SECRET CHIEFS 3 touring with Dengue Fever 2012

Jan 24 - Denver CO - Bluebird Theatre
Jan 25 - Santa Fe NM - Santa Fe Brewing Company
Jan 26 - Phoenix AZ - Crescent Ballroom
Jan 27 - Los Angeles CA - El Rey Theatre
Jan 28 - Santa Ana CA - Constellation Room
Jan 29 - San Diego CA - The Casbah
Jan 31 - San Luis Obispo CA - Club SLO Brew
 Feb 1 - Santa Cruz CA - Moe's Alley
 Feb 2 - San Francisco CA - Great American Music Hall
 Feb 3 - San Francisco CA - Slim's
 Feb 4 - Sacramento CA - Harlow's
 Feb 6 - Eugene OR - WOW Hall
 Feb 7 - Portland OR - Dante's
 Feb 8 - Seattle WA - Neumos
 Feb 9 - Bellingham WA - The Wild Buffalo
 Feb 10 - Vancouver BC - Rickshaw Theatre

New Secret Chiefs 3: Traditionalists 7" Vinyl:

La Chanson de Jacky / The Western Exile

In 1965 Jacques Brel wrote and recorded a fiery three verse chanson exploding with the anxiety, bravado and panic faced by someone stretched to a midpoint  across the abyss -- to find oneself suspended between mediocrity and genius, villainy and heroism, doom and eternity, etc. In 1967 the nearly equally inimitable Scott Walker brilliantly re-interpreted Brel's Chanson in English, to equal parts controversy and acclaim in the Anglosphere. In 2012, both versions of the tune have collided in an Anglo-Franco alliance, revealing perhaps an ever-implicit third dimension. It's a stunt simultaneously ill-advised and absolutely necessary for a band like Secret Chiefs 3: Traditionalists to undertake -- and one that could only be pulled off with someone uniquely qualified to take command of the vocals. Who other than the maestro Mike Patton, in this day and age, to do justice (and then some) without insult to such a preposterously Spartan legacy?

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