Last month, Brooklyn-based nine-piece Turkuaz released their new album, Life In The City. Following-up 2015’s Digitonium, the nine-track collection marks Turkuaz’s fifth studio album to date. Merging together the worlds of funk, alternative, rock, R&B, and psychedelia and punctuated by deft musicality and show-stopping singalongs, Turkuaz’s latest studio effort is a funkified adventure. The rainbow clad funk-outfit had the fortune of working with the Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, who produced the track “If I Ever Fall Asleep.”
Turkuaz has unveiled a video of a live in-studio performance of Life In The City’s “Make You Famous”, the album’s third track. The new video was filmed at Turkuaz’s own, Dave Brandwein’s Galaxy Smith Studios in Brooklyn, NY.
Earmilk premiered the new in-studio footage. As the band shared with them,
It plays on the topsy-turvy world of touring and making music for a living. There are some references to the ups and downs of the road, the “hurry up and wait” lifestyle, and some of the well-known pitfalls of the industry. It’s meant to display a lot of the chaos we can feel day to day, and I think the music does a good job of simulating that feeling for the listener. The lyrics remain playful but like with a lot of the record, they explore the negative as well as the positive. Overall though, it’s a fun track, both on the record and the in-studio live version we did.
Watch the official video for “Make You Famous” below:
Turkuaz – “Make You Famous”
[Video: Turkuaz]
Turkuaz recently announced 19 newly added early-2019 dates to their already extensive Life In The City Tour. The new shows will bring the colorful funk powerhouse through the Southwest and West Coast.
Turkuaz will be joined by Paris Monster, Object Heavy, and Eminence Ensemble for these newly announced dates. Starting off the winter leg in Fayetteville, AR, January 23rd, the band will then head through the Lone Star state for a three-night run, with stops in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, January 24th through 26th. The band then makes two Arizona stops, January 29th and 30th, before heading up the West Coast, with stops in Solana Beach, CA; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Ashland, OR; Bend, OR; Portland; and Seattle. Turkuaz will wrap up the winter leg of their Life In The City Tour, with stops in Bellingham, WA; Missoula, MT; Bozeman, MT; Frisco, CO; and a tour-closing show at Denver’s Ogden Theatre on February 16th.
Comprised of Dave Brandwein (guitar, vocals), Taylor Shell (bass), Craig Brodhead (guitar, keys), Michelangelo Carubba (drums), Chris Brouwers (trumpet, keys), Greg Sanderson (tenor sax), Josh Schwartz (baritone sax, vocals), Sammi Garett (vocals), and Shira Elias (vocals), Turkuaz is riding the high of a huge summer, which included a sold-out show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre opening for Greensky Bluegrass in addition to high-profile festival gigs nationwide. The nine-piece’s upcoming months will also feature a special performance at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, on October 19th before the band closes out 2018 with a New Year’s Eve show at The Palladium in Worcester, MA.
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