Press Kit
Louie Fontaine
Louie Fontaine has throug his carrier as composer , bassist , singer, guitar player, tried everything from bombastic theatical rock to lay down, dirty blues & murderes ballards.
In 1999, Mr.Fontaine build The Beat Machine, a 1 tons mecanical drum machine, simply to create the sound he needed, for his forth coming record Soul Satisfaction On Clean Sheets ,which also was the debut record of Louie Fontaine. The record came out world wide during 2001-2003, but suffered commecially from the on going wars in Irak & Aghanistan and NY 9/11.
Mr. Fontaine does what he wants in life, his music is uncompromising, and hard to compare with others. Journalists have a had time to put him in comparison with other artists, everything from Elvis ,Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Neils Young, Nine Inch Nails, Dr. John , has been mentioned during the years, the list long and never ending.
In 2002 Louie Fontaine moved from New Orleans (originally Danish) to Latvia and started a new project named Louie Fontaine & The Living Dead, the band toured mainly in the baltic states and and worked on recording Mr.Fontaine\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\‘s new 2 forth coming Cd releases EVIL LOVE & DONT BRING THE KIDS after the recordings ended in Louie\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\‘s Copenhagen studio in late 2006 Mr. Fontaine decided to take a break from the music and left the materiale alone for a while, mean while, Mr.Fontaine has opened a music club Fontaine Palace in his home town Liepaja and started The Fontaine Festival in 2006 and now the owner of 4 hotels around the world
Enough is enough, to much bizzness, Mr. Fontaine has decided to return to what he is best at writing and performing Rock n Roll music , with loads of new materiale and 2 unleased records Mr. Fontaine played his first concert in more than year, for full house, new years evening in his own club.
Mr. Fontaine has put together the core of his best live band ever.The band is set to start touring in 2010 as Louie Fontaine
Louie Fontaine: Voc,Gui,Slide
Kristine Dobele : Hammond Organ/Piano/Voc
Mr Yerz: Bass
Jacob Jacobo : Drums
DOWNLOAD LOUIE FONTAINE\\\‘S 2 NEW VIDEOS
LOUIE FOTAINE-RUNNING HOT-EVIL LOVE-2009
\“Running Hot\”:http:www.sheriffontaine.lv/louiefontaine.com/running_hot.vob
LOUIE FONTAINE-DANCING ON FIRE-EVIL LOVE-2009
\“Dancing On Fire\”:http:www.sheriffontaine.lv/louiefontaine.com/dancing_on_fire.vob
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\“Myspace\”:http:www.myspace.com/louiefontaine
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LOUIE FONTAINE & THE BLACK RIDERS
Foto: Martin Silas
LF & Black Riders are performing a series of Tom Waits songs mixed with Louie Fontaine owns songs from his latest album Evil Love.
LFs voice has always been compared by the critics to Mr. Waits through the years ,and one of the reasons this project came alive, as well as LFs passion for great song writers.
The Black Riders will preform Tom Waits material from the early years as well new stuff.
Louie Fontaine has joined up with some jazzy musicians from his home town in the capital of Liepaja,
Kristina Dobole plays piano & drums at the same time, her lover the beautiful Mr.Jerz, plays the bass, LFs himself is on guitar and vocals.
The Black Riders, are also a part of the band The Briefing besides this projects.
The ones who loves spooky twisted blues and dark ballads got to go to the show , not everybody can sing like Louie Fontaine.
Louie Fontaine: Voc,Gui
Kristina Dobele:Piano,Drums,Backing Voc
Mr.Jerz: Fretless Bass
