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SATELLITE AND THE HARPOONIST - THE NEW SUPERGROUP FROM HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER’S SHAWN HALL, FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE DEEP DARK WOODS, THE BOOM BOOMS, AND KING MISSILE III
SATELLITE MAN EP OUT THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
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This Friday, Satellite and The Harpoonist, the new ‘super group’ from Shawn Hall (The Harpoonist) will release their debut EP, Satellit Man. Today, they are sharing one more track from the album ahead of its release, their version of Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”.
“I had Neil Young’s autobiography with me in the studio,” says Hall. “The Hammond player spotted it and revealed a common love for his music. Given our quite diverse musical backgrounds, it was a miracle. I had just played ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ on the piano to my kids prior, so this is our run at this classic, not planned, definitely not rehearsed, just childhood dreams being chased,”
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MORE ABOUT SATELLITE AND THE HARPOONIST
As the great poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once stated, “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” And so, in January 2020, as the city’s longest spell of precipitation in over five decades threatened to wash Vancouver into the Pacific, four musicians from disparate sonic territories did just that. Not that they had a say in the matter, they let it rain while gathering at Afterlife Studios to conduct an experiment as radical and historic as the weather outside.
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Shawn Hall of the acclaimed maverick blues duo The Harpoonist and The Axe Murderer was the progenitor, his notion being to assemble three talented friends with whom he had previously worked, yet that had never met each other. Then, during an intense three-day exploration of alchemic creative collaboration within a self-imposed pressure cooker environment, they would record a 6-song EP – all under the gaze of a film crew. So, as the rain smashed down on the City of Glass, Satellite and The Harpoonist was birthed, with every labour pain and its exhausting entry into the world captured on celluloid.
WATCH AND SHARE “SATELLITE MAN” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
Joining singer/harmonicist Hall in this extraordinary project – his “people that want to play in the sandbox” – are Geoff Hillhorst (Hammond organ/piano/synthesizers) of award-winning alt-country-folk dreamers, The Deep Dark Woods; Theo Vincent (percussion/congas/vocals) from Vancouver’s funk-soul powerhouse The Boom Booms, and on drums and Pencilina, Brooklyn’s Bradford Reed, of out-there art-rockers, King Missile III. The Pencilina, an incredible double-necked zither-like contraption, is Reed’s own one-off invention, making Satellite and The Harpoonist the world’s only band to feature it.
WATCH AND SHARE “BALLET IN A PHONE BOOTH” HERE
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SATELLITE MAN TRACKLIST
Justine
Lee Dorsey
Satellite Man
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Soul of the Sun
Ballet in a Phone Booth
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