Bittersweet Crimson Luka Bloom

• 1 Can We Stay 04:43
• 2 The Beauty of Everyday Things 04:58
• 3 The Day the Great Oak Fell 04:06
• 4 Bittersweet Crimson 03:21
• 5 Front Door Key 05:32
• 6 Keepsake 03:44
• 7 Love to Mali 03:29
• 8 Who Will Heal the Land 04:40
• 9 My Old Friend the Oak Tree 04:37
• 10 The Hunger 04:43
• 11 Vision for 2020 05:49
• Total Runtime 49:42

Info for Bittersweet Crimson

Bittersweet Crimson is an album by Luka Bloom, released in 2020. Bittersweet Crimson includes a.o. the following tracks: "Can We Stay", "The Day The Great Oak Fell", "My Old Friend The Oak Tree", "The Hunger" and more.

Luka Bloom, the celebrated Irish singer songwriter well known in the U.S. for his time spent living in New York City releasing charismatic and forceful hits such as “The Acoustic Motorbike” and his imaginative cover of LL Cool J’s “I Need Love,” will release an album of all new material entitled Bittersweet Crimson on July 20, 2020. It will be his first since 2017’s Refuge.

“I’ve been quietly beavering away in North West Clare [Ireland] for 2 years,” says Bloom. “I wrote about 20 songs and narrowed it down to the 11 which will emerge on this record. The first line from the album, Finally, summer’s upon us…, is, I hope, the perfect way to begin. I wrote it in the Summer of 2019, while reflecting on the simple beauty of life in Ireland, especially when the summer slowly unfolds. Crowds descend on beaches, and into sports grounds, consuming ice creams. Life moves outdoors. We love it, and it passes too soon. So lets enjoy it all, and celebrate it, hoping it lingers…”

The eleven original songs on Bittersweet Crimson were written by Bloom and were produced by Bloom and Jon O’Connell. The album features Bloom on guitar and vocals, O’Connell on double bass, electric guitar, banjo and synths; Steve Cooney on guitar and bouzouki; Robbie Harris on percussion; Niamh Farrell on vocals and Adam Shapiro on fiddle. It was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin.

Luka Bloom, guitar, vocals
Brian O’Connell, double bass, electric guitar, banjo and synths
Steve Cooney, guitar, bouzouki
Robbie Harris, percussion
Niamh Farrell, vocals
Adam Shapiro, fiddle

Luka Bloom
In 1972 Barry Moore wrote a song called WAVE UP TO THE SHORE. Not his first song, but it had something. He did some gigs, wrote some songs; and in 1987 he boarded a plane for New York, and Luka Bloom was born. Riverside was released in 1990 on REPRISE Records and it was followed by THE ACOUSTIC MOTORBIKE, AND TURF.

During the early 1990s the life of writing, recording and touring took off. The US, Australia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and The UK are frequent destinations for Luka’s songs. As well as his own touring, he has performed at some of the great festivals: Pinkpop (Holland); Roskilde (Denmark), Torhout\Werchter (Belgium), Newport Folk Festival (US) Byron Blues Festival(Australia), Glastonbury and Cambridge, (UK). And most of all, he regularly sings all over the island of Ireland, where he lives in County Clare.

This album contains no booklet.