New LP featuring Nick Luca (Iron and Wine), Jon
Rauhouse (Neko Case), Tom Hagerman (DeVotchKa), Jacob Valenzuela (Calexico)
arrives Jan. 19th.
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Jeremy Bass as photographed by Skyler Smith
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Jeremy Bass – In The Press
“A stunner!” — Sing
Out!
“Daring and simple all at the same time.” — Guitar World
“Sparse, delicate. Just the thing to cosy up to while
the rain taps at your window.” — BBC
Radio 6
“Blends the lessons of classical, bossa nova, and
folk.” — Acoustic Guitar
“Hope can be heard shining through.” — Exclaim!
“Beautifully composed.” — MAGNET
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“Bursts out of the gate with clever poetry, witty
imagery, and engaging guitar work.”– Atwood
Magazine
Listen to “Trees for the Forest” from The
Greatest Fire by Jeremy Bass
via Atwood Magazine or at the links
below.
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[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9aFwYwMVw
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About Jeremy Bass:
The
Greatest Fire (Jan. 19th, Jungle Strut Music), the upcoming new
album by Brooklyn-based artist Jeremy
Bass, contains numerous turns of phrase that are completely world-class,
impressive for any emerging songwriter, but the rub here is that Bass actually makes his bones as a
classical guitarist.
Bass has logged countless hours mastering the instrument that he was
originally trained on in Italy and Spain, and his ascension as a composer ultimately
led to The Secret City, the arts
organization for which Bass serves
as musical director, receiving an Obie
Award – off-Broadway theater’s highest honor.
“I wanted this album to be an expression of everything
I was capable of, to feature the best songwriting I’ve done to date and to let
rock n’ roll shine through the more diverse influences of my previous records,”
Bass says.
To that end, while Bass’ voice can be described as a mixture of Paul Simon, Jeff Buckley,
and Thom Yorke, you’re now as likely
to find walls of distorted guitars and stacked keyboards in his arsenal as you
are to find a blend of banjo, ukulele, acoustic guitars and mandolin.
And while his sound bears little resemblance to one of
his heroes, Bass relates
wholeheartedly to this Tom Waits
quote: “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
The songs on The Greatest Fire take this idea as
gospel, both in ideology and practice.
“I thrive on the interplay between what people think
they’re hearing, and the actual content beneath,” Bass explains. “I think that’s where the best songwriting happens.”
Bass mentions Hank Williams and Merle
Haggard’s outlaw output as examples of this juxtaposition.
A more contemporary songwriter who was a master at
this, as well, was Elliott Smith.
In fact, The Greatest Fire’s “Trees For The Forest,” premiered
yesterday via music discovery website Atwood Magazine,
opens with a short picking run that immediately brings to mind the opening of Smith’s Either/Or classic track “Angeles,” and contains a lyric that
could have come from Smith’s canon:
“But you know those people who never get lost, never learn how to find their
own way,” a fine example of Bass’ ability to lay it on the line, as if playing
some kind of musical rope-a-dope by weakening his audience with pretty sounds
before landing a truth punch.
“What I really wanted to do was write the best songs I
was capable of writing, to deliver the best performance possible, and to make
the best album I was capable of making,” Bass
says.
The
Greatest Fire, the new album by Jeremy Bass is scheduled for release on
Jan. 19th, 2018 via Jungle Strut Music. Bass is available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Jeremy Bass
The
Greatest Fire
(Jungle Strut Music)
Jan. 19th, 2018
Track Listing:
01. CA, Plz
02. The Greatest Fire
04. (So Glad) Everyone's Happy
04. 1,000 Yrs
05. ‘Till the Summer Ends
06. Halfway Sane
07. Trees for the Forest (YOUTUBE |
SPOTIFY | APPLE
| SOUNDCLOUD
| MP3)
08. (theme music for a desert lightning storm)
09. Like Flowers for a Funeral
10. We Will Be You
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Jeremy Bass Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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