For Immediate Release

THE SILOS' WALTER SALAS-HUMARA READIES THIRD SOLO ALBUM CURVE AND SHAKE FOR RELEASE AUGUST 12th

First Solo Album Since 1995’s Radar

FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Singer/songwriter and visual artist Walter Salas-Humara was conceived in Havana, born in New York City and raised in Southern Florida.  His rock band The Silos was voted Best New American Band in the Rolling Stone Critics’ Poll of 1987, and according to The New York Times, “His austere style inflects the astringent twang of The Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons.”  

Over the last 25 years, The Silos have recorded 12 albums, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and put in thousands of days on the road.  Salas-Humara has also recorded two previous solo albums  -- 1988’s Lagartija and 1995’s Radar -- and on August 12, 2014, he will release his third, entitled Curve and Shake, distributed by The Orchard.

For the album, Salas-Humara enlists Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons (backing band on “What We Can Bring” and “The Craziest Feeling”), up-and-coming Ontario, California band Groove Session (backing band on “Satellite” and “Uncomplicated”) and musicians/vocalists Charlie Salas-Humara, Marius Libman of the Portland art-rock band Sun Angle, Ryan Williams, Sarven Manguiat, Wally Ingram, Jason Victor, Aaron English and Amy Daggett.

As Rolling Stone contributing editor and long-time fan Anthony DeCurtis states in his liner notes: “That sense of being untethered from certainties, of floating, permeates Curve and Shake. The feeling is gentle, not quite scary, but with an element of unease.  Letting go of expectations combines aspects of sadness, freedom and even wonder.  How and why did things go so wrong?  But if the world is so fluid, perhaps they can go right again.  ‘Does it have to be so hard?... So many things can go wrong if you try and understand them,’ Walter sings in ‘Uncomplicated.’  The implication is that letting go and giving yourself over to life’s inevitable twists and turns, its curves and shakes, rather than trying to control them, is a likelier path to happiness.”

An accomplished painter who splits his time between Flagstaff, Arizona and NYC, and whose work is featured in the Universal Pictures release Get Him to the Greek starring Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, Salas-Humara painted and designed the cover art for Curve and Shake.  For more about his paintings, visit: [ Ссылка ]

Walter Salas-Humara will tour in support of Curve and Shake this fall. Tour dates TBA. For updates, visit: [ Ссылка ]

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