Amor de Días (Spanish for 'love of days') is the name of the—until now—secret new group of Alasdair MacLean of the Clientele and Lupe Núñez-Fernández of Pipas. Street of the Love of Days, their debut album, will be released in the UK on 17 May as a digital download and 13 June on CD.
Finding common ground as painters as well as musicians, and having regularly appeared onstage together (often with Lupe reading the text of The Clientele's 'Losing Haringey') they decided to collaborate on a project of their own.
Wandering in Madrid, Alasdair noticed a street sign for Calle del Amor de Dios, which he mistakenly translated as "Street of the Love of Days". The name struck him as a great title, even after Lupe corrected him (he was actually on the Street of the Love of God).
At times spare and empty, at times rich with instrumental texture, at times jazz-tinged and hypnotic, Street of the Love of Days is of a quality to rival anything either Alasdair or Lupe has recorded before.
The band will be heading out for an extensive US tour with Damon and Naomi in the spring and will play some UK dates when they return in June including these:
Sat 8 June, Union Chapel, opening for Howe Gelb with A Band of Gypsies
http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/events.php?gig=8e298ae4-79f2-483d-af88-6cf5d19ef553
Sun 12 June @ The Lexington, London (afternoon album launch, free)
Fri 17 June @ Scandinavian Church, Liverpool
Sat 30 July, Indietracks, (near Derby)
http://www.indietracks.co.uk
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Press photos/bios/media etc:
http://www.amordedias.com/press
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