Willy Vlautin in Nederland voor enkele concerts
08/apr/2008 08:48 PM Opgeslagen in: KORTE
BERICHTEN
Richmond
Fontaine zanger en gitarist Willy Vlautin komt voor enkele shows
naar Nederland. Samen met pedalsteel gitarist Paul Brainard
verzorgen ze een aantal dubbelshows met Chuck Prophet op de
onderstaande data.
De laatste 2 releases van Richmond Fontaine, de CD
"Thirteen Cities" en de EP "87 Dollars And A Guilty
Conscience That Gets Worse The Longer I Go" oogste
ronduit perfecte recensies in de pers, net zoals
zijn eerste boek "The Motel Life" (hier uitgegeven
in het engels én in het nederlands !). "The Motel
Life" eindigde in 2007 in de boeken top 25 in The
New York Times (!) en het script werd gekocht door
Guillermo Arriaga (!).
Het nieuwe boek van Willy, "Northline" komt ook in Nederland uit. Verwacht wordt dat ook dit weer in latere instantie in het nederlands uitgebracht gaat worden.
Concert op Fabchannel
http://www.fabchannel.com/richmond_fontaine_concert
Clip "Capsized" op Youtube
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDnmHRPIZI
Concerten:
15 april – Leiden – Q-bus – (double show with Chuck Prophet)
16 april – Leeuwaarden – Poppodium Romein (double show with Chuck Prophet)
17 april – Deventer – Burgerweeshuis (double show with Chuck Prophet)
18 april – Ottersum – Roepaen (double show with Chuck Prophet)
19 april – Den Bosch – W2 (double show with Chuck Prophet)
Quotes "Northline"
"Vlautin has written the American novel that I've been hoping to find" - George Pelecanos
"The Dylan of the dislocated" - Independent on Sunday
"Courageous, powerful, wonderfully compassionate" - John Burnside
"Sad, haunting and strangely beautiful" - John Connolly
“The Motel Life was staggeringly good ... He now follows it with the equally brilliant Northline which like its predecessor recalls the grim beauty of something like Denis Johnson's Angels or Jesus' Son - a
heartbreaking trip.” ***** Uncut
”Vlautin follows his excellent first novel The Motel Life with a raw tale of America's underclass ... the cool clarity of Vlautin's simple prose, perfectly listened-to dialogue and unsentimental realism hold reader gloom at bay. The accompanying CD by Vlautin and his band's pedal/lap steel man Paul Brainard is a discreet sequence of instrumentals. All round Willy Vlautin is becoming one of America's most fundamental artists in words and music.” - Mojo
“What makes it exceptional is the vividness with which Vlautin colours [Alison's] world and his skill in plotting her journey ... he is mining a lost seam of American writing that celebrates the dispossessed, beginning with Caldwell and Steinbeck, continuing with Algren and Fante.” - John Williams, Independent
”The most beautiful and satisfying book of '08 so far.” – Peter Wild, Bookmunch
“This is a heartfelt, despairing novel ... there is a tenderness of execution and brief promise of flawed redemption, without which no C&W ballad would be complete. The musicality is not an accident: the novel comes with a low-key alt country CD, a perfect accompaniment t quietly hopeless, never-ending horror of poor America.” - Financial Times
”A compassionate look at everyday, ordinary people struggling to make a new life for themselves in America ... Comes complete with its own soundtrack of elegiac, rootsy music by the author.” - Herald
”Giving dirty realism a country twang that tugs at the heartstrings, Richmond Fontaine singer Willy Vlautin follows 2006's The Motel Life with a novel that has the spare, devastating clarity and profundity of Raymond Carver ... Allison is the kind of loser who gets routinely written off
but, in Vlautin's compassionate hands, her bitter losses and fragile hopes are the stuff of quietly resonant drama. An accompanying CD by Vlautin and Paul Brainard offers tunes as hauntingly melancholic as the book.” **** - Metro
”Northline is an honest, compassionate story that deals, with grace and respect, with the lives of American losers ... In some ways, it's an archetypal tale: a poor girl stumbling towards the light. What makes it exceptional is the vividness with which Vlautin colours her world and his
skill in plotting her journey ... Vlautin is mining a lost seam of American writing that celebrates the dispossessed, beginning with Caldwell and Steinbeck, continuing with Algren and Fante. These are the great writers who stand behind his fiction, just as Hank Williams and Bruce Springsteen stand behind the music of Richmond Fontaine.’ - Independent
Het nieuwe boek van Willy, "Northline" komt ook in Nederland uit. Verwacht wordt dat ook dit weer in latere instantie in het nederlands uitgebracht gaat worden.
Concert op Fabchannel
http://www.fabchannel.com/richmond_fontaine_concert
Clip "Capsized" op Youtube
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDnmHRPIZI
Concerten:
15 april – Leiden – Q-bus – (double show with Chuck Prophet)
16 april – Leeuwaarden – Poppodium Romein (double show with Chuck Prophet)
17 april – Deventer – Burgerweeshuis (double show with Chuck Prophet)
18 april – Ottersum – Roepaen (double show with Chuck Prophet)
19 april – Den Bosch – W2 (double show with Chuck Prophet)
Quotes "Northline"
"Vlautin has written the American novel that I've been hoping to find" - George Pelecanos
"The Dylan of the dislocated" - Independent on Sunday
"Courageous, powerful, wonderfully compassionate" - John Burnside
"Sad, haunting and strangely beautiful" - John Connolly
“The Motel Life was staggeringly good ... He now follows it with the equally brilliant Northline which like its predecessor recalls the grim beauty of something like Denis Johnson's Angels or Jesus' Son - a
heartbreaking trip.” ***** Uncut
”Vlautin follows his excellent first novel The Motel Life with a raw tale of America's underclass ... the cool clarity of Vlautin's simple prose, perfectly listened-to dialogue and unsentimental realism hold reader gloom at bay. The accompanying CD by Vlautin and his band's pedal/lap steel man Paul Brainard is a discreet sequence of instrumentals. All round Willy Vlautin is becoming one of America's most fundamental artists in words and music.” - Mojo
“What makes it exceptional is the vividness with which Vlautin colours [Alison's] world and his skill in plotting her journey ... he is mining a lost seam of American writing that celebrates the dispossessed, beginning with Caldwell and Steinbeck, continuing with Algren and Fante.” - John Williams, Independent
”The most beautiful and satisfying book of '08 so far.” – Peter Wild, Bookmunch
“This is a heartfelt, despairing novel ... there is a tenderness of execution and brief promise of flawed redemption, without which no C&W ballad would be complete. The musicality is not an accident: the novel comes with a low-key alt country CD, a perfect accompaniment t quietly hopeless, never-ending horror of poor America.” - Financial Times
”A compassionate look at everyday, ordinary people struggling to make a new life for themselves in America ... Comes complete with its own soundtrack of elegiac, rootsy music by the author.” - Herald
”Giving dirty realism a country twang that tugs at the heartstrings, Richmond Fontaine singer Willy Vlautin follows 2006's The Motel Life with a novel that has the spare, devastating clarity and profundity of Raymond Carver ... Allison is the kind of loser who gets routinely written off
but, in Vlautin's compassionate hands, her bitter losses and fragile hopes are the stuff of quietly resonant drama. An accompanying CD by Vlautin and Paul Brainard offers tunes as hauntingly melancholic as the book.” **** - Metro
”Northline is an honest, compassionate story that deals, with grace and respect, with the lives of American losers ... In some ways, it's an archetypal tale: a poor girl stumbling towards the light. What makes it exceptional is the vividness with which Vlautin colours her world and his
skill in plotting her journey ... Vlautin is mining a lost seam of American writing that celebrates the dispossessed, beginning with Caldwell and Steinbeck, continuing with Algren and Fante. These are the great writers who stand behind his fiction, just as Hank Williams and Bruce Springsteen stand behind the music of Richmond Fontaine.’ - Independent
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