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Straight Line

by James Alexander Bright

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    Black 7" vinyl in sleeve with artwork designed by James.

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Electro-boogie-machine ‘Straight Line’ is taken from ‘Cool Cool’, the upcoming third album by British multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright. “‘Straight Line’ started out as a wonky homage to 80s & 90s radio”, says James. “It’s based on the memory of meeting someone you want to stay up all night listening to music with”.

James’ passionate voice, pitched somewhere between Eddie Chacon, Beck and Michael McDonald, takes a confident lead over a mélange of body-popping LinnDrum beats, a host of swooping, fuzzy synths, and backseat-rocking bass. Initially written and recorded at his home studio in the rolling hills of the Hampshire countryside, ‘Straight Line’ was completed with regular collaborator Peter Lyons in East London.

It’s backed on 7” vinyl with the wonky dancefloor wobbler ‘Oh My’, sounding something like Theo Parrish producing Arthur Russell after a sleepless night.

The past six years has seen James release a veritable treasure trove of music, including ‘Mallorca’ and ‘Strange Folk’ EPs, debut album ‘Headroom’, joyous second ‘Float’, an album of collaborations and reworks with cosmic Americana-disco DJ/producer duo Flying Mojito Bros, and a new project with Groove Armada's Tom Findlay as Bright & Findlay.

James balances music alongside the creative duality of a job in illustration and the responsibilities and constraints that come with raising a young family. Utilising any spare moment to write and record new ideas, his creative output under various projects had been relentless. Turning his back on apathetic major label offers in his early 20s, he’s released through cult DIY label Tape Club Records, German stalwart !K7 Music and now with Scottish tastemaker Athens Of The North, presenting an evolving vision of a sound that has touched on everything from outsider art-rock to machine funk, mystic folk to experimental jazz.

A dynamic set of urgent funkers, gentle soul ballads, head-nodders, fuzzy folkers and straight-up disco bangers; album ‘Cool Cool’ is set for release on 26th July via Athens Of The North.

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released June 28, 2024

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A vibrant kaleidoscope of sound, colour and emotion, British multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright’s songs soundtrack fertile daydreams, esoteric dancefloors, languorous reflection, and wild excursions in nature and beyond.

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