Album is first in two-LP cycle, with Bossa
nova-inspired “New York In Spring” arriving June 9th. Bass performs
live in NYC tonight.
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Jeremy Bass
as photographed by Robyn Hasty
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Jeremy Bass – In The Press
“Hope can be heard shining through.” – Exclaim!
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“Winter Bare”
is the title track from the new album by Jeremy Bass. Hear it via Exclaim! or at
the links below!
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See Jeremy
Bass performing songs from Winter Bare tonight at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC at 10PM!
“Winter Bare is an album of love
songs,” explains Brooklyn’s Jeremy Bass
of his new album out today, the first of a pair of records to be released in
the first half of 2015. “But, its lyrical center tends to hover around love’s
fragility and the potential for loss, rather than committing wholly to the joy
of falling in love or the devastation of losing it.”
The title track (recently premiered via Canada’s
essential music discovery website Exclaim!)
was the first one that Bass wrote
after falling in love again following a devastating divorce that left him
physically isolated from the world. “I
thought that feeling was dead in me for a long time,” he says, “But then
suddenly, without looking for it, it reappeared when I least expected it.”
Just prior, Bass
was splitting up with his wife, and selling the house they shared together.
Returning to single living in Brooklyn during the intense New York winter of
2013, he found himself secluded in an empty house, sifting through his
memories.
“I was drinking, I had run out of money, I was nearly
unemployed, and certainly unemployable,” he confesses. “But, I had a fireplace
and my guitars.” By the end of the
winter, he had a set of songs that wove their way through loneliness, despair
and near-insanity, to love and longing, and ultimately hope.
Musically, Winter Bare shows the influence of
musical outlaws such as Merle Haggard,
Johnny Cash, and Tom Waits, artists Bass was listening to as he taught himself to play mandolin and
banjo, his “divorce gifts” to himself.
When not recording his solo material, Jeremy Bass is the Musical Director of The Secret City, the OBIE Award-winning ongoing performance
gathering based in New York City. Bass was already a widely published
poet and classical guitarist trained in the academies of Italy and the flamenco
bars of Spain when he joined the collective.
At the time, its membership numbered in the single digits, and has since,
under Bass’ musical direction, seen
its membership grow to the thousands.
Winter Bare
is out now and will be followed-up by New York in Spring, an album of
Bossa nova-inspired tunes on June 9th.
Jeremy Bass is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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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)
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Jeremy Bass Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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