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WHORU812 Live @ The Viaduct

In July I’ll be performing my new album WHORU812 at The Viaduct in Los Angeles. This is truly one of the coolest and most unique venues in the city. This show is going to be special.

This will be the only time I perform the album live, and it will be the only BBD show this year. This set will a unique and fully immersive audio/visual experience. I am so excited and I can’t wait to play for you in this amazing setting.

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Stream & Download WHORU812 here

Making Trágame Tierra really messed me up for a bit.

It was an album that reflected an incredibly difficult period in my life.

It was very exhausting, but I needed to make it in order to give my brain a focus point at which to aim the woken moments.

A few months after coming home from my last tour, I was forced to face some new “idiosyncrasies.” I began what I now know to be a neverending journey of bettering myself. Core mission statement: to make cool shit and bring as much enjoyment to people for as long as I'm here.

Whilst beginning to face those “idiosyncrasies,” I began writing a lot more without vocals or melody in mind. I needed to hear music that wasn’t as demanding of my attention, yet always comforted me.

Nowadays, I quite enjoy an occasional break from message or intent. To be present is a truly heady sensation.

With one exception, the whole collection of songs was written and recorded in 4 days.

Stream of consciousness.

I hope you find utility in it as I have.

The first half is called REPOSE. It's for relaxing and calm, especially in trying settings like traffic, airports, packed buses and train rides.

The second half is called OPERATOR. These songs are brash and angry and are more suited to physical activity and the release of frustration. I wouldn’t recommend listening to these in the settings mentioned above.

But it's up to you. This is how they work for me. I'm interested to see other people's impressions.

Take care.

- Jon

Stream & Download WHORU812 here

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2016 National Tour & Album Release

Thank you to everyone for your ongoing patience & trust in this album project. I am very pleased to announce the new & final release date for the album is 22nd April. All formats including the album CD and 12’ vinyl will be ready for this date.

Wanted to give you another taster of the album. A song called *Steer The Canyon* can be heard here.

To support the album release, I will be going on tour throughout the whole of May. You can buy tickets for all the dates from the Facebook events page. Hope you dig it.

April 25 - Backroom, Las Vegas April 26 - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City April 27 - Hi-Dive, Denver April 30 - Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines May 1 - Minneapolis - Fine Line Music Cafe May 3 - Dubuque, IA - The Venue May 4 - Kansas City - Middle Of The Map Festival May 5 - Chicago - Empty Bottle May 6 - Detroit - UFO Factory May 8 - Toronto - Adelaide Hall (Canadian Music Week) May 9 - Montreal - Bar Le Ritz May 10 - Burlington VT - ArtsRiot May 11 - Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn May 12 - Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn *NEW DATE ADDED May 13 - Boston - Cafe 939 May 14 - Albany - The Hollow May 15 - Philadelphia - Milky May 16 - DC - Black Cat May 17 - Baltimore - Metro Gallery May 19 - Vancouver - Biltmore Cabaret May 20 - Seattle - Crocodile May 22 - Portland - Doug Fir Lounge May 26 - San Francisco - Great American Music Hall May 27 - OC - Constellation Room May 28 - LA - The Regent May 29 - San Diego - Casbah

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Pappy & Harriets show

Wanted to announce a special show to road test the new album Trágame Tierra. Come join us under the stars in the Joshua Tree desert. Pappy & Harriets Saturday Feb.27 2016 We'll play some new songs, hang under a sky with no light pollution... Its going to be a rad open experience.

Tickets for one-off Pappy & Harriets 27th February

The album artwork for Trágame Tierra.

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Teragram Ballroom - 5th November

Hey buds, I’ve spent the last 18 months writing, recording, playing in other projects, and figure it's time to come back. In my travels, I have been lucky enough to meet some of the best musicians in the world. For my forthcoming show at Teragram Ballroom on 5th November in LA, I thought I’d ask five of these musicians if they would like to join me in presenting my first special ensemble show. Try out some new tricks. Play new songs and old… Get your tickets here

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RCVR. Pre-order my new album Tragame Tierra today to join me on some different shit.

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I am pleased to announce a new Big Black Delta record “Tragame Tierra,” which you can pre-order now from smarturl.it/BBD-TragameTierra. Leading up to the release we’ll be giving you behind the scenes content, available exclusively to those who order at PledgeMusic. We’ll be sharing some new stuff you won’t see anywhere else and you can claim bonus items. To help celebrate, I want to give you a new song off the record, “It’s OK.”https://soundcloud.com/big-black-delta/its-ok "It's OK" was inspired by a series of difficult events that occurred during the last year. Losing my father to a stroke, finding that all of my gear was stolen, and losing one of my best friends to cancer. Since going public with some of this news, I have been inundated with incredible kindness and thoughtful support from friends, musicians, fans and strangers alike. This song is a thank you. A gesture of gratitude to everyone who has been kind — and to the universe itself.