Joana Serrat announces UK dates with Ryan Bingham and an appearance at AmericanaFest
30-05-2019For her fourth album in five years, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Vic, Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek Sound studio near the town of Dripping Springs. For the recording sessions Nash & Serrat corralled a stellar crew of musicians: Joey & Aaron McClellan, (Midlake, BNQT, John Grant, Israel Nash), Eric Swanson & Josh Fleischmann (Israel Nash), Dave Simonett (Trampled By Turtles) and Dennis Love (Futurebirds), as well as Nash himself providing additional guitar and backing vocals. Israel Nash produced the album, with Ted Young (Grammy award winner for The Rolling Stones) on engineering and mixing duties.
It was no mean feat to gather all these creative talents and get them working together as a team, but as Israel Nash commented, “it was very easy to work with Joana because she knows where she wants to go and she leads us all there. Joana’s lyrics are brilliant. She uses images and colours to describe her songs and luckily that’s the way we are used to working.” Joey McClellan adds, “her voice was our guide”
The resulting album is unsurprisingly Joana Serrat’s most Americana album to date. Mojo described her last album Cross The Verge as “Mazzy Star guesting on an early Neil Young demo”, but with Dripping Springs she has produced a far more rounded and polished piece of work. Serrat explains, “it’s an album that deals with farewells but is filled with an optimistic melancholy that doesn’t isolate nor enclose the spirit and determination to realise our own dreams”. It was a bold move by the young Catalan to cross the Atlantic to work with a bunch of American musicians that she had admired from afar but had never met.
Today Joana Serrat announces a few tour dates with Ryan Bingham just before her appearance at Black Deer Festival in June. As well she just go announced to play Americana Fest in Nashville this September. Find all her European tour dates down here:
18/06: Bristol (UK) @ The Fleece *
19/06: Manchester (UK) @ Gorilla *
20/06: Oxford (UK) @ The Bullingdon *
21/06: London (UK) @ Garage *
22/06: Tunbridge Wells (UK) @ Black Deer Festival
10/07: Ingolstadt (DE) @ Neue Welt **
12/07: Offenbach (DE) @ Hafen 2 **
13/07: Oberhausen (DE) @ Static Roots Festival **
* solo with Ryan Bingham
** band shows