Song Premiere: Zach Gill “Alchemy”
On June 2, Brushfire/Republic Records will release the new album from ALO’s Zach Gill. Life In The Multiverse is the follow-up to Gill’s 2008 debut full-length solo album, Zach Gill’s Stuff. On Life In The Multiverse, Gill is joined by the members of ALO on multiple cuts, as well as drummer Adam Topol, who like Gill, is a member of Jack Johnson’s band. Johnson, himself, adds guitar to a tune while Gill’s daughter Jaden also contributes vocals to a song.
Today we premiere “Alchemy” from the forthcoming record, which is now available for pre-order. The tune also features singer Nicki Bluhm and Stewart Cole (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros) on French horn and trumpet. Gill tells Relix, “For my 40th birthday somebody gave me a dulcimer—not a hammered dulcimer but an Appalachian style dulcimer, it’s just got three strings. I tuned it up and started playing what became that song. A couple of years ago I was reading a lot of stuff about alchemy in general, I was interested in what it was. The common belief is that it’s turning lead into gold and there was that but as you get deeper into who alchemists were and what alchemy was about, it becomes more a philosophical school of spiritual lead and spiritual gold and how to transform things emotionally and through stories and mythology.”
Gill will kick off a summer tour with Jack Johnson tonight in Chicago, with the dates listed below the stream.
Appearing with Jack Johnson’s band at:
June 1 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island ~
June 2 Chicago, IL Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island ~
June 3 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center ~
June 4 Toronto, ON Budweiser Stage ~
June 7 Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion ~
June 9 Mansfield, MA Xfinity Center *
June 10 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion *
June 11 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion *
June 14 Forest Hills, NY Forest Hills Stadium ~
July 13 Englewood, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre &
July 14 Englewood, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre ^
July 16 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl ^
July 17 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl #
July 18 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl =
July 20 Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheatre =
July 22 Quincy, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre + =
July 23 Burnaby, BC Deer Lake Park =
July 26 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre =
July 27 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre #
July 28 Stateline, NV Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Amphitheatre #
July 29 Stateline, NV Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Amphitheatre =
August 4 Honolulu, HI Waikiki Shell
August 5 Honolulu, HI Waikiki Shell
+ with special guest The Avett Brothers
* with special guest Lake Street Dive
~ with special guest Bahamas
^ with special guest JAMTOWN featuring Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love & Cisco Adler
# with special guest ALO
= with special guest John Craigie
& with special guest Rogue & Jaye
