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
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.
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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