“It’s a snowbird’s escapist trip music,” says Pokey LaFarge of “So Lengthy Chicago,” the ultimate teaser for his upcoming LP, Rhumba Nation. “Whether or not it’s spring break or winter break, it’s about getting out of the town or suburbs and heading to the seaside for every week or so.”
Set for a Might 10 launch on New West, Rhumba Nation was impressed by a extra settled, workaday life-style in Maine, the place LaFarge immersed himself in household life and guide labor on a neighborhood farm, churning out songs in his downtime. Whereas he was there, LaFarge bumped into fellow Midwesterner Elliot Bergman (Wild Belle), and the 2 finally headed to Los Angeles to work on the songs that might grow to be Rhumba Nation. LaFarge once more enlisted the assistance of producer Chris Seefried (Fitz And The Tantrums), who labored on 2021’s In The Blossom Of Their Shade and several other different LaFarge releases.
In The Blossom Of Their Shade basked within the gentle that sometimes flickered amid the darker, pandemic-inspired self-examination of 2020’s Rock Backside Rhapsody. Rhumba Nation incorporates Blossom’s unique African and South American strains—this time as substances in a kaleidoscopic combine knowledgeable by LaFarge’s love of mambo, tropicalia, rocksteady and early rock ’n’ roll.
LaFarge gives this in regards to the retro-inspired footage for the “So Lengthy Chicago” lyric video, a lot of it filmed by LaFarge’s spouse, singer/songwriter Addie Hamilton: “For the reason that music is a couple of trip getaway, Addie thought we should always make a enjoyable video that includes among the Tremendous 8 footage from our adventures.”
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