Tom Freund the LA Troubador Returns
Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/07/2015
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
The Falcon
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Tom Freund the LA Troubador Returns
Featuring Kevin Bents/Keys (Steely Dan, Jewel) and Doug Weiss/Bass and Konrad Meissner/Drums (The Silos, Matt Nathanson) http://tomfreund.com
It’s the effortless ease with which he delivers conversational lyrics and mellifluous melodies a natural magic that is the heart of Tom Freund’s music. Though he’s well-schooled and widely-traveled in a variety of genres, Freund is ultimately, a singer-songwriter with his own singularly distinctive and engaging voice.
Freund’s latest disc “Two Moons” on Surf Road Records, finds the Los Angeles-based Freund in a contemplative yet confident mood, where swirls of nostalgia blend with sharp-eyed views of life today. With his new album, Freund draws on folk, rock, jazz and other roots sources for an urbane Americana sound. Blending woozy mariachi horns and mermaid-evoking backing vocals in and a blast of electric guitar. Inspired by a lot of old Squeeze music, Freund also mixed trippy keyboards and old-school synths to flesh out tracks like “Me and Bernice and “Lemme Be Who I Wanna Be.”
“California-based troubadour Tom Freund sings of skate-boarding kids, impending doom and Happy Days lunch boxes on his new album, Two Moons.”-NPR WEEKEND EDITION. Freund spent the mid-’90s touring with the indie rock cult faves THE SILOS and has been releasing solo albums since 1998. Tom has alternated between recording and touring behind his own discs, playing upright bass, electric bass guitar, and mandolin with the likes of British pub-rock great Graham Parker and rising groove-soul sensation Brett Dennen. You’ll hear him inn a couple of tracks on pop star Mandy Moore’s 2007 disc “Wild Hope”, as well.
You can spot Freund playing with Parker and the Rumour in the recent Judd Apatow film, “This Is 40”.
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