Dallas Frasca All My Love

Dallas Frasca All My Love

All My Love - the first track to be lifted from Dallas Frasca's forthcoming 2nd album -Sound Painter', has just been announced as a finalist (top 15) for the AAA (Adult Album Alternative) category in the prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC). With finalists chosen from over 16,000 entrants in one of the most competitive years to date musically for ISC, needless to say it's a seminal honor for any artist.

As a further testament to Frasca's songcraft a second track from the upcoming album One Man Woman also made it as a semi-finalist in the same AAA category. With this year's judges including heavyweights like Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Ozzie Osbourne, Jeff Beck, Basement Jaxx and Massive Attack, the competition is truly a showcase of some of the finest artists of the day. If elected Frasca stands the chance to rub shoulders with previous Australian winners such as Kasey Chambers, Megan Washington and Kate-Miller Heidke.

-Sound Painter' was 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 out at: www.youtube.com

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 four 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 seven 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 two 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 through 1960's mics.

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

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.

'Sound Painter" is out April 1st 2012 through MGM

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