Phenomenal Handclap Band return; new single, UK dates, live video
With their new album out January 30th, Phenomenal Handclap Band release new single Unknown Face at Father James Park on 12th December on Tummy Touch.
Currently on tour with Bryan Ferry in the US, the band bring their genre-spanning dance party to UK shores in December for two shows with the former Roxy Music frontman at The Shepherds Bush Empire on 14th and 15th December.
Recorded on tour in the US, their live video for "Father James Park" is online now. Watch below, here on BandWeblogs.com.
Phenomenal Handclap Band, Father James Park (live) video:
Phenomenal Handclap Band return in the New Year with their second album for Tummy Touch - Form & Control - an ambitious work which takes their clever fusion of international psych, soul, and cosmic disco a bold step forward.
The band - or self-styled collective - broke through in 2009 with their debut single 15 To 20, a club hit both in America and Europe that set the scene for a self-titled debut album later that year.
Their sound and style had roots in New York and San Francisco, San Paulo and London, some physical and others more spiritual. But imagine a scenario where Curtis Mayfield and Deee-Lite threw a Nu-Yorican party with Afro-beat, Italo-disco, Turkish psych, '70s West Coast rock and Boney M also on the decks. Kaleidoscopic or what? But when Form & Control hits your deck or laptop, you need to reconfigure expectations.
Imagine The Human League, MGMT, Fleetwood Mac, Black Devil Disco Club, Justice, Hercules & Love Affair, Blondie and The Steve Miller Band produced by Mike Chapman at London's legendary RAK Studios, home of prime slices of '70s glam, soul and disco. In other words, a sleek and shimmering alternative to the first album's spicier mutant stew, but just as groovy.
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