{"id":17546,"date":"2022-08-29T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=17546"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:59:35","slug":"sun-king-rising-to-release-second-album-signs-wonders-on-peacocksunrise-records-oct-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/sun-king-rising-to-release-second-album-signs-wonders-on-peacocksunrise-records-oct-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun King Rising to Release Second Album ‘Signs & Wonders’ on PeacockSunrise Records Oct.1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sun King Rising\u2019s second album, Signs & Wonders<\/em>, is to be released on October 1st on CD, vinyl, and top download and streaming sites. Sun King Rising is the professional moniker of singer\/songwriter\/piano player John Blangero who hails from Port Isabel, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He calls his music \u201cthe new wave of southern rock and soul music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PeacockSunrise Records is the Americana\/Rock label spinoff of Nick Katona\u2019s successful Progressive Rock label, Melodic Revolution. As with Sun King Rising\u2019s highly acclaimed debut album, Delta Tales<\/em>, Pittsburgh\u2019s Ace Acker served as producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Save for Queen\u2019s Brian May, Blangero is perhaps incomparable in all the world. Like May\u2014Queen\u2019s guitarist\u2014Blangero is not only a brilliant, entirely original musical artist but also a world-renowned scientist (May is an astrophysicist) specializing in genetics research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blangero\u2019s music draws from his own southern family roots, the literary genius of William Faulkner, the bluesy compositional brilliance of George Gershwin, the blue-eyed soul of Elton John, and the funky rhythms and horns of 60s-70s Muscle Shoals. Soaring electric guitars add spice to this gumbo. It is a unique fusion of innate design with heartfelt musical expression\u2014 \u201cthe Genetics of Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith this album, Sun King Rising has made a quantum leap,\u201d says Katona. \u201cMusically and lyrically, Signs & Wonders<\/em> rocks hard while engaging the imagination. It is thematically coherent, complex, and sophisticated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blangero attributes this to the vastly improved circumstances under which Acker was able to produce it. \u201cWe started recording the first album in January 2020. Two months later, the COVID-19 pandemic locked the whole world down,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coping with resulting restrictions on travel and meetings forced Blangero and Acker to complete the production remotely, with thirty-two different players and singers recording in multiple studios across the country. Says Blangero, \u201cIt was a logistical challenge, to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Signs & Wonders<\/em>, the production team had no such hurdles. Recording again at Pittsburgh\u2019s Maplewood Studio with engineer David Granati at the helm, Acker put together a full 5-piece band, a horn section, and a background chorus with the city\u2019s most acclaimed talents. \u201cMost of the cuts on the album we recorded live at Maplewood, with the same band,\u201d Acker explained, \u201cresulting in a far more consistent sound. The logistics were a breeze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs & Wonder<\/em> is a collection of Blangero\u2019s southern noir stories set to music, with a cast of colorful characters, intrigue, tales of sin and redemption, murder without justice, and love without limits. Had William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams been lyricists, they might have written deeply nuanced musical stories like Sun King Rising\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album\u2019s first single, \u201cNo. 6 Magnolia Avenue,\u201d is classic 60s\/70s horn band pop in the vein of Chicago, Spiral Staircase, and Blood, Sweat and Tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concurrent with the single\u2019s release, PeacockSunrise will debut its cinematic music video directed by Dante Ludovici, the man behind the cameras for the official \u201cFree Will in China Blue\u201d video from the first album, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: www.sunkingrising.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SunKingRising<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Record Label FB page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PeacockSunriseRecords<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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