Sprezzatura, by Aloud

Sprezzatura

by Aloud

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Aloud’s long-awaited follow-up album to It’s Got To Be Now on limited edition vinyl, with a printed inner sleeve featuring studio photos, lyrics, and liner notes.

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Aloud’s long-awaited follow-up album to It’s Got To Be Now on compact disc.

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1.	Loving U's a Beautiful Thing 03:43	buy track
2.	Waiting (Scenes From a Lonely Planet) 03:19	buy track
3.	Hungry Land 02:55	buy track
4.	Lovers of the Last Resort 03:31	buy track
5.	Salvage Yard 02:54	buy track
6.	Twenty-Third Fresh Start 04:03	buy track
7.	In Spite of Language 02:13	buy track
8.	Renters for Life 03:38	buy track
9.	Cresting Waves 03:10	buy track
10.	Oh Danny 02:58	buy track
11.	Been So Long Since We've Seen the Sun 02:19	buy track

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“This is an album that begs to be played loudly from an open window.”
—GLIDE MAGAZINE

“The new album Sprezzatura explodes with soulfully raucous real-time joy.” —AMERICAN SONGWRITER

credits

released May 8, 2020

Sprezzatura
by Aloud

Produced by Benny Grotto and Aloud
Mixed by Guy Massey
Mastered by Tom Rogers

All songs written by Jen de la Osa & Henry Beguiristain

Henry Beguiristain: vocals, guitars, Mellotron
Jen de la Osa: vocals, guitars, piano
Chuck Ferreira: drums, percussion
Charles Murphy: bass, mouth sounds

Horn arrangements: Andy Bergman
String arrangements: Alison Dooley (tracks 6, 11)
and Chris Barrett (tracks 4, 10)

Additional Musicians

Maxwell Butler: organ, keys

Horns
Andy Bergman: saxophones
Eric Ortiz: trumpet
Brian Paulding: trombone

Strings
Eva Walsh: violin
Clara Kebabian: violin
Joanna Ostrander: viola
Jonah Sacks: cello

Recorded at Mad Oak Studios in Boston, MA
Additional recording at South Endustries in Boston, MA

Engineering: Benny Grotto
Additional engineering: Charles H. Murphy IV (South Endustries),
Matt Hipp (Mad Oak Studios)

Cover painting and photo: Louis Watts
Inner sleeve photo: Ojo De Loba
Studio photos: Adam Salsman
Aloud “In Stereo” logo designed by Matt Jatkola

We’d like to thank the following people for their support in making this record: Hugh Wyman, Chris and Annie March, Judy Tint, Pati deVries, Andy Rahm, Frank Hegyi, Reverend Guitars and Angry Acorn, Kimberly Murphy, Nico & Bullitt, Jilly Gagnon, and our friends and families.

Special thanks to Chris Jago, Alanah Ntzouras, and Vanessa Acosta.

Thank you for listening.

© 2020 DTTR Music Publishing/Pedro Pan Publishing (BMI)
℗ 2020 Aloud under exclusive license to Lemon Merchant Records

🍋 A Lemon Merchant release / DTTR013

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about

Aloud Los Angeles, California

Aloud is, in the parlance of our times, a rock n’ roll band. Since our founding in Boston in the early 2000s we’ve released 5 albums, toured coast-to-coast several times, and even landed music in a few films. We’ve called L.A. home since 2017.

Aloud is currently putting a neat little bow on Apollo 6—their follow-up album to Sprezzatura which, if you believe what the papers tell you, is very good. ... more