Today, Nick Dorian releases his new album Rooster via Boom.Records. Drawing inspiration from his Uncle Gaetano' Guy' Valentini's love and commitment to his pet rooster, "Come On." The introspective project spans 10-track's that touch on themes of nostalgia, self-doubt, love, restlessness, yearning, and deep life ruminations.
Recorded with GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Gabe Wax and co-produced by Nick Dorian, Rooster serves as a follow up to 2019's Planet Stardom and finds the multi-hyphenate expanding his sound across the pensive songs. Dorian's rich whiskey-hued vocals are at the forefront of the profoundly relatable and subdued tracks found on the LP. Dedicated to Guy and Come On, Guy's favorite pet rooster and the undeclared guardian of the Country Chain Chapel (a museum and barbershop Guy built on his property in Holland's Landing, Ontario, Canada). In 1995, Guy commemorated Come On with a larger-than-life statue that broke the Guinness World Record for being the tallest rooster monument in the world.
"My uncle's love and commitment to this bird is yet another reminder of how much you can get out of something so little. With love, there's always something to crow about." Nick shares.
Rooster includes the previously released singles "Television", "Follow The Leader", and recently released album closer "An Old Idea". Speaking on Rooster, Nick shares: "Uncle Gaetano "Guy" Valentini was a Mandolin-playing, longest beard award-winning, rooster-owning immigrant from Italy who spent most of his life building a museum on his property in Holland's Landing, Ontario, Canada. Among the many knick-knacks and quotes, the museum contained a chapel, a "barberchop," and the largest rooster monument in North America. Guy was always happy to receive visitors (or haircut-seeking customers) and would never let you leave without saying hello to the guardian of the land, his pet rooster named "Come On." The museum no longer exists. May it live on through this album."
Nick's Rooster is akin to Guy's rooster: the guardian of his land, that difficult nonsensical thing he corrals, that thing he's loyal to, that thing he shows off to everyone he meets. "Come on, let me address you. Your name's the request. If you make a museum to the truth of what you love maybe you'll stop forgetting why you love it, maybe you can show others what it means to you. Rooster is a mantra for the thing you love that doesn't always love you back; the love you can't control." Dorian adds.
Listen to Rooster and stay tuned for more news to follow from Nick Dorian.
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