Thomas Dolby Blinding You With Jazz Mafia Horns
08/07/07
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(PR) Last fall, Thomas Dolby hit the road and reminded audiences of his early contribution to the fusion of electronic and pop music. He also unleashed a live retrospective album and DVD, each called The Sole Inhabitant. Never one to stay in one place for long, Dolby will return to North American soil this year, but with a twist: He�ll be joined by the Jazz Mafia Horns from San Francisco, who will help him present new material while adding new shades to Dolby�s catalog of classics which include the hits �She Blinded Me With Science,� �Hyperactive,� �Europe and the Pirate Twins,� �The Flat Earth� and more.
The tour launches in Londonderry, N.H. on September 11, and will wrap in Montreal on September 27. Dolby will also debut a new between-albums EP titled Thomas Dolby & the Jazz Mafia Horns: Live @ SXSW on his own Lost Toy People label. The five-song EP contains four Dolby originals (�The Key To Her Ferrari,� �May The Cube Be With You,� �My Brain Is Like A Sieve� and �Your Karma Hit My Dogma�) as well as a new take on George Clinton�s �Hot Sauce.� The album is available at iTunes, CDBaby and ThomasDolby.com, and will be sold at tour stops across North America but will not be sold at brick-and-mortar retail outlets.
Of his hookup with the Jazz Mafia Horns, Dolby says, �I discovered in San Francisco there's a vibrant underground movement of young jazz musicians who are wide open to everything from 'turntablism' to New Orleans marching band funk. One ensemble that plays regularly in North Beach clubs and bars is the Jazz Mafia, whose numbers on a given night can vary from three to thirteen brass players. Over the years I've employed sampled and synthesized brass on many of my more up-tempo tunes, but I've rarely had the opportunity to jam with live horn players. It seemed to me that the inherent rigidity of my electronica might be nicely offset by the looseness and liveness of real brass, so I got with the Jazz Mafia and worked out new arrangements of some of my tunes. This works especially well when I'm building grooves by 'looping and layering' live tracks and building songs from scratch.�09.11.07 Londonderry, Nh � Tupelo Music Hall
09.13.07 Philadelphia, Pa � World Caf� Live
09.14.07 Akron, Oh � Tangier
09.15.07 Pittsburgh, Pa � Rex Theater
09.16.07 Northampton, Ma � The Iron Horse
09.17.07 New York City, Ny � B.B. King�s
09.19.07 Annapolis. Md � Ram�s Head
09.20.07 Sellersville, Pa � Sellersville Theater
09.21.07 Alexandria, Va � Birchmere
09.22.07 New York City, Ny � Moogfest
09.23.07 Greenwich, Ct � Reentry (Afternoon Charity Show)
09.24.07 Boston, Ma � Harpers Ferrry
09.25.07 Toronto, On � Mod Club
09.27.07 Montreal, Qb � Caf� Campus
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