Robbie Robertson Returns With Sinematic

Robbie Robertson’s new solo album Sinematic is available on CD, digital and 180-gram 2LP, with a Deluxe Edition, limited to 1000 copies, to follow on October 25. The Deluxe Edition presents the album on CD and 180-gram 2LP vinyl with a 36-page hardcover book featuring custom artwork Robertson has created for each track. The 13-song self-produced collection is Robertson’s first new studio album since 2011’s introspective How To Become Clairvoyant.

Robertson drew inspiration from his recent film score writing and recording for director Martin Scorsese’s eagerly anticipated organized crime epic “The Irishman,” as well as the forthcoming feature documentary film, “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band,” based on his 2016 New York Times bestselling memoir “Testimony.” 

“I was working on music for ‘The Irishman’ and working on the documentary, and these things were bleeding into each other,” says Robertson of the impetus for Sinematic. “I could see a path. Ideas for songs about haunting and violent and beautiful things were swirling together like a movie. You follow that sound and it all starts to take shape right in front of your ears. At some point, I started referring to it as ‘Peckinpah Rock’,” a nod, Robertson says, to Sam Peckinpah, the late director of such violent Westerns as “The Wild Bunch.”

Narrated in Robertson’s cool parched croon, the yarns unspool over his vibrant guitar stylings and moody, midtempo rock, anchored on most tracks by bassist Pino Palladino (John Mayer Trio, The Who), drummer Chris Dave(D’Angelo, Adele), and keyboardist Martin Pradler, who also mixed the record. The band is rounded out with Afie Jurvanen, who provides guitar and backing vocals, along with vocalist Felicity Williams, a regular collaborator with Jurvanen in his band Bahamas. Robertson is joined on the album by guest vocalists Van Morrison, Glen Hansard, Citizen Cope, J.S. Ondara, and Laura Satterfield; musicians Jim Keltner, Derek Trucks, Frédéric Yonnet,and Doyle Bramhall II; and producer Howie B who provides electronic textures to several tracks. 

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Track listing:

SINEMATIC CD/DIGITAL TRACK LIST
1. I Hear You Paint Houses
2. Once Were Brothers
3. Dead End Kid
4. Hardwired
5. Walk In Beauty Way
6. Let Love Reign
7. Shanghai Blues
8. Wandering Souls
9. Street Serenade
10. The Shadow
11. Beautiful Madness
12. Praying For Rain
13. Remembrance 

SINEMATIC 2LP VINYL TRACK LIST

SIDE A
1. I Hear You Paint Houses

2. Once We Were Brothers

3. Dead End Kid

SIDE B

1. Hardwired

2. Walk In Beauty Way

3. Let Love Reign

SIDE C

1. Shanghai Blues

2. Wandering Souls

3. Street Serenade

4. The Shadow

SIDE D

1. Beautiful Madness

2. Praying For Rain

3. Remembrance

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