Music News - Thomas Oliver announces new album, shares first offering 'Shine Like The Sun'
17 February 2017 - 0 Comments
New Zealand singer-songwriter and local Weissenborn meistro, Thomas Oliver today shares his brand new single Shine Like The Sun and announces the release date of his second studio album, Floating In The Darkness coming out 28th April 2017.
Shine Like The Sun is "a song of longing for love" wrapped up in a warm, slow-building groove, backed by healthy bursts of horns, features Louis Baker on backing vocals/electric guitar, Sam Notman (drums), Johnny Lawrence (bass), Ed Zuccollo (Hammond organ, Rhodes), Adam Page (tenor/alto sax, clarinet, flute) and Ariel Bamborough (backing vocals).
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Floating In The Darkness (featuring his Silver Scroll award-winning song If I Move To Mars) is a deep and raw, reflective body of work, largely self-produced, written and mixed by Thomas himself, with an additional soul-stirring collaboration with renowned producer and composer, Rhian Sheehan (Let It Be This One), input from Grammy Award-winning mix engineer, Trina Shoemaker, and mastering by Vlado Meller. As a result, he sees the songs on Floating In The Darkness as an intimate and honest reflection of himself - "a product of a whole lot of searching for the magic zone."
Thomas
Oliver is a New Zealand singer-songwriter, internationally recognized as one
of the world’s leading players of the Weissenborn lap-steel guitar. Thomas
released the world's first full-length, all instrumental, all Weissenborn album
in 2013, titled Beneath
The Weissenborn. The album debuted at #6 on the NZ charts,
received 5 star reviews with sold out shows across the nation.
With over two million views on his YouTube channel, Thomas has developed an
international audience from his home base in New Zealand, and has performed
throughout New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Vietnam, and has toured and
shared the stage with such legends as Joe
Cocker, Eric
Clapton and Fat
Freddy's Drop.
His vast diversity in his vocal delivery has also earned him a reputation as a
vocalist in Drum & Bass and other electronic music, and his list of
collaborations includes some of DnB's most respected producers, including Black Sun Empire, Rido, Concord Dawn and Urbandawn, and
boasts releases on prestigious labels, including Andy C's RAM Records,
Goldie's Metalheadz.
More recently, his single If
I Move To Mars was remixed by Urbandawn and
released on Hospital
Records in January this year.
October 2015 saw the release of his much-loved (and critically appraised)
single If
I Move To Mars, which would go onto win the
prestigious APRA
AMCOS Silver Scroll award a year later. With airplay
support from ZM,
The Hits
and The Edge,
it nabbed a place in the Official NZ Music Chart for 5 weeks.
If
I Move To Mars gave us a glance into the melting
pot of Thomas’ largely self-produced, written and mixed new album, Floating In The Darkness, which was finished
with the love and support of a successful crowd-funding campaign. The
pledge reached $22,500, which was $5,000 over its $17,500 target from fans and
supporters, locally and worldwide allowing Thomas to finish the album he had
conceptualized with the help of a few friends along the way such as Rhian Sheehan,
Grammy Award-winning engineer, Trina
Shoemaker, Louis
Baker (b/v’s on Shine Like The Sun), Vlado
Meller and more.
Following his Silver Scroll win, Thomas released an acoustic version of If
I Move To Mars and added to the star-studded Bob Marley tribute
album, Stir It Up
– Aotearoa’s Tribute To Bob Marley, with his spiritual,
airy rendition of Is
This Love.
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