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Following a successful showcase at this year’s South By Southwest Festival and a spot on the Glastonbury Jazz World Stage, the Bristol-based Phantom Limb (featuring Yolanda from Massive Attack) are set to release their eponymous debut album on Naim Edge this month.
Phantom Limb combines classic southern soul, country blues and gospel, using 5 part harmonies to create a warm, heartfelt sound that has already been likened to The Band, Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin.
POD Concerts presents
PHANTOM LIMB
Support: TBA
Friday September 19th
Crawdaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €13 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.phantomlimbmusic.com
www.myspace.com/phantomlimbrobot
Irish Tour: Sept. 17 - The Old Oak in Cork, Sept. 18 - The Spirit Store in Dundalk
Band:
Yolanda Quarty: vocals
Stew Jackson: guitars/ banjo/ vocals
Dan Brown: bass
Dan Moore: piano/ keyboards
Luke Cawthra: guitar
Matt Jones: drums
Following a successful showcase at this year’s South By Southwest Festival and a spot on the Glastonbury Jazz World Stage on 27 June, the Bristol-based Phantom Limb are set to release their eponymous debut album on Naim Edge on 25 August 2008. Phantom Limb combines classic southern soul, country blues and gospel, using 5 part harmonies to create a warm, heartfelt sound that has already been likened to The Band, Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin.
Phantom Limb opens with the first single of the album, ‘Don’t Say A Word’, a beautiful elegiac track enriched by the vocals of Yolanda Quarty, huge in sound yet intimately delivered. Sweeping across the album is an undeniably hopeful sentiment, without being sickly, ‘Good Fortune’ captures turmoil in love, and ‘Run’ owes more than a little to the legacy of country music, Yolanda declaring that ‘sometimes you just gotta run’. Track names such as ‘I’ll Never Be The Same Again’, ‘My Love Is Gone’, Withering Bones’ all suggest an abundance in melancholia; yet due to either the soaring vocals, the backing strings effects or the playful guitar picking, the sound is picked up and carried away into a place where sadness and despair is transitory and where strength prevails, “I don’t want to die alone/ But I won’t be put asunder/ By a mean old lover...” (‘Withering Bones’)
Phantom Limb first got together in 2004, but only since hanging up their original electric instruments and picking up acoustic have the band really discovered their sound – a sound that takes influence from soul, country, blues, gospel and modern acoustic songwriting and that has already made a firm impact on the Bristol music scene. Between the individual band members, they have worked with a diverse range of artists such as Massive Attack, Bugz in the Attic, Skin, Roni Size and Will Young. 2007 saw Phantom Limb’s first acoustic gigs and are now cemented as one of Bristol’s brightest new acts. Now launching on a national scale, Phantom Limb are playing on the Glastonbury World Stage on 27 June and have various regional shows booked. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales, Robot Club Studios, Bristol and Caveman Studios, Bristol and produced by Robot Club. All songs written by Phantom Limb.
Phantom Limb combines classic southern soul, country blues and gospel, using 5 part harmonies to create a warm, heartfelt sound that has already been likened to The Band, Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin.
POD Concerts presents
PHANTOM LIMB
Support: TBA
Friday September 19th
Crawdaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 8pm
Tickets €13 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
www.phantomlimbmusic.com
www.myspace.com/phantomlimbrobot
Irish Tour: Sept. 17 - The Old Oak in Cork, Sept. 18 - The Spirit Store in Dundalk
Band:
Yolanda Quarty: vocals
Stew Jackson: guitars/ banjo/ vocals
Dan Brown: bass
Dan Moore: piano/ keyboards
Luke Cawthra: guitar
Matt Jones: drums
Following a successful showcase at this year’s South By Southwest Festival and a spot on the Glastonbury Jazz World Stage on 27 June, the Bristol-based Phantom Limb are set to release their eponymous debut album on Naim Edge on 25 August 2008. Phantom Limb combines classic southern soul, country blues and gospel, using 5 part harmonies to create a warm, heartfelt sound that has already been likened to The Band, Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin.
Phantom Limb opens with the first single of the album, ‘Don’t Say A Word’, a beautiful elegiac track enriched by the vocals of Yolanda Quarty, huge in sound yet intimately delivered. Sweeping across the album is an undeniably hopeful sentiment, without being sickly, ‘Good Fortune’ captures turmoil in love, and ‘Run’ owes more than a little to the legacy of country music, Yolanda declaring that ‘sometimes you just gotta run’. Track names such as ‘I’ll Never Be The Same Again’, ‘My Love Is Gone’, Withering Bones’ all suggest an abundance in melancholia; yet due to either the soaring vocals, the backing strings effects or the playful guitar picking, the sound is picked up and carried away into a place where sadness and despair is transitory and where strength prevails, “I don’t want to die alone/ But I won’t be put asunder/ By a mean old lover...” (‘Withering Bones’)
Phantom Limb first got together in 2004, but only since hanging up their original electric instruments and picking up acoustic have the band really discovered their sound – a sound that takes influence from soul, country, blues, gospel and modern acoustic songwriting and that has already made a firm impact on the Bristol music scene. Between the individual band members, they have worked with a diverse range of artists such as Massive Attack, Bugz in the Attic, Skin, Roni Size and Will Young. 2007 saw Phantom Limb’s first acoustic gigs and are now cemented as one of Bristol’s brightest new acts. Now launching on a national scale, Phantom Limb are playing on the Glastonbury World Stage on 27 June and have various regional shows booked. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios, Wales, Robot Club Studios, Bristol and Caveman Studios, Bristol and produced by Robot Club. All songs written by Phantom Limb.
