 Hayes,
36, who just released his fourth self-recorded album
in eight years, lives the life of a proletarian artist.
He only recently obtained his first car, an old clunker
he was given by his twin brother back in North Carolina
that he drove across country. But there is nothing tattered
or secondhand about his "Big Black Hole and the
Little Baby Star,"
an extraordinary album that should introduce the gifted
singer-songwriter to a far broader audience.
Even before finished
copies were back from the manufacturer, his influential
fan at Los Angeles' KCRW,
"Morning Becomes Eclectic" host Nic Harcourt,
was jumping on the intense, subtle record. But Harcourt,
a music industry landmark in Southern California (and across
the country among countless Internet listeners), has played
Hayes' records before, starting with a vocal Hayes added
to an electronica record by his Bernal Heights neighbor,
dance music specialist Mark Farina.
A little over a year
ago, while playing a warehouse show for local arts and
culture mag Kitchen Sink, Hayes bumped into fellow musician
Etienne de Rocher, a songwriter
who only recently released his own first album. It was
a fortuitous meeting. De Rocher invited Hayes to record
a few songs at his garage studio, and Hayes eventually
recorded the whole of Big Black Hole there. Thanks in
part to de Rocher's production, the album's sound is
a departure from his previous discs. De Rocher and Hayes,
who describes his music as "Appalachian
Ambient Folk Hop," virtually whipped out Hayes' record
over several months earlier this year, crowded into the
cramped garage behind de Rocher's Berkeley home. Now, Hayes
sounds a little less folky, a little more languid and groovy,
as if he loosened the knot on his hobo tie after tossing
back a few Don Julios -- a better approximation of his
live shows.
 We
are pleased to announce the lasest release from Sean Hayes
entitled Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star.
To listen to samples
from and to purchase the new CD visit Sean's online
store.
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