Skalitzer Straße 85-86, Berlin Kreuzberg
Genre: Singer Songwriter
(english version below)
Tal Wilkenfeld, die Bass-Virtuosin aus Australien, bekannt vor allem als Bassistin von Jeff Beck und für ihre gefeierten Gastauftritte bei weltberühmten Musiklegenden wie Prince, Herbie Hancock oder Mick Jagger, kommt am 29. Oktober für ein Solo-Konzert nach Berlin. Bei ihrem Konzert im Berliner Privatclub wird sie Songs von ihrem ersten eigenen Singersongwriter-Album „Love Remains“ vorstellen. Tickets sind ab sofort an allen bekannten VVK-Stellen und unter www.eventim.de erhältlich.
Das Album „Love Remains“ (BMG) zeigt eine neue Seite von Tal Wilkenfeld, die bisher nur als Bassistin in Erscheinung getreten war, nämlich die der ebenso talentierten Songwriterin und Sängerin. Das Album wurde von Tal Wilkenfeld zusammen mit Paul Stacey (Oasis, The Black Crowes) produziert und featured Gitarrist Blake Mills, Keyboarder Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) & Zac Rae (Death Cab For Cutie) sowie Schlagzeuger Jeremy Stacey.
Nach ihrem Umzug aus ihrer Heimat Sydney in die USA machte die damals 16-jährige Tal sich mit ihrer ungewöhnlichen Kombination aus melodischem Feingefühl und technischem Können einen Namen zunächst als Gitarristin und später vor allem als Bassistin. Nach Erscheinen ihres Instrumental-Albums „Transformation“ 2008 wurde Tal Wilkenfeld von den Lesern des renommierten Bass Players Magazine zum „The Year’s Most Exciting New Player“ gewählt und im Jahr 2013 zusätzlich von Bass/Producer-Legende Don Was mit dem „Young Guns Award“ ausgezeichnet. Seit sie das erste Mal eine Gitarre in die Hand genommen hat, hat Tal selber Songs geschrieben und dazu gesungen. Mit den ersten Erfolgen als Bassistin rückte das Songwriting in den Hintergrund, doch in den letzten Jahren fühlte sich die Multi-Instrumentalistin wieder dazu berufen, Songs zu schreiben und so entstand das Album „Love Remains“.
Nach zahlreichen Club-Gigs in den USA und einer Support-Tour für „The Who“, ist Tal Wilkenfeld jetzt auch endlich in Deutschland live zu erleben, am 13.11. in Hamburg mit Band und aufgrund der großen Nachfrage am 29.10. in Berlin solo.
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Love Remains, Tal Wilkenfeld’s debut solo album for BMG, is a testament to the celebrated bassist’s unconventional journey. While a dedicated fan base may already know Tal for her work with Jeff Beck, Prince, The Allman Bros., Herbie Hancock and Mick Jagger, Love Remains reveals a new side of Tal as a songwriter and singer with skills on par with her legend-in-the making musicianship. This new album’s 10 song collection displays the Australian-born, LA-based musician as a talented vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.
The album was co-produced by Tal and Paul Stacey (Oasis, The Black Crowes) and features guitarist Blake Mills, keyboardists Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) & Zac Rae (Death Cab For Cutie) and drummer Jeremy Stacey. Tal’s range of talents is on full display, and she achieves a stunning balance between instrumental prowess and exquisite songcraft. Jackson Browne, who offered creative guidance throughout the process of making the album, was executive producer.
With few models of an instrumentalist turned singer-songwriter, Tal has broken extraordinary new ground. As Jackson Browne acknowledged, “I can’t think of another instrumentalist that has ventured into the area that Tal now has, when it comes to writing and singing songs from her own experience.”
“I began singing and writing songs with words when I first picked up a guitar at 14,” said Tal. “When I arrived in the States a couple of years later, I quickly became fixated on guitar and then the bass and I stepped away from lyric writing. My bass became both my weapon and my shield, but that ran its course. That’s when I began writing song with lyrics again and creating this album.”
After relocating stateside from her native Sydney, Australia at just 16-years-old, Tal made believers of rock royalty and fans with her uncommon combination of melodic sensibilities and technical prowess. Following the release of her instrumental debut, Transformation, Bass Player magazine’s readers’ choice poll in 2008 named her “The Year’s Most Exciting New Player,” and iconic bassist and producer Don Was presented her the publication’s 2013 “Young Gun Award.”
Determined to transition into the singer-songwriter role, Tal began writing what would become ‚Love Remains.‘ She also lined up club gigs with her own band, debuting as lead vocalist on her own songs. Later, in her first week opening for The Who, Tal introduced the record by way of the first single “Corner Painter,” a powerful mix of intertwined baritone guitars and impassioned vocals matched by undeniable rock energy, which was also featured on Judd Apatow’s Netflix series, Love.
“Haunted Love” showcases a soul-bearing vocal performance in which Tal accompanies herself via beguiling, arpeggiated chords on a capoed 5-string bass with an orchestra to heighten the reflective lyrics: “No, you didn’t know about the ghosts left inside of me. Feeling so alone in the midst of this uncertainty.” As Pete Townshend remarks, “Haunted Love is truly a great song, touching, moving, and employs her two skills- her voice and bass. It’s stupidly great. She’s created a masterpiece.”
Love Remains suggests, as Tal has said, “the abiding presence of love…or the remnants should it fail.” She’s written a confronting album that alludes to a complex and tragic romance. “The way to diminish darkness is by shining a light on it. That’s what’s so beautiful and rewarding about music.”