Michael Feuerstack Release of New Album "Natural Weather" and European Spring Tour imminent

We're happy to announce the European release of Michael Feuerstack's latest release, Natural Weather, for March 29 via Forward Music Group!

To reveal Natural Weather, what Exclaim! calls "a collection of Zen ballads that feels breezy, natural and duly wise for his age" to the European audience, Michael Feuerstack will be on tour in April and May. This collection balances Feuerstack’s signature dark humour and empathic inquisitiveness as the songs relax into deep ambiguity around heavy themes: love, death, memory, age, mental illness, intimacy, and ambition.

Please spread the following tourdates:

• April 5 - Brussels, BE: La Maison des Musiques (dear.deer.records showcase)
• April 16 - Torun, PL: Dwór Artusa
• April 25 - Namur, DE: Brasserie Houppe *
• April 26 - Kassel, DE: Sandershaus *
• April 27 - Freiburg, DE: Bar am Funkeneck *
• April 28 - Chemnitz, DE: Boden der Tatsachen *
• April 29 - München, DE: Heppel & Ettlich *
• April 30 Wiesbaden, DE: Wakker *
• May 1 - Bamberg DE: Pizzini *
• May 2 - Köln DE: Weltempfänger *
• May 3 - Arnhem NL: Willemeen *

* w/ The Fire Harvest

There is a clichéd way to say anything worth saying, so Michael Feuerstack simply looks for the scenic route and tries to enjoy the journey at the same time. On his latest full-length album, Natural Weather, the songwriter wanted to make something gentle and complex: a recording that celebrates music as a refuge from binary thinking - a means to seek wisdom in the grey areas.

Recorded at home, Natural Weather offers a deceptively rich palette. Most of the instrumentation is provided by Feuerstack, with Jeremy Gara on drums and violin cameos by Sarah Neufeld. The background singers also figure prominently: Camille Delean shadows Feuerstack in harmony, while Michelle Tompkins and Mike O’Brien glimmer in response.

This collection balances Feuerstack’s signature dark humour and empathic inquisitiveness as the songs relax into deep ambiguity around heavy themes: love, death, memory, age, mental illness, intimacy, and ambition.

Across almost 25 years, Michael Feuerstack has built an underground canon of crooked and beautiful songs. Aside from his own song-craft under his name and former alias Snailhouse, his reputation is also as an exceptional collaborator, producer and general facilitator of music. Mike has contributed to countless performances and recordings with the likes of The Luyas, Bell Orchestre, Camille Delean, Thus Owls, Paper Beat Scissors, Land of Talk, Julie Doiron, and many many more.

Tracklist

01. Love Is All Around

02. Where Are You Now

03. Jerome & I

04.You Worry Me

05. Heavenly Bells

06. Birds of Prey

07. Don't Make Me Say It

08. Outskirts

09. Nobody Knows

10.Before You Wake Up

11.Babies In Love

12. Closer