Monday, 20 March 2006
 Deutsche Grammophon will release Elvis Costello's My Flame Burns Blue on February 28. A live concert album recorded at the Hague with the Metropole Orkest, the package also includes a bonus disc with a forty-five minute suite from Il Sogno, his first full length orchestral work. My Flame Burns Blue features reinvented Costello favorites like "Almost Blue," "Clubland" and "Watching the Detectives" along with Costello compositions seeing release on record for the first time. The album also includes a Charles Mingus composition and a Billy Strayhorn song with Costello's lyrics.
ELVIS COSTELLO
BUSY SCHEDULE SEEN FOR 2006 WITH RELEASE OF
TWO NEW ALBUMS, SPRING TOUR
MY FLAME BURNS BLUE
SET FOR FEB. 28th RELEASE ON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
MUSICIAN COLLABORATES WITH NEW ORLEANS LEGEND
ALLEN TOUSSAINT FOR NEW ALBUM THE RIVER IN REVERSE ON VERVE FORECAST
** 13-DATE ORCHESTRAL TOUR KICKS OFF MARCH 27th **
Free audio streams from "My Flame Burns Blue":
- Almost Blue
- Watching the Detectives
- God Give Me Strength
 (January 11, 2006- New York, NY) -- Elvis Costello is kicking off 2006 with a number of projects on the way. He is preparing for the February 28 release of his concert album 'My Flame Burns Blue,' is planning a 2006 tour with local symphonies, and has collaborated with New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint on a new album.
• Deutsche Grammophon will release Costello's My Flame Burns Blue on February 28. A live concert album recorded at the Hague with the Metropole Orkest, the package also includes a bonus disc with a forty-five minute suite from Il Sogno, his first full length orchestral work. My Flame Burns Blue features imaginatively reinvented Costello favorites like "Almost Blue," "Clubland" and "Watching the Detectives" along with Costello compositions seeing release on record for the first time. The album also includes a Charles Mingus composition and a Billy Strayhorn song with Costello's lyrics.
In his liner notes, the musician writes, "This record may explain what I've been doing during the last twelve years when I haven't had an electric guitar in my hands… This recording captures a very joyful evening at the North Sea Jazz Festival and collects together songs and arrangements that have been developed over the last decade."
• Costello is planning a tour for spring 2006, kicking off March 27 in San Francisco. He will collaborate with a local symphony for each performance, which will begin with a suite from "Il Sogno." After an intermission, the musician will return to sing songs from 'My Flame Burns Blue' and others from his catalog with Steve Nieve and the local orchestra.
See tour dates below.
 Upon the release of Il Sogno, The Boston Globe's Richard Dyer wrote, "You'd have to go back to George Gershwin to find a composer-performer undertaking a project as ambitious as Il Sogno… It is full of character and storytelling, and the orchestration is skillful, unusual, and colorful."
• Sessions for Costello's album with Allen Toussaint wrapped recently in New Orleans, with initial Los Angeles sessions taking place in late November. New and classic Toussaint compositions will be included on The River in Revers along with several songs co-written by the two musicians. The project will feature Costello's band The Imposters, Toussaint's horn section and guitarist, and is produced by Joe Henry (Aimee Mann, Susan Tedeschi, Solomon Burke, Bettye LaVette). The recording of the album represents the first major sessions to take place in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.
Toussaint previously produced a 1983 Costello cover of Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" with the Attractions and The T.K.O. Horns. Toussaint also contributed piano to the New Orleans-recorded "Deep Dark Truthful Mirror" from Costello's 1989 album Spike. The River in Reverse is set for release in May on Verve Forecast.
Elvis Costello US Tour Dates 2006:
DATE - CITY - VENUE
Monday, March 27 San Francisco - Davies Symphony Hall
Friday, March 31 Honolulu, HI - Neal S. Blaisdell Center
Saturday, April 1, Honolulu, HI - Neal S. Blaisdell Center
Sunday April 2, Maui, HI - Maui Arts & Cultural Center
Tuesday, April 11, Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
Thursday, April 13, Houston, TX - Jesse H. Jones Hall
Tuesday, April 18, Chicago, IL - Orchestra Hall
Thursday, April 20, Baltimore, MD - The Music Cntr at Strathmore
Friday, April 21, Baltimore, MD - Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Saturday, April 22, Baltimore, MD - Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Wednesday, May 10, Boston, MA - Symphony Hall
Friday, May 12, Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Academy Of Music
Saturday, May 13, Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
For more information on Elvis Costello, please contact
Aliza Rabinoff [arabinoff@shorefire.com] or Rebecca Shapiro [rshapiro@shorefire.com] at Shore Fire Media, 718.522.7171.
Olga Makrias-Universal Classics @ 212-333-1485 or email olga.makrias@umusic.com. |
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