Adam McIntyre Circles Around The Music Earth With Black Planet
Out September 18, 2020
Mixing up funk, rock, and glam-rock on his third solo album
The Pinx frontman continues his personal journey
with his third solo album of 2020
“Songs on McIntyre’s third record will largely be about becoming nobody, which he says is based on Ram Dass’s talks on ego vs. identity vs. the soul.”— Chad Radford, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
After visiting the iconic Paisley Park in Minneapolis last year, Adam McIntyre walked away completely blind-sighted by Prince’s compound. “I decided to put on the vibe that I felt at that studio while exploring some ideas of identity and personality on a record,” explains the Atlanta based guitarist. On Friday, September 18, the world will hear Black Planet in all its glory.
Written, recorded, and mixed entirely by Adam himself at Bear Pause Studio in Atlanta, GA, he melted all his influences that range from rock to glam rock to funk to soul. Adam played all the instruments except some guest appearances by Roger Manning., Jr on keyboards (Beck, Jellyfish, The Lickerish Quartet) and Dashill Smith on horns (The Omega Level, Common Ground Collective). Adam wears his guitar influences on his heart and sleeve as he bends and plucks the strings giving the songs its melodic vibe. It’s got Lenny Kravitz swagger, Fantastic Negrito innovation, and David Bowie’s insight.
Interpretative dance lyric video for “All I’ve Got To Be Is Here Right Now” https://youtu.be/SyrzaBZAzCk
“Black Planet took about six weeks because it needed a little more shine than its predecessors. I’d spent a couple of records digging deep, opening up, and to me, the next logical step was to ask, ‘who do I think I am?’ I seem to have decided that I know who I think I am, but what if I’ve been wrong?’” – Adam McIntyre
The album includes eight songs that speak of the past nine months of world pandemic, social disarray, and political tornadoes, which sent Adam to find his center. From the single, “Now Is Not The Time” that recalls Morris Day and The Time, “Let’s Get Away” that dreams of getting away to recharge, and the epic 13-minute sheering guitar ending, “Voodoo” which is total modern jazz a la Miles Davis and Galactic.
“I tripped so hard on mushrooms that I had a two-hour-long conversation with the sun and wrote a psychedelic funk record about the whole experience.”
Welcome to Black Planet.
About Adam McIntyre:
A native of Montgomery, AL, Adam was born to play guitar. His first lesson was live and onstage at the age of 9 in front of about 250 with Chess Records artist, Bobby Moore, and the Rhythm Aces (“Searching For My Baby”) thus beginning his love affair with the chitlin circuit. Then the floodgates opened, rock, funk, and a lot of David Bowie, THE MC5 and Lou Reed. After about ten years in Nashville, he moved to Atlanta to form The Pinx, a band that Paste magazine called, “an authentic tribute to classic American rock and roll.” The band is a showstopper for sure with their live sets around the southeast. The band has released six albums, the latest, “Electric” came out in August 2020.
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Black Planet track list:
Black Planet
Now Is Not The Time
Feel Like A Man
Let’s Go Away
Step Out The Way
Return To Black Planet
All I’ve Got To Be Is Here Right Now
Voodoo
Bandcamp link: https://adammcintyre.bandcamp.com/
Proceeds from Bandcamp will go to: https://www.beam.community/https://www.instagram.com/_beamorg/
To explore Adam’s past two solo records:
The Devil Got My Soul!: https://found.ee/gotmysoul
You’re Doing It Right: https://found.ee/o2mM
Website/social links below:
W:https://www.adammcintyremusic.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/AdamMcIntyresolo
IG: https://www.instagram.com/adammcintyreofthepinx/
