feeling that no longer exists, or probably never existed, a yearning for a better, happier, more content time—probably in the past, but possibly in a future everyone knows we may never attain. Bossa Nova, fado, and Cape Verdean mourna are all heavy with saudade, as is the music AM and his band on Future Sons & Daughters. AM has touted his love of Brazilian music, and there is, in fact, an instrumental track on Future Sons & Daughters named Jorge Ben, after the Tropicalia guitarist, singer, and composer. But like all of the music on the album, “Jorge Ben” is anything but straightforward. There’s no samba, or bossa, or even Brazilian reggae there. It’s a Memphis soul groove halfway between soul and funk, accented by Jesse Nason’s sci-fi organ and AM’s guitar teasing out sounds that bounce between spaghetti Western twang and rhythmic R&B chord clusters. Tropicalia was inspired in part by American soul music, but that’s about the only connection between the title and the propulsive rhythm that AM and his band lay down. This oblique approach is evident on the album’s 10 songs as well. The tunes all inhabit a vague emotional space that’s suggested rather than spelled out. Take “It’s Been So Long”, a duet with the feathery voiced Angela Correa, for example. AM sings, “Who’s right, who’s wrong / It doesn’t matter, ” with a resigned tone that lets you know it matters very much, even as he struggles with his confused emotions. The reverb on his vocals adds a dark Serge Gainsbourg-ish feel to the track. The melancholy of “Darker Days” suggests a hybrid of Philly soul and Motown, with AM’s falsetto adding a touch of blue-eyed soul to the chorus, while “When the Dust Settles” floats through a haze of late ’60s psychedelia. The song starts quietly, with voice and organ creating a delicious tension, and then the chorus kicks in with clanging electric guitar. After the bridge, the guitar grows to fill an immense sonic space and AM’s vocals float off with the keys providing spacey, Theremin-like textures. AM’s phrasing here has its own inimitable pace. He breaks up his melodic lines in unexpected places, adding unexpected touches of tension and release to the music. The lyrics are poetic but vague, hinting at loss, longing, and a belief in a better tomorrow that will probably never come. Other winners include “The Other Side”, a breezy confection that combines ukulele, spaghetti Western guitar, ’60s girl group handclaps, and rippling piano arpeggios to paint the picture of an uncertain love affair; “Leavenworth”, a simple, folky ballad, which may or may not be about being in an emotional prison, highlighted by glockenspiel, chiming electric piano, and a big thrumming bass guitar; and “A Complete Unknown”, a spunky rocker that has hints of funk and Latin music in its rhythm, without ever settling into either groove. AM has obviously immersed himself in the sounds of the ’60s and ’70s, but he doesn’t write songs that are obvious knock offs or slavish echoes of pop hits past. His mellow tenor, and the ingenious arrangements of his band may suggest the past, but it’s the past of a soul drunk on saudade. These tunes are pure pop for now people, to plagiarize a phrase. Red Cross VideoVolunteer, Donate, Give. AM’s song featured on the home page of www.redcross.org RED CROSS VIDEO UK Release August 30Future Sons & Daughters will be released in the UK on August 30th, 2010. Thanks for all the emails regarding hearing “Self Preservation” played on John Kennedy’s XFM. Check out the XFM playlist here: http://www.xfm.co.uk/onair/djs/john-kennedy X-Posure Playlist Thursday 17th June 2010
Touring: Samba De Uma NotaVideo of the power trio (AM, Chris Lovejoy, Brett Bixby) performing Samba De Uma Nota Touring With AIR in JuneWhat this means is we are touring with AIR in France and the album is debuting through the lovely French company Believe. Can’t wait. Air en tournée : Jeudi 10 juin : Le Bikini/Toulouse Les premières parties de cette tournée seront assurées par l’américain AM. Natif de la Nouvelle-Orléans, AM s’est installé à Los Angeles pour enregistrer Future Sons & Daughters, produit par Charles Newman (The Magnetic Fields 69 Lovesongs/ Realism), un album combinant mélodies psychédéliques, tropicalisme brésilien et British Invasion. Cet album sera disponible sur iTunes dès le 8 juin prochain via Believe Digital. Brooklyn Vegan Features “Self Preservation”AM’s video for “Self Presrvation” featured at Brooklyn Vegan: http://bit.ly/b9WAIv Relaxing in Brooklyn for the next 3 days. Show tonight at Webster Hall– last show of the tour with Charlotte Gainsbourg. Thank you for all the support I have gotten on tour with AIR and Charlotte Gainsbourg, next month I’ll be touring with Josh Rouse. Let me know if you plan on coming. Make friends on Twitter
FREE LIVE EP + MP3′sAM is currently touring the US with more dates in France and also the UK this summer. Seattle Show Sold OutSeattle show is now sold out. We urge you to get your tickets now. If you are interested in getting Future Sons & Daughters on vinyl, signed and numbered and shipped to you directly click here: http://bit.ly/cOrrvc
AM SPRING TOUR 2010
April 11 Vancouver, B.C. Vogue Theatre* April 12 Victoria, B.C. Alix Goolden Hall* April 14 Seattle, Wash. Crocodile Café* SOLD OUT April 15 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre ## April 17 San Francisco, Calif. Palace of Fine Arts* April 21 Chicago, Ill. Park West* April 23 Montreal, QC Olympia* SOLD OUT April 24 Montreal, QC Olympia* April 25 New York, N.Y. Webster Hall* JUNE DATES TBA June 2 New Jersey June 3 Philadelphia, PA June 4 Washington DC June 5 Richmond, VA June 7 Greenville, SC June 10 New Orleans, LA * with Charlotte Gainsbourg ## with Caetano Veloso # with Josh Rouse Luxury Wafers Live SessionCheck out AM and the band performing live on Luxury Wafers.
AM – Self Preservation – Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo. AM Tour Blog On Spinner.comWas invited by Spinner.com to blog our way through this March tour on Spinner.com. First blog is up, so check it out here: http://www.spinner.com/2010/03/16/road-report-am-hits-the-road-with-air/ AM‘s distinctive melodic swagger is so impressive that it convinced French electro-pop duo Air to take the multi-instrumentalist out on their North American tour. Now AM is spreading his global sound around the country in support of his sophomore album ‘Future Sons & Daughters.’ We left Los Angeles for Miami on Friday morning March 12th, 2010. The first show was at The Fillmore right in the center of Miami Beach. This was my first time playing in Miami, or anywhere in Florida for that matter, and the show was great. Too bad I had to spend the day looking around for a guitar since mine was broken in travel. Hope to get something cool from eBay along this tour route. Our goal of consuming some Cuban food was not reached, but that’s the touring life — only time for so many things. We’re off to Orlando and then to Atlanta in the next couple of days. It’s great to be back in the south. Check out the photos on the blog link above. 9:30 Club Washington DCAM performing “The Other Side” on his one and only ukeulele at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC. Catch AM on tour with AIR in March and on tour with Charlotte Gainsbourg in April. Sundance Film Festival ASCAP Music LoungeCheck it out at www.amsounds.com/news AM interview and the song Grand Opinion performed live at the Sundance Film Festival Future Sons & Daughters CD at your local record store, Best Buy, and now at AM’s official store KCRW Presents Caetano Veloso w/ AMAM opening a very special show at The Greek Theater in Los Angeles on April 15th with Caetano Veloso. Get your tickets before they sell out. http://www.greektheatrela.com/events/event_details.asp?id=1749 CAETANO VELOSO Caetano Veloso will open the award-winning Greek Theatre’s 2010 season on Thursday, April 15 with AM opening. Caetano Veloso is among the most influential and beloved artists to emerge from Brazil. Known there since the 1960’s, Veloso has made more than thirty recordings to date and has developed a strong international following. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, in 1942, Caetano Veloso began his professional musical career in 1965 in Sao Paulo. In his first compositions he drew on the bossa novas of Joao Gilberto, but rapidly began to develop his own distinctive style. Absorbing musical and aesthetic ideas from sources as diverse as The Beatles, concrete poetry, the French Dadaists and the Brazilian modernist poets of the 1920s, Caetano, together with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, his sister Maria Bethania, and a number of other poets and intellectuals, founded a movement called Tropicalismo. By experimenting with new sounds and words, adding electric guitars to their bands and utilizing the imagery of modern poetry, Caetano became a musical revolutionary. Although Tropicalismo set the tone for Caetano’s career, his music has evolved greatly over the years. Incorporating elements of rock, reggae, fado, tango, samba canao, baiao and rap– with lyrics containing some of the best poetry in a musical tradition rich in verse– Caetano’s music is sometimes traditional, sometimes contemporary, often hybrid. At once an astute social commentator and balladeer of highly emotive love songs, Caetano is one of the most respected poets in the Portuguese language. Indeed he is one of only a handful of artists who has resolved how to be musically modern and still undeniably Brazilian. MTV DEBUT: Self PreservationAM’s new Self Preservation music video shot on HD by director Blake West will make its MTV debut on the hit show Subterranean on Tuesday Night/ Wednesday morning, March 16th at 2 am E.S.T. (NYC Time) 11pm P.S.T. (Calfiornia Time)
Support AM’s new record– buy it in record stores or in his official store here: www.amsounds.com/music http://www.mtv.com/shows/subterranean/series.jhtml NYC & LA Sold OutUrge you to get your tickets. Tour starts this Saturday in Miami. NYC is sold out. Win free tickets to select shows when you sign up for the mailing list here: www.amsounds.com/mailing-list March 13, 2010 Filmore supporting AIR Miami, Florida March 14, 2010 Hard Rock Live supporting AIR Orlando, Florida March 15, 2010 Centerstage supporting AIR Atlanta, GA March 17, 2010 9:30 supporting AIR DC March 18, 2010 Electric Factory supporting AIR Philadelphia, PA March 19, 2010 Terminal 5 supporting AIR New York, NY ** SOLD OUT** March 20, 2010 Berkeley Performing Arts Center supporting AIR Boston, MA March 22, 2010 Metropolis supporting AIR Montreal, Canada March 23, 2010 Phoenix Concert Theater supporting AIR Toronto, Canada March 24, 2010 Riviera Theater supporting AIR Chicago, IL March 26, 2010 Fox Theatre supporting AIR Oakland, CA March 27, 2010 4th & B supporting AIR San Diego, CA March 28, 2010 Walt Disney Music Hall supporting AIR LA, CA ***SOLD OUT*** March 30, 2010 Sainte Rock Hermosa Beach, CA |
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