‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans’ by The Fizz Fuzz | Album Premiere
Exclusive album premiere of ‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans’ by The Fizz Fuzz, out March 14th 2023 via Slush Fund Recordings and Taxi Driver Records.
Coming together for the first time in the high desert of southern California during the fall of 2017, The Fizz Fuzz are a blues-rock band from Santa Rosa. Dandy Brown is a producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the bands Hermano, Orquesta del Desierto, John Garcia, Alice Tambourine Lover, Yawning Sons, and his solo releases. In addition to covering guitar and vocal duties with the band, Dawn Brown is a multimedia artist currently engaged with photo experiments and commissioned pieces throughout northern California.
Their debut album, ‘Palmyra,’ was released in the spring of 2020 and features performances by David Angstrom (Hermano/Luna Sol), Steve Earle (Afghan Whigs), Mike Callahan (Hermano/Earshot), Alice Albertazzi and Gianfranco Romanelli (Alice Tambourine Lover), and Mark Engel (Orquesta del Desierto). The Fizz Fuzz sophomore release, ‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans,’ is slated for release on March 14, 2023. Recorded at Oxygen Studios (Verzuolo, IT) and the Slush Fund facilities in Athens, GA, the new collection features Steve Earle and Gabriele Carta, and guest performances by Mike Reeder, Keith Murphy, and Mark Engel. They will be performing in the UK to support the new album in March, 2023.
After releasing our first album, ‘Palmyra,’ in 2020, we were set to embark on a series of tour dates throughout Europe and the United States, but, of course, those plans were interrupted by the pandemic. About a year and a half after we released the first album, we were finally able to do a couple of brief tours in Italy and the United States, but we spent most of the lockdown and ensuing travel restrictions water-shedding in our Northern California home writing the songs that would eventually end up appearing on ‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans’.
While our first album was certainly a collaborative effort, most of the songs that appeared on our first collection were derived from parts and pieces each of us had constructed before we came together as a writing team, before we were husband and wife. Certainly, not many good things can be said about the years the world suffered through the virus, but for us it turned out to be an opportunity to explore our writing with a much more heightened sense of collaboration, which, of course, allowed us to push each other in new and exciting directions. ‘Palmyra’ was a great achievement for us, but ‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans’ represents an evolution in both of our writing styles and a truer representation of the heart of where the Fizz Fuzz currently stands and the future directions we are heading.
We have been truly lucky to have such a great supporting cast with Steve Earle (Afghan Whigs) on drums and Gabriele Carta (ISAAC) on bass. They have not only enhanced the songs we have written for ‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans,’ but they contributed to the development of the songs on the album in unique and exciting ways. We were also tremendously excited to have Steve Earle contribute a song to the album and co-write another, adding an exciting dynamic to the material that has broadened the collection in a way that we are immensely grateful to share.
Thematically, ‘Deserts, Mountains, Oceans’ represents our reflections upon some of the most traumatic episodes of our lives … messages of lost or damaged relationships, broken dreams and, unfortunately, the often merciless passage of time. We think, though, that within the representations of those darker themes each song has a way of commenting upon the ability to move past those unfortunate elements of life and to embrace the optimism that we all have the capacity to discover if we are willing to search for it. Essentially, while the title of the album reflects the physical geography where we have resided, the metaphors within those locations stand as testaments of the desolation that has impacted both of us, the climb to the place we are now, and the bliss we have found with and within each other. – The Fizz Fuzz
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