Announces New Single All My Love & Accompanying National Launch Dates
All My Love is the first track to be lifted from Dallas Frasca's forthcoming 2nd album "Sound Painter". Recorded in New York with Australian producer Andy Baldwin (Bjork, Chrissie Amphlett, Living End, Kram, Cat Empire) at Rola Pola Studio's in Brooklyn – check it: DALLAS FRASCA IN NEW YORK - Episode One - YouTUBE.
Recording next to the Willliamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn in a warehouse shared by the Jewish community, the band did the entire album with no click tracks for that true honest rock sound and the intent of being able to show they can perform it live. After 4 months of writing and rehearsals in Melbourne, Dallas, Jeff Curran (guitar) and Pete McDonald (drums) hit The Big Apple and tracking wise, smashed down eleven songs in 3 days. All guitars and drums and most vocals on the album were live takes with next to no over dubs and most songs were captured in their first or second takes. The entire record features no bass; just Dallas and Jeff dueling gargantuan slabs of riffs on 2 Les Paul's through 1960's Fender and Silvertone amps. The sixties permeates throughout in fact, all drums were 1960's Slingerland and Ludwigs and the vocals were also all done though 1960's mics.

In Frasca's own words: "Recording in New York, we had to ride our pushies 7 km's through Manhattan and across the Willamsburg Bridge every day, from our accom to the studio, and then back again at night. New York was spread out in front of us. That change of scene, from writing in Footscray, Melbourne in the middle of winter to then living in Soho, Manhattan in summer - was inspiring. It gave me, Jeff and Pete a chance to be anything we wanted to. You can hear the confidence on the record.
All My Love was the first song that we wrote together, when it happened it was like a lightning bolt that inspired us and gave us the strength to push through as we wrote the rest of the album. Every song on the album has its own individual personality and sound and hence "Sound Painter" as a whole is like a giant painting with all colours of the rainbow being used. It tells so many stories and yet it is obvious that the strokes across each one were from the same brush….."

When it came to selecting the first single to be released from the album, the band threw it too public opinion, literally. As Frasca explains:

"We held a listening party in Melbourne and played the entire album to 'fans and industry only' (around 250 people) which was received by roaring cheers and clapping after every song and a standing ovation at the end of the evening. Our producer even surprised us and flew out from NYC for the event! Afterwards we asked our captive audience to pick out the first single."

And there you have it. Catch Dallas and co launching All My Love nationally at one of the following:

National All My Love Tour Dates
Sat Feb 11 - Jive - Adelaide, SA
8pm tix - laingtix.oztix.com.au/
w/ Poetikool Justice

Dallas Frasca

By the age 18 Dallas Frasca was on the road, channeling all the sass and irreverence of Chrissie Amphlett and Suze Demarchi. Armed with power and torque reminiscent of Aretha Franklin and Betty Davis her stand out voice didn't take long to get noticed. After developing nodules and being forced not to sing for 18 months she turned her gaze to the guitar, and her evolution was complete.

In 2006, she won triple j's "Light Your Fuse" competition from over 500 entries. Her career exploded from there. Dallas won the 2010 'Artist Of The Year' at the Musicoz Awards and her album was voted in the 'top ten' best roots releases on JJJ in 2009. She has also stormed the stages at countless major festivals (Big Day Out, Falls, Bluesfest, Pyramid Rock, Festival of the Sun, Queenscliff, Southbound, and major French festival – Blues Passion Cognac). The bands tribal and stomping roots performances have earned them a large, loyal fan base.

In 2008 Dallas sang for Aussie Alt-Rock royalty Midnight Oil in Sydney, in support of Amnesty International. In early 2009 Dallas was invited to perform as one of seven artists from seven continents of the planet for International Earth Day in Montreal. It not only allowed her the thrill of holding a dialogue with fellow-artists about social and environmental issues, but she caught the ear of Canadian promoters who have invited her to come
back and tour there.

Dallas Frasca is a hard working independent juggernaut who, with her band and this yet to be released album, is carving her own path, both here in Australia and internationally. From the new album, "Sound Painter" - expect huge slabs of guitar riffage, rock slamming drums and heavy, soulful vocals strewn across an album of heartbreak and comebacks.