Ottmar Liebert release new album

There is a change
in the weather and sound for Ottmar Liebert's new release entitled
'Dune.' Magic men are said to be drawn to the desert sands. Sometimes
they come as sculptors like Christo that put up strange and beautiful
environments that inspire. Sometimes they come as Native American
medicine men or old Japanese Kyoto masters to meditate and postulate.
And sometimes, just plain and simple great artists disguised as guitar
players. Liebert's new release "Dune" sits firmly in the crosshairs of
it all. Random beauty -- airy, rhythmic and sometimes funky; sounds to
put you inside of full and empty spaces, at the same time. Ottmar is
always exceptionally brilliant and mysterious, but....

Ottmar has been nominated for 5 Grammy's and has multiple Gold and
Platinum records (www.ottmarliebert.com/biography/awards.php). He has
sold millions of records across the globe. This skilled practitioner of
contemporary flamenco guitar is always a surprise. He plays with lots
of textures in this set -- contrasting traditional and electric
instruments and adding accordion, Memphis bass lines, trumpets and a
drum machine -- in addition to lots of percussion. This release
features Ottmar on acoustic and electric guitars; Jon Gagan on acoustic
upright bass, electric bass guitars, and keyboards, including clavinet;
Char Rothschild on accordion; Robby Rothschild on percussion (Chris
Steele on Track 14).

Ottmar adds "I'm following the idea of contrasting traditional and
electric instruments like we did on the 'Opium' release. There are also
beautiful treatments and sound design by Andrew Gaskins on three
tracks. For the opening track, 'Fallin In' (to a dream), for example, I
sent Andrew single notes and chords I played on my guitar, which he
then stretched and manipulated. (See Ottmar's Diary on this project at
www.ottmarliebert.com/diary/?p=6574 )

Ottmar plays with an Arabic scale he found on the internet on track #3
'Horse', switches between rumba and a 6/8 beat on 'Shadow', records a
beautiful piece in 5/4, track #11 'Five Clouds, Lenticular', and trades
melodies with the accordion on track 9, 'Smoke' (while Jon plays three
basses and a clavinet) - the influences on this project cover the
globe, and take you there.

Ottmar: "I wanted to play guitar melodies that sounded 'sung'. For some
reason I kept thinking about old jazz and pop crooners. So I sang
almost every melody first and then figured out how to play it on
guitar."

15 tracks... 13 really, as the first and the last are brief mood
locators, in-and-out within the mysterious world of night and shadow.
Flamenco noir, a dreamscape... Track 02, 'Shadow', Track 03, 'Horse',
Tracks 04 and 05, 'Bridge 1 and 2', and so on as the narrative declares
its nocturnal mystery. A horse, a desert, a moon... swirling sand and
spiraling smoke and there it is, "the place of power", the Dune.

That's the thing about Ottmar -- as you listen, the environment seems
to change and the music projects you into a different space. The
dreamscape starts and creates room for your own 'Dune' encounter.

Time to come play in the sand with us this Spring and Summer / Tour
Dates:

MAY , JULY & AUGUST 2012 -- OTTMAR LIEBERT TOUR DATES




DATE VENUE CITY, STATE
May 2 - Wednesday Jonathan's Oqunquit, ME
Choco Church Arts
May 3 - Thursday Center Bath, ME
May 4 - Friday Bull Run Shirley, ME
May 5 - Saturday Boulton Center Bayshore, NY
Narrows Center For
May 6 - Sunday The Arts Fall River, MA
May 9 - Wednesday Birchmere Alexandria, VA
May 10 - Thursday Colonial Theatre Phoenixville, PA
May 11 - Friday BB Kings New York, NY
May 12 - Saturday Infinity Hall Norfolk, CT
May 13 - Sunday Tupelo Music Hall Londonberry, NH
May 16 - Wednesday Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
May 17 - Thursday Dakota Jazz Club Minneapolis, MN
May 18 - Friday Old Town School Chicago, IL
JULY
July 24 - Tuesday Bing Crosby Theater Spokane, WA
Season's
July 25 - Wednesday Performance Hall Yakima, WA
July 26 - Thursday Tower Theater Bend, OR
Alberto Rose
July 27 - Friday Theater Portland, OR
July 28 - Saturday The Triple Door Seattle, WA
July 29 - Sunday The Triple Door Seattle, WA
July 30 - Monday Rogue Theater Grants Pass, OR
AUGUST
Napa Valley Opera
August 1 - Wednesday House Napa, CA
August 2 - Thursday Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
August 3 - Friday Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
August 4 - Saturday Yoshi's San Francisco, CA
August 5 - Sunday Orange County Fair Costa Mesa, CA
August 6 - Monday Soho Santa Barbara, CA
August 8 - Wednesday Harlow's Sacramento, CA
August 9 - Thursday Livermore PAC Livermore, CA
August 11 - Saturday Anthology San Diego, CA
August 12 - Sunday Anthology San Diego, CA
August 18 - Saturday Soiled Dove Denver, CO
August 19 - Sunday Belly Up Aspen, CO
August 22 - Wednesday Granada Theater Dallas, TX
August 24 - Friday One World Theater Austin, TX
August 25 - Saturday Dosey Doe Houston, TX
August 26 - Sunday Dosey Doe Houston, TX