It will be available on all streaming services including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon MP3, Deezer and Tidal as well as direct from Arcari’s Bandcamp page
The new album – titled ‘Still Friends’ – features 12 self-penned acoustic tracks and is scheduled for release on Friday 7 November on limited edition coloured vinyl, CD and streaming/download via all digital services. The entire production was funded in the first week of a month-long Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year.
‘Hellhound Train’ is the second in series of single releases – one each month in the run up to the full album release and a string of UK tour dates in November. The first single, ‘Come With Me’, was released on 16 May.
“I’m really excited about this new album,” says Arcari. “It’s stripped back, all acoustic with no overdubs. I’ve released seven solo albums previously – a live double album and various studio recordings sometimes including contributions from other musicians – and although they pass muster I think I’ve managed to capture the truest, most authentic recordings for this album.”
Indeed, Arcari recorded and produced the entire album in this own studio and believes the process enabled him to get things exactly as he wanted.
Arcari explains: “Although I recorded the last album (‘Devil May Care’) – and the live (at Memorial Hall) album myself – they were both mixed and mastered in commercial studios so there was still considerably more expense. Being able to produce the entire project in my own studio took away the cost and time constraints which has produced an end result I’m really pleased with”
“The main challenge was to present a sonically transparent but polished set of recordings without losing the authenticity of a live studio recording using just two microphones. Less is often more…but it can’t be at the expense of recording and sound quality.”
He is also busy putting together music for film and TV worldwide. His work has featured in hit US series The Deadliest Catch and closer to home in numerous BBC TV productions.
Arcari is an an official artist for Newtone Strings, Reunion Blues gig bags, Diamond Bottlenecks, G7th Capo and National Reso-Phonic Guitars who launched their ‘Dave Arcari signature’ instruments in 2019.