JORDAN KLASSEN ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES, STREAMS UPCOMING ALBUM 'JAVELIN' AHEAD OF FEBRUARY 19 RELEASE DATE

JORDAN KLASSEN ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES, STREAMS UPCOMING ALBUM

 

BC SONGWRITER TO RELEASE SECOND LP WITH NEVADO RECORDS, JAVELIN, ON FEBRUARY 19
SEVEN WEEK UK & EUROPEAN TOUR CONTINUES, NORTH AMERICAN DATES BEGIN MARCH 26

LISTEN TO JAVELIN VIA CBC MUSIC HERE

Jordan Klassen has been on the road in the UK and Europe since 2016 kicked off and, now, one week out from the release of his new album Javelin, he has announced upcoming dates on North American soil. Canadian tour stops include Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Wakefield, Montreal, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Calgary before finally heading home to Vancouver for an album release show. All tour dates are below.

Due out February 19 on Nevado Records, the ten songs on Javelin are among the most confidently and imaginatively arranged Jordan Klassen has ever recorded. They engage the past, reassess recollections and impressions, turn failures not into successes but lessons for the future. Starting today you can hear the album in it’s entirety courtesy of CBC Music.

LISTEN TO JAVELIN VIA CBC MUSIC HERE

On the recommendation of James Vincent McMorrow Klassen recorded Javelin at Sonic Ranch studio in Tornillo, just outside El Paso in Texas. He produced the album himself and plays almost all the instruments. The songs on Javelin spring from hard experiences—namely, from Klassen’s struggle with depression and his mother’s diagnosis with breast cancer, now thankfully in remission. Despite the fears and despairs that motivated these songs, there is always a kernel of hope illuminating the music from the inside.

Sonically, Javelin is a mixing of ambient and rhythmic elements, from the ebullient African percussion of “St. Fraser” to the heavily reverbed vocals of closer “Smoking Too Long.” Klassen found inspiration—a patron saint, of sorts—in an unlikely figure. “The record is a nod to the ‘90s New Age music that I grew up with,” he says with a slight chuckle. “My mom was really into Enya, and I wanted to explore some of those sounds in a very modern way. I wanted to really embrace ethereality.” It’s not hard to hear echoes of “Orinoco Flow” or “Caribbean Blue” in the soft-focus thrum of “Miles,” even the delicate overlay of instruments on “We Got Married,” even the whispered valedictory of “Smoking Too Long.”

The follow up to 2013’s acclaimed Repentance, the album sees Klassen depart from the eloquently spare folk of its predecessor, adding ambient and rhythmic elements to vivid Technicolor arrangements in what is his most vibrant and vital album to date.

WATCH “BABY MOSES” (OFFICIAL VIDEO) HERE

STREAM “NO SALESMAN” ON SPOTIFY HERE


JAVELIN TRACKLIST

01 Glory B

02 Gargoyles

03 No Salesman

04 Baby Moses

05 Miles

06 We Got Married

07 St Fraser

08 Delilah

09 Light In The Evening

10 Smoking Too Long


EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

Feb 12 - Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Ballroom

Feb 13 - Norrköping, SE @ Where’s The Music Festival

Feb 14 - Malmö, SE @ Malmö Live

Feb 16 - Madrid, ES @ El Sol

Feb 18 - Barcelona, ES @ Barts Club

Feb 19 - Zaragoza, ES @ Las Armas

Feb 20 - San Sebastian, ES @ Le Bukowski

Feb 29 - Munich, DE @ Milla

Mar 1 - Cologne, DE @ Studio 672

Mar 2 - Hamburg, DE @ Kukuun

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Mar 26 - Regina, SK – The Exchange w/ Library Voices
Mar 27 – Winnipeg, MB- The Park Theatre

Mar 29 – Cedar Rapids, MI - Legion Arts  
Apr 2 – Toronto, ON - Adelaide Hall
Apr 3 – Wakefield, QC - Black Sheep Inn
Apr 4 – Montreal, QC - Le Divan Orange

Apr 6 – New Yok, NY - Indie Shuffle Showcase at Our Wicked Lady
Apr 12- Saskatoon, SK - Amigo’s
Apr 13 – Edmonton, AB - The Almanac
Apr 14 – Calgary, AB - The Gateway
Apr 27 – Vancouver, BC -
The Imperial


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