Watch: Sam Amidon Shares "Warren" Video Ahead of "The Following Mountain" Tour

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Sam Amidon has again teamed with director John Hardwick for a new video for "Warren," a song from his new album, The Following Mountain. Watch it here. Amidon launches an extensive tour in Seattle on Saturday, followed by shows in Portland (OR), San Francisco, LA, Boulder, Chicago, DC, NYC, Portland (ME), and more. The European tour begins in October.

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Singer, musician, and composer Sam Amidon embarks on a US tour in support of his latest Nonesuch Records release, The Following Mountain, starting at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle on Saturday. Amidon, who presently resides in London, is returning to the States for his first extensive tour since 2014 and will perform concerts in Portland (Oregon), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boulder, Chicago, Washington, DC, New York City, Portland (Maine), and more. He will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Chris Vatalaro and performing as a trio with a variety of accompanying musicians throughout. See below for a complete list of tour dates, including the European tour to follow, or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Ahead of the tour, Amidon has again teamed with acclaimed video director John Hardwick (Noel Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys, Blur) for a new video for the song "Warren" from The Following Mountain. In it, a singing and occasionally dancing Amidon wanders his way through a wooded sunlit path—a setting that fans of Amidon’s and Hardwick’s previous collaboration, the 2013 video for "As I Roved Out," will find familiar. You can watch the video here:

The Following Mountain represents a new approach for Amidon, who shifts here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs and presents nine wholly-original compositions, with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources. Created with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Regina Spektor) and Amidon’s frequent collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, the album features guest appearances by drummer Milford Graves, percussionist Juma Sultan, and saxophonist Sam Gendel.

"Amidon and producer Leo Abrahams reverse engineered songs from individual moments of the master jam, and drew out a unifying, gently driving rhythm across the album," says Pitchfork. "The resultant music rolls and shimmers, with hard little fillips of guitar glinting in waves of woodwinds and violins, organs and electric basses."

To pick up a copy of The Following Mountain, head to iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout, and listen to the album on Apple Music and Spotify.

SAM AMIDON ON TOUR

Sep 23 Fremont Abbey Arts Center Seattle, WA
Sep 24 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
Sep 26 Cafe Du Nord San Francisco, CA
Sep 27 Bootleg Theater Los Angeles, CA
Sep 29 Daniels Hall Denver, CO
Oct 1 eTown Hall Boulder, CO
Oct 3 Colectivo Coffee Milwaukee, WI
Oct 4 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
Oct 6 The Drake Toronto, ON
Oct 7 Yellow Couch House Show Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 8 Songbyrd Washington, DC
Oct 9 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
Oct 10 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
Oct 11 The Half Moon Hudson, NY
Oct 12 The Parlor Room Northampton, MA
Oct 13 One Longfellow Square Portland, ME
Oct 14 Winooski United Methodist Church Winooski, VT
     
Oct 19 Scalateatern Källare Stockholm, SWEDEN
Oct 20 Café Mono Oslo, NORWAY
Oct 22 Folk å Rock Malmö, SWEDEN
Oct 23 Atlas Aarhus, DENMARK
Oct 24 Lille Vega Copenhagen, DENMARK
Oct 26 Union Chapel London, UK
Oct 28 Forum Freies Theater Dusseldorf, GERMANY
Oct 29 Nochtspeicher Hamburg, GERMANY
Oct 30 Privatclub Berlin, GERMANY
Nov 1 Espace B Paris, FRANCE
Nov 2 Chäslage Stans, SWITZERLAND
Nov 3 Theater am Ring - Studio  Saarlouis, GERMANY
Nov 4 Ancienne Belgique Brussels, BELGIUM
Nov 5 Bitterzoet Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Nov 7 Whelan's Dublin, IRELAND
Nov 8 Cyprus Avenue Cork, IRELAND
     
Nov 26 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Fesitval Huddersfield, UK
Dec 12 St. Mary's Church Guildford, UK
     
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Sam Amidon: "Warren" [video]
  • Thursday, September 21, 2017
    Watch: Sam Amidon Shares "Warren" Video Ahead of "The Following Mountain" Tour

    Singer, musician, and composer Sam Amidon embarks on a US tour in support of his latest Nonesuch Records release, The Following Mountain, starting at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle on Saturday. Amidon, who presently resides in London, is returning to the States for his first extensive tour since 2014 and will perform concerts in Portland (Oregon), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boulder, Chicago, Washington, DC, New York City, Portland (Maine), and more. He will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Chris Vatalaro and performing as a trio with a variety of accompanying musicians throughout. See below for a complete list of tour dates, including the European tour to follow, or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

    Ahead of the tour, Amidon has again teamed with acclaimed video director John Hardwick (Noel Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys, Blur) for a new video for the song "Warren" from The Following Mountain. In it, a singing and occasionally dancing Amidon wanders his way through a wooded sunlit path—a setting that fans of Amidon’s and Hardwick’s previous collaboration, the 2013 video for "As I Roved Out," will find familiar. You can watch the video here:

    The Following Mountain represents a new approach for Amidon, who shifts here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs and presents nine wholly-original compositions, with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources. Created with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Regina Spektor) and Amidon’s frequent collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, the album features guest appearances by drummer Milford Graves, percussionist Juma Sultan, and saxophonist Sam Gendel.

    "Amidon and producer Leo Abrahams reverse engineered songs from individual moments of the master jam, and drew out a unifying, gently driving rhythm across the album," says Pitchfork. "The resultant music rolls and shimmers, with hard little fillips of guitar glinting in waves of woodwinds and violins, organs and electric basses."

    To pick up a copy of The Following Mountain, head to iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout, and listen to the album on Apple Music and Spotify.

    SAM AMIDON ON TOUR

    Sep 23 Fremont Abbey Arts Center Seattle, WA
    Sep 24 Mississippi Studios Portland, OR
    Sep 26 Cafe Du Nord San Francisco, CA
    Sep 27 Bootleg Theater Los Angeles, CA
    Sep 29 Daniels Hall Denver, CO
    Oct 1 eTown Hall Boulder, CO
    Oct 3 Colectivo Coffee Milwaukee, WI
    Oct 4 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
    Oct 6 The Drake Toronto, ON
    Oct 7 Yellow Couch House Show Pittsburgh, PA
    Oct 8 Songbyrd Washington, DC
    Oct 9 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
    Oct 10 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
    Oct 11 The Half Moon Hudson, NY
    Oct 12 The Parlor Room Northampton, MA
    Oct 13 One Longfellow Square Portland, ME
    Oct 14 Winooski United Methodist Church Winooski, VT
         
    Oct 19 Scalateatern Källare Stockholm, SWEDEN
    Oct 20 Café Mono Oslo, NORWAY
    Oct 22 Folk å Rock Malmö, SWEDEN
    Oct 23 Atlas Aarhus, DENMARK
    Oct 24 Lille Vega Copenhagen, DENMARK
    Oct 26 Union Chapel London, UK
    Oct 28 Forum Freies Theater Dusseldorf, GERMANY
    Oct 29 Nochtspeicher Hamburg, GERMANY
    Oct 30 Privatclub Berlin, GERMANY
    Nov 1 Espace B Paris, FRANCE
    Nov 2 Chäslage Stans, SWITZERLAND
    Nov 3 Theater am Ring - Studio  Saarlouis, GERMANY
    Nov 4 Ancienne Belgique Brussels, BELGIUM
    Nov 5 Bitterzoet Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
    Nov 7 Whelan's Dublin, IRELAND
    Nov 8 Cyprus Avenue Cork, IRELAND
         
    Nov 26 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Fesitval Huddersfield, UK
    Dec 12 St. Mary's Church Guildford, UK
         
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