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Wyland
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| Blues planet – a new collection global blues music for our environment |
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Recorded in May 2011 in New Orleans at the famed Piety Street Studios following the one-year the anniversary of the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster, Blues Planet explores a new genre of “Global Blues” that spotlights environmental artist Wyland’s passion for conservation through the blues sounds of Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Texas and the Mississippi Delta. All music and lyrics for the album were written by Wyland, with guest arrangements by Leon Pendarvis, musical director for the Saturday Night Live Band and the original Blues Brothers band, and Jamieson Trotter. Other SNL musical alums on the album, include trombone player Steve Turre, who handled horn arrangements. Other musicians include Delfeayo Marsalis, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s Roger Lewis, New Orleans Clarinetist Dr. Michael White, Blues Pianist Jon Cleary, Miss Honey, Henry Carvajal, Rusty Zinn, Dave Kida, Jonny Viau, Hank VanSickle, Andromeda Turre, Willie K, Mitch Woods, Amy Hanialii Gilliom, Mick Weaver, Joe Sublett, Darrell Leonard, Tony Braunagel, Jon Cleary, Johnny Lee Schell, and Larry Fulcher.
The Wyland Blues Planet Band made its debut as the opening act on the main stage of the Doheny Blues Festival on May 22, 2011. “Music and art reflect the times, and sometimes the future,” Wyland says. “Anyone whose read the papers lately knows our planet has the blues. And this music reminds us in the tradition of the classic blues style that it’s up to us to take care of our world or risk losing everything.”
Blues Planet features nearly fifty original blues songs spanning three-albums and follows up Wyland Records’ Rhythms of the Sea , a jazz-inflected tribute to ocean conservation, and is in keeping with the artist’s efforts to spread a message of environmental stewardship through the arts. Wyland’s pointed lyrics cover extensive thematic ground through a multi-layered spectrum of classic blues, from the recent Gulf Oil Spill to growing losses of natural habitat to human impacts on the environment. Slated for release in November 2011, Blues Planet will be an exciting continuation of the blues tradition and add a new chapter in our understanding our environment and conservation for the 21st Century.
Learn more at http://www.wyland.com/wylandrecords |
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Direct Correspondence to:
Wyland
c/o Wyland Worldwide, LLC
6 Mason
Irvine, CA
USA 92618
Tel: 949-643-7070
Fax: 949-643-7099
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Home Page: http://www.wyland.com
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