BoPoMoFo Releases Debut Album

The members of BoPoMoFo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ樂團) are proud to announce the release of their debut CD, ‘Hell Froze Over’. As the title may indicate, the album has been a long time coming. While not exactly ‘Chinese Democracy’, the long awaited, recording sessions at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee by Taiwan’s foremost proponent of hard rockin’ Chicago Blues, BoPoMoFo in February of 2007 were becoming a near legend themselves.
After much delay (included the deportation of their ace mixing engineer, Max), the CD is available for streaming and for down-load at ">iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon.com, Napster and other sites. The ‘ready date’ marked the third anniversary of BoPoMoFo’s pilgrimage to Memphis and the birth-place of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Sun Studio.
The home of the famous Sun Records sound is a long way from Taipei, Taiwan, the adopted home of all the members of BoPoMoFo. The decision to go so far afield to record their first album was founded on the desire to capture that distinctive Sun Records sound heard on the early vinyl of Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and the King, Hims-elvis.
All of the basic tracks for the album were recorded ‘Live’ on February 4th & 5th, 2007. This means that BoPoMoFo eschewed the slick, modern production technique of recording each instrument alone and then patching all of them back together again, in favor of documenting the collective, synergistic energy of a tight, contemporary Blues band.
All 11 songs feature the ‘Live’, in-your-face performance that you’d hope to hear at a top-drawer Blues club. Drums, bass guitar, and rhythm guitars, lead guitar, slide guitar and sax were all recorded simultaneously. Even the lead vocal on the one surprising cover song was recorded without over-dubs, punch-ins or do-overs. The results of long hours of rehearsal and lots of club gigs resulted in a ‘Hell Froze Over’ being much more than just another ‘good enough for Blues’ CD.
There ain’t no re-hash here of Blues club standards, either. Of the 11 songs on the album, 10 are original compositions which run the gamut from Jump Blues to Blues-rock, contemporary Blues and even a West-side Blues rumba. We hope that folks will like our music as much as we love making it.

">Here's the link again for buying 'Hell Froze Over' at iTunes.