News June 16, 2016

Cooking Vinyl Aus signs Mike Noga

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Cooking Vinyl Australia has welcomed Mike Noga to the roster. Mike Noga’s third solo album,KING is a dark, psychedelic concept album loosely based onGeorge Büchner’s famous 1830’s play’Woyzeck’ and will be released on August 26.

KING featuresNoah Taylor(Game of Thrones, Almost Famous) as “The Narrator” and wasproduced bySomething For Kate’sPaul Dempsey.KING tells the tale of one mans decent into madness and the bloodshed that follows.

Pre-order KING on iTunes or Artist First and receiveNobody Leads Me To Flamesas an instant download.

Lead singleNobody Leads Me To Flames isthe final murderous scene and depicts the main character ’Jack’ fleeing through the forest. He’s completely lost his mind and is hearing “voices from above”.

“Paul (Dempsey) and I wanted to open strong, and decided to use a technique often applied in film…. Put the pivotal scene first then go back to the start and introduce the characters and plot,”explains Noga.

LISTEN TO ’NOBODY LEADS ME TO FLAMES’

In 2014 Mike Noga found himself living in London. After being asked by immersive theatre company ‘Punchdrunk’ to pen music in response to their latest production ‘The Drowned Man’ (itself loosely based on Woyzeck), Noga was inspired to continue the story he started that day. He spent the next year in North London working on what would eventually become KING.

Returning to Melbourne in 2015 and joining forces with Paul Dempsey, the two set about realising Mike’s vision for an ambitious rock and roll album with strong narrative and immersive elements. Enlisting the help of legendary Australian actor Noah Taylor in the role of narrator, the result is a unique concept album told through the eyes of Jack and Mary, a down and out couple living in small town 1950’s Australia.

A vast departure in sound and style from Noga’s previous solo albums, KING commands attention from the opening notes to the final death throes.

Mike Noga is the former drummer for one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed bandThe Drones.He’s fronted numerous outfits of his own and he has released two much lauded solo albums (such as 2012’s “The Balladeer Hunter”) with a third on the way.

Critics declared his last album The Balladeer Hunter “an Australian classic” and Noga “one of Australia’s most talented new singer-songwriters… a new Paul Kelly or Tim Rogers”. Noga has just returned from a huge tour of the UK and Europe opening for Minesotta’s legendary art-rockers, ’LOW’ and has now returned to Australia to focus on his brand new albumKING.

Mike Noga is performing preview shows every Wednesdayin June at the Gasometer

Wednesday 15 June
With The Gravy Train Four and Matt Green

Wednesday 22 June
With Near Myth and Lillith Lane

Wednesday 29 June – SINGLE LAUNCH
With Howl At The Moon and Low Talk

Doors 8.00pm
Tickets $10 + BF / $12 on door

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