AMANDA PALMER
& EDWARD KA-SPEL
“I CAN SPIN A
RAINBOW”
IL NUOVO ALBUM IN USCITA IL 5/5/17 PER COOKING VINYL /EDEL
Nuovo lavoro per l’instancabile cantante/performer americana Amanda
Palmer che torna sulle scene con un nuovissimo disco realizzato con la
collaborazione di Edward Ka-Spel (songwriter e tastierista dei THE LEGENDARY
PINK DOTS), il disco uscirà in CD,LP e digital il 5/5 per Cooking Vinyl / Edel.
Registrato
in gran parte sul computer di Edward Ka-Spel, “I Can Spin A Rainbow” è il
frutto di una sincera collaborazione, “un’esperienza spirituale” (dice la
stessa Amanda Palmer) dove le storie, i frammenti di canzone, i poemi e le
parole di entrambi si uniscono in loop insieme a suoni di pianoforte
malinconico, basi melodiche e ritmiche inusuali.
Amanda
Palmer si conferma una delle artiste più importanti, innovative, coraggiose del
panorama mondiale della musica pop ed internazionale, successo che si è
amplificato dopo l’uscita del suo libro/best seller, “The Art Of Asking”, in
cui mette in luce ed in chiaro quanto sia importante avere un rapporto continuo
e sincero con i propri ammiratori.
For more, please visit: amandapalmer.net, www.facebook.com/amandapalmer, twitter.com/amandapalmer, amandapalmer.tumblr.com, www.youtube.com/amandapalmer, instagram.com/amandapalmer, and amandalanda.amandapalmer.net.
For more, please visit legendarypinkdots.org and legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com.
Fans are invited to support Amanda Palmer’s
art at patreon.com/amandapalmer.
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Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel have announced the release of their eagerly
anticipated album, I CAN SPIN A RAINBOW. CD, LP, and digital download will be
available from Friday, May 5.
I CAN SPIN A RAINBOW features cover art by Palmer’s close friend
in London, British/Canadian artist Judith Clute, painted as she listened to
finished tracks for inspiration.
Track Listing:
1. Pulp
Fiction / 2. Shahla’s Missing Page / 3. The Shock of Kontakt / 4. Beyond The
Beach / 5. The Clock at the Back of the Cage / 6. The Changing Room / 7. The
Jack of Hands / 8. Prithee/Liquidation Day / 9. Rainbow’s End / 10. Subway * /
11. The Sun Still Shines *
* VINYL ONLY
BONUS TRACKS
Recorded
largely on Ka-Spel’s computer, I CAN
SPIN A RAINBOW is a truly collaborative effort, “a spiritual experience,”
says Palmer, in which both artists’ stories, song fragments, poems, and lyrics became wholly meshed with loops, melancholy piano
playing, melodic beds, and strange rhythms.
I CAN SPIN A RAINBOW marks the first full-length collaboration
between Palmer and Ka-Spel, founding member of visionary Anglo-Dutch
psychedelicists The Legendary Pink Dots and one of her greatest artistic
heroes. I CAN SPIN A RAINBOW is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for
Palmer, an avowed fan of Ka-Spel and the Legendary Pink Dots since discovering
their psycho-theatrical, multi-textural work in her teens. As noted in her
best-selling 2014 memoir, The
Art of Asking, the LPD
have long been an inspiration to Palmer, their deeply connected relationship
with fans as important to her life and work as their fearless autonomy and
impossible-to-pigeonhole musical approach.
The two
musicians first met in 1993 when Palmer, then 16, attended a Legendary Pink
Dots show in her hometown of Boston. In 1995, having found that the Pink Dots
were looking for lodging with fans to save money on the road, Palmer hosted
five members of the band and crew at her childhood home. Ten years later,
Palmer’s internationally acclaimed punk cabaret duo, The Dresden Dolls, had
achieved enough success that they were able to invite the Dots to support them
on a German tour, and it was then that Palmer and Ka-Spel vowed to carve out
time to collaborate on an original recording. A decade passed and in July 2015
a very pregnant Palmer flew to London to start the long-discussed project but
was informed on the first day of recording that her dear friend Anthony was
losing his battle with cancer and had been given less than a week to live.
Heartbroken, she assured Ka-Spel she would be back within the year. Indeed
Palmer made good on her promise, returning in the spring of 2016 with her
eight-month-old son, Anthony, in tow.
Palmer and
Ka-Spel’s search for a London recording studio was interrupted by an incredibly
generous offer from Palmer’s friend Imogen Heap, who suggested they make use of
her Essex home recording studio, The Hideaway, conveniently located near
Ka-Spel’s own home in Hornchurch. With Palmer traveling between London,
Hornchurch, and Heap’s home studio, the pair spent just under a month composing
and cutting an album entirely from scratch.
Recorded
largely on Ka-Spel’s computer, I CAN
SPIN A RAINBOW is a truly collaborative effort, “a spiritual experience,”
says Palmer, in which both artists’ stories, song fragments, poems, and lyrics
became wholly meshed with loops, melancholy piano playing, melodic beds, and
strange rhythms. The results range from the enchantingly minimal The Clock at the Back of the Cage and
the album-opening Pulp Fiction
mysterious and strange with a luxurious theatricality that conjures both of its
creators’ prior oeuvres while also opening a curtain into a heretofore unheard
shared sonic world. Sensing the need for strings, the pair enlisted frequent
LPD collaborator Patrick Q Wright, who contributed violin tracks from his
studio in Italy. Alexis Michallek, Heap’s longtime studio assistant,
contributes singing saw to Beyond The
Beach.
“We merged
our songwriting heads and poetic worlds to make a new universe,” Palmer says. “We
would sit in Imogen’s house drinking cups of tea, bemoaning the state of the
upcoming election, binge drinking in the UK, the refugee crisis, our internet
addictions, frightening news we had read, our relationships… and then we’d
distill all of the ingredients of our fears and conversations into song form.
The Rainbow metaphor – which is also a nod to the ‘spinning beach ball of death’
on a Mac – was a wide-open image that kept popping up as a recurring theme on
the record. It’s both dark and light at the same time. To me, the songs are
simultaneously frightening and comforting, like a thunderstorm heard from a
living room.”
“Making this
record with Amanda felt a little like discovering a twin you didn’t know you
had,” says Ka-Spel, “until a mysterious email lands in your inbox at a
particularly auspicious moment. Some things are just meant to be…”
Palmer and
Ka-Spel will celebrate I CAN SPIN A
RAINBOW with a limited and intimate international tour. U.S. dates begin May 17 in Boston, MA;
European dates get underway May 31 in Warsaw, followed by stops in Munich,
Prague, Hamburg, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Vienna. The tour – which
will see Palmer and Ka-Spel joined on stage as they are on the album by
violinist/longtime Legendary Pink Dots contributor Patrick Q. Wright – also
includes the legendary Wave & Gotik Treffen Festival in Leipzig. For
complete details and ticket information, please visit amandapalmer.net/shows.
Tickets go on general sale Fri Feb 24 & via Patreon on Tue Feb 21.
ABOUT AMANDA PALMER
Amanda
Palmer is a singer, songwriter, playwright, pianist, filmmaker, and blogger who
simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre,
and art. She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk
cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, earning global applause for their wide-ranging
theatricality and inventive songcraft. Her solo career has proven equally brave
and boundless, including such groundbreaking works as the fan-funded THEATRE IS EVIL, which made a top 10 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard
200 upon its 2012 release and remains the top-funded music project on
Kickstarter. In 2013 she presented “The Art of Asking” at the annual TED conference, which has
since been viewed over 10 million times worldwide. The following year saw
Palmer expand her philosophy into the New
York Times best seller, The Art of Asking: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And
Let People Help.
In 2015,
Palmer joined forces with Patreon.com to further develop her revolutionary model
of fan support and artistic community, and where 8,500 people help support
Palmer’s seemingly infinite creative output. The growing list of “Patreon Things” - Palmer releases an average of one a month
- now includes songs, original films, performance projects and such albums
as her current collaboration with Ka-Spel.
ABOUT THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS
formed in
London in 1980, their idiosyncratic strain of experimental psychedelia at once
astonishing even in that incredible year of musical invention and reinvention.
Co-founded by The Legendary Pink Dots
Edward
Ka-Spel
songwriter-keyboardist
singer-and
electronic genius Phil “The Silverman” Knight, the band and its ever-changing
lineup released its very first music on just 10 self-made cassettes, instantly
establishing both a defiantly DIY approach and a wide-ranging musical aesthetic that remains
indefinable and distinctly their own.
With Ka-Spel’s
evocative songwriting, rich in black humor, poetry, and theatrical flair, as
its only true constant, the Legendary Pink Dots’ voluminous palette truly
encompasses a boundless array of genres, from psychedelia and prog rock to post
punk and pop, ambient soundscape to industrial symphony, pastoral folk to
extreme noise. Ka-Spel has proven one of the most ingenious and prolific
artists of his or any other generation, his personal discography including
among its vast ranks over 60 solo albums and at least 40 LPD releases (much of
it available at the official Legendary
Pink Dots Bandcamp).
Palmer recently introduced her fans to the infinite Legendary Pink Dots back
catalog by curating a Spotify
playlist of her personal favorite LPD and solo Ka-Spel songs.
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