New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Get Physical Music) -
Booka Shade, aka Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier are back this summer in full force with a new album and dynamic live show. Following 2006's massively acclaimed Movements album, which included the club hits "Night Falls", "In White Rooms", "Mandarine Girl" and the classic "
Body Language", and an extensive world tour which saw them play over 150 dates in 20 months, they return with their third album, The Sun & The Neon Light, along with select tour dates including NYC's Irving Plaza this Friday, August 1st, 2008.
It's a mature work that tackles the contradictions between our day-life and our night-life, between the organic and the artificial, the individual and the crowd, the inner and the outer. This eternal tension is reflected not just in the range and complexity of the album's moods, but also its mingling of acoustic and electronic textures - of course Booka Shade's roots lie in club music, but for The Sun & The Neon Light they adopt a song-based approach, and expertly weave real instruments and voices with superbly detailed electronics to create a futuristic but very human kind of music.
The Sun & The Neon Light addresses the different kinds of joy and consolation which both day and nightlife can provide. We know that there's a certain kind of self-knowledge, peace and enlightenment that's only possible when we face the sun; yet we're still drawn to the un-reality of night and its cool, bright neon like moths to a flame - why? It's about possibility. It's about what might happen. It's to escape our loneliness, to be part of a crowd - together, or at least alone together - and above all it's for the music. There's something about that music which we can't forget, something we're addicted to and must return to again and again. Above all it's this pull, this love, which Booka Shade celebrate over the course of The Sun & The Neon Light, their most fluid and exquisitely arranged album to date.
The Sun & The Neon Light is an album from a band at the top of their game, whose songwriting and arranging is now in perfect accord with their production panache and instinctive dancefloor know-how. The Sun & The Neon Light is a tribute to the night and its glamour, its mystique, its possibility, even its squalor, but also to the wondrousness of day. It arrives at one important and undeniable conclusion: whatever else happens, whatever's lost or gained, whether we're bathed in real or artificial light, the music will endure.
Booka Shade The Sun & The Neon Light is out now on Get Physical.
BOOKA SHADE LIVE DATES
07.30 - BOOKA SHADE live @ Underbar, Boston, MA
08.01 - BOOKA SHADE live @ Irving Plaza, New York, NY
08.02 - BOOKA SHADE live @ Lollapolooza, Chicago, IL
Friday, August 1st
GBH & Live Nation present
BOOKA SHADE
$20.50/$25.00 day of event
Doors: 9pm
Show: 10pm
The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
17 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003
www.gbh.tv
