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Sa, 18.02.17 20:30 Uhr

Mark Eitzel (USA)

Seine erste Gruppe mit 19 war eine Punkband. Da war er gerade nach Columbus, Ohio gezogen. Popgeschichte schrieb Mark Eitzel dann mit dem 1982 in San Francisco gegründeten American Music Club. Der AMC gilt in der Wahrnehmung der Medien als eine der stilbildenden US-amerikanischen Bands der 90er Jahre, Frontmann Eitzel „als begnadeter Lieddichter, dem der Durchbruch verwehrt blieb“ wie die FAZ ihm ins Stammbuch schrieb. Dafür hat er treue Fans, die auch seine Soloplatten für Kult halten. Seine neue Platte erscheint am 27. Jänner 2017 und wird "Hey Mr. Ferryman" heißen!

Hey Mr Ferryman is Eitzel’s first full studio album recorded entirely in London. It was made at 355 Studios with Mercury Prize winner Bernard Butler (ex-Suede, McAlmont & Butler), who has produced and/or recorded albums with Tricky, Ben Watt, Bert Jansch, Edwyn Collins, and more. Butler produced Hey Mr Ferryman and played all of the electric guitar, bass, and keyboard parts on the album.

Hey Mr Ferryman features the vivid melodies long associated with Eitzel’s former band American Music Club—which remains a cult favorite to this day—as well as Butler’s distinctive guitar that serves to complement Eitzel’s expressive vocals. Of that voice, Pitchfork once wrote: “If Leonard Cohen’s voice is a story about the passage of time and Levon Helm’s is a story about losing what is most precious to you, Eitzel’s is about the circuitous roads we take in search of ourselves.”

“The songs on this record are about celebrating musicians and music, about misogyny, the long shadow of history, getting one’s head out of one’s ass,” quips Eitzel on the themes of Ferryman. “Also oceans, blood, skies, hearts, gay pioneers, carpenters, weeping women, and how death waits for you even in the happiest place on earth: Las Vegas.”

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