[Cover photo credit to Lauren D Zbarsky]
Originally released in October 2014, Frazey Ford’s album, Indian Ocean, has returned this year with a special digital deluxe edition and vinyl reissue, out now. The digital deluxe includes three previously unreleased covers recorded during the original sessions with The Hi Rhythm Section, offering a new window onto the record.
Frazey’s cover of Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love” was originally recorded in the very first sessions at Memphis’ Royal Studios as a way of Frazey and her band finding their groove. These and other tracks capture a moment in time of the exploration that led to Indian Ocean.
Frazey Ford says:
With Teenie no longer with us, it felt like we had to put them out in the world. That’s a big part of why I’m including these. It felt like I had Teenie’s ghost on my shoulder saying ‘You gotta put these tracks out.’ It feels like we’re honoring him.
She adds about the album:
In a lot of ways, Indian Ocean defined an era of my life. It wasn’t until I released this album that I feel I really hit my stride as a solo artist. With some space from it, I look back and it all feels like such a dream that it even happened. It seems to be hitting its stride well beyond the time we made it, and it’s just one of the most synchronistic and magical points in my career.
The fact that I got to make this record with those guys, that it took me all over the world. It changed my life and changed me as an artist, changed everyone in my band. We still just shake our heads at the sheer synchronicity that we got to essentially go to the temple of these artists that we respect the most in the world and then to collaborate with them. The fact that the music is still reaching people, that these songs are still moving people and moving out in the world – it’s just this crazy magical thing to me.
Frazey Ford’s European Tour
Saturday, October 25 – Black Deer Festival in the City | Tobacco Docks, London, UK
Monday, October 27 – Button Factory | Dublin, IE
Tuesday, October 28 – Sligo Live Festival at Hawks Wells Theatre | Sligo, IE
Thursday, October 30 – La Maroquinerie | Paris, FR
Friday, October 31 – Tolhuistuin | Amsterdam, NL
Saturday, November 1 – Take Root Festival | Groningen, NL
Sunday, November 2 – Doornroosje | Nijmegen, NL
Monday, November 3 – TivoliVredenburg Cloud Nine | Utrecht, NL
Wednesday, November 5 – Festival Bebop (Salle Athena) | La Ferte Bernard, FR
Saturday, November 8 – Klub Nalen | Stockholm, SE
Sunday, November 9 – Pustervik | Goteborg, SE
Tuesday, November 11 – Heimathafen | Berlin, DE
Wednesday, November 12 – Bahnhof Pauli | Hamburg, DE
