“Shiver” by San Fermin and Sam Amidon

"Shiver" by San Fermin and Sam Amidon is Northern Transmissions

Today, San Fermin and Sam Amidon premiered “Shiver,” a one-off collaboration that was conceived in the midst of their winter 2015 tour. The song will be released digitally April 8th.

San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone:

“”Shiver” was born while we were on tour together in the chilly Northeast and Midwest this past December. It started with an iPhone recording of Sam’s five year-old son Arthur banging on some drums at the venue in Providence, which I turned into a beat. Sam wrote a banjo line and played a violin solo over that, which we recorded on stage in the minutes before doors opened at our show in Columbus. Once the tour was over, I set the Simic poem (Sam’s idea), Allen laid down vocals, and some of the band members came in to flesh things out. Sam sent over his vocal track from London and that was that.”

Sam Amidon’s latest Nonesuch Records release is Lily-O, a collaboration with pioneering jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. Omnivore Recordings also recently reissued Amidon’s long out of print debut But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted. Amidon performs at this weekend’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, with additional 2016 shows forthcoming.

San Fermin Tour Dates:

04/01/16: Missoula, MT – The Top Hat *
04/04/16: Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre *
04/05/16: Omaha, NE – Waiting Room *
04/06/16: Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon *
04/07/16: Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center *
04/08/16: Iowa City, IA – Mission Creek Festival
04/09/16: Holland, MI – Park Theatre @ Hope College *
04/11/16: Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
04/12/16: Buffalo, NY – Mohawk Place *
04/13/16: Ithaca, NY – The Haunt *
04/14/16: Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club *
04/15/16: Baltimore, MD – Ottobar *
04/30/16: Indianapolis, IN – InFusion Festival
05/02/16: Dallas, TX – Club Dada %
05/03/16: Austin, TX – Parish %
05/05/16: Kansas City, MO – Middle of the Map Festival %
05/07/16: Galesburg, IL – Knox College
05/26/16: Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom #
05/27/16: Santa Barbara, CA – Velvet Jones #
05/28/16: Napa, CA – BottleRock
06/05/16: Houston, TX – Free Press Summer Fest
07/08/16: Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Folk Festival
07/10/16: Ottawa, ON – Ottawa BluesFest
07/17/16: Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Folk Festival
07/23/16: Calgary, AB – Calgary Folk Festival
08/05/16: St. Charles, IA – Hinterland Music Festival

* w/ Esmé Patterson
% w/ Your Friend
# w/ Ivan & Alyosha

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