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Indie label Weathervane Records is pleased to announce the fall release of “Ice Fishing” by singer-songwriter Kevin Connolly, a “Best of Boston” winner, hailed by the Patriot Ledger as “a treasure worth discovering.” A 14-song compilation of all original songs (his first in five years), “Ice Fishing” has been a labor of love between two brothers who live on different coasts. Kevin in Boston and his brother, renowned “New Music” composer Jim Connolly in Santa Barbara, CA, traded files for three years to make a collaborative recording with 3,000 miles between them.

Says Kevin, “What started as an experiment very quickly turned into a serious recording project. As brothers we play intuitively when in the same room—the trick here was getting that same feeling in the recording.” While Kevin provided the guitar and vocal tracks, Jim would provide the borderline avant-garde upright bass, banjo, piano and percussion tracks. “I never knew what I was going to get back and we never really needed to talk about it other than letting him [Jim] go and have free reign,” says Kevin. “Ducky [co-producer] and I just picked and chose when mixing, which was really fun.” From the upbeat “Bus Station” to the raw and eerie title track, “Ice Fishing” represents a departure from a songwriter-with-a-band approach that Connolly has used on his last two releases. Swampy cuts like “Suitcase and a Rifle” set a certain outsider tone, while “Istanbul” is a character study of a man walking around in a Turkish desert. Direct personal songs like “Blow Them Away” about a daughter’s coming of age and the quirky “Thinking Bout Love” balance the tone of the record making it both personal and intimate. “From a musical tone and texture, I very much wanted this to be sort of my ‘Astral Weeks’ and I think we did it!” says Connolly. “And just to keep it light I also threw in a brother song (‘My Brother and Me’) to tie it all together.”