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Josh Reichmann Oracle Band -- New Signing & Free EP!

Posted Tue Oct 7, 13:09 by James Trauzzi

Paper Bag Records is proud to announce our latest addition to the Paper Bag Records family –- Josh Reichman Oracle Band – and the release of the Life Is Legal EP!

This week ONLY we’ll be giving away the Life Is Legal EP as a FREE DOWNLOAD to PBR mailing list members as a thank you for your on going support and expose you to the awesomeness that is Josh Reichmann Oracle Band. Life Is Legal is a little taste of what’s to come from the upcoming full length album due out March ’09.

Josh Reichmann’s first band, Tangiers, brought a Rock/Post-Punk sound that began a trail of critical acclaim with their first release Hot New Spirits (2003) and spread over two more records (Never Bring You Pleasure, 2004 and The Family Myth, 2005). Tangiers caught the attention of Indie Rock fans across Canada and the US, and earned rave reviews from such notable sources as Pitchfork Media.

Josh returns to music with an entirely new line up of collaborators, now gathering from a pool of soul, early-funk, roots and dark punk influences. Josh Reichmann Oracle Band is a five piece band incorporating heavy saxophone, Stevie Wonder-meets-The Stooges keyboards, soul-style drumming, a live dancer, thick roots bass and Josh as the main songwriter and front man. At the root of these sounds is pure songwriting- timeless, heart wrenching and darkly enchanting.

All of these pieces have been filtered through Josh's unique production fingerprint to offer a first recorded glimpse of the band with the Life Is Legal EP. It's a recording that aptly displays the ground that Josh has covered in recent years.

The Life Is Legal EP was recorded in Toronto at Gigantic Studios, engineered by Sean Gugula and produced by Josh Reichmann. Josh Reichmann plays guitar bass and others, and is joined by Joseph Shabason on sax/flute, Steve Singh on keyboards/piano, Niko Kwiatkowski on drums/percussion. His live band is made up of the same players and includes Jon Hynes on Bass and Laura Bolton- a former ballet dancer with The National Ballet.

Josh has most recently been collaborating with Sebastien Grainger in various musical ways that will manifest itself in an upcoming North American tour.

Josh will be playing this Thursday, October 9th at Wrong Bar in Toronto (1279 Queen St, W.) at 10pm for the launch of Hunter & Cook Magazine with Anagram, Corpusse and $100.

**If you’d like to download the Josh Reichmann – Life Is Legal EP go to paperbagrecords.com and sign up for the mailing list (top right of the page). Once you sign up you’ll get a link and a password to download for FREE!**

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