3-time ARIA Award winning guitarist, Jeff Lang, has just released the ethereal Seek High as the first taster of his forthcoming album release, More Life. More Life sees Lang join forces with a number of his favourite artists across the album, and is the culmination of a few years work following the seed of an idea for an album of collaborative efforts with performers he admired and wanted to work with, or had worked with previously.
Seek High is the first song released from the album. Says Jeff “Seek High is the first single from my new album ‘More Life’, a duet with my friend John Butler. John and I wrote this song together a few years back when I was first thinking about putting together what ended up being the ‘More Life’ album, and we sat on the song until things started coming together for this project before we recorded it. I really enjoyed discovering how our two voices blended in harmony, as well as contrasting when singing on our own sections.
He then went on to say “Instrumentally, Seek High features John playing amplified banjo alongside my electric lap steel, which we recorded together with my lead vocal, live off the floor at Head Gap Studios alongside the hypnotic groove of Danny McKenna on drums. John then added his vocals, a synth bass part and I put on a bass part of my own, using a Danelectro longhorn bass. Having two different types of bass made for some effective shifts in the feel of the track between sections, sometimes moving from the bass guitar to the synth bass or vice-versa, eventually having them both at once when the track started building up steam.”
Not content with merely(!) supplying the perfect balance of moodiness and propulsion in the song’s groove on the drums, Danny McKenna also created the video (below) for this song using a “flipbook” type of computer animation technique.
More Life comes as both a CD and a deluxe double gatefold vinyl album with artwork by iconic US cartoonist, Jim Woodring, and will be available from Friday, September 13th.
BUY/STREAM ‘SEEK HIGH’ & PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE
‘More Life’ Album Launch Revue Touring Nationally Sep/Oct/Nov
Thurs 12 Sep – Adelaide Guitar Festival SA
w/ band and guests William Crighton,
Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson & Kerri Simpson
Thurs 10 Oct – Rechabite, Perth WA
w/ band and guests John Butler & William Crighton
Fri 11 Oct – Royal Oak, Launceston TAS
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sat 12 Oct – Palais Theatre, Franklin TAS
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sun 13 Oct – Brunswick Ballroom, Brunswick VIC
w/ band and guests William Crighton, Suzannah Espie,
Kerri Simpson & Paul Williamson
Fri 25 Oct – Street Theatre, Canberra ACT
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Fri 1 Nov – Wauchope Arts Hall, Wauchope NSW*
w/ guest William Crighton
Sat 2 Nov – Eltham Hotel, Eltham NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sun 3 Nov – Bone Idol, Toowoomba QLD
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Thurs 7 Nov – The Junkyard. Maitland NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Fri 8 Nov The Vanguard, Newtown NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sat 9 Nov The Vanguard, Newtown NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sun 10 Nov – Fillmores, Kiama NSW*
w/ guest William Crighton
Info coming soon
Wed 13 Nov – Banshees, Ipswich QLD
w/ guest William Crighton
Thurs 14 Nov – Lefty’s Music Hall, Brisbane QLD
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Fri 15 Nov – The Imperial, Eumundi QLD
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sat 16 Nov – Tom Atkin Hall, Tugun QLD
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sun 17 Nov – The Tanks, Cairns QLD
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Fri 22 Nov – The Music Lounge, Wollongong NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sat 23 Nov – Mangrove Mountain Hall, NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sun 24 Nov – Memorial Hall, Bellingen NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Info coming soon
Fri 29 Nov – Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine VIC
w/ guest Suzannah Espie
Sat 30 Nov – Baroque Room, Katoomba NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
Sun 1 Dec – Dangar Island Bowlo, Dangar island NSW
w/ band and guest William Crighton
*No band appearing at these shows
Tickets are available for purchase from here then clicking on the show you wish to attend.
