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unnamed Dan Mangan + Blacksmith at PostbahnhofDan Manngan + Blacksmith have revealed the third track from forthcoming album ‘Club Meds’, which is set for release on January 12th via City Slang in Europe and Arts & Crafts in North America. The follow up to 2011’s highly acclaimed, award winning ‘Oh Fortune’ sees the Vancouver-based artist return after a few years out of the limelight, this time officially joining forces with his long-time -now integral- band members to play under the moniker Dan Mangan + Blacksmith.

The album title, ‘Club Meds’, is a pun on one of the driving lyrical motions of the record; the idea that we’re all on vacation from having to be honest with ourselves – that sometimes it’s easier to medicate than deal with reality.

“Club Meds is about sedation” Mangan writes in the record’s liner notes. “Sedation can be chemical, but not exclusively so. There is a great vacation from actuality going on. Maybe there always has been. It seems like everybody else is already at the party and that life is somehow easier or more fun under the fog.”

And yet for all its social commentary, ‘Club Meds’ was never intended as a grandiose political record, nor is the outlook overtly cynical; more a touching & thought-provoking collection of deep-rooted sentiments & observations.

In his home-country of Canada, Dan Mangan has grown up in the public eye since garnering attention with his 2009 record ‘Nice, Nice, Very Nice’. Produced by Colin Stewart and Dan Mangan, ‘Club Meds’ now sees him step from the singer-songwriter bracket, into the Technicolor splendour of a full band with poise, self-confidence and a new found depth & complexity.

Blacksmith is Kenton Loewen (drums), Gordon Grdina (guitar), John Walsh (bass) and often JP Carter (trumpet), Jesse Zubot (violin) and Tyson Naylor (keys). They bring an unmistakable character to ‘Club Meds’; a stark glassy edge that swells and sways like a roaring ocean. Through a fog of analog feedback loops and synths, the band’s performances breathe deeply and steadily like a dragon at rest.

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HEADLINERDan Mangan + Blacksmith

SUPPORTSCristobal and the Sea

START DATEApril 16

START TIME20:00:00

VENUEPostbahnhof

ADDRESSStraße der Pariser Kommune 8

PRICE18,60

WEBhttps://www.facebook.com/events/374471102712496

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