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Anacortes Folk Artist: Karl Blau w/ Heatwarmer and Whitney Ballen
Wed, 27 Dec, 8:00 PM PST
Doors open
7:00 PM PST
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5213 Ballard Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107
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Description
Ahead of the release of his new forthcoming album Out Her Space, which is due out November, 17th, 2017 through Bella Union, Karl Blau is please to share new track "Beckon". Collaborating alongside a number of musicians from Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb label as his backing band.
Sequestered away in rural bliss, 90 minutes north of Seattle on the Washington state coast, Karl Blau has been making records for 20 years, but never with European distribution. So, when Bella Union released Introducing Karl Blau in 2015, it shone a belated and deserved light on “one of the great hidden treasures of music,” claimed album producer Tucker Martine.
But given Introducing’s specific agenda - a set of gorgeous, lush cover versions drawing mostly on vintage Nashville’s country-soul with Blau concentrating on his rich, reverberating voice – his latest album Out Her Space is so different that it could be titled Reintroducing Karl Blau.
Out Her Space features Blau’s own material, production and multi-instrumental skills, and forges a gorgeous, languid and hook-infested gumbo of soul, funk, some jazzy blowing and Afro-pop, to arrive somewhere else entirely.
Event Information
Age Limit
21+

Alternative Folk
Karl Blau
Karl Blau
Alternative Folk
Based in Philadelphia, Blau has a legendarily broad résumé. He has worked on 250 albums during the last three decades, his experience ranging from Earth and Microphones to Laura Veirs and Matthew E. White. And his own catalog has forever been that of a polyglot, bending funk and folk and pop and punk into experimental forms with total glee. To call Vultures of Love the culmination of all that is to imply some stopping point, as if this is some destination Blau has now reached. But he moved to Philadelphia in part because he likes to be part of music that is going somewhere, that is seeking some frontier. This is just a particularly compelling step on the path of an under-heralded adventurer, still finding new ways to locate the space between the expected and unexpected.

Alternative Rock
Whitney Ballen
Whitney Ballen
Alternative Rock