Radical Face: 'The Family Tree: The Roots', magnifica perla folk in uscita il 17 aprile per Nettwerk/Self
Jala mediativities e Nettwerk music Group
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RADICAL FACE
'The Family Tree: The Roots'
ECCO BEN COOPER aka RADICAL FACE CON L’ALBUM “THE FAMILY TREE: THE ROOTS”
Etichetta: Nettwerk Music Group / distribuzione SELF
Release date: 17 aprile 2012
TRA SUONI FOLK SPORCHI, RURALI, ACCENNI INDIE-POP GUIDATI DA UN PIANOFORTE E DAL PIZZICO DELLE CORDE DELLA CHITARRA, DEL BANJO E DEI VIOLINI UN VERO GIOIELLO DI MUSICA CANTAUTORIALE INTENSO E MAGICO.
UNA VERA SORPRESA, UN DISCO REGISTRATO IN UNA CASA SPERDUTA DI FINE 800 A JACKSONVILLE (FLORIDA) CON STRUMENTAZIONE DELL’EPOCA.
IL DISCO FOLK CHE TUTTI STAVANO ASPETTANDO E’ QUI E CI PRESENTA UNO DEI MIGLIORI ESEMPI DEL SOUND AMERICANO CANTAUTORIALE SENTITI
NEGLI ULTIMI ANNI:
BEN COOPER aka RADICAL FACE E’ UN ARTISTA DAL TALENTO INCREDIBILE, CAPACE DI SCRIVERE QUELLE GRANDI CANZONI CHE HANNO CREATO IL TERMINE “AMERICANA”!
TRA SUONI FOLK SPORCHI, RURARI, ACCENNI INDIE-POP GUIDATI DA UN PIANOFORTE E DAL PIZZICO DELLE CORDE DELLA CHITARRA, DEL BANJO E DEI VIOLINI UN VERO GIOIELLO DI MUSICA CANTAUTORIALE INTENSO E MAGICO.
BIOGRAFIA
On Jan.23, indie, pop-folk artist RADICAL FACE will return with his sophomore album The Family Tree: The
Roots on Nettwerk Records. After four years of honing the concept, artist BEN COOPER, aka RADICAL
FACE, recorded the album--depicting a family from the 1800’s--alone in a tool shed in his native Jacksonville,
FL, only using instruments of the era. Hauntingly beautiful, The Family Tree: The Roots glimmers with folk,
pop and Ben’s wide-open spacious vocals. RADICAL FACE--who has generally shied away from live
performances and never toured Europe before- will give audiences a treat as he treks across the UK and
mainland Europe for a series of concerts with his band Jan.23-Feb.12, 2012.
Don’t be fooled by Ben’s uniquely understated voice and the simple beginnings. The new album is the followup
to his 2007 debut indie triumph Ghost, and the first installment of three stand-alone records all tied to the
theme of a Family Tree: each song on The Family Tree: The Roots builds in layers much like the depth of its
characters. From soaring tracks like “A Pound of Flesh” and “Severus and Stone,” eerily dark pieces like
“Black Eyes” and “Kin” to warm, enlightening gems like “Always Gold” and “Mountains,” the songs flow
together with mindful artistic clarity, allowing you to fully escape into the album as the stories unravel.
Ben limited the songwriting to instruments that would have been accessible in the 1800’s--piano, acoustic
guitar, a floor tom, and voices--only bringing in additional instruments during tracking when needed. He
says: “I’m a storyteller, and wanted that to be the focus. I looked up genealogy charts and studied
American history for a frame of reference and put it all together.” Such concepts and stories come
naturally to Ben, whom wrote fiction before turning to music. He switched to music after a hard drive crash
where he lost two novels.
Chances are you're already familiar with Ben’s music; he is one half of the band Electric President among
other side projects. Meanwhile, “Welcome Home” the RADICAL FACE song has garnered over 7 million
Youtube views. It appears as the soundtrack for the I AM NIKON campaign and in such movies as
Humboldt County, The Vicious Kind and the Reel Rock Documentary, listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8a4iiOnzsc. Further RADICAL FACE television support has come
from shows like “Private Practice,” “Skins,” “Eddie Izzard” and “Weeds,” as well as Current TV which
nationally aired a documentary piece on RADICAL FACE in 2008. Most recently, Ben lent his music to
support the “It Gets Better” Google Chrome Campaign against bullying and the “Ride 4 Water” charity
raising funds for clean drinking water in Africa.
