Seattle’s Rocky Votolato has been relentlessly on tour over the last two decades, as a compelling singer-songwriter or with his former cult-punk band Waxwing. Ten years afterMakers and its evergreen White Daisy Passing, Rocky Votolato returns on tour throughout Europe presenting the new EP Sawdust and Shavings.

A follow up to his latest, eighth album Hospital Handshakes, produced by Chris Walla (ex-Death Cab for Cutie) and released on Glitterhouse Records in 2015, the new effort showcases stripped-down, intimate versions of songs from his last full-length, including its title track featuring Emily Kokal of Warpaint along with Shortcuts and several other previously unreleased tracks.

The new video for the dark and hauntingly beautiful Sawdust and Shavings has been made by the filmmaker and Wim Wenders’ director-assistant Luca Lucchesi.

‘With each aching and comforting record, he’s fused folk and country aesthetics with a carried-over hardcore ethos from his youth in post-punk bands like Waxwing’ – Consequence of Sound

‘Hospital Handshakes is a milestone in Votolato’s career and one that would do well to serve as a springboard for all his efforts going forward’ – PopMatters

Tour support comes from Chantal Acda.

Chantal Acda has been a well-kept secret, hiding out in various formations like Isbells, Sleepingdog and Distance, Light & Sky. It wasn’t until the 2013 release of her first album Let Your Hands Be My Guide and backed by musical soulmates Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick and Shahzad Ismaily, that she fully blossomed in her own right – ‘vulnerable and soft as fresh snow’, as Mojo put it.

Armed with an even better sophomore album The Sparkle In Our Flaws, released on Glitterhouse Records just last September, Chantal Acda has set out for European touring throughout 2016 with a brand new live band. Expect to get stirred, hypnotised and deeply moved.

‘An album of warm textures and mystic atmospheres’ – 4*, Mojo