I’m Not Going Anywhere: 12 Albums in 12 Months
Urban Jack, the solo project name for, Subterranean Howl, and, Fat
Mannequins, frontman, Simon Eli Milliman, is embarking on a musical
odyssey. The release of the album, Urban Jack and the Savage Sophisticates, marks the first of 12 albums that will be released in the following year. One album per month from May 2020 to May 2021.
“It will be officially spring in the year of the rat,” says Milliman, “I can’t think
of a better time to start a new, foolish venture…I don’t know of anyone else
who has attempted something so silly. I have numerous passions and
ambitions, the greatest of all being father to my five kids; hence the title of this project. I’m not going on tour, I don’t have ambitions to be away from home for months at a time, but I have a huge catalog of material that I keep adding to all of the time. In my bands I fall into that classic rhythm: Release an album and then spend years playing the album into the ground before releasing the next one. It was almost an excuse to not be as productive in the studio as I wanted to be.”
Milliman’s hybrid recording and photography studio, Urban Jack Productions, located in Southeast Portland, Oregon, is where he records, mixes, and masters all of his own work. This first album under the Urban Jack moniker is a soundtrack to, Flying Blind, a documentary about skydiver John Fleming, a thrill-seeker who completed over 1,200 jumps while blind.
“I was really inspired when I saw the first footage of, Flying Blind,” Milliman
states. “[Fleming] was a complicated guy who embodied all of the drama,
hubris, romanticism, redemption, and danger of rock and roll. The songs on this album switch perspectives between Fleming and his wife to tell the story of two very passionate and determined people.”
Urban Jack and the Savage Sophisticates will be released digitally on iTunes,
Amazon, Bandcamp, and streaming services everywhere on May 19, 2020.
Urban Jack and the Savage Sophisticates (a soundtrack for the film, Flying Blind), by Urban Jack
Urban Jack and the Savage Sophisticates (a soundtrack for the film, Flying Blind) by Urban Jack, released 01 April 2020 1. Flying Blind 2. Talk Me Down 3. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 4. Flying in Five 5. Sinners Calling Me Home 6. The Leaky Hull 7. Percival 8.
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