Butane announces North American album tour

Butane announces North American album tour

10 March, 2008 | 7.54PM

• Section: Music News
• Written by: alphahouseSTL

To coincide with the release of his critically acclaimed album ‘Becoming’, set to hit stores on March 17, Alphahouse head-honcho and American ex-pat Andrew Rasse aka Butane will be playing these select dates over the course of his 4-week North American album tour: 

March 14 - Minimoo, Miami
March 15 - Alphahouse, St. Louis
March 21 - Compression, Los Angeles
March 22 - Hardpop, Ciudad Juarez
March 29 - Minimoo, Miami Winter Music Conference Edition
April 5 - Oslo, Detroit

About the album, straight from the artist’s mouth:

“Moving to Berlin around Christmas of last year kind of forced me to take a break from studio work for nearly six months.  This really enabled me to get some new perspective on my music.  I was just collecting ideas and inspiration while I traveled around DJing in wonderfully unique places like Moscow, Cape Town, Detroit, Mexico City, Barcelona, and Berlin.  Not worrying about finishing any music was something of a mental vacation for me.  I played live with Ableton twice - once in Berlin and once at DEMF in Detroit - and I was working all the time on small sketches for new tracks, but nothing more than that.  Then when I came back to Berlin in June after Sonar, I slowed my travel schedule down and spent a lot of time reading philosophy and just generally enjoying the Berlin summer.  When I finally took all the pent-up creative energy from those past six months into the studio with me to write the album, it all just came pouring out.  I fine tuned it over the next few months, testing some of the tracks while out DJing, and this is the final result.  I really wanted to present something a bit different than what I had done before, and approaching this as an album enabled me to do that.  I feel like these tracks all somehow belong together.  Hopefully this represents the next stage in the evolution of my music.”

For more information about:

Butane - http://www.myspace.com/butane_alphahouse
Alphahouse - http://www.alphahousemusic.com

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