DAVID GRAY
releases new video for
‘THE SAPLING’
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+ new album GOLD IN A BRASS AGE released March 18, 2019
+ Australian tour dates April 2019 including Byron Bay Bluesfest
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David Gray today releases the video for his new single ‘The Sapling’, the lead track from forthcoming new album Gold In A Brass Age, due for release on March 8, 2019 via IHT Records / AWAL Recordings. Produced by Ben de Vries, son of producer and soundtrack composer Marius de Vries, Gold In A Brass Age – Gray’s first album of new material in four years – arrives just ahead of a run of Australian and UK tour dates.
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Gray personally sought out Baltimore-based zoetrope artist Eric Dyer to create the kaleidoscopic clip which now accompanies ‘The Sapling’. The video nods towards the track’s rumination on the cyclical brevity of life and ecology with projected time lapse footage of germinating acorns, scaled-up to hypnotic effect.
Speaking about the video Gray says: “I came across Eric’s TEDx Talk, & some of the zoetropes he’d created looked incredible. There was a clinching moment when he referenced the origin of the word zoetrope from the Greek words zoe (life) and tropos (turn), hence – wheel of life. It was a perfect fit for ‘The Sapling’, and at that moment I just knew it just had to be. We sent some time lapse footage of an acorn growing over to Eric for him to do his thing and create a new animation with it. Our video director Rex had the idea that we could take the animations out into the woods somewhere and back project them onto a huge screen while I performed the song in front. The end result feels like a subtle harmony between the zoetropes & the song.” – DAVID GRAY
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Gold In A Brass Age is itself a defined by an intuitive approach from Gray, exploring electronic textures and sound palettes, along with new production techniques in the process. Using a cut and paste approach to the arrangement of songs, the album’s atmospheric and experimental undertones are evident throughout. The album’s title is drawn from Raymond Carver’s short story Blackbird Pie and informed by the regenerative cut and thrust of Gray’s adopted home of London and a fascination with the natural world. The album’s striking artwork – for which Gray approached Peckham-based Londonboy Tattooer – depicts an Emperor moth with the City of London captured between its wingspan.
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The new release will be David Gray’s eleventh album in a career that spans over 25 years, several Brit and Grammy nominations, and three No.1 UK albums, including for the breakout multi-platinum White Ladder. It is also a vital new collection of songs from an artist still revelling in his passion for song-craft, pushing himself into unfamiliar terrain, surprising himself as much as his fans along the way.
Gray returns to Australia next year to play three headline shows, kicking off on April 14 in Perth, before heading to Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on April 16 and winding up in Melbourne at the Palais Theatre on April 20 before a highly anticipated set at Byron Bay Bluesfest.
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David Gray
2019 Australian tour dates:
Sun, 14 April | Perth, Riverside Theatre
Tues,16 April | Sydney, Enmore Theatre
Sat, 20 April | Melbourne, Palais Theatre
Mon, 22 April | Byron Bay, Bluesfest
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2019 UK tour dates:
Fri, 15 Mar | Cardiff, St David’s Hall
Sat, 16 Mar | Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Sun, 17 Mar | London, Royal Festival Hall
Tue, 19 Mar | Brighton, Dome
Wed, 20 Mar | Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
Fri, 22 Mar | Manchester, Bridgewater Hall
Sat, 23 Mar | Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
Sun, 24 Mar | Gateshead, Gateshead
Tues, 26 Mar | Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
Wed, 27 Mar | Bournemouth, Pavilion Theatre
Fri, 29 Mar | Birmingham, Symphony Hall
Sat, 30 Mar | York, Barbican
Sun, 31 Mar | Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
Tues, 2 Apr | Belfast, Waterfront
Thur, 4 April | Castlebar, Royal Theatre
Fri, 5 April | Dublin, Bord Gais Theatre
Sat, 6 April | Dublin, Bord Gais Theatre
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