The independent
alternative music duo known as The Disappearing Act have released
their latest record, “Born to Say Goodbye.” The LP is proudly
released by independent label HIT Records (Dallas, TX) and published
by Houdini Escape Music (El Paso, TX). Genuine, natural, full of
harmony and acoustic grace, “Born to Say Goodbye” from The
Disappearing Act is real music by real people for fans of good things
everywhere.
The Disappearing Act
consists of the music partnership of Salim Nourallah and Bob
Blumenfeld, who cite among their many artistic influences the Beatles
and Wilco. The resulting music produced by the duo offers a
complimentary blend of acoustic and electronic sounds. Like sonic
novelists, Nourallah and Blumenfeld use their unique tone as paper on
which they write a true and melancholy tale. This story has been
called “a painfully personal masterpiece, with an almost
ear-to-the-wall intimate atmosphere that permeates the ten-song
collection, each chronicling the dissolution of Nourallah's
marriage.”
In “Born to Say
Goodbye” the Disappearing Act utilize a combination of production,
instrumental, and compositional genius to arrive at artistic purity
surpassing what the most critical audiophiles would come to expect,
left alone from an independent act from Texas. Much of this is due to
the unassuming cleverness in Blumenfeld's chord progressions, with
much also to Nourallah's unabashed self-expression.
“I'd come out to my
studio, when I was feeling emotionally beat-up from what I was going
through and just sit down with the tracks,” Nourallah writes. “I
never put pen to paper to write the words; basically it was all free
association.”
Not unlike the famous
poetry method of William S. Burroughs, Nourallah cut-and-pasted
sections of his song to make a working narrative. “If we'd been in
the ‘60s trying to write songs like this, we'd have been cutting up
pieces of recording tape and taping them together, but in essence
that's what I was using the computer to do.”
The Disappearing Act's
“Born to Say Goodbye” LP is the second official album from the
group. It is preceded by their self-titled debut record which hit
digital shelves in 2010 on Tortilla Records.
And as for the band name?
“One reason we call it
the Disappearing Act is that we never had any intention of being a
performing band,” writes Nourallah. “We never had any intention
of performing live, or making it into something more than a
songwriting project. So, it seemed like an amusing and fitting name
for the group because in essence the act has disappeared before it
ever existed.”
“Born to Say Goodbye”
by the Disappearing Act is available online worldwide. Fans of indie
music everywhere should get in early.
“Born to Say Goodbye” by
the Disappearing Act –
The Disappearing Act official
website –
“Born to Say Goodbye” by The
Disappearing Act on Bandcamp –
https://thedisappearingact.bandcamp.com/
Contact
Nicholas Altobelli – Press and
Publicity - nicholas@daltonrecords.com
Bob Blumenfeld - Other inquiries –
rlblumenfeld@gmail.com
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