FirewaterMedia Kit

The Golden Hour
Release date: May 8, 2008

Firewater Live in Europe: Video Teaser from Bloodshot Records on Vimeo.

In 2005, Firewater's Tod A embarked on what would become a three year sabbatical through the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. He had recently split with his wife; George W. Bush had just been re-elected; New York, his home for the last 20 years, had become a cold and foreign place. He wasn't even sure he wanted to make music anymore.

Recording with a single microphone and a laptop in his pack, he captured performances with a vast array of musicians across India and Pakistan—and eventually Turkey and Israel. Bhangra and sufi percussion would form the basis for the songs he wrote along the way—songs about the world he left behind ("This Is My Life", "Electric City"), politics ("Borneo", "Hey Clown"), and dislocation ("6:45", "Feels like the End of the World"). Tod's acerbic wit shines on The Golden Hour, elucidating both the beauty and the absurdity of the world.

Tod tells the story of The Golden Hour in a short video Including footage from his travels; watch it below: