CD Release: TS Leach Releases Debut Road of Bones

Former Navy Officer Exorcises Dark Feelings About Human Conflict

As when he flew for the Navy all over the world or served in the Persian Gulf, TS has been "under the radar" for years, strumming his guitar at small gatherings and cafes. Now he breaks out rocking and rolling over a torturous Road of Bones in his head.

TS Leach’s debut EP Road of Bones is the logical and representative culmination of his life’s journey to date. The songs on Road of Bones were written during a period of personal circumstances no one should be expected to go through. A time that mixed mourning, anger and hatred for a senseless and vicious loss, unconditional love, confusion and depression, isolation and fear, with a tinge of hope, recovery and redemption through friends, family and creative expression.

Scary. But you'll get it, when you hear his music. TS writes to exorcise experiences and feelings from life. He's dark but humorous. And he grooves.

The music on Road of Bones found voice when TS met and began a collaboration with Tom Higgins in the mountains of North Carolina. It is dark, it is haunting, but also offers a tinge of hope for the future. TS's intelligent and thoughtful lyrics, set to fascinating melodic-harmonic construction composed by TS and Tom Higgins, with final instrumental arrangements by TS, pc muñoz and Mark Weibel, creatively and beautifully defy the norm.

The collection will lift you up off your feet with a number of its more rockin' rhythms and absorbing melodies. But as you grasp the lyrics, you'll ask yourself why you're dancing. A number of the songs are more cerebral, and rather bewitching in nature. These may arouse an odd mix of peace, tranquility, and uneasiness, as if you’re experiencing a rather surreal, and less-than-positive dream.

"Bottom line, Road of Bones will invite you to feel emotions, and to think thoughts, for good or ill, and likely both," said Leach.

Road of Bones was produced by avant-garde rock/funkster pc muñoz, who's recently collaborated with Jackson Browne, keyboardist Dr. Fink of Prince and the Revolution, Grammy-nominee Anthony Brown, and Dave Worm of Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra among others.

Road of Bones is the newest release by Talking House Records, whose diverse range of recent projects include Ed Wiley Jr.'s About the Soul, among the Most Added on Jazz radio stations last month and lauded by Downbeat Magazine, and Twenty Haiku, which debuted at the San Jose Museum of Art and was recommended by the Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, News & Observer and many others.

Road of Bones will appeal to listeners like this:

• Political independents.
• Anyone who likes their music dark.
• College students who are questioning.
• Buffs of penetrating grooves, thoughtful arrangements.
• Interested in various world views, foreign environments, apolitical reviews of experience.
• Want to be forced to think about things. Not just spew the party line. It's OK to think.

 

 

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