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CLAUDE HAY JOINS USA RECORD LABEL
(August 2nd, 2010)
US independent record label Ingot Rock [ingotrock.com] has signed Claude Hay to their roster. As a result, Claude's second album, Deep Fried Satisfied, will be released in the USA, Canada, UK and Europe on September 21. Ingot Rock, based in Asheville, North Carolina, will undertake an extensive publicity & promotional campaign to support the release.
"Claude Hay is just the type of artist we're looking for," says Ingot Rock owner Chad Corley, "he's an amazing talent with international touring experience, he's mature and able to manage himself, and we believe he has a high potential to cross over to a mainstream audience." Ingot Rock has several artists on its diverse roster, covering the genres of indie rock/pop, blues/roots, alternative, electronic, experimental, instrumental and acoustic music. The label attributes its success thus far to this diversity, according to Project Manager Robert Peckyno. "Claude complements our roster and gives us something we lacked before -- a dynamic blues performer with tremendous upside," he adds, "what Ingot Rock offers will help Claude grow in US and overseas markets, and get him back over here to bigger crowds in the next 6 months."
It’s a huge milestone to get distribution in USA and having Ingot Rock as a partner will surely lead to greater things. Ingot Rock is distributed worldwide by Burnside Distribution Corporation in the US.
Australian National tour dates being announced! - see when Claude is coming to you - check the Gigs page.
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New album
"Deep Fried Satisfied"
Australia and Digital Release Date: August 30, 2010
Release Date Worldwide: September 21, 2010
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Biography
Hailing from Australia's Blue Mountains, Blues/Roots artist Claude Hay takes Do-It-Yourself to impressive limits. He builds his own instruments. He built his own house. He customized his tour van with a kitchen and a recording studio. And his musical approach is no different you see only one performer, but the sound and music builds layer-by-layer until you have to wonder where the rest of the band is. "He's one of the most visually exciting blues players I've seen, I can't believe he does all those sounds live," said Drew Wajnert, CEO of Phanphest in New Jersey.
Claude Hay fuses slide guitar, sitar, bass and electronic percussion in a loop-driven performance that invokes the best of stomping traditional blues with a booty-shaking funk edge. His fresh take on roots and blues draws in a wide spectrum of listeners, but still has the chops for the blues enthusiasts.
In 2007, his independently released debut album Kiss The Sky was the ticket he needed to perform at venues and festivals all over the world, including in the UK, Europe and the US. His new release, Deep Fried Satisfied, showcases Claude as the ultimate DIY musician, honing his craft with hook-laden songwriting and undeniable talent.
The inspiration for Deep Fried Satisfied was born out of the guilt-ridden love affair he had with fried food, which was magnified when touring USA in 2008. This album is chock full of Muddy Waters-inspired, slide driven blues riffs and P-Funk style choruses and breakdowns. Claude's particular affection to New York style pizza is the inspiration for Get Me Some, which follows the success of How Can You Live With Yourself, a head-bobbing blues tune that Australian's pushed to #1 on nationwide radio station JJJ's Unearthed.
Claude Hay returns to the USA in November to promote his second release after touring tirelessly in Australia with his custom campervan and hand-built twin neck guitar, fondly known as Betty. Claude has recently signed to the independent US record label Ingot Rock, based in Asheville, NC. "Claude Hay is just the type of artist we're looking for," says Ingot Rock owner Chad Corley, "he's an amazing talent with international touring experience, he's mature and able to manage himself, and we believe he has a high potential to appeal to a mainstream audience."
Back home in Australia, Claude's unique talents have been doing the rounds with some of the rising stars of the Aussie roots scene including Ash Grunwald, The Fumes, Dallas Frasca, Marshall and The Fro, and Chase The Sun, to name just a few. He's been seen treading the boards at The Blue Mountains Festival, Peats Ridge, Newtown, Gumball and Surry Hills Festivals and tracks from Kiss The Sky have graced the airwaves via Triple J, Triple M, FBi and independent radio stations worldwide.
Claude's previous international touring brought him to music industry centers in Los Angeles, New York City, Nashville, London, Berlin and Copenhagen. He was particularly a hit at New Jersey's Phanphest and in Nashville, where his unique adaptation of We Will Rock You brought down the house. While his international audience is established and growing through adept use of media and social networking, Claude Hay has no plans to rest on his laurels. He does, however, always have to make time for his next DIY project.
Contact
ALL MEDIA ENQUIRIES
Australia Publicity Contact:
Marshall Cullen
(+614) 16 143 030
(+612) 9331 0666
marshall_foghornrecords.net
US Publicity Contact:
Mark Pucci Media
1-770-804-9555
mpmedia_bellsouth.net
For Publishing / Licensing / Sponsorship
Australia:
Oskar Henning
landline - (+612) 8210 6778
mobile - (+614) 22 927 396
management_claudehay.com.au
USA and all other territories outside of Australia:
Chad Corley
Ingot Rock
1-828-808-7978
chad_ingotrock.com
Bookings:
Jon Howell
Rhythm Section Management
Mobile - (+614) 407700682
jon_rhythmsectionmanagement.com
Distribution
Australia Distribution:
Only Blues Music
USA and all other territories outside of Australia: Burnside Distribution Corporation
Artist Liaison:
Me-Lee Phang
mobile - (+614) 12 359 371
me-lee_claudehay.com.au
BEHIND THE LINES WITH MICHAEL SMITH DRUM MEDIA 9TH February 2010
Hay Making Betty
Youve probably all seen those great double-neck guitars that that seemed to be all the rage in the 70s as played by Jimmy Page and the like. Well, Blue Mountains-based blues and roots sol artist Claude Hay found that the sort of thing hes doing required something along the double-neck line but couldnt find it, so he built his own and named it Betty.
Basically, Hay explains, the top half of it is 25 ½ scale bass guitar so its a guitar size bass and the bottom part is like a baritone guitar. Because theyre different scale lengths I couldnt really get anything readymade and Ive made guitars before since I wanted something sort of custom with all the different specs on it that I like.
The body Is an old kitchen benchtop that I had lying around, a nice piece of maple, but I kind of regret it now because it weights a ton! Because of all the looping I do I wanted all the strings on a bass and all the guitar strings as well, and its also kind of an acoustic guitar as well. Ive put an acoustic Piezo LR Baggs bridge with an acoustic preamp built inside as well, so I can switch it from an electric to an acoustic to a bass. I wanted as many sounds and options as possible quickly, on the fly. Though its a solid body electric, you plug the Piezo in and youd be hardpressed to tell it apart from a Yamaha APX live it really does sound like an acoustic.
For the electric side of things, I just used Bill Lawrence Stratocaster pickups, and I had an old Japanese bass I never used and pulled the pickups out of that, which are sort of like P-style pickups, just nice and old warm Fender copies so to speak but from the 70s. There was a lot of fiddling to work out all the scale lengths and where the best spot was to put things, because I couldnt find a 25 ½ inch-scale standard-tuning bass on the internet, and I also really had to experiment with string gauges to find the right gauge, but its great. Its all I mostly use now because I can get so many sounds out of it. Stringswise I ended up using 60s and 120s on the bass side, while the baritone electric side is actually quite different. The A string is actually D, and the E string actually has a bass string. So its an octave below that again, so when I do the looping if I stop into a midsection I can sill play a little bass as well. So its very low and unusual tuning and Im getting my head around how to play it!
More importantly, Hay not only had to transpose a lot of his old songs in order to play them on Betty but has written his forthcoming album , Deep Fried Satisfied from which his latest single How Can You Live With Yourself is taken. He'll be launching it al Raval on Saturday March 27.
The Making of Betty - Twin Neck Guitar
