Entertainment Architects – Music PR Ireland

FOREIGN SLIPPERS

EP Avalanche releasing on April 20^th

Debut Album Farewell to the Old Ghosts releasing June 22^nd

Welcome to the world of Foreign Slippers, aka Gabi Froden: singer, artist, author, songwriter and ruling deity of Foreign Slippers. Gabi started singing in the church choir in her native Norrkoping in Sweden, and has travelled via the Tom Petty and Pavement covers of her early bands, all the way to the haunting melodies of this, her debut album, Farewell to the Old Ghosts, which releases in Ireland on June 22^nd. The album is preceded by the EP Avalanche on April 20^th and Irish fans will be able to catch the Swedish songstress in action across the country when she tours with Duke Special, throughout April and May.

Foreign Slippers, the band, the music, is all built in a fantastical world, a storybook landscape, created by Froden, where flocks of scratchy birds fly over enchanted forests full of cloth dogs and mercurial musicians, while a bewitching voice sings lullabies to the icy sky. It’s no wonder then that outside of Foreign Slippers, Gabi is an accomplished children’s book illustrator. She also writes music for theatre projects, most recently the Laila Diallo production Hold Everything Dear, which is currently on tour around the UK and will soon be performed at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden.

Foreign Slippers debut LP album is a complex but ultimately uplifting collection of songs: “It’s called Farewell to the Old  Ghosts because, at the same time that something awful, or difficult or sad, has been going on, there’s also a feeling that something better is coming, because we’re saying farewell to something that has passed.”

Despite the storybook feel, the music of Foreign Slippers is heartfelt, serious and rooted in real life: “I write a lot from my life without knowing that’s what I’m doing – which I like because it means the songs come from somewhere inside I’m not in control of. But I also steal other people’s lives. I like the idea of trying to understand other peoples’ experiences or express them through myself… It comes genuinely from my heart. I hope the songs are real, and can be really beautiful, but also really sad or happy, or hopeful.”

For a real flavour of Foreign Slippers, check out the gorgeous video for the lead track Avalanche here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSwsikXdss

Foreign Slippers will be touring Ireland as support to Belfast vaudeville hero Duke Special throughout April and May:

April 25^th Dublin, The Workman’s Club

May 1^st Leitrim, Carrick on Shannon, The Dock

May 2^nd Wicklow, Bray, The Mermaid Arts

May 3^rd Offaly, Tullamore, The Thatch

May 6^th Kerry, Killarney, The INEC

May 8^th Limerick, Dolans

May 9^th Cork, Cyprus Avenue

May 10^th Wexford, Wexford Arts Centre

May 12^th Belfast, Waterfront Hall with The Ulster Orchestra

May 13^th Kilkenny, The Set Theatre

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