SCOTT FAGAN – SOUTH ATLANTIC BLUES RELEASED: 21 NOV 2015 LABEL: SAINT CECILIA KNOWS / LIL’FISH RECORDS FORMATS: CD, VINYL, DIGITAL

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“ A taste of Scott Walker, a flicker of Bowie, Lou Reed and Tim Hardin, but a sound that

is purely and utterly Fagan.” — The Guardian EU / UK BOOKINGS Eleanor McGuinness, Pitch & Smith “An eccentric, genre jumping pop/psych/folk masterpiece.” — Dangerous Minds

“Sott Fagan’s time has come at last” — The Quietus EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTORS & PUBLICITY

UK Reissued late last year to great acclaim, Scott Fagan’s 1968 debut album South Distributor: Cargo Records UK Atlantic Blues reintroduced the world to one of the great lost folk singers of the 1960s, Publicity: Nathan Beazer, Dogday Press and an extraordinary story to rival that of Rodriguez. Fagan, the father of Magnetic FRANCE Fields’ Stephin Merritt, was mentored by legendary songwriter Doc Pomus, almost Distributor: Differ-ant signed to the Beatles’ Apple Records and played on the same bill at the Cafe Au Go Go Publicity: Pascaline Pizzighini and Marion Seury, Differ-ant as a pre-fame Jimi Hendrix. GERMANY An epic song cycle about Fagan’s hard-scrabble life in the Virgin Islands, wrapped Distributor: Cargo Records Germany Publicity: Ralph Buchbender, Cargo Records around an impassioned love story, South Atlantic Blues is driven by Fagan’s dense, Germany allusive lyrics and experimental production that infuses his folk song stylings with R&B, jazz and Caribbean island rhythms. Front and centre on the record though is SCANDINAVIA Distributor: Border Music Fagan’s remarkable voice, rich with emotion and longing, which has been described Publicity, Liza Berthelsen, Border Music as “somewhere between Scott Walker, Tim Hardin, early Bowie and Donovan”. The album’s iconic cover photo, a portrait of a twenty-year-old Fagan, was shot by BENELUX Distributor: V2 Benelux legendary photographer, Joel Brodsky, who took the famous ‘Young Lion’ photos of Publicity: Judith Goukenleuque, V2 Benelux Jim Morrison and also shot the cover of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks — released the ITALY same month as South Atlantic Blues. Distributor: Goodfellas Distributor: Roberto @ Goodfellas That Scott Fagan never became a major star is mystifying. That even cult success eluded SPAIN him is all the more surprising. His is a story of extraordinary talent and monumental Distributor: Popstock/Everlasting Records potential confounded by a series of frustrating near-misses, all of which conspired to Publicity: Gonzalo Schiaffino, Popstock/ obscure him from the public eye for decades. Everlasting Records

Now, audiences will get to see what all the fuss is about as Fagan prepares to embark 3 TRACK ALBUM SAMPLER (SOUNDCLOUD) on his very first tour of Europe. http://tinyurl.com/zoow2x9