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Maya In The Summer
Sugarkane
Rooster Cogburn
You Bring Me Up
Tangerine
Holly
Folkestone, Kent
Laurel, Clementine
God Is Love
The Coming Of The Lord
Amorphous

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‘Mandala Brush‘ is the follow-up to the fan and press acclaimed album ‘Carolina’ (2016, Glitterhoue Records), with which Josh Haden turned to his personal as well as his family past. With his latest work, Josh aims to capture the atmosphere of his concerts. So all songs were recorded live and without click track in Los Angeles. The album contains 11 songs, including catchy ones like ‘Sugarkane‘, ‘Laurel, Clementine‘ or the gospelesque ‘You bring me up‘. But also endless, psychedelic jams like ‘Rooster Cogburn‘ or the jazzy ‘Tangerine‘. About the album title Josh says “a mandala is an ancient and sacred symbol representing the oneness of the universe. The “brush” in the context of this album is a modern and secular tool used in computer art applications. The mandala brush helps facilitate the creation of mandalas, but is never a finished mandala in and of itself”.

‘Mandala Brush‘ was produced by Kenny Lyon and Josh Haden. The album features founding member Josh Haden (bass, lead vocals) and longtime collaborators Kenny Lyon (guitar), Shon Sullivan (acoustic guitar, keyboards) and Danny Frankel (drums). lso performing are two of Josh’s sisters, Petra Haden (violin, backing vocals) and Tanya Haden (cello, backing vocals), along with Mike Bolger who played the trumpet on Ry Cooder’s ‘Chavez Ravine’ album. Matthew DeMerritt on flute and saxophone who also was Macy Gray’s saxophonist and Dengue Fever founding member David Ralicke (clarinet, flute and trombone) who also played with artists such as Beck, Tony Joe White and the Afghan Whigs.

Spain is the brainchild of Josh Haden. Their music has been described as “indie pop slowcore americana free jazz”. They are best known for the aforementioned debut album, 1995’s ‘The Blue Moods Of Spain’, and for the song ‘Spiritual’ which was recorded by Johnny Cash on his Rick Rubin-produced, Grammy-winning 1996 album ‘Unchained’, and by Josh’s late father Charlie Haden along with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny on the Grammy-winning 1997 album ‘Beyond The Missouri Sky’.