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| Gomez and David Ford will touring together Singer-songwriter David Ford will provide support for the British rock band Gomez on the upcoming summer tour beginning in May. Prior to his upcoming concerts with Gomez, Ford is scheduled to open two shows for his Columbia Records labelmate, Aqualung . Independiente/Columbia Records will release Ford's debut album, I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused, on Tuesday, May 2. Originally released in the UK late last year, I Sincerely Apologise For All The Trouble I've Caused was written, produced and performed in its entirety by David Ford, who recorded the album between October 2004 and February 2005 at home in Eastbourne and Lewes, Sussex, UK, using an Apple G4 computer. Ford, who plays virtually all the instruments on the album, is joined on select tracks by Frances Law (additional vocals), Franco Bidanco (tenor saxophone), and his local football club, Team Sundry (choral voices). Ford's do-it-yourself approach to his music is captured both in hisoriginal artwork for the album and in his self-directed video for the album's first UK single, "State Of The Union." Working live in front of a single camera, Ford lays bare his creative process as he performs "State Of The Union" in his basement studio, generating a full-on version of the song loop- by-loop and layer-by-layer in a one-take extended tracking shot filming his impassioned vocals and razor-sharp studio prowess. The London Sunday Times (October 2005) praised "State Of The Union" as a " ... furious, polemical ... tour de force of snarling agitpop." Ford's DIY second music video, "I Don't Care What You Call Me, " deploys an even more emotionally audacious use of single-shot one-take camera work, creating a scathingly self-deprecating moral tableaux enacted in a subterranean car park. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |