This Weekend in Durban
Dan Patlansky - 'Perfection Kills' Album Launch
Where: Sibaya Casino & Entertainment
Kingdom - Umhlanga Rocks 1 Sibaya Dr, 4320 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
When: Saturday
April 7th at 8 PM - 10 PM
Info: https://goo.gl/rgJDFU
DAN
PATLANSKY released his new album, PERFECTION KILLS on 2 February 2018. The
album is the follow-up to 2016’s critically acclaimed ‘Introvertigo’, which was
voted #1 BluesRock Album in the world by Blues Rock Review USA, and his ninth
studio offering. PERFECTION KILLS was recorded at Scherzo Productions, a
recording studio in Dan’s hometown of Pretoria, South Africa.
Dan
chose Scherzo because he wanted to make a different sounding record from his
last two albums and he felt Scherzo supported his vision. All the songs on
PERFECTION KILLS were recorded and engineered by Jaco Naudé at Scherzo
Productions, mixed by Stefan Swart in South Africa and mastered by Pete Lyman
at Infrasonic Mastering U.S.A. DAN produced the album himself, something he
hasn’t done in years. “I learnt so much working with Theo Crous, who was the
producer on my previous two albums, ‘Dear Silence Thieves’ and ‘Introvertigo'.
I worked on pre-production and songwriting with Theo on a couple of the tracks
for “Perfection Kills’ and applied what I learnt to the recording and
production process of the album.” says Dan. “Perfection Kills’ is all about my
vision of making a record that still makes the songwriting a priority as in the
past; the final product delivers a far more real and organic result.”
What
sets the new album apart from its predecessors is the honesty and live sound of
the songs. DAN specifically recorded the 10 tracks to come across very close to
what they will sound like when performing them live. PERFECTION KILLS is an
album Dan has wanted to make for a few years now, setting out get the sound and
production in his head across to listeners in a raw and charmingly rough way.
DAN
started writing songs and recording the new album in 2016. “I got together with
the band once I had basic ideas and messed about with them in a rehearsal space
for a week,” reflects Dan. “I went back, tweaked a few and then we were ready
for the studio. The recording process was semi-live and took two weeks to
complete.”
‘Perfection
kills’ is a concept that Dan whole heartedly believes in: “In any art form
perfection doesn’t exist because there is no yard stick to measure it by. The
pursuit of perfection ends up doing far more harm to the art than good. This
was the mind set we adhered to when we went into the recording studio, “Why try
to be perfect?”
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