Salami Rose Joe Louis Announces New LP, Shares “Inside,” Tour Dates this Spring with MIKE + Alice Phoebe Lou
Multi-instrumentalist and producer, Salami Rose Joe Louis announces her new album Lorings out April 25th via Brainfeeder. The announcement is accompanied by a second single, “Inside”, following last month’s “Arm fell asleep,” which was named KCRW’s Top Tune of the Day. New North American and European tour dates kick off in early April, including dates supporting Alice Phoebe Louand MIKE, whose Showbiz! she contributed production to. Tickets are available here HERE.
Lead single “Inside” grew out of a tumultuous chapter in Lindsay Olsen’s life – one that she hopes never to repeat. Floating atop gently revolving Polybrute arpeggios, it’s a sombrebut incredibly beautiful and powerful song. “My hope, by putting this song first on the record – and making it the first single – is that some of the songs that follow have more levity and hope, leaving this heaviness behind,” she surmises.
Delightfully raw and heartfelt, Lorings is a collection of songs that find SRJL displaying her vulnerability through a playful and sonically explorative lens. “I was hoping to bypass the distillation process of overthinking outside perception,” she says. “Each song feels like a significant section of my personality has been carved out and put on a platter for public consumption, which is a devastating thought [haha].”
Lorings Olsen made almost entirely autonomously on her trusty Roland MV8800 workstation. For a couple of songs, SRJL invited a handful of exceptionally talented friends to collaborate: guitarist/producer Flanafi (with whom Olsen partnered for the collaborative album Sarah in 2024); Omari Jazz (Black Decelerant); Luke Titus and Sergio Machado Plim.
Elsewhere on Lorings, Olsen addressesthemes of imposter syndrome, falling in love, heartbreak, the idea of family and parenthood, superficiality, her frustrations with the music industry (“I dunno the way… For I cannot play… The game”). She does revisit more familiar tropes too as exemplified by “Motorway (feat. Flanafi)”. “I feel like the world is being confronted with an enormous lack of humanity at the moment and it feels impossible to comprehend how people can be so cruel,” she declares.
Previously earning praise from the New York Times, Paste, Crack Mag, The Guardian, Bandcamp (“glowing bouquets of homespun electric jazz and soul”), and The FADER (“an electrified passage of fusion perfection”), Olsen conjures her utterly inimitable sound from her long term musical partner – the Roland MV8800 lovingly nicknamed FunFunFun. This iconic sampler and synthesizer has long been her principal instrument but in a twist to her modus operandi, for “Arm fell asleep” she made a pact with herself to not use a computer at any cost so the song was entirely composed, produced, arranged and mixed on the MV8800. “It was a hilariously involved process,” she says. “But I experienced a breakthrough that catalyzed a new chapter in my production journey and the end result I am proud of – a song that captures the quaintness and nostalgic quality of the MV8800, yet there is more intricacy and intention than I have been able to achieve in past MV8800 productions.”
Olsen, who’s sharpened her chops touring for the likes of Flying Lotus, TuneYards, and Toro y Moi among others, recently supported Sungazer on their North American tour. With her innovative production style and captivating live shows, Salami Rose Joe Louis continues to push the boundaries of alternative/electronic/jazz music.
Upcoming Tour Dates
April 6 – Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Alice Phoebe Lou)
April 7 – Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Alice Phoebe Lou)
April 8 – Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Alice Phoebe Lou)
April 27 – Workplay Theatre, Birmingham, AL (w/ MIKE)
April 29 – Resonant Head, Oklahoma City, OK (w/ MIKE)
April 30 – Tulips, Dallas, TX (w/ MIKE)
May 1 – White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX (w/ MIKE)
May 2 – Mohawk Outside, Austin, TX (w/ MIKE)
May 3 – Paper Tiger, San Antonio, TX (w/ MIKE)
May 8 – The Belasco, Los Angeles, CA (w/ MIKE)
May 12 – Blue Note, New York, NY
May 15 – The Sinclair, Boston, MA
May 16 – Nectar’s, Burlington, VT
May 17 – Festival Des Musiques-Création, Chicoutimi, CAN
May 25 – Cross The Tracks Festival – London – UK
May 26 – Kantine Am Berghain – Berlin – DE
May 27 – Badaboum – Paris – FR
May 30 – Maifeld Derby Festival – DE
Jun 13 – SF Jazz Festival, San Francisco, CA
Jun 27 – Montreal Intl Jazz Festival, Montreal, CAN
Jun 28 – Ottawa Jazz Festival, Ottawa, CAN
Salami Rose Joe Louis Lorings(Brainfeeder)
Tracklist
1. Inside
2. Motorway (feat. Flanafi)
3. That must be hard for you
4. A sauna sized pill
5. I dunno ways
6. I will never say
7. Crow, friendship
8. Hobbies
9. Basketball (feat. Flanafi)
10. Arm fell asleep
11. Fill the void (feat. Omari Jazz)
12. Upstairs
13. Wet log
14. Dribs and drags (feat. Luke Titus)
15. A pool to cry in (feat. Flanafi)
16. Farewell
17. Fill the void // house by the lake // coda
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