NEW ALBUM. Gary Lucas and Jann Klose. STEREOPTICON

GARY LUCAS' new album STEREOPTICON, an acoustic roots folk-pop collaboration with singer/songwriter JANN KLOSE,

 

is released digitally today on Cosmic Trigger Records, with physical CDs coming soon.

 

First review just in from DC Rocks: 

 

"This is quite an exciting collaboration that makes a lot of sense. Lucas is more the veteran creative songsmith and Klose the younger, though well beyond rookie status, singer/songwriter. They both understand the trippier original aspects to song structures with Lucas’ resume bordering on unbelievable as he has worked with Beefheart, Peter Hammill, and Bryan Ferry, to name but three out of the dozens of amazingly original talents. He and Klose keep to the core in these songs with just voices and acoustic guitar, aside from a saxophone once. It has the feel of some of those excellent fingerstyle guitarists of old collaborating at the common starting point of the blues and then venturing out into their own trips and excursions into other musical territory. I would follow each of these artists separately, so together, well… try it and see.

Songs to start with first:

Secret Wings - Deep beginning smooths out into a sharp little song.

Jewel Julia - Spritely guitar melodies and a fine vocal line make the magic seem so simple.

Overture - Somewhere between Roy Harper and Tim Buckley, this one sends me into orbit."

 

New YouTube clip for their song "Secret Wings":

http://bit.ly/1S6N08v

 

Download their new album at

iTunes: http://apple.co/1TI8FkN

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1O6rvNV

 

More info at http://www.lucasklose.com

 

 

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2015 was a very busy year indeed for Gary Lucas--including

 

performing multiple solo projects over 4 nights as Artist in Residence at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, including Gary's new live score for  "Frankenstein" (1931, d. James Whale)

bit.ly/1CUqlqc

 

receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Premio Ciampi Festival in Tuscany, named for one of Italy's most beloved songwriters;

http://bit.ly/1QqdLT2

 

receiving the U.S. Counsel General in Milan's Award for Cultural Diplomacy in Milano over the course of three separate tours of Italy last year;

http://bit.ly/1QayoEm

 

touring Australia over 6 shows before 6000 folks with Gods and Monsters, as Music Director of the multi-media concert show "A State of Grace: The Music of Tim and Jeff Buckley";

bit.ly/1M9sFMe

 

performing by invitation of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City  a Masterclass and Solo Concert for disadvantaged children at Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin (his second appearance there),

and a charity concert for disadvantaged children in Sotogrande Spain

http://bit.ly/1O7xyoG

 

performing marathon solo acoustic shows in Venice, London, and at the "Moon in June Festival" in Umbria

http://bit.ly/1PiLf1T 

 

More 2015 highlights are in Lucas' newly updated Bio:

bit.ly/1PhIM7P

 

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

Sunday Jan. 10th

5pm GMT

BBC Radio Merseyside

Gary Lucas is interviewed by longtime Liverpool music journalist and Beatles expert Spencer Leigh

on his program "On the Beat", taped during Lucas'  recent appearance 

at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall as Artist in Residence

Listen live here:

 http://bbc.in/1kOcI0H

Fri. Jan. 15th

12:30am

Subculture, NYC

Gary Lucas sits in with Jeff Lederer's Brooklyn Blowhards at the Winter JazzFest

 

 

Sat. Feb. 7th

2pm

Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria NY

Gary Lucas & Sarah Stiles FLEISCHEREI duo

perform songs from Max Fleischer's Betty Boop and Popeye Cartoons

along with a screening of pre-code Fleischer cartoon classics

New FLEISCHEREI album released Feb. 5th on Cuneiform Records

 http://bit.ly/1ZKufJf

 

Sat. March 5th 2016

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AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring MD

Gary Lucas' FLEISCHEREI: Music from Max Fleischer Cartoons

featuring Sarah Stiles as Betty Boop

and Joe Fiedler, Jeff Lederer, Rob Garcia and Michael Bates

with select Fleischer cartoon classics

part of the Washington DC Jewish Film Festival

 

More Dates TBA
 

Gary Lucas' landmark 30's Chinese Pop album "The Edge of Heaven" 

gets a re-appreciation from The Wall Street Journal's chief pop critic Jim Fusilli 

on the Re-New Music website:

http://bit.ly/1kf7qgD

http://bit.ly/1RcvCPh

 

New clip of Gary Lucas performing live at Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin in Mexico City 12/8/1 

as part of the U.S. Embassy's Music Outreach Program for disadvantaged children 

http://on.fb.me/1VNEEl5

http://bit.ly/1O7xyoG

 

New solo acoustic composition "Will O' the Wisp"

recorded for The Acoustic Guitar Project NYC:

http://bit.ly/1MWe4iN

Pearly Clouds, Gary's new world music project 

featuring traditional Hungarian folk songstress Eniko Szabo and saxophonist Toni Dezso,

just signed with Discovery Records in the UK for a March 2016 release of their debut album, recorded in Budapest.

 

Listen to "Alomesett" (Dream in My Eyes), a track from their forthcoming album:

http://bit.ly/1NEp3xY