‘Claude Fontaine’ promises 10 tracks of artful reverence and tasteful reimagining of globetrotting sounds.” — Noisey
Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter Claude Fontaine shares a new single, “Hot Tears,” from her forthcoming debut, self-titled album, out April 26th on Innovative Leisure. Following the “hypnotic and romantic” (Noisey) “Pretending He Was You” and lead single “Cry For Another”, which the Los Angeles Times described as “a straight-up rocksteady song that conjures the essence of Kingston, Jamaica, in the late 1960s,” “Hot Tears” is another standout nod to the early 1970s Studio One, Trojan, and Treasure Isle records of Jamaica. Over muted percussion and flutters of trumpet, Fontaine tells a story of unrequited love.
Listen to “Hot Tears” –
https://youtu.be/5oYzwUyy_LE
Claude Fontaine was tracked in two potent sessions with guitarist Tony Chin, whose playing with Althea and Donna, King Tubby, Dennis Brown and so many more very arguably defined a significant part of the classic reggae sound, and Airto Moreira, the Brazilian drummer whose work both solo and in collaboration—with Miles Davis, Astrud Gilberto, Chick Corea, Annette Peacock—make him an actual living legend. They also enlisted a murderer’s row of additional session players—bassist RonnieMcQueen of Steel Pulse and Ziggy Marley drummer Rock Deadrick, Now Again Records guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento, Sergio Mendes percussionist Gibi Dos Santos and Flora Purim bassist Andre De Santanna. The ten tracks that comprise Claude Fontaine were tracked at both KingsizeSound Labs in Northeast Los Angeles and Sage and Sound, Chet Baker’s legendary old studio in Hollywood.
Fontaine will celebrate the album’s release with a show at Zebulon in Los Angeles on Fri. April 26th. Tickets are available here.
Listen to “Pretending He Was You” —
https://bit.ly/2J0aCi4
Watch “Cry For Another” Video —
https://youtu.be/ztHTOL_EJWM
Pre-order Claude Fontaine —
https://claudefontaine.bandcamp.com/album/claude-fontaine
Keep your mind open.
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