Johnny Delaware tours Europe supporting Dylan LeBlanc with "Para Llevar"

“This is a very nomadic album,” says Johnny Delaware. “I recorded it in studios in Mexico and the United States and in hotel rooms all across Latin America, and if you listen closely, you can hear bits and pieces of all those places and the people I met along the way. They’re all a part of me now.”

It makes perfect sense, then, that Delaware would call his new collection Para Llevar, which translates roughly as “to go” or “to take.” Drawn from Delaware’s years of journeying—both physically around the world and internally to find himself—the record blends elements of Laurel Canyon and Latin America with dreamy, psychedelic production to forge a mesmerizing cultural swirl that transcends borders and traditions. Delaware produced the record himself in addition to playing nearly all of the instruments, and his performances are consistently warm and inviting, marked by airy, spacious arrangements centered on his raw, amiable vocals. The lyrics, meanwhile, are rooted in perpetual motion, in an endless, primal search for meaning and purpose and connection. The result is a deeply personal exploration of human nature as seen through the eyes of an itinerant observer, an intoxicating meditation on the doubt and hope and fear and love and loneliness that bind us all, no matter where we call home.

With Para Llevar Johnny Delaware comes over to Europe for a string of tourdates supporting Dylan LeBlanc:

22/05: Utrecht, NL - TivoliVredenburg
23/05: Frankfurt, DE - Brotfabrik
24/05: Zürich, CH - Bogen F
04/06: Maastricht, NL - Muziekgieterij
05/06: Haarlem, NL - Patronaat
08/06: Groningen, NL - De Oosterpoort
09/06: Hamburg, DE - Nochtwache