LOVE POLICE TOURING PRESENT< /p>\n
SIMONE FELICE and band with special guest J OSH RITTER
\nTOURING AUSTRALIA JULY 2012
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\nAfter his acclaimed tour to Australi a in September 2011 SIMONE FELICE\, singer\, songwriter\, novelist\, survi vor\, will again bring his incomparable music and talent to our shores in July. Hot on the release of his latest release\, Simone Felice with be acc ompanied by his band of merry music makers as well as fellow countryman JO SH RITTER on his first ever visit to our shores\, making this an unforgett able musical evening of enlightenment and discovery.
\nFor Simone Fe lice\, his self-titled solo debut has literally been a lifetime in the mak ing. As the former drummer\, writer and vocalist of The Felice Brothers ex plains\, “This album is the one I’ve had buried away\, somewhere in my wei rd heart.”
\nFelice doesn’t use the word “heart” casually. When you sit with him in a room you can hear a subtle metallic ticking noise. If yo u hunt for the source of the sound you’ll find a vertical scar bisecting t he entire length of his chest\, a visceral reminder of the open-heart surg ery he was forced to undergo in the summer of 2010 after a childhood conge nital defect brought him to the brink of death. He traces the line of that scar as if it’s where his new songs actually emanate from\, and in a way they do. “\;Simone Felice”\; is strikingly simple in its arrange ments but extravagant in its emotional impact. There is a luminous aura su rrounding these compositions\, something magical and otherworldly\, even w hen the lyrics are startlingly topical or reference historical events.
Felice conveys his often mournful tales of star-crossed lovers and beau tiful losers with remarkable empathy. Given his own life-and-death experie nces – the recent surgery and the birth of his first child were just the l atest chapters — his approach can genuinely be called openhearted. Over th e course of a year\, this Catskill Mountains-based artist found the most d eeply resonant places in which to record his work\, settings that were as haunted in their rafters as he felt in his bones: a barn near his home in the woods\, an old church in London\, an abandoned high school building by the Hudson River. What he created in these hushed\, hallowed places is mu sic that could be called folk but that has running through it a ghostly go spel-like feel. Occasionally helping him realize his vision were friends f rom Mumford &\; Sons\, The Felice Brothers\, and even the members of a local girl’s choir\, the Catskill High School Treblaires.
\nJOSH RIT TER is from Moscow\, Idaho and the son of two neuroscientists. He was on h is way to follow in their footsteps when he discovered Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan’\;s “\;Girl from the North Country”\; in high school and has since released five studio albums and has been recently named one of the 100 greatest living songwriters by Paste Magazine\, alongside Dyla n\, Springsteen\, and Neil Young. His most recent album ‘So Runs The World Away’ will be released for the first time in Australia on June 15. The al bum will be released as a 2CD\, packaged with the brand new 6 track EP ‘B ringing in The Darlings’.
\nDo not miss what will be one of the musi c highlights of 2012
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