Duke Garwood Joining Mark Lanegan on tour

Singer/multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood will be celebrating the release of his latest solo outing,Heavy Love, touring as opener for his friend and erstwhile collaborator (their Black Pudding album was a joint project and Duke contributed guitar to Lanegan’s Blues Funeral album); Garwood will be performing with a drummer and a second guitar player on this tour and siting in on Lanegan’s set. Duke promises: “Mood and scene permitting, I will be joining Mark for ‘I Am The Wolf .’ We hope to do it every night.” “I Am The Wolf” is the song Garwood wrote for Lanegan’s latest album Phantom Radio.

Truer to his muse than ever before, Garwood’s Heavy Love brilliantly explores this magical artist’s auteurist, cinematic vision. The album was self-produced by Garwood, recording at Josh Homme’s Pink Duck studio in Los Angeles with Alain Johannes (QOTSA) and Mark Lanegan mixing (Johannes also co-produced four tracks.  Heavy Love’s dark, mystical, erotic sounds draw from madman’s blues, desert slithers, and his characterisic spectral, past-midnight burr of a voice. Now signed to Heavenly Recordings, his new album is due for release on February 10. I’m hoping you’ll consider covering via feature or album review. Please let me know if you need the music. Here’s video of

 

Mark with Duke  performing “Mescalito” @ L’Alhambra Paris (15-11-2013)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOaxHKYblc

 

The circumstances under which these recordings were made seem as unlikely and exotic as the music they produced. After opening for Mark Lanegan’s Soulsavers as a member of Steve Gullick’s band Tenebrous, Duke and Mark became friends, tour mates and finally collaborators on the Black Pudding album; Duke provided the hushed, dusky musical settings. The work on Black Pudding went so well they finished a day ahead of schedule and on that leftover day, Garwood entered Pink Duck alone, and began work on the tracks that would become Heavy Love, capturing this musician at his peak.

 

“When I was young and pretty, I could’ve become a star,” reflects Garwood. “Luckily, I didn’t have any inkling to. I didn’t know what I was doing; I wanted to play music the way I wanted it to be played. That probably saved my life”.  Instead he would embark upon the kind of character-building, detour-strewn route known only by the greatest artists and vagabonds. Along the way he formed deep connections with great musicians – from similarly quixotic souls like Lanegan, The Orb (adding guitar to “Perpetual Dawn”), and Josh T. Pearson – to distant legends Tinariwen and The Master Musicians Of Jajouka. Savages singer Jehnny Beth has also been a long-term admirer: “I met Duke at The Luminaire. He was playing sweet ballads with a tint of free-jazz; his voice was thin and full, like a Chet Baker turned into a midnight wolf. The first question was ‘who is this guy’?”  It’s her delicate vocals that appear on Heavy Love’s haunting title-track, which you can hear on the new video made by Garwood and famed rock photographer Steve Gullick; you can view here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrcCGjIX6Zo&feature=youtu.be

 

DUKE GARWOOD Dates, Opening for Mark Lanegan

 

16-Feb	Duke Garwood	Germany	Hamburg	Uebel & Gefahrlich (supporting Mark Lanegan)
17-Feb	Duke Garwood	Germany	Berlin	Postbahnhof (supporting Mark Lanegan)
18-Feb	Duke Garwood	Poland	Warsaw	Progresia (supporting Mark Lanegan)
19-Feb	Duke Garwood	Poland	Krakow	Fabryka (supporting Mark Lanegan)
20-Feb	Duke Garwood	Czech Republic	Prague	Lucerna Music Bar (supporting Mark Lanegan)
21-Feb	Duke Garwood	Germany	Munich	Freiheiz (supporting Mark Lanegan)
23-Feb	Duke Garwood	Hungary	Budapest	A38 (supporting Mark Lanegan)
24-Feb	Duke Garwood	Serbia	Belgrade	Dom Oladine (supporting Mark Lanegan)
25-Feb	Duke Garwood	Macedonia	Skopje	Mkc (supporting Mark Lanegan)
26-Feb	Duke Garwood	Montenegro	Kotor	Maximus (supporting Mark Lanegan)
27-Feb	Duke Garwood	Croatia	Zagreb	Lauba (supporting Mark Lanegan)
28-Feb	Duke Garwood	Slovenia	Ljubljana	Kino Siska (supporting Mark Lanegan)
01-Mar	Duke Garwood	Austria	Vienna	Scene Wien (supporting Mark Lanegan)
03-Mar	Duke Garwood	Italy	Bologna	Estragon Club (supporting Mark Lanegan)
04-Mar	Duke Garwood	Italy	Rome	Orion (supporting Mark Lanegan)
05-Mar	Duke Garwood	Italy	Milan	Alcatraz (supporting Mark Lanegan)
06-Mar	Duke Garwood	Switzerland	Zurich	Dynamo (supporting Mark Lanegan)
07-Mar	Duke Garwood	France	Paris	L’alhambra (supporting Mark Lanegan)
08-Mar	Duke Garwood	France	Bordeaux	Le Club Krakatoa (supporting Mark Lanegan)
10-Mar	Duke Garwood	Spain	Barcelona	Sala Bikini (supporting Mark Lanegan)
11-Mar	Duke Garwood	Spain	Bilbao	Kafe Antzokia (supporting Mark Lanegan)
12-Mar	Duke Garwood	Spain	Madrid	Joy Eslava (supporting Mark Lanegan)
13-Mar	Duke Garwood	Portugal	Porto	Hard Club (supporting Mark Lanegan)
14-Mar	Duke Garwood	Portugal	Lisbon	Armazem F (supporting Mark Lanegan)

 

Duke Garwood Joining Mark Lanegan on tour