High calibre musicians coming to Rochdale

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The Local Tour is coming to Touchstones Rochdale on 26 January 2009, featuring an exciting collaboration between high calibre musicians David Thomas Broughton, Sam Amidon and Doveman (aka Thomas Bartlett).

The three artists will come together and interweave their music to create new sounds and uplifting music.

A spokesperson for the Local Tour said: "Each musician is extraordinary in his own right, from Broughton's wonderfully unique use of his acoustic guitar, to Doveman's acclaimed keyboard playing, which has made him such a sought after artist, working with such musical luminaries as Martha Wainwright and Anthony and the Johnsons, whilst Sam Amidon's music has been described by Stylus magazine as "viscerally stunning, comforting, upsetting, entrancing.

"The haunting performances will drift, interweave and interrupt each other, in a continuous flow of instrumentation, experimentation, lyrical delicacy and magical layers of guitar, banjo, piano and fiddle-playing, looping pedals and samples."

Recorded in a church in Leeds, David Thomas Broughton’s entrancing debut ‘The Complete Guide to Insufficiency’ spreads five tracks across 40 minutes, developing his eerie folk songs into epic mantras on death, war, love, and sex and captures the controlled chaos of David’s live show, filled with ghostly reverb, solemnity and touches of unexpected, deadpan humour.

Using simple tools - an acoustic guitar, some looping pedals, an old radio – David Thomas Broughton has created a singular statement of purpose and artistic intent. Long after “freak-folk” is no longer a trend, listeners are pulling ‘The Complete Guide to Insufficiency’ off the shelf.

Sam Amidon was raised in Brattleboro, Vermont by folk-musician parents and plays fiddle, banjo, and guitar. In 2007, he released ‘But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted’ under the moniker Samamidon, a collaboration with Thomas Bartlett / Doveman.

In March 2007, he premiered the Nico Muhly composition ‘Two Sisters’ at Carnegie Hall.

His most recent album of songs is 'All Is Well,' produced & recorded in Iceland by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork, Bonnie Prince Billy) and featuring orchestral arrangements by Nico Muhly. The album has received much acclaim including from Rolling Stone, who said, "in an era of overheated Nick Drake comparisons, Amidon is eerily close to the real thing."

26-year old Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman is one of New York's most in-demand keyboard players, collaborating & touring with artists such as Martha Wainwright, Antony, David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto & Yoko Ono. Doveman is Bartlett and his select
group of collaborators, who bring to mind artists such as Frederic Chopin, Cat Power, Keith Jarrett, Talk Talk, and Chris Whitley.

Tickets for the Rochdale gig are available at:

www.seetickets.com
www. ticketweb.co.uk / 0844 847 2487
www.wegottickets.com

Or from Touchstones direct at:

Touchstones Rochdale
The Esplanade
Rochdale OL16 1AQ
Tel: 01706 924944