New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Missing Piece Records) Missing Piece Records is excited to announce the signing of the Montreal based songwriter Leif Vollebekk. On January 28, 2014, he will release his sophomore album, North Americana.
In preparation for the album's release, Noisetrade is offering a free and exclusive EP of cover songs and the debut single from his forthcoming album "Southern United States." To download the exclusive EP and track, click here: https://bit.ly/18t9NDb
You can find an embeddable soundcloud stream of "Southern United States" here (https://bit.ly/187lkYc). This is the US debut of the song and gives a great sense of the gorgeous sounds hearts on North Americana.
"I wrote the songs, I found the best band in the world, and then all I had to do was find the right studio, for the right take," says Vollebekk about his new album. "And it took forever." Leif Vollebekk spent two years searching for perfect takes. This search took him from his home in Montreal to a studio in Manhattan, from a farmhouse in Woodstock, NY to a mansion outside Paris, and the result is a dusty, polished, new, old record called North Americana.
The heart of the songs was always recorded live, to tape. To find these moments, they travelled. To Montreal's legendary Hotel 2 Tango studio, working with
Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Godspeed You!
Black Emperor). To New York City, working with Tom Gloady (Ryan Adams, Sigur Rós, Patti Smith). To La Frette studios, in La Frette-sur-Seine, France. And then back to Montreal, for one song at Breakglass studios. Vollebekk even tried recording with John Simon, the producer whose credits include
Music from
Big Pink and Songs of Leonard Cohen.
North Americana took years. "All this time," Vollebekk says, "trying to get one take." But the result is a beautiful, alive, human - shambling ballads, noisy folk songs, vivid portraits of a 27-year-old's watercolor life. "I feel like I created a record from 1970something that no one's heard before," Vollebekk says. "I'm haggard and this record is all I got."
Borrowed Time EP
Noisetrade Exclusive
1) Caroline, No (Beach Boys)
2) Read My Mind (The Killers)
3) Barstool Blues (Neil Young)
4) Heysátan (Sigur Rós)
5) Spanish Harlem Incident (Bob Dylan)
6) Southern United States (Leif Vollebekk)
US Tour Dates:
9/30: Chicago, IL - City Winery w/ Suzanne Vega
10/1: Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe
10/2: San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah
10/4: Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey Arts Center
10/13: Chicago, IL - Schubas
Missing Piece Records has released recordings by Ivan & Alyosha, The Middle East, Matthew Sweet and Paul Dempsey. We are proudly based in beautiful downtown Newark, home of the next Senator from New Jersey.
