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Ben Ottewell Offers Free Download Of Blackbird
Ben Ottewell of Gomez releases a free download of a new solo track this week. 'Blackbird' is taken from his forthcoming album 'Shapes and Shadows'
Ben Ottewell one of several singer/songwriters in the Mercury Prize winning British rock band Gomez, will finally release his first solo album, “Shapes and Shadows” via Eat Sleep Records on 7th February 2011.
On Friday 14th January ‘Blackbird’ will be made available as a free download. The download is presented on his new website and can be shared on Facebook and Twitter.
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Ottewell will be playing a live session on Dermot O’ Leary’s BBC Radio 2 program this Saturday 15th January from 5.15pm. The session will include one cover and one original track as well as a short interview.
Additionally, Ottewell is up for 6Music’s Rebel Playlist. You can vote for him here: link
The nine tracks on “Shapes and Shadows” were recorded at The Chalet in Los Angeles, California and was co-produced by Ottewell and Will Golden and mixed by Tom Biller (Liars, Warpaint, Karen O & the Kids).
Over 5 years in the making, “Shapes and Shadows” is a collection of solo compositions pieced together and written in and around Gomez tours, recording sessions and breaks. They are born out of Ottewell’s desire to create something with a strong sense of simplicity and purity, to get away from the full band, electric sound of Gomez. As he says
“I’ve been wanting to do something outside of Gomez for a while but I took my time to ensure that the material had a voice of its’ own. It’s a hell of a lot of fun to do something else, though scary as hell at first!”