Benjamin Booker has announced his first album in seven years. Lower is the New Orleans-based musician's follow-up to 2017 Witnessand will be released on January 24th on Booker's new label, Fire Next Time Records. Booker co-produced the album with Kenny Segal, who will accompany the singer on a North American tour next year. Find those dates below.
LowerIts lead single is “Lwa in the Trailer Park” and it's accompanied by a black and white music video that you can watch below. “I felt particularly connected to Paul Schrader's work making this album,” Booker said of his visual in a press statement. “Like many of his films, I wanted to look at a troubled character on the edge, reaching for transcendence. Now that I'm working on a series of linked videos, Schrader was influential in that space as well, along with Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samourai and by Charles Burnett Killer of Sheep.”
Last year, Booker appeared on 'Baby Steps,' a track from Billy Woods and Kenny Segal's Maps. He was also featured on Armand Hammer's “Doves,” co-producing the nearly nine-minute track with Segal.
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Lower:
01 Black Ops
02 Lwa in Trailer Park
03 Statues of Pompeii
04 Slow Dance in a Gay Bar
05 Talking to the dead
06 Rebecca Latimer Felton gets a BBC
07 New World
08 Loneliness itself
09 Show and Tell
10 Heavy on My Mind
11 Hope for the night
Benjamin Booker:
02-02 San Diego, CA – Refreshment Bar *
02-04 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room *
02-05 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room *
02-06 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel *
02-08 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios *
02-09 Seattle, Washington – Madame Lou's *
02-10 Boise, ID – Neurolux *
02-11 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *
02-13 Denver, CO – Marquis Theater *
02-15 Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge *
02-16 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club *
02-18 Chicago, IL – Subterranean *
02-19 Ferndale, MI – Magic Bag *
02-21 Toronto, Ontario – Longboat Hall *
02-22 Montreal, Quebec – L'Esco *
02-23 Boston, MA – Crystal Ballroom *
02-25 Brooklyn, New York – Public Records *
02-26 Brooklyn, New York – Public Records *
02-27 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Tie *
02-28 Washington, DC – Union Stage *
03-02 Asheville, NC – Eulogy *
03-03 Atlanta, GA – Corridor 5 *
03-05 Nashville, TN – 3rd and Lindsley *
03-07 New Orleans, Los Angeles – Siberia *
* with Kenny Segal
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