Jamie Lidell - New Album 'JIM' and touring with full band
February 18, 2008
Jamie Lidell is back in 2008 with a stunning album entitled JIM out April 28th. The UK tour is announced and selling like hot chesnuts on a snowy day. Koko is almost sold out! We are now looking at very select festival stages for Jamie + band to appear on through the summer.
The album was written over the last year with help from long time collaborators Mocky & Gonzales and recorded in LA with producer wizard Justin Stanley (who has worked with many including Beck and Prince). This album sees Jamie hit the heights of songwriting and vocal perfection that he has been working towards for many years.
Jamie says of JIM:
“The most important thing was the vocal, to capture the balance of me delivering the songs with full gusto, and at the same time retaining the grain and the grit.”
UK ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR ::
25/04/2008 Glasgow @ The Tramway (Tryptich Festival)
26/04/2008 Edinburgh @ The Liquid Rooms (Tryptich Festival)
29/04/2008 London @ Koko (almost sold out!)
01/05/2008 Manchester @ The Academy 3
02/05/2008 Bristol @ Trinity (Bloom Festival on tour)
03/05/2008 Dublin @ The Academy
Jim will switch you on in the morning, move you on the dance-floor and take you down in the small hours. It’s a bold, promiscuously diverse album, mixing up gospel grooves, sweetly sung and fiercely passionate soul, delicately moving ballads, thumping early R & B, synthed-up disco, and even a touch of ‘hillbilly funk’. “I haven’t tried to hide the influences,” he says “This is the music I love.” But, listen closely and you can hear Jamie moving in new directions, creating a sound and style that is entirely his own.
Check the mini warm up studio jam with Jamie & band ::
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