Fingersnap, a new collaboration between David McAlmont and Guy Davies. More info below. Check out the video for lead track “I Wanna Rise” and listen to the full EP here: www.finger-snap.com/
Fingersnap is the creative coupling of artist David McAlmont and musical tour de force Guy Davies. Fingersnap’s first release comes in the form of the Smokehouse EP that was written whilst on a writing retreat in Ireland earlier this year and recorded in London over the summer.
I Wanna Rise is the lead track from the EP that also features the masterful Some Kind of Masterpiece, the startlingly powerful song Mister and the controversial track The Bishop of New Hampshire. Online followers and fans of David McAlmont who have seen early performances with Guy as Fingersnap quote the duo’s mesmeric live performances and infectious onstage chemistry as the key factor to their newfound creative dynamism.
Guy and David originally met back in 1997, when they were introduced by producer Steve Leroni. Their friendship blossomed with untold live and studio collaborations, including work on the album ‘A Little Communication’ and ‘Set One: You Go To My Head’. David’s musical journey of course has been an eclectic and varied one, seeing him achieve mainstream success and critical acclaim with a number of musical partners including Bernard Butler, David Arnold and composer Michael Nyman.
Speaking of the formation of Fingersnap David McAlmont said:
“Earlier this year Guy and I went to Ireland to write and play some gigs. The writing that emerged was tougher, starker and more conscious than anything I’d done before and it felt like a new statement, a new band. It felt like the new material would perfectly book-end the last 20 years of the ‘McAlmont Thing’ so we decided that it should be called something new and after much deliberation, we finally settled on Fingersnap!”
Talking about Fingersnap’s musical direction Guy Davies said:
“We took an objective look at what we where playing live since we got back together in summer 2010 and realised we wanted to inject tempo, attitude and a general ‘up-ness’ to the proceedings. This in turn revealed a more soulful attitude in David’s vocal execution and also enabled us to wig-out as a band”
The release of the Smokehouse EP will be supported by dates throughout the UK in November and December, including, 10th November – Riverside, Newcastle and 20th November – Jazz Café, London. More to be announced very soon.
Fingersnap’s the Smokehouse EP – Available from all good digital stores on 14th November, 2011
www.finger-snap.com
