Damian Lazarus Smokes The Monster Out

Thursday, 19 February 2009

Damian Lazarus Smoke The Monster Out Album

Damian Lazarus Smokes Monsters on his debut album

Damian Lazarus brings out his debut album, Smoke The Monster Out, on Wednesday 6th May on Get Physical Music. And we hear it'll be a bit more than just a collection of dance-floor moments, with collaborators Luke Solomon and Arthur Jeffes helping Damian to incorporate his own vocals into the mix, which has taken two years to put together.

If anyone was ever going to make an unusual dance album, it was going to be Damian. Just checking out his collaborators should tell you that: Luke Solomon is a smart choice, but Arthur Jeffes will be a new name to most clubbers… we admit it, we had to look him up ourselves. He's the son of Simon Jeffes, the man behind the Penguin Café Orchestra, the abstract musical collective who wrote Music For A Found Harmonium, which was featured on the first Café Del Mar album back in 1994. Arthur's a chip off the old block, remastering his father's music and lending his ear to interesting productions like this one.

Damian explains, 'I found myself starting to write lyrics and compiling a soundtrack which would form the basis of the project...I pieced together some of my older influences (Louis Armstrong, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Photek, Björk), connected them with odd sounds and comedy moments and then tried to put this all into a techno/house context.'

Read On to Listen to the first single from Damian Lazarus's debut album.