Title - See You in Marfa [EP]
Artist - Salim Nourallah
For those unaware, Salim Nourallah’s new See You in Marfa EP is a collaborative effort with English guitarist/songwriter/producer, Marty Willson-Piper.
Marty spent over 30 years in the Australian band, the Church. During the Fall of 2018 Salim assembled his long-time band of John Dufilho (Deathray Davies/Apples in Stereo), Joe Reyes (Buttercup), Richard Martin (Shibboleth) and Jason Garner (Polyphonic Spree) for the first time since 2011’s Hit Parade.
Along with Marty, co-producing and playing guitar, the group of six musicians cut an album and a half’s worth of songs in a Nashville studio called Welcome to 1979.
Plans to release a full length album of the material fell through when the Covid pandemic struck in March of 2020 and forced Marty to cancel plans to come to the United States and tour with Salim. Salim ended up indefinitely shelving the album, A Nuclear Winter.
The five song See You in Marfa EP includes bonus material from the Nashville sessions as well as Hold on to the Night, a song Salim and Marty wrote together.
1. See You in Marfa (2:44)
2. Not Back to Sad (3:00)
3. Hold on to the Night (3:31)
4. Love’s a Promise (3:35)
5. Hate the Waiting (3:14)
The EP opens on the gently jangly, Tom Petty-esque titular See You in Marfa and backs it up with the buoyantly upbeat Not Back To Sad, the juttered pop-rock of Hold on to the Night, rounding out on the gentle rocking balladry of Love’s a Promise, closing on the hauntingly acoustic Hate the Waiting.
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