MUSIC NEWS - Kinks frontman RAY DAVIES has announced the release of a new album, the imaginative "Kinks Choral Collection" (November 10 release via Decca; re-released in the UK with extra bonus track November 23) and that he will briefly tour the USA to promote the release. The tour will start up on November 12 in San Francisco at the Warfield, while ending on November 24 in Montclair, NJ.
The new album from the legendary singer/songwrite features classic Kinks & Ray Davies tunes arranged and performed by his band (Bill Shanley -guitar , Milton McDonald - guitar ,Toby Baron - drums, Dick Nolan - Bass, Ian Gibbons - Keyboards, Gunnar Frick - Keyboards ) and the Crouch End Festival Chorus (watch clip below of Ray and the choir) and has been out in the UK since the summer. Davies said the idea for the album came to him in 2007 when he worked with alongside choirmaster David Temple and an 80-piece choir for his "Flatlands" piece, a commission from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival."With a song like 'Waterloo Sunset,' I feel as if the people I wrote it for are singing it," Davies said in a statement posted on his website. "I know some of the singers in the choir, though not all, but as a group I imagine them all living in north London, and they are my subject matter as well as the people singing it. There's some sort of symmetry there.
12 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre (w/Vox Society Choir)
14 - Los Angeles, CA - Orpheum Theatre (w/Vox Society Choir)
17 - Boston, MA - Berklee Theatre
19, 20 - New York, NY - Town Hall (w/Dessoff Chamber Choir)
21 - Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre (w/Dessoff Chamber Choir)
23 - Albany, NY - The Egg
24 - Montclair, NJ - Wellmont Theatre
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KINKS CHORAL COLLECTION Track Listing-
1. Days
2. Waterloo Sunset
3. You Really Got Me
4. Victoria
5. See My Friends
6. Celluloid Heroes
7. Shangri-La
8. Working Man's Café
Tracks 9-14 Village Green Medley:
9. Village Green
10. Picture Book
11. Big Sky
12. Do You Remember Walter?
13. Johnny Thunder
14. Village Green Preservation Society
15. All Day and All Of The Night
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