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Strange Part Of The Country

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Top 3 in US Alternative Radio Chart (Mediaguide) Mixed by multi Grammy winner Tchad Blake (Tom Waits). Q MAGAZINE RECOMMENDS 4**** 'The album is fantastic! His…
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  • Label: Great Hare
  • Label Type: indie
  • About:
    WHO

    London singer-songwriter Conil - dubbed “the anti-James Blunt” has garnered great reviews for “one of this country’s finest voices” and standout songs inspired by wandering through the city streets at night. Conil’s use of unusual ethnic instruments makes his Strange Part Of The Country album feel like an atmospheric road trip through the city’s underbelly.

    WHAT
    Recorded at night in his isolated home-studio in South London, Conil would sometimes not leave the house for days until interrupted by one of his collaborators. Famous double bass player Danny Thompson (John Martyn, Tim Buckley) played on the record and mixing was done by multi Grammy winner Tchad Blake - the man behind a number of Tom Waits and Pearl Jam records. Such heavyweights do not usually respond to requests from lone singer songwriters, so Conil emailed them some tunes under the pseudonym Phil Coltrane - which later became a lyric in ‘Dog Meat Stew’: “changed my name to John Coltrane ‘cos no one took my phone calls”. The plan worked and recording began.

    After 12 months of production and experimentation with instruments like the dilruba and sarangi, Conil took the tunes to Tchad Blake’s country studio where he spent his days on the farm (the Los Angeles native even taught him how to lasso horses). At night they would work in the studio drinking Tchad’s single malts and raiding the wine cellar. The result is a gumbo of cerebral and otherworldly music by a man with a unique voice.

    WHY
    Conil has been tipped by Heat Magazine being included on their Hot New Artists 2010 list plus forthcoming single ‘Stoned’ has been added to NME Radio playlist. An earlier incarnation of the album garnered critical acclaim with 4 star reviews by Q Magazine and support from BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, XFM and NME Radio. Single ‘Years Between’ was released in the US and reached Number 3 in the Mediaguide Alternative Radio Chart and Blues Matters magazine featured Conil as the main front cover story. He supported US singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur on his UK tour and was subsequently invited to perform at NXNE and SXSW where Conil put up his trademark ‘One Way’ signs all over Austin – he alters the familiar street signs to read ‘Strange Part Of The Country’ and points them to the gig venue.

    Released on his own Great Hare record label the Strange Part Of The Country album will be supported by a street session tour playing gigs at planned spots coordinated via his website. Each location will be marked by a Banksy style plaque that reads ‘Strange Part Of The Country’.
  • Member Since: 2009-10-14