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Krystle Warren and The Faculty live shows – London 22/5 and Brighton 24/5. Krystle also touring with Rufus Wainwright

Krystle Warren
& The Faculty

New album
Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace

Out Now

Krystle Warren is a true original… Her assurance is as remarkable as her range… The Guardian ****

The astonishing Ms Warren advances on the impressive gameplan of acclaimed predecessor Circles with a self-produced lovefest that was recorded in 13 days. It brims with soulful riches and consummate musicality while the songs are sensuous platforms for her honeyed contralto, jazzy elegance and effortless flair. Mirror ****

For her latest album, American ingenue Krystle Warren assembled a team of 28 musicians in a Brooklyn studio and laid down new songs live. Aptly, the twelve that made it onto Love Songs capture her crooning effortlessly over timeless jazz, folk and blues layered with horns, strings, piano and choirs. Smouldering stuff. Diva Magazine

…singer-songwriter Krystle Warren remains a cult concern. A gorgeous new album, Love Songs, should help her cause … Evening Standard

“… An utterly indispensable modern classic.” Morning Star

Krystle Warren – a Missouri native who has spent time performing on the streets of Paris and New York – made a name for herself with her 2009 debut, Circles. She draws obvious comparisons to Tracy Chapman, but perhaps it’s only due to the depth of her alto vocal range. Despite comparisons to Chapman and Nina Simone, Warren is a decidedly different brand of singer-songwriter, managing to hit multiple styles, often within a single song, so that each carries with it a new and refreshing sense of promise and surprise. musicOMH

Just having a voice isn’t enough – you have to have a reason to sing, something that tells your audience “this is what I was made for”… With this collection, Krystle Warren has got there. music-news.co.uk ****

Live:
Tuesday 22nd May
Dingwalls
Camden Lock,
London NW1 8AF
+ support from Dead Flamingoes (Kami Thompson + James Walbourne)
£15 from www.wegottickets.co.uk / www.ticketweb.co.uk / www.seetickets.com
Doors 7pm
+
Brighton Festival
Thursday 24th May
All Saints’ Church,
The Drive,
Hove,
BN3 3QE
£12.50 from www.brightonfestival.org (Sold Out)
Doors 8pm
+
Krystle will be touring the world in 2012 with Rufus Wainwright as guitarist/backing vocalist and support act.

In February Krystle completed the Floating Palaces tour alongside KT Tunstall, Robyn Hitchcock, Martin & Eliza Carthy and Howe Gelb (and Led Zep’s John Paul Jones below).

‘Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace’ is the next episode in the musical life of the remarkable Krystle Warren following the much admired ‘Circles’ release: “… Warren’s talents are extraordinary. She has an octave-hopping voice that glides between languid and urgent, and music that hovers between funk, folk and jazz, between Jeff Buckley and Nina Simone ….. she’s the real deal.” The Observer

“… Warren’s thrilling debut album fully lives up to expectations….It’s all uncontrived and near faultless, really.” Uncut

“There’s something alluringly familiar about Krystle Warren. She instantly sounds classic … we are certainly in the presence of a mighty talent.” BBC Online

“Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace” is the fruit of an exhilarating 13 day recording session in Brooklyn during which 25* tunes were laid down, live (the way her heroes and sheroes did it) by a total of 28 musicians including Krystle’s regular crew, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle wrote the songs, fired up the players and produced the whole jambalaya. She integrates ragtime and waltz time; evokes Dusty and Krystle-ises William Blake; rubs up against Broadway musical stylings as well as leaving lots of space for songs featuring only her glorious voice alongside acoustic guitar. In a perfect world “Love Songs…” would have come to you on double vinyl with a gatefold sleeve big enough for you to lose yourself in.

The journey from Krystle’s parlour to your table has been an eventful and exciting one. She set up her own record label as well as sharing stages around the world with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Norah Jones, Joan As Police Woman, Nick Cave and Kylie.

Krystle is addicted to life on the musical high wire; always landing on the balls of her feet perfectly poised for the next adventure. On “Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace” the overwhelming sound is one of Krystle collecting the baton from her musical forebears – but it’s mostly about the weightless, giddy, moreishness of new love brought to you by the mind, body and soul of a huge and mature talent.
Two degrees in bebop, a PhD in swing.
She’s a master of rhythm, she’s a rock ‘n’ roll Queen.

Love Songs: A Time To Keep EP – Parlour Door Music. Out Now
* Part two: “Love Songs: A Time To Refrain From Embracing” will be along in good time.

For more info please contact gerry lyseight: 020 7095 8146 / gerry@glpr.co.uk / www.gerrylyseight.co.uk

www.krystlewarren.com

Bluegrass – Various Artists – Released 22 May 2012 on Putumayo

PUTUMAYO PRESENTS BLUEGRASS, A COLLECTION OF TODAY’S STARS

AND NEW DISCOVERIES THAT DEMONSTRATES THE UNIVERSAL APPEAL OF THIS QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC

Release Date: 22 May 2012

Featured Artists:

Alison Krauss & Union Station, Railroad Earth, David Grisman and Jerry Garcia, Andrea Zonn with Alison Brown, Frank Solivan, Peter Rowan, James Alan Shelton, Crooked Still, The Seldom Scene, Uncle Earl, Town Mountain, Sam Bush

Putumayoannounces the May 22nd release of Bluegrass, an engaging collection featuring many of the genre’s most renowned artists along with exciting new discoveries. The album is Putumayo’s first venture into the world of bluegrass and includes Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, David Grisman and other starsalongside some of today’s up-and-coming young groups like Railroad Earth, Town Mountain and Uncle Earl.

Bluegrass offers insight into the variations within the genre, from the mesmerizing vocals and skillful instrumentation of Alison Krauss and Union Station (“Every Time You Say Goodbye”) to Railroad Earth’s contemporary newgrass sound on “Been Down This Road.” Then there’s the lively rendition of “Jackaroo,” by legends David Grisman and Jerry Garcia, alongside the soft, contemporary sounds of Andrea Zonn with Alison Brown.

Frank Solivan’s “Across the Great Divide” and Peter Rowan’s “Man of Constant Sorrow,” transport listeners with their earthy, newgrass style. James Alan Shelton brings his beautiful melody-oriented guitar playing to the traditional song “Shady Grove,” and Crooked Still adds a modern bluegrass sound to “New Railroad.” One of bluegrass music’s longest performing groups, The Seldom Scene, provides their distinctive vocals and picking to the Dylan classic “Boots of Spanish Leather” followed by the versatile all-girl string band Uncle Earle on “The Last Goodbye.” Young North Carolina natives Town Mountain contribute their original, traditional bluegrass stylings with “Diggin’ On The Mountainside,” while the inimitable Sam Bush, brings his beloved mandolin playing to “Diamond Joe.” The album closes with a rendition of the gospel favorite “I’ll Fly Away,” performed by a variety of talented artists.

To listen to tracks from the album, click http://putumayo.bandcamp.com/album/bluegrass. Bluegrass is available at selected music, book, gift, and specialty stores around the world, and for digital download on www.putumayo.com and selected online stores.

For more information about Bluegrass, visit www.putumayopress.com, to interview participating artists or Putumayo founder and album compiler, Dan Storper,
please contact: gerry lyseight – 020 7095 8146 – gerry@glpr.co.uk – www.gerrylyseight.co.uk

Bluegrass Liner Notes

Bluegrass, sometimes called the “jazz of country music,”evolved from the string band style developed by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in the late 1930s. The sound is characterized by masterful, often improvisational, instrumental performances combined with distinctive vocals and harmonies. A native of Kentucky, Monroe named his band after the Bluegrass State. He merged old-timey mountain music with blues and gospel tunes. Over the next 50-plus years, Monroe performed with countless musicians who served “apprenticeships” as Blue Grass Boys, then left to start their own groups. By the 1960s, the music was known as bluegrass.

Monroe’s first edition of the Blue Grass Boys included fiddle, mandolin, upright bass and acoustic guitar. When North Carolinian Earl Scruggs joined in 1946, contributing his lightning-speed five-string banjo playing, he created a musical innovation that has come to define the sound of bluegrass. “Bill settled down with a five-piece group with my style of banjo picking and has kept it ever since,” Scruggs once said. “The other groups started copying his group, and now the sound is all over the country and foreign countries too.” Over the years, other instruments such as Dobro, slide guitar and even electric bass have found their way into bluegrass.

In 1948, Scruggs and flat-picking guitarist Lester Flatt departed from the Blue Grass Boys, formed Flatt & Scruggs and spread the music to a younger audience. After scoring hit TV and movie themes such as The Beverly Hillbillies, on which they played a recurring role, and Bonnie and Clyde, Flatt & Scruggs split up, with each man continuing as a bandleader. On this collection, you’ll find Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs acolytes from successive generations who fell in love with bluegrass and have also contributed to its sonic evolution.

Bluegrass grew its audience in the great outdoors. Beginning in the early 1960s, southeastern bluegrass festivals attracted increasing crowds. In the ’60s, Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, which expanded their audience and attracted numerous younger musicians to the infectious style. A whole new generation of listeners discovered bluegrass thanks to the 2000 hit film O Brother, Where Art Thou? It featured a soundtrack with music by Alison Krauss and other bluegrass stars that sold more than 15 million copies. Today, bluegrass is beloved from Tennessee to Tokyo.

_Holly George-Warren

Krystle Warren and The Faculty live shows – London 22/5 and Brighton 24/5. Krystle also touring with Rufus Wainwright (Lyceum 30/4)

Krystle Warren
& The Faculty

New album
Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace

Out Now

Krystle Warren is a true original. Now comes this brave, personal set that extends her musical range even further. It’s a mostly cheerful album, with her deep, breathy voice easing between soulful balladry and scat jazz, with echoes of ragtime, gospel and country. Her assurance is as remarkable as her range, from the swinging Tuesday Morning to the grand I Worry Less, or (best of all) her string-backed setting to a William Blake poem, The Clod and the Pebble, treated as an elegant fusion of soulful hymnal and swing. The Guardian ****

The astonishing Ms Warren advances on the impressive gameplan of acclaimed predecessor Circles with a self-produced lovefest that was recorded in 13 days. It brims with soulful riches and consummate musicality while the songs are sensuous platforms for her honeyed contralto, jazzy elegance and effortless flair. Mirror ****

For her latest album, American ingenue Krystle Warren assembled a team of 28 musicians in a Brooklyn studio and laid down new songs live. Aptly, the twelve that made it onto Love Songs capture her crooning effortlessly over timeless jazz, folk and blues layered with horns, strings, piano and choirs. Smouldering stuff. Diva Magazine

…singer-songwriter Krystle Warren remains a cult concern. A gorgeous new album, Love Songs, should help her cause … Evening Standard

“… An utterly indispensable modern classic.” Morning Star

Krystle Warren – a Missouri native who has spent time performing on the streets of Paris and New York – made a name for herself with her 2009 debut, Circles. She draws obvious comparisons to Tracy Chapman, but perhaps it’s only due to the depth of her alto vocal range. Despite comparisons to Chapman and Nina Simone, Warren is a decidedly different brand of singer-songwriter, managing to hit multiple styles, often within a single song, so that each carries with it a new and refreshing sense of promise and surprise. musicOMH

Just having a voice isn’t enough – you have to have a reason to sing, something that tells your audience “this is what I was made for”. With this collection, Krystle Warren has got there. music-news.co.uk ****

Live:
Tuesday 22nd May
Dingwalls
Camden Lock,
London NW1 8AF
+ support from Dead Flamingoes (Kami Thompson + James Walbourne)
£15 from www.wegottickets.co.uk / www.ticketweb.co.uk / www.seetickets.com
Doors 7pm
+
Brighton Festival
Thursday 24th May
All Saints’ Church,
The Drive,
Hove,
BN3 3QE
£12.50 from www.brightonfestival.org (Sold Out)
Doors 8pm
+
Krystle will be touring the world in 2012 with Rufus Wainwright as guitarist/backing vocalist and support act.

In February Krystle completed the Floating Palaces tour alongside KT Tunstall, Robyn Hitchcock, Martin & Eliza Carthy and Howe Gelb (and Led Zep’s John Paul Jones below).

‘Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace’ is the next episode in the musical life of the remarkable Krystle Warren following the much admired ‘Circles’ release: “… Warren’s talents are extraordinary. She has an octave-hopping voice that glides between languid and urgent, and music that hovers between funk, folk and jazz, between Jeff Buckley and Nina Simone ….. she’s the real deal.” The Observer

“… Warren’s thrilling debut album fully lives up to expectations….It’s all uncontrived and near faultless, really.” Uncut

“There’s something alluringly familiar about Krystle Warren. She instantly sounds classic … we are certainly in the presence of a mighty talent.” BBC Online

“Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace” is the fruit of an exhilarating 13 day recording session in Brooklyn during which 25* tunes were laid down, live (the way her heroes and sheroes did it) by a total of 28 musicians including Krystle’s regular crew, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle wrote the songs, fired up the players and produced the whole jambalaya. She integrates ragtime and waltz time; evokes Dusty and Krystle-ises William Blake; rubs up against Broadway musical stylings as well as leaving lots of space for songs featuring only her glorious voice alongside acoustic guitar. In a perfect world “Love Songs…” would have come to you on double vinyl with a gatefold sleeve big enough for you to lose yourself in.

The journey from Krystle’s parlour to your table has been an eventful and exciting one. She set up her own record label as well as sharing stages around the world with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Norah Jones, Joan As Police Woman, Nick Cave and Kylie.

Krystle is addicted to life on the musical high wire; always landing on the balls of her feet perfectly poised for the next adventure. On “Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace” the overwhelming sound is one of Krystle collecting the baton from her musical forebears – but it’s mostly about the weightless, giddy, moreishness of new love brought to you by the mind, body and soul of a huge and mature talent.
Two degrees in bebop, a PhD in swing.
She’s a master of rhythm, she’s a rock ‘n’ roll Queen.

Love Songs: A Time To Keep EP – Parlour Door Music. Out Now
* Part two: “Love Songs: A Time To Refrain From Embracing” will be along in good time.

For more info please contact gerry lyseight: 020 7095 8146 / gerry@glpr.co.uk / www.gerrylyseight.co.uk

www.krystlewarren.com

Krystle Warren in Australia

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/singer-songwriter-krystle-warren-is-moving-on/story-fn9n8gph-1226265683274

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1109358&l=fcc0038b53&id=190647694299659

http://www.gaynorcrawford.com/press/tribute-to-nick-drake-dazzles-melbourne-rhythms-magazine

http://themusic.com.au/sfg/interviews/3319/krystle-warren

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/music/not-in-kansas-any-more-but-still-a-vibrant-voice-of-honesty-20120319-1vfne.html

http://www.bmamag.com/articles/features/20120313-krystle-warren/

http://www.fusemagazine.com.au/index.php/regulars/ear-candy/2205-the-extraordinary-krystle-warren

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/krystle-clear-20120308-1umgq.html

http://www.beat.com.au/music/krystle-warren-toff-town

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/entertainment/music-2/4863-the-extraordinary-krystle-warren.html

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/the-morning-show/factsheets/article/-/13112570/krystle-warren-tour-dates/

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/featured-9166332/krystle-warren-28544151.html

 

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