Dallas and her band have just returned from New York with their second full length album in hand, where they worked with Australian producer Andy Baldwin (Bjork, Chrissie Amphlett, Living End, Kram, Cat Empire) at Rola Pola Studio’s in Brooklyn.
One of the tracks from the upcoming album has been mixed by the legendary producer Tchad Blake (Black Keys, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, The Dandy Warhols, Gomez) in the south of France. It’s shaping up to be a big year for the Australian Underground retro riff rocker, with “Sound Painter” due for release in 2012.
The entire album was recorded live in New York after 4 months of songwriting in Melbourne. Expect slabs of guitar riffage, skin slamming drums and heavy, soulful vocals.
Dallas recalls, “Recording in New York, riding our pushies across the WIllamsburg Bridge every day from Manhattan, that change of scene was inspiring. It gave me, Jeff and Pete a chance to be anything we wanted to. You can hear the confidence on the recording we made.”
By the age 18 Frasca was on the road, chanelling all the sass and irreverence of Chrissie Amphlett and Suze Demarchi. Armed with power and torque reminiscent of Aretha Franklin and Betty Davis her stand out voice didn’t take long to get noticed. After developing nodules and being forced not to sing for 18 months she turned her gaze to the guitar, and her evolution was complete.
In 2006, she won triple j’s “Light Your Fuse” competition from over 500 entries. Her career exploded from there. Dallas won the 2010 ‘Artist Of The Year’ at the Musicoz Awards and her album was voted in the ‘top ten’ best roots releases on JJJ in 2009. She has also stormed the stages at countless major festivals (Big Day Out, Falls, Bluesfest, Pyramid Rock, Festival of the Sun, Queenscliff, Southbound, and major French festival – Blues Passion Cognac). The bands tribal and stomping roots performances have earned them a large, loyal fan base.
In 2008 Dallas sang for Aussie Alt-Rock royalty Midnight Oil in Sydney, in support of Amnesty International.
In early 2009 Dallas was invited to perform as one of seven artists from seven continents of the planet for International Earth Day in Montreal. It not only allowed her the thrill of holding a dialogue with fellow-artists about social and environmental issues, but she caught the ear of Canadian promoters who have invited her to come back and tour there.
One very loud woman stands out musically and vocally from the rest. Independent of major labels, trends and a bullshit industry that all to often is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Dallas Frasca is a hard working independent juggernaut who, with this yet to be released album, is carving the way with her band in Australia and internationally. Watch this space. www.dallasfrasca.com
• Best Blues/Roots song for Thank You For Making Me Who I Am – MUSICOZ AWARDS 2010
• JJJ’s Top Ten Roots Album of 2009
• Adelaide Fringe “Best Live Music Act”, 2009
• Winner of JJJ “Light your Fuse”, 2006
• Twice Nominated for Independent Artist “Roots Song of the Year” award.
FESTIVALS PLAYED JAN 2010:
• Big Day Out
• Woodford Folk Festival
• Pyramid Rock Festival
• Australia Rocks, the Rocks, Sydney
RADIO SUPPORT and SINGLE/ALBUM SUCCESS
• Number 20, AIR Charts, September 2009; and number 9 on monthly Blues AIR chart.
• Airplay on Fox FM, Melbourne
• Airplay on NOVA (South Australia)
• Cover Story: Rip It Up, Adelaide, Oct 2009; X-Press Magazine, Perth, Oct 2009; Tsunami, Queensland, Feb 2010; Sauce, Tasmania, February 2010.
• “Indie Album of the Week” – Brag, Sydney, September 2009.
• “Album of the Week” – Tom Magazine, online, September 2009
• #1 on www.australianinternetradio.com, Oct 2009
• 4ZZZ in Brisbane – “I Like You Better When You’re Straight” – single of the week Sept, 2009
• Extensive community radio station support nationally.
• The Edge Radio, Hobart, Album of the Week, Sept, 2009.
• And in France: # 9 in the top 100 releases in France in the past year, on the Radio Baker Street chart.
FESTIVALS PLAYED IN LAST 3 YEARS:
• Pyramid Rock
• One Movement
• East Coast Blues and Roots
• Falls Festival
• St Kilda Fest
• Apollo Bay
• Southbound
• Festival of the Sun
• Queenscliff
• Point Nepean Festival
• Narooma Blues and Rockabilly Fest
• Down by the Damn
• Australian Blues
• Quicksilver Pro
• A Day on the Green
• Cairns Blues
• Adelaide Blues
Internationally:
• One of 7 artists from 7 continents of the world at International Earth Day in Montreal (April 2009);
• Blues Passions, Cognac, France (July 2009).
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
“Dallas Frasca has been crowned the Queen of Australian roots for good reason. ….. Frasca is a powerhouse of rock and her snarling husky vocals and chunky guitar riffs force anyone still sitting to their feet…. when heard live these down and dirty roots-rock tunes take the listener to another place.” Emma Heard, Time Off, September 2009
“If you like your rock molten, monolithic and propelled by passion and authenticity, it’s time to tune into Dallas Frasca.” Graham Blackley, Beat Magazine, September 2009.
“The modern day Janis Joplin” TRIPLE J
OF DALLAS FRASCA BIG DAY OUT SHOW (JAN 2010), TIME OFF WROTE: “With a clutch of direct songs roots dynamo Dallas Frasca plays a fiery set with gutsy, mean blues vocals and dual slide guitars for a primal performance. Lightening things up Frasca introduces ‘Leave Me Alone’ as a song about a stalker before musically tearing him a new one. After a stomping ‘I Like You Better When You’re Straight’ Dallas doesn’t go easy on her audience and converts any doubters through epic closer ‘Take A Look’.”
“Frasca’s voice seems to be getting more versatile and refined – she has the makings of a superstar.” Martin Jones, Inpress Magazine.
“Ok, so Dallas sounds a lot like Janis (Joplin). But wait, there’s more. This is a voice that’s getting better with age. On this album she exercises an enthralling, determined vocal control and demonstrates real finesse…… No matter what Dallas does in the recording studio, her briar patch is the roots festival circuit. You’ve never seen anything as extraordinary as a guy and a girl with a tambourine and a mandolin lashing out in an explosive electronic overkill to rival Jimi at Woodstock.” Bruce Hardy, Tom Magazine, August 2009
“Dallas’ music has barbs so rich that she turns her roots background into a dangerous new rock all her own. ” Mojo’s, Fremantle
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Dallas and her band have just returned from New York with their second full length album in hand, where they worked with Australian producer Andy Baldwin (Bjork, Chrissie Amphlett, Living End, Kram, Cat Empire) at Rola Pola Studio’s in Brooklyn.
One of the tracks from the upcoming album has been mixed by the legendary producer Tchad Blake (Black Keys, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, Tom Waits, Sheryl Crow, The Dandy Warhols, Gomez) in the south of France. It’s shaping up to be a big year for the Australian Underground retro riff rocker, with “Sound Painter” due for release in 2012.
The entire album was recorded live in New York after 4 months of songwriting in Melbourne. Expect slabs of guitar riffage, skin slamming drums and heavy, soulful vocals.
Dallas recalls, “Recording in New York, riding our pushies across the WIllamsburg Bridge every day from Manhattan, that change of scene was inspiring. It gave me, Jeff and Pete a chance to be anything we wanted to. You can hear the confidence on the recording we made.”
By the age 18 Frasca was on the road, chanelling all the sass and irreverence of Chrissie Amphlett and Suze Demarchi. Armed with power and torque reminiscent of Aretha Franklin and Betty Davis her stand out voice didn’t take long to get noticed. After developing nodules and being forced not to sing for 18 months she turned her gaze to the guitar, and her evolution was complete.
In 2006, she won triple j’s “Light Your Fuse” competition from over 500 entries. Her career exploded from there. Dallas won the 2010 ‘Artist Of The Year’ at the Musicoz Awards and her album was voted in the ‘top ten’ best roots releases on JJJ in 2009. She has also stormed the stages at countless major festivals (Big Day Out, Falls, Bluesfest, Pyramid Rock, Festival of the Sun, Queenscliff, Southbound, and major French festival – Blues Passion Cognac). The bands tribal and stomping roots performances have earned them a large, loyal fan base.
In 2008 Dallas sang for Aussie Alt-Rock royalty Midnight Oil in Sydney, in support of Amnesty International.
In early 2009 Dallas was invited to perform as one of seven artists from seven continents of the planet for International Earth Day in Montreal. It not only allowed her the thrill of holding a dialogue with fellow-artists about social and environmental issues, but she caught the ear of Canadian promoters who have invited her to come back and tour there.
One very loud woman stands out musically and vocally from the rest. Independent of major labels, trends and a bullshit industry that all to often is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Dallas Frasca is a hard working independent juggernaut who, with this yet to be released album, is carving the way with her band in Australia and internationally. Watch this space. www.dallasfrasca.com
HIGHLIGHTS
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AWARDS
• Artist Of The Year – MUSICOZ AWARDS 2010
• Best Blues/Roots song for Thank You For Making Me Who I Am – MUSICOZ AWARDS 2010
• JJJ’s Top Ten Roots Album of 2009
• Adelaide Fringe “Best Live Music Act”, 2009
• Winner of JJJ “Light your Fuse”, 2006
• Twice Nominated for Independent Artist “Roots Song of the Year” award.
FESTIVALS PLAYED JAN 2010:
• Big Day Out
• Woodford Folk Festival
• Pyramid Rock Festival
• Australia Rocks, the Rocks, Sydney
RADIO SUPPORT and SINGLE/ALBUM SUCCESS
• Number 20, AIR Charts, September 2009; and number 9 on monthly Blues AIR chart.
• Airplay on Fox FM, Melbourne
• Airplay on NOVA (South Australia)
• Cover Story: Rip It Up, Adelaide, Oct 2009; X-Press Magazine, Perth, Oct 2009; Tsunami, Queensland, Feb 2010; Sauce, Tasmania, February 2010.
• “Indie Album of the Week” – Brag, Sydney, September 2009.
• “Album of the Week” – Tom Magazine, online, September 2009
• #1 on www.australianinternetradio.com, Oct 2009
• 4ZZZ in Brisbane – “I Like You Better When You’re Straight” – single of the week Sept, 2009
• Extensive community radio station support nationally.
• The Edge Radio, Hobart, Album of the Week, Sept, 2009.
• And in France: # 9 in the top 100 releases in France in the past year, on the Radio Baker Street chart.
FESTIVALS PLAYED IN LAST 3 YEARS:
• Pyramid Rock
• One Movement
• East Coast Blues and Roots
• Falls Festival
• St Kilda Fest
• Apollo Bay
• Southbound
• Festival of the Sun
• Queenscliff
• Point Nepean Festival
• Narooma Blues and Rockabilly Fest
• Down by the Damn
• Australian Blues
• Quicksilver Pro
• A Day on the Green
• Cairns Blues
• Adelaide Blues
Internationally:
• One of 7 artists from 7 continents of the world at International Earth Day in Montreal (April 2009);
• Blues Passions, Cognac, France (July 2009).
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
“Dallas Frasca has been crowned the Queen of Australian roots for good reason. ….. Frasca is a powerhouse of rock and her snarling husky vocals and chunky guitar riffs force anyone still sitting to their feet…. when heard live these down and dirty roots-rock tunes take the listener to another place.” Emma Heard, Time Off, September 2009
“If you like your rock molten, monolithic and propelled by passion and authenticity, it’s time to tune into Dallas Frasca.” Graham Blackley, Beat Magazine, September 2009.
“The modern day Janis Joplin” TRIPLE J
OF DALLAS FRASCA BIG DAY OUT SHOW (JAN 2010), TIME OFF WROTE: “With a clutch of direct songs roots dynamo Dallas Frasca plays a fiery set with gutsy, mean blues vocals and dual slide guitars for a primal performance. Lightening things up Frasca introduces ‘Leave Me Alone’ as a song about a stalker before musically tearing him a new one. After a stomping ‘I Like You Better When You’re Straight’ Dallas doesn’t go easy on her audience and converts any doubters through epic closer ‘Take A Look’.”
“Frasca’s voice seems to be getting more versatile and refined – she has the makings of a superstar.” Martin Jones, Inpress Magazine.
“Ok, so Dallas sounds a lot like Janis (Joplin). But wait, there’s more. This is a voice that’s getting better with age. On this album she exercises an enthralling, determined vocal control and demonstrates real finesse…… No matter what Dallas does in the recording studio, her briar patch is the roots festival circuit. You’ve never seen anything as extraordinary as a guy and a girl with a tambourine and a mandolin lashing out in an explosive electronic overkill to rival Jimi at Woodstock.” Bruce Hardy, Tom Magazine, August 2009
“Dallas’ music has barbs so rich that she turns her roots background into a dangerous new rock all her own. ” Mojo’s, Fremantle