The critically acclaimed Mercury Prize winner Benjamin Clementine will launch his fourth album 'Sir Introvert and the Featherweights' on December 6th via Preserve Artists. He is launching a short prestigious American tour to coincide with the new release. Amongst music he professes to be an artist whose music is only one element of his creative journey, most notable with his acting roles in Denis Villeneuve's multiple Oscar-winning lm 'Dune' and Oscar winning lm Director Sir Steve Mcqueen.
'Sir Introvert And The Featherweights' continues Benjamin's adventures as a singular artist who delivers style, poise and poetry in equal measure. His experimental and at times avant-garde approach to chamber pop and his enigmatic presence, velveteen baritone and literary streak dees simple categorisation. It was primarily written high in the mountains of Santa Monica and the small town of Ojai in California where Benjamin amassed a collection of vintage analogue equipment.
He compares his quest for perfection to being stuck between rattlesnakes and coyotes: an impossible balancing act between impeccable precision and the need for the imperfections that only a human touch can provide. Sessions were split between Los Angeles and London before the songs were nished in Rome Italy.
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Old Review of Benjamin Clementine
"Benjamin Clementine, a strikingly elegant 27-year-old musician and poet, towered above them all. Early last year, he released his debut album, ''At Least for Now,'' which earned rapturous reviews and recently won the coveted Mercury Prize. As his following has begun to grow -- word has traveled fast of his performances, which are unlike anything I've heard before -- so too has his origin myth. As the story goes, Clementine left Edmonton for Paris, where he was homeless until he was discovered busking in the streets, quickly signed to a label and sent back to London to record an album that would later win one of the U.K.'s top music awards. While it is a seductive narrative, one of those rags-to-riches journeys none of us can resist, it's only partly true."
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/t-magazine/benjamin-clementine-musican-poet.html
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'Sir Introvert And The Featherweights' continues Benjamin's adventures as a singular artist who delivers style, poise and poetry in equal measure. His experimental and at times avant-garde approach to chamber pop and his enigmatic presence, velveteen baritone and literary streak dees simple categorisation. It was primarily written high in the mountains of Santa Monica and the small town of Ojai in California where Benjamin amassed a collection of vintage analogue equipment.
He compares his quest for perfection to being stuck between rattlesnakes and coyotes: an impossible balancing act between impeccable precision and the need for the imperfections that only a human touch can provide. Sessions were split between Los Angeles and London before the songs were nished in Rome Italy.
~~~
Old Review of Benjamin Clementine
"Benjamin Clementine, a strikingly elegant 27-year-old musician and poet, towered above them all. Early last year, he released his debut album, ''At Least for Now,'' which earned rapturous reviews and recently won the coveted Mercury Prize. As his following has begun to grow -- word has traveled fast of his performances, which are unlike anything I've heard before -- so too has his origin myth. As the story goes, Clementine left Edmonton for Paris, where he was homeless until he was discovered busking in the streets, quickly signed to a label and sent back to London to record an album that would later win one of the U.K.'s top music awards. While it is a seductive narrative, one of those rags-to-riches journeys none of us can resist, it's only partly true."
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/t-magazine/benjamin-clementine-musican-poet.html
The critically acclaimed Mercury Prize winner Benjamin Clementine will launch his fourth album 'Sir Introvert and the Featherweights' on December 6th via Preserve Artists. He is launching a short prestigious American tour to coincide with the new release. Amongst music he professes to be an artist whose music is only one element of his creative journey, most notable with his acting roles in Denis Villeneuve's multiple Oscar-winning lm 'Dune' and Oscar winning lm Director Sir Steve Mcqueen.
'Sir Introvert And The Featherweights' continues Benjamin's adventures as a singular artist who delivers style, poise and poetry in equal measure. His experimental and at times avant-garde approach to chamber pop and his enigmatic presence, velveteen baritone and literary streak dees simple categorisation. It was primarily written high in the mountains of Santa Monica and the small town of Ojai in California where Benjamin amassed a collection of vintage analogue equipment.
He compares his quest for perfection to being stuck between rattlesnakes and coyotes: an impossible balancing act between impeccable precision and the need for the imperfections that only a human touch can provide. Sessions were split between Los Angeles and London before the songs were nished in Rome Italy.
~~~
Old Review of Benjamin Clementine
"Benjamin Clementine, a strikingly elegant 27-year-old musician and poet, towered above them all. Early last year, he released his debut album, ''At Least for Now,'' which earned rapturous reviews and recently won the coveted Mercury Prize. As his following has begun to grow -- word has traveled fast of his performances, which are unlike anything I've heard before -- so too has his origin myth. As the story goes, Clementine left Edmonton for Paris, where he was homeless until he was discovered busking in the streets, quickly signed to a label and sent back to London to record an album that would later win one of the U.K.'s top music awards. While it is a seductive narrative, one of those rags-to-riches journeys none of us can resist, it's only partly true."
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/t-magazine/benjamin-clementine-musican-poet.html
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'Sir Introvert And The Featherweights' continues Benjamin's adventures as a singular artist who delivers style, poise and poetry in equal measure. His experimental and at times avant-garde approach to chamber pop and his enigmatic presence, velveteen baritone and literary streak dees simple categorisation. It was primarily written high in the mountains of Santa Monica and the small town of Ojai in California where Benjamin amassed a collection of vintage analogue equipment.
He compares his quest for perfection to being stuck between rattlesnakes and coyotes: an impossible balancing act between impeccable precision and the need for the imperfections that only a human touch can provide. Sessions were split between Los Angeles and London before the songs were nished in Rome Italy.
~~~
Old Review of Benjamin Clementine
"Benjamin Clementine, a strikingly elegant 27-year-old musician and poet, towered above them all. Early last year, he released his debut album, ''At Least for Now,'' which earned rapturous reviews and recently won the coveted Mercury Prize. As his following has begun to grow -- word has traveled fast of his performances, which are unlike anything I've heard before -- so too has his origin myth. As the story goes, Clementine left Edmonton for Paris, where he was homeless until he was discovered busking in the streets, quickly signed to a label and sent back to London to record an album that would later win one of the U.K.'s top music awards. While it is a seductive narrative, one of those rags-to-riches journeys none of us can resist, it's only partly true."
-- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/t-magazine/benjamin-clementine-musican-poet.html
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