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NEW MUSIC ALERT:: Evan Uhlmann announces first new album in 9 years, “Tea Lady”

by Marina Yelensky…

     “Singer-songwriter Evan Uhlmann explores metaphysical realms and the growing pains of getting older on “Tea Lady”. Blending deadpan vocals of the likes of Lou Reed and Kurt Vile with the exploratory production of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. 

     Recorded with his brother, Gregory Uhlmann and co-producer Tim Carr, Tea Lady was made in studios, homes, and garages over the course of 3 years. It’s an album of searching and seeking. Looking around for answers and realizing that they can only be found inside oneself. This searching led Uhlmann to move from Chicago to New York to Los Angeles and back to Chicago to realize the beauty of his home city. The songs are more questions than answers. Meditations on past lives, other realms of existence, and coming of age. 

     Despite the deeply personal nature of the songs on Tea Lady, the album was a truly collaborative process. Not only with producers, Gregory Uhlmann and Tim Carr, but also with the talents of Matt Carroll (Ohmme), Dan Pierson (VV Lightbody) and Myra Hinrichs (Whitney). Bringing in some of Chicago’s finest musicians and their unique identities as improvisers and arrangers on their instruments.

     “The writing and recording of Tea Lady was a very organic process,” producer Gregory Uhlmann explains. “It was special to work with my brother collaboratively again. It’s something we did naturally as kids and it felt like we were tapping into some of that spirit of childlike discovery once again with this album. Sometimes we would all be in the same room working out an arrangement together and other times Evan would send us a simple voice memo and Tim and I would try to imagine a new sonic world for it.” The songs on Tea Lady were written at various stages of Uhlmann’s life. From “Bless You Babe”, a love song written in Uhlmann’s high school years to “Tea Lady”, a vignette about rebirth. On “Prime” Uhlmann reflects on how it felt to be a wide-eyed kid coming of age and “Hallelujah” tells the story of a devoutly religious person relapsing on drugs.

     Growing up in Chicago, Uhlmann would learn every Beatles song he could. An early love that he still sites as a big influence on his writing. When he graduated high school he continued his studies as a vocal performance major at Bard College where he formed his first band of his own. They would often go into NYC on the weekends to play shows as well as playing house parties at Bard. After graduating, Uhlmann took a break from live performance and started to focus more on writing. It’s in this period that Uhlmann composed the songs for Tea Lady. He now resides in Chicago and plays around the city with his new band of some of Chicago’s best musicians.”

Evan Uhlmann – Tea Lady
STREET DATE: March 27th 2020
CD/Digital on Dog Legs Records

  TRACKLIST: 

1. Tea Lady
2. Prime
3. Hallelujah Baby
4. Body Escape
5. Dying Again
6. God is Good
7. You’re so Holy
8. Bless you Babe

ALBUM CREDITS:
Produced by Greg Uhlmann and Tim Carr
Written by Evan Uhlmann
Engineered by Tim Carr, Dan Pierson, Greg Uhlmann, Benjamin Balcom
Guitar, Bass, Synth/Keys: Greg Uhlmann
Drums, Synth/Keys: Tim Carr
Drums: Matt Carroll
Piano: Dan Pierson
Vocals: Evan Uhlmann

SINGLES:
“Prime” is a song about lost love and trying to move on while remembering the good qualities of a relationship

“Dying Again” is a song about past lives and experiencing the same moment over again

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Information provided by Jake Cramer, Clandestine Label Services.

Download some of Evan’s music HERE!