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East Cameron Folkcore Brings Kingdom Of Fear
EAST CAMERON FOLKCORE TO RELEASE KINGDOM OF FEAR ON APRIL 7, 2015
CONFIRMED FOR SXSW & FOUR NIGHT MULTIMEDIA THEATRICAL ALBUM PERFORMANCE
AT THE SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER IN AUSTIN APRIL 1-4
“A celebratory madness – music against the system, with brain, heart and clenched fist.”
– Rolling Stone
“Big, brash and charming!”
– NPR All Songs Considered
East Cameron Folkcore wants to bring back a sense of social consciousness that they feel has been missing from much of todays music. Formed in the Northeast Austin neighborhood that theyre named after, the eight-piece orchestral group pieces together folk, country, blues and punk to create a unique sound that represents the poor and downtrodden while expressing the disgruntled and under employed youth they have found themselves a part of. The updated lineup includes long time Gorilla Biscuits drummer, Luke Abbey. ECF will release the cinematic concept album, Kingdom of Fear on April 7.
East Cameron Folkcore have been confirmed for multiple SXSW performances and will be celebrating the release or their 3rd LP in grand fashion with a four-night multimedia theatrical performance of Kingdom of Fear in its entirety at The Salvage Vanguard Theater April 1-4.
Kingdom of Fear is a critical inventory of our world in 2014: From surveillance state to turbo capitalism, from plundering nature to corruption in economy and politics, from exploiting bosses to arbitrary policemen. If their previous album For Sale was the key to open the door to the outside, Kingdom Of Fear is the boot that crashes the door into pieces letting everything in: Light, Knowledge and truth, which are so glistening bright and obvious that nobody can be neutral and try to say: I didnt know anything, I didnt hear anything. It has the power of punk, the humility of folk, gospel choir and banjo-twang, fist and soul. Its Jack White meets Tom Waits, melancholic cello-line meets in-your-face-power riffs, spartan introspection meets baroque opulence. View the album trailer HERE.
More than once East Cameron Folkcore has been accused of being too political, but there is no alternative for them. We’re going through our lives with our eyes wide open to the world around us and all its injustices and this record is our response to the time and reality that we inhabit, says singer/guitarist and principal songwriter Jesse Moore about the anger and frustration important in the making of this record. Its not that I dont know how to feel happiness or express love, its just that I wanted empathy and solidarity to be the main defining emotions of this record.
The fourteen songs on Kingdom of Fear are divided into four chapters, perfectly split for the double-vinyl edition of the album. Starting with The Grand Illusion, the view then focuses Through The Looking Glass before the people raise their voices (The People Speak) until finally, the Ship Of Fools casts off, ending the record and the story. You have to experience this record in its entirety. One who skips or compiles will lose the whole thing. The introduction, What The Thunder Said serves as a view to what happens in the next hour and the songs of the record merge without rests, repeat musical motifs and recycle lines which came up before.
Kingdom of Fear was recorded over the first half of 2014 and mastered by Howie Weinberg. In August of that year, ECF headed overseas to Europe for a month of club shows and festival dates that included stand out sets at Haldern Pop Festival, Serengeti Festival, Winterthur Festival, Chiemsee Festival, Sounds of the Forest Festival, Noorderzon Festival and more. ECF will return to Europe in May for European Festival performances at Pink Pop Festival (NL), Greenfield Festival (CH), Hurricane and Stateside Festival (DE) and more.
A full list of tour dates can be found below with plenty of additional US tour dates to be added in April.
East Cameron Folkcore Tour Dates
Fri, Feb 20 Houston, TX Fitzgeralds
Sat, Feb 21 Austin, TX Empire Control Room and Garage
Wed, Mar 18 Austin, TX ABGBs Austin Independent Radio Day Party
Wed, Mar 18 Austin Texas The White Horse The White Horse Day Party
Thurs, Mar 19 Austin, TX Lamberts BMI Day Party (2pm)
Fri, Mar 20 Austin, TX Eye in the Sky Productions Day Party
Sat, Mar 21 Austin, TX Vortex Altercation Records Day Party
Wed, Apr 1 – Austin, TX – Salvage Vanguard Theater
Thurs, Apr 2- Austin, TX – Salvage Vanguard Theater
Fri, Apr 3 – Austin, TX – Salvage Vanguard Theater
Sat, Apr 4 – Austin, TX – Salvage Vanguard Theater
Kingdom Of Fear Track List
THE GRAND ILLUSION
1 What the Thunder Said
2 Kingdom of Fear
3 The Joke
4 969
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
5 The Greater Fool
6 Fracking Boomtown
7 Modern Man
8 When We Get Home
THE PEOPLE SPEAK
9 Protest Hero
10 Our City
11 A Black Heart for the Beating Drum
12 Newspeak
SHIP OF FOOLS
13 Into Hells Sea
14 Goodbye to Fear
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