Tour launches band’s LP
Phone 04 9028549 Home Alone Music are proud to announce that Fraser Ross & 04s are releasing their new LP Life is Magic, Where is my Rabbit? with a nationwide tour that kicks off at San Fran in Wellington on August 17 and heading to Paeka¯ ka¯ riki’s St Peters Hall on August 24.
The 10-track album due out on August 10 was recorded in Surgery Studios, Wellington with Dr Lee Prebble in the cockpit.
To create the album Fraser teamed up with highly active members of Wellington’s music scene to create a fourpiece comprised of two guitars, two vocals, bass and drums.
While not unusual instrumentation, their songs span a broad territory, from electric-folk, to afro-beat, with Fraser’s lyrical acuity, the glue that somehow makes it all work.
With a 50-50 split of ladies and gentlemen in the band, Jacqui and Olivia locking down the rhythm section and Fraser and Jeremy adding the frilly bits, on paper at least they are quite unique.
It marks their first release as a band, following two EPs, and an LP by Fraser (And Birds Do Sing, To Places and Mongrels).
They will kick off the release tour in Wellington, followed by Lyttelton Records in Christchurch on August 18.
Both of these shows will feature the full band.
The remainder of the dates will feature Fraser in a solo incarnation.
In Paeka¯ ka¯ riki he will be joined by Wellington Dreampop darlings French For Rabbits and Monty Bevins, who has been touring New Zealand almost continuously for the last five years.
Fraser is a builder, poet, comedian, and according to the now defunct Capital Times, ‘NZ’s best-kept musical secret’.
Fraser has a voice that was honed in Scotland’s rowdy pubs during his three-year tenure there, as well as a lyrical style that can be uplifting, and at times, quite moving.
He has shared the stage with some of New Zealand’s best including Nadia Reid, The Nudge, The Phoenix Foundation and has had Bill Murray join him on stage for a two-hour sing-a-long.
In 2015, he did a three-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a comedy show he wrote called Another name for Thesaurus.
On top of this he recently put his building skills to use by rebuilding a house damaged in the Christchurch Earthquakes.