Musical Director of NYC’s OBIE Award-winning Secret
City performance gathering, Bass scheduled to play Rockwood record release show
June 7th.
+++
Jeremy Bass
as photographed by Robyn Hasty. Design
by cultivate+.
+++
Jeremy Bass – In The Press
“Hope can be heard shining through.” – Exclaim!
+++
PLAY, POST
& SHARE
Hear “Firefly”
from New York In Spring, the second
of 2015’s two seasonal albums from Jeremy Bass, via BLURT or at
the links below!
+++
Jeremy Bass – Live
06/07 New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall “New York In Spring” Record Release Show
06/22 Brooklyn, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store 9PM
+++
For the last decade, Brooklyn-based songwriter Jeremy Bass has been the Musical
Director of The Secret City, the OBIE Award (Off-Broadway Theater
Awards) winning performance gathering. Bass started with the group when its
membership numbered in the single digits, and has seen The Secret City’s membership grow to the thousands during his
tenure.
Even with such a substantial and supportive artistic
community as an integral part of his daily life, Bass wrote his new pair of albums in literal isolation. Returning to single living in Brooklyn after
a rough divorce in late 2013, Bass
found himself secluded in an empty house, sifting through his memories.
“All I wanted to do was hole up in a cave and wait for
the storm to pass,” he remembers of that brutal winter of 2013.
Ultimately, the period resulted in two distinct but
complimentary records - Winter Bare, a Merle Haggard, Tom Waits,
and Johnny Cash-influenced group of
songs that feature the mandolin and banjo, “divorce gifts” that Bass bought for himself, and the
upcoming New York In Spring (June 9th), a collection of Bossa
nova-inspired tunes featuring Bass’
live band, and influenced by the great Bossa nova composer Jobim and Brazilian guitar masters Luis Bonfa and Baden Powell.
“We worship art” is The Secret City’s slogan, and Bass’
determination to complete Winter Bare and New York In Spring to his
standards, and in such a short span of time (the records both being released in
the first half of 2015), shows that he believes.
“The need to finish New York In Spring kept
me so busy that I didn’t notice the cold and exhaustion any more. I became obsessed with creating a completely
different sound than what came before,” he says. The first of those sounds from New
York In Spring can be heard on “Firefly,”
the album’s initial single, recently premiered
via BLURT.
“I wrote it for a girl I fell in love with at the
restaurant where I was working when I first moved to NYC,” Bass recalls. “I was teaching myself to play Bossa nova at the
time, something they didn’t teach at the classical conservatory where I was
studying. It’s a tricky technique, but becomes part of your muscle memory. ‘Firefly’ was the first tune I wrote
using this technique, and it paved the way for the songs that followed, many of
which ended up on New York In Spring all these years later.”
Thematically, Bass
describes the song as “just a sweet, green love song about a guy trying to get
a kiss from a girl.” Winter
Bare by Jeremy Bass is out
now. New York In Spring
arrives on June 9th, 2015.
Jeremy Bass is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
+++
Jeremy Bass
New
York In Spring
(Self-Released)
June 9th, 2015
Track Listing:
01. Berimbau
02. Style
04. Julia
05. Work
06. Theme from El Decamaron Negro
07. Prayer (Banjo for Annie)
08. New York in Spring
+++
Jeremy Bass
Winter
Bare
(Self-Released)
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. Introduction (Shoreline)
04. One More Cigarette
05. Coming Back Home
06. Red Tailed Hawk
07. Winterlude (Banjo for Annie)
08. Counting
9. (Lookin’ For) The Heart of Saturday Night
(Vinyl-Only Bonus Track)
+++
Jeremy Bass Links
ASSETS (NYIS) : ASSETS (WB) : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : SOUNDCLOUD : BANDCAMP
+++
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
No comments:
Post a Comment