BASIA BULAT CONFIRMS SEPTEMBER DATES IN THE U.S. 13 Aug 2008

“(‘In The Night’) is one of 2008’s great singles.”    NPR

“(Basia Bulat) writes acoustic-guitar-based folk songs built around dramatic crests that highlight her trembling voice.”             Rolling Stone

“…her backwoodsy chamber pop boasts dazzling potential.”   Paste


BASIA  BULAT CONFIRMS  SEPTEMBER  DATES IN THE U.S.
Shortlisted For Canada’s Polaris Prize
Headlining show at NYC’s Highline Ballroom on September 19

In support of her debut album Oh, My Darling (Rough Trade Records), Basia Bulat has confirmed a short US tour this September.   The first date is in Louisville, KY on September 11 and the tour winds up on the 20th of the month in Cambridge, MA.    She will be headlining The Highline Ballroom in New York City on September 19.

Since the release of Oh, My Darling, Bulat and her band have been crisscrossing the US touring on their own and with the likes of DeVotchKa and St. Vincent earning the admiration of fans and critics along the way.     The admiration is no less in her home country of   Canada where she was recently shortlisted for this year’s Polaris Prize (the winner will be announced on September 29).  

Since the age of three, Basia has been sitting on piano stools and trying to hammer things out. It started with her piano-teacher mum, but along the way Basia’s picked up guitar, autoharp, banjo, ukulele, sax and flute. In high school her instrument was the upright bass – a lone girl among “eight-foot-tall guys in the back of the orchestra, goofing off with the tubas”. There’s a sense of play that still suffuses her music, jostling under the songs of regret and love, want and joy.

In the summer of 2006, Basia went to live in Montreal. Through friends she met Howard Bilerman, an engineer and co-owner of the famed Hotel 2 Tango studio. Basia cashed some student loans to record with Bilerman.  It was ultimately these rough early takes, hoarse with excitement that formed the bulk of Oh, My Darling. Despite the original intention, these tracks are breathless, thirsty, dislodged from dreary nostalgia. There are strings, yes, and acoustic guitar, but also a frantic drum-kit gallop; the influence of the spirits of wild Jeff Magnum, big-voiced Odetta, Emily Dickinson and all those boisterous soul-music singles. It’s this spark that sets Basia Bulat apart from the raft of typical singer-songwriters.

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