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Alt-folk pioneer Richard Buckner announces his first European tour in over 5 years in support of his new album “Our Blood” . “Our Blood” is Richard’s first album since 2006’s ‘Meadow’ and the first ever to be released by a UK record label (décor- home of Richmond Fontaine, Mark Eitzel)

Pitchfork has given the “Our Blood “album a glowing 8/10 review and the UK reviews will be coming in soon, the first of which is a 4 star review in UNCUT calling it “an austere beauty”

In a recent Pitchfork interview with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) hailed Richard Buckner as having a “big influence” on Bon Iver, Bon Iver ” His ( Richards) words are just about a sound and barely about meaning, but I could find all these crazy meanings in there. In his song “Loaded at the Wrong Door” , there are lyrics that are totally heartbreaking and beautiful and heavy, but you really couldn’t say exactly what they’re about. Still, I found these intense personal connections with those words because they flowed out a certain way.”

Richard Buckner is an American singer-songwriter born in California. After living in Edmonton, Alberta for a number of years, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. A critically acclaimed artist hailed by Bon Iver as a big influence and most often associated with the alternative country movement, Buckner had in recent albums eschewed his initial acoustic approach and displayed an increasing interest in more abstract music styles until reintegrating his acoustic approach on 2011′s “Our Blood”.

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Buckner’s career began with Bloomed (1994), a lyrically-dense suite of songs recorded in Lubbock, Texas (produced by Lloyd Maines) and heavily influenced by that state’s tradition of whiskey-soaked poet/troubadors, probably best embodied by Townes Van Zandt. (Since 1999, the album has been kept in print (with additional bonus tracks) by Rykodisc offshoot Slow River Records at Buckner’s request, the artwork on the back cover was edited to remove his then-girlfriend from the picture.) In January 1996, while living in San Francisco, he recorded an album’s worth of acoustic songs, all of which would reappear in more fully realized forms on his second and third albums. This CD was self-produced and self-released, and was sold exclusively at his early shows.

Later that year, he signed with MCA Records, for whom he recorded two albums, both produced by J.D. Foster. Devotion + Doubt was released in 1997, displaying a more adventurous, almost avant-garde approach to songwriting and arranging, and featuring backing from members of the band Giant Sand, as well as Maines and Marc Ribot, among others. Its follow-up, 1998′s Since, continues in this style, with an even greater emphasis on detailed production, this time featuring contributions from John McEntire, Dave Schramm, David Grubbs, Syd Straw, and others. Although these albums garnered considerable critical approval for Buckner, they did not perform well enough for his label, and he was released from his contract with MCA (whom he then nicknamed ‘Musical Career Assassins’) shortly thereafter.

Since then, he has returned to recording for smaller labels, to continued critical acclaim and cult status. His 2000 album The Hill – his first for Chicago-based indie label Overcoat Recordings – features poems from Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology (1915), which Buckner set to music. The album plays as a single track, nearly thirty-five minutes long. He returned in 2002, first with the “teaser” EP Impasse-ette, then a full-length entitled Impasse one month later. In early 2003, his self-released, self-titled album was reissued by Overcoat, and was his final release for the label. In 2004, an edited version of Richard Buckner’s song “Ariel Ramirez”, from the album Since (1998) was featured in one of the television ads for Volkswagen’s Touareg. The song, in its original form, would be featured prominently in the 2008 horror film, The Strangers.

He is currently aligned with North Carolina-based indie label Merge Records, who have released two of his albums so far: 2004′s Dents and Shells and 2006′s Meadow. Between the two, he released an album with Jon Langford (most notably of The Mekons) called Sir Dark Invader vs. The Fanglord (2005, originally recorded in Sally Timms’s house in 2002) on Buried Treasure Records. Merge Records released Buckner’s long awaited new album “Our Blood” on August 2, 2011. The album was licensed in Europe and Oceania to Decor records.

Johnny Hide

På slutten av 90-tallet dannet Johnny Hide pop-orkesteret Number Seven Deli der han er vokalist, gitarist og låtskriver. De har tre suksessrike utgivelser bak seg som bl.a har ført til massiv radiospilling, Spellemannsnominasjon og omfattende turnévirksomhet her til lands.

Han har også gitt ut soloalbumene “Linger Songs” (2005) og An Honest Try (2010). Johnny beveget seg her et stykke bort fra det elektriske uttrykket han er kjent med fra Number Seven Deli og inn i et mer akustisk og relativt neddempet lydlandskap. Men det stoppet ikke låtene fra å bli spilt på radio, publikum fra å komme på konsertene eller kritikerne fra å rose.

De siste årene har han konsentrert seg mer om låtskriving for seg selv og andre, enn å gjøre konserter. Så kom og opplev en av de mest kritikerroste norske låtskriverne/artistene i Norge.

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