New Shadows by Jerry David DeCicca
Jerry David DeCicca’s 5th solo album, New Shadows, is a literary-goth, avant-Americana meditation, surreal and ruminative, featuring David Hidalgo and Steve Berlin (from Los Lobos), guitarist Jeff Parker, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro (from Irreversible Entanglements), singer Rosali Middleman (Rosali), and composer/sound archivist, Brian Harnetty.
New Shadows peeks into corners where interior and exterior worlds collide, where miniscule revelations can be found in the darkness of ourselves and our community: lost children, unheard prayers, bugs, money, depression, romantic relationships, regret, and Zoom funerals, all become a lens for self-reflection.
The production (by Don Cento and JDD) is modeled after DeCicca’s favorite early 80’s albums (Lindsey Buckingham’s Law & Order, ZZ Top’s Afterburner, Robert Palmer’s Clues, Lou Reed’s New Sensations,) while the songs’ architectures and pathos lean more towards Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, and John Prine - all these record-makers and songwriters are embedded in DeCicca’s DNA, having seen them, and in some cases met them after gigs, when his brain was still developing between the ages of 13-19 years old.
The virtual collaborators are the musicians whose kept him company while isolated in his rural town, Bulverde, TX: Brian Harnetty’s Many Hands, Rosali’s No Medium, Irreversible Entanglements’ Who Sent You?, James Brandon Lewis’s Jessup Wagon, Jeff Parker’s JP’s Myspace Beats and Suite for Max Brown, and the Los Lobos discography.
New Shadows isn’t so much about DeCicca’s new discoveries, as it is the penumbrous reminder of what’s always been there.
Tracklist
| 1. | New Shadows | 3:47 |
| 2. | Manzanita Bay | 3:06 |
| 3. | Lost Days | 4:23 |
| 4. | Angelina | 5:49 |
| 5. | These Blues | 3:55 |
| 6. | When You Needed My Help | 3:53 |
| 7. | 97 Nights | 3:20 |
| 8. | Walking Stick | 4:00 |
| 9. | Sing | 4:37 |
| 10. | Ivory Tower | 2:50 |
Videos
Credits
Produced by Don Cento and JDD
Performed by:
JDD: vocals, electric guitar on “Lost Days”
Don Cento: drum programming, synthesizers, electric guitars, horn arrangements on “When You Needed My Help” and “These Blues”
David Hidalgo: electric guitar on “Manzanita Bay” and “Sing,” acoustic synth-guitar on “Angelina”
Steve Berlin: baritone saxophone on “New Shadows” and “97 Nights”
Jeff Parker: electric guitar on “New Shadows” and “Ivory Tower”
James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone on “Lost Days”
Aquiles Navarro: trumpet
Brian Harnetty: piano
Glenn Fukunaga: double bass and electric bass
Rosali Middleman: backing vocals
Sean Harvey: percussion, marimba
CenTone Horn Section: Art Hays- clarinet, Brian Donohoe - tenor sax, Michael St. Clair – Trombone, Sam Howden - Trumpet
Penny Johnston: Distressed Infant on “Sing,” appears courtesy of her parents
Helicopter sounds courtesy of the Bulverde Airpark 1-T8 on “Angelina”
Mixed by Don Cento and Stuart Sikes
Recorded by Don Cento, with Joe Trevino, Jon Chinn, Mike Troolines, Trevor Reece and, in some cases, the musicians themselves
Additional JDD vocal mixing (and hairstyling) by Eve Searls
Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound, Nashville
Lacquers cut by Ryan Smith, plating by RTI, pressed at The Vinyl Lab
All songs written by Jerry David DeCicca (c. Understanding Land Music/ ASCAP) in Bulverde, TX
Artwork and layout by Greg Bonnell
JDD photography by Oscar Moreno
License
All rights reserved.
JDD is a singer/songwriter living in the Texas Hill Country.
He is also the producer of outsider songwriter albums by Ed Askew (Tin Angel), Larry Jon Wilson (w/ Jeb Loy Nichols), Chris Gantry (Drag City), Will Beeley (Tompkins Square), and an unreleased album by Bob Martin (Midwest Farm Disaster).
He makes his living working in social services and lives in the rural town of Bulverde, Texas.