Odetta Hartman shares new video ahead of UK and European dates

ODETTA HARTMANWATCH ‘YOU YOU’ VIDEO HERE

UK/EUROPEAN DATES IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019

HEADLINE LONDON SHOW AT PAPER DRESS VINTAGE ON 12 FEBRUARY

NEW ALBUM ‘OLD ROCKHOUNDS NEVER DIE’ OUT NOW ON MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES 

Following the release of her critically acclaimed album ‘Old Rockhounds Never Die’, Odetta Hartmam has shared a new video for track ‘You You‘, to mark her return to the UK and Europe at the end of January. Inspired by the fuzzy double vision of first love, ‘You You‘ dances through a pastoral adventure while celebrating a young woman in bloom. In this wild, wonderful and warm landscape, Odetta Hartman explores the superpowers of romance on a sultry summer night.

Odetta plays: 

30 Jan – London, The Roundhouse w/ This is the Kit

31 Jan – Manchester, Yes

02 Feb – Glasgow, CCA  – Celtic Connections Festival

05 Feb – Geneva, Salle St-Gervais – SOLD OUT

06 Feb – Brussels, AB Club

08 Feb – Madrid, Sala 0

09 Feb – Barcelona, Barts Club

11 Feb – Paris, Le Pop Up Du Label

12 Feb – London, Paper Dress Vintage

21 Feb – Copenhagen, Loppen

22 Feb – Stockholm, Daze Days

26 Feb – Berlin, Privatclub

27 Feb – Hamburg, Nochtwache

28 Feb – Utrecht, Club 9

‘Old Rockhounds Never Die’ is a bonanza of beautiful contradictions: intimate yet fiercely internationalist, spiritual and yet tangible, sweet and also sexy. It convenes with the ghosts of the past while marching relentlessly forwards. 

Drawn from experiences as far-flung as riding a train from San Francisco to Chicago with an old-style, rootin’-tootin’ cowboy for company (‘Cowboy Song’), to experiencing the intense natural beauty of Icelandic waterfalls (‘Dettifoss’), it’s a record that taps into the musical traditions of the past while being a collection of songs about living in the moment. Raised by pioneering parents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC, Odetta’s milieu was a “colourful culture of artistry,” that included early exposure to community activism, renegade film screenings, poetry readings and trips to CBGB’s.

Inchoate punk and hip hop were aural wallpaper, as were the 45s spinning in the household jukebox featuring her dad’s extensive collection of soul and afrobeat records, as well as her Appalachian mother’s classic country selections. A classically trained violinist with a penchant for back-porch banjo, Odetta combines these variegated sounds of her childhood with her personal passion for folk music and the musicological legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax is writ large on ‘Old Rockhounds…’ at least in spirit anyway. Odetta plays all the instruments on this and her debut ‘222’.  And yet, ‘Old Rockhounds Never Die‘ also embraces modernity without ever sounding incongruous. It’ll probably not surprise anyone listening to the album then that it’s a co-production. Odetta writes and performs all the songs while her partner Jack Inslee is in the background bringing the digital dark arts. Experimenting with found sounds & foley, the two have developed a sonic vernacular built around playing around with a-typical instruments. 

The first fruits of this experiment were borne on the aforementioned, critically acclaimed 222. ‘Old Rockhounds…‘ takes the blueprint and improves upon it, with songs yet more vivid, sensual and cinematic or, as NPR observed in their recent premiere of ‘Misery’, “like so much of Odetta Hartman’s music, it draws from many styles and eras at once, while sounding like nothing and no one else.”  

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