Artist: SIMO
Album: RISE & SHINE (DIGI)

Release date: 2017
EAN/UPS: 819873015123
Media type: CD

After showing the band’s rock & roll influences on their previous album, Let Love Show The Way (Billboard Top 10 Blues album), the band now introduces an elastic, expanded sound, which blurs the lines between genres and generations throughout the 11 tracks on their new album “Rise & Shine”. Singer and guitarist JD Simo, drummer Adam Abrashoff and bassist Elad Shapiro, make room for slow-smoked ballads (“I want Love”), psychedelic desert-rock instrumentals (“The Climb”), hard-edged, bluesy barn burners (“Light The Candle”) and Stax-worthy funk rockers (“Meditation”), glued together by the charisma and chemistry of three musicians who spent more than 300 days together last year, touring 9 different countries.

Impassioned vocals that call to mind Prince or Al Green and rhythm tracks inspired by the fatback swagger of Isaac Hayes and funky spirit of D’Angelo. The raw, naked song writing lifts the veil for the listener to see all the frailty and ugly parts as well as the beautiful. Rise & Shine makes room for it all, with SIMO looking to recreate old sounds, but invent new ones.

TRACKLIST CD:

01.    Return
02.    Meditation
03.    Shine
04.    People Say
05.    Don’t Waste Time
06.    I Want Love
07.    The Climb
08.    Light The Candle
09.    Be With You
10.    The Light
11.    I Pray