With just over one week to go before their tour commences, Oxbow have shared the video/track ‘The Night The Room Started Burning’- directed by Chris Purdie. The track appears on their new album, Love’s Holiday, out now via Ipecac Recordings.
About the video and track, Eugene S. Robinson says,
“Lyrically it’s a purposeful take on Johnny Hartman’s ‘The Day the World Stopped Turning’ but instead of the power of love to alter our proximal relationships it’s, in my mind, all about the incendiary nature of suchlike love. It fulfils specifically because it fills you with that which burns. And that’s something that absolutely no one slow walks.”
Niko Wenner comments, "I began the music for ‘The Night The Room Started Burning’ on my fathers old folk/classical nylon string guitar, a tune to amuse my young son. My mother played clarinet in high school but it was my father who took me to see my first string quartet concert in Seattle when I was a kid, and who inspired my love for classical music. Including, as an influence heard in this song, baroque period music. “What’s not to like about baroque music? You can dance to it, it’s got a beat!”
Wenner continues, "And you can hear the steady dance rhythm in …Room Burning. And a bit of baroque style in the way the guitar line sounds like two voices in a call and response, first higher “bah bah dee bah dee dee,” and the second, lower, answering the first and going down “BAH BAH BAH.” And of course the choir. The elephant in the room here is the guy, baroque composer J.S. Bach, whose name we should never speak in the same breath as our own, from humility, and respect. Enjoy."
Watch the video here:
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UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
Friday, September 01, 2023 UK Glasgow Broadcast
Saturday, September 02, 2023 UK Birmingham Supersonic festival
Sunday, September 03, 2023 UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Monday, September 04, 2023 UK Bristol Exchange
Tuesday, September 05, 2023 UK London Studio 9294
Wednesday, September 06, 2023 BE Kortrijk Wilde Westen
Thursday, September 07, 2023 BE Brussels Botanique
Friday, September 08, 2023 NL Nijmegen Merleyn
Saturday, September 09, 2023 LUX Tetange Human’s World festival (free entry)
Sunday, September 10, 2023 DE Bochum Die Trompete
Monday, 11 September 2023 AT Vienna Volkstheatre Rote Bar
Tuesday, 12 September 2023 PL Wroclaw Liverpool
Wednesday, 13 September 2023 PL Warsaw Hydrozagadka
Thursday, 14 September 2023 DE Berlin Roadrunners Paradise
Friday, 15 September 2023 DE Hamburg Hafenklang
Saturday, 16 September 2023 DK Aalborg Lasher fest
US TOUR DATES:
October 20 Philadelphia PA PhilaMOCA
October 21 Portland, ME SPACE
October 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
November 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
November 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
November 11 Mesa, AZ Pub Rock
Photo credit: Phil Sharp
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