For her fourth album in five years, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Vic, Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek Sound studio near the town of Dripping Springs from which the album takes its name. For the recording sessions Nash & Serrat corralled a stellar crew of musicians: Joey & Aaron McClellan, (Midlake, BNQT, John Grant, Israel Nash), Eric Swanson & Josh Fleischmann (Israel Nash), Dave Simonett (Trampled By Turtles) and Dennis Love (Futurebirds), as well as Nash himself providing additional guitar and backing vocals. Israel Nash produced the album, with Ted Young (Grammy award winner for The Rolling Stones) on engineering and mixing duties. In a Folk Radio UK exclusive, listen to the album in full below:
https://soundcloud.com/loose-music/sets/joana-serrat-dripping/s-NNWYs
It was no mean feat to gather all these creative talents and get them working together as a team, but as Israel Nash commented, “it was very easy to work with Joana because she knows where she wants to go and she leads us all there. Joana’s lyrics are brilliant. She uses images and colours to describe her songs and luckily that’s the way we are used to working.” Joey McClellan adds, “her voice was our guide”.
What she came away with is, however, nothing short of magnificent and should see Serrat building on her existing achievements which have included a BBC 6Music Recommends Track Of The Week, selected by Gideon Coe and Lauren Laverne, the latter commenting “she’s an amazing artist, an astonishing talent and I love her songwriting”. Within the last year, Joana has toured with The Jayhawks, The Handsome Family and Courtney Marie Andrews, played the main stage at Primavera Sound Festival, showcased at SXSW and was invited to Nashville earlier this month to showcase at AmericanaFest 2017.
Dripping Springs will be released digitally, on CD & and on 180g vinyl on the 29th September 2017 via Loose.
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Photo Credit: Joan Alsina