Wednesday 17 April 2024

Jake Xerxes Fussell - August date in London announced!

 

We’re delighted to welcome back Jake to London with a new album under his belt in August!
Let the days roll by!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Friday 30 August
Lafayette, 11 Goods Way, London, N1C 4DP
7pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Qb1bff0f94a7 (on sale Friday at 10am)

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer, guitarist and folk music interpreter who has distinguished himself as one of his generation's preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) "folk" songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell humanizes his material with his own curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways.

On his latest album, When I’m Called—his first LP for Fat Possum, and his first as a parent - Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings. The album was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington, it features the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station) and Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone). Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals.

https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/

 


 

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