Malcolm Palmer

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About Malcolm Palmer

Malcolm Palmer is a songwriter based in Chicago. He is a storyteller and social critic whose songs range from emotional character-driven ballads to soulful pleas to charged rock songs to funk and hip-hop influenced grooves. His sound is a familiar, gritty, classic sound that evokes sepia tones, vinyl, and smoke. His lyrics are provocative, sharp, and often chilling. His voice is soft as an angel one moment and dirty as the devil’s the next. His style draws from multiple genres, multiple emotional states, and mixes nature with city. THE HEART WAS NOT A STONE (scheduled for release Spring 2007, orange van records) is a quintessential album that is both timely and timeless. It brings the past to the present and the present to the past. It’s a genuine and courageous accomplishment in modern music. The characters, stories, and hooks therein have teeth that cut to the bone and won’t let go. The music, with help from Jamie Alker and Kevin Marks as rhythm section, along with producer Duane Lundy, is a lush, irresistible, intoxicating brew that will make your face scrunch up as your hips begin to grind, and suddenly your feet are moving and your hands are reaching out to touch the music. Then you realize your soul is on fire, and the lyric is cutting through to your stone heart and shining light there. There is a magik to this highly creative, vivid, emotionally connected record and music lovers will rejoice at its arrival. His previous release, BETWEEN THE WOMB AND THE TOMB (orange van records, 2005), was an exploration of folk/hip-hop, if you will, with elements of soul, funk and rock. For Palmer there is an inextricable correlation between folk and hip-hop. He says, “…both are music of the people, for the people… the many neglected, not the few privileged.” This mentality and the record itself have struck a chord with various musical communities and have garnered critical success as well as radio play on over two hundred college stations. Palmer spent much of last year touring from New York to New Orleans to Albuquerque and throughout the Midwest. He and his band are still getting buzz from their performances at SXSW, Mid-West Music Summit, SummerFest, Hyperactive Music Festival, SummerCamp, and Diversafest. You can catch them on tour soon, supporting their new record, THE HEART WAS NOT A STONE. Palmer is a prolific songwriter in his prime and his time has come. His band is a force to be reckoned with. They mean business. Producer Duane Lundy’s contributions to THE HEART WAS NOT A STONE bring textures and colors that help to take Palmer's music and words to new levels of sonic expression. This is music history… the genuine article. Enjoy the ride.

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