Hello from Desert Mine Music,
Just to say that Sam Forrest's brand new album 'The Edge Of Nowhere' is out this week. It's available in both CD and digital formats from our shop below:
http://desertminemusic.greedbag.com/
And there's a bunch of videos for some of the songs from the album on Sam's website at:
If you've already bought a CD and haven't received it yet, don't worry, it's on its way.
Sam will be playing a few shows throughout Spring/Summer in support of his album here:
March 23 Blackpool Blue Room
April 5 Preston Mad Ferret
April 6 York Duchess
April 7 Stockton Vault
April 23 London Social
May 11 Manchester FAC251
May 20 Doncaster Leopard
May 25 Sunderland The Attic
June 2 Wakefield Long Division Festival
June 6 Birmingham Yardbird
June 29 Kilmarnock Dirty Martinis
June 30 Bathgate The Attic
July 27 Dundee Dexters
Aug 4 Newcastle Under Lyme Old Brown Jug
And if you want to read some blurb about Sam's new album, please read below…
Thanks
Desert Mine Music
Creating semi-acoustic, part-psychedelic bundles of rustic pop joy inside The Factory Of Unprofessional Sound deep in the heart of the English countryside, Sam has emerged with another wicker basket of wonder - The Edge Of Nowhere.
This latest offering is a true gem amongst his ever-growing solo collection. Known as front man of sludgy din makers, Nine Black Alps, Sam put out his first solo offering, Down The Hillside, in 2008 a year after the Alps’ released second album Love/Hate and were freed from their Island Records contract.
But the major label split only heightened Sam’s musical output and once Nine Black Alps independently released third album, Locked Out From The Inside, Sam pumped out Paper Crown in 2009 and both Born Again EP and No Imagination in 2010.
In his spare time, he continues to collaborate with fellow singer-songwriter Hayley Hutchinson, as The Sorry Kisses whose albums include 2008’s Hard Drive, 2009’s Um and Ah and 2011’s Keep Smiling. The pair also set up Desert Mine Music to house their offerings as well as producing the soundtrack to independent film, CrimeFighters.
If that isn’t enough, Sam also became a record producer, working with Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Chris Helme as well as throwing a fourth Nine Black Alps album to tape. Somehow, he’s found time to record The Edge… an album that bursts with dry, vintage acoustics, bending backwards guitars, waltzes of wonder and hushed vocals of eerie lyrics from the darkest woods of England.
"An early contender for album of 2012. A perfect album - 9/10" The Vectis Radar
"Beautiful, dark and a little left field. The perfect antidote to the identikit guitar music currently dominating the charts." One&Other
"Dark, aching, luscious indie folk that drives you to the edge of suicide before you realize that it is songs like Crow that make life worth living." Syffal.com
"A distinctively pretty album, where brilliant sunshine is tempered by emotional baggage and distant storm clouds – Sam Forrest can’t really fail." Manchestermusic.co.uk