One of Huddersfield’s best known bands is to release its debut album.
Pat Fulgoni has his own band the Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience which gigs both across the UK and Europe.
Their new album, simply called the Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience, is released next Friday (September 27).
It’s a soulful, funky, psychedelic take on the blues featuring originals like Drifter and Keep The Blues Alive through to covers like Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven and Midnight Train.
The album showcases great musicianship with young guitarist Jacob Beckwith alongside the seriously tight bass and drums combo of Rory Wells and Zebedee Sylvester with the lush piano skills of Sam Bolt underpinning Pat’s unique soulful blues vocal.
Two of the songs are just piano and vocals and the album is mixed by Crosscut Saw’s Alex Eden who also contributes some amazing harmonica.
The Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience started when a food bank fundraiser in Huddersfield asked for a set, having seen his performances on YouTube. Pat obliged and cobbled together a local line up just before Covid kicked in. The gig was awesome and left him wanting more, especially after the grim months of lockdown.
The album comes after three years of gigging at shows including festivals like Colne Blues, Buxton Blues, Blues Alive (Czech), Beatherder, Leeds Unity and countless venues and clubs, including Pat’s own beloved Huddersfield Blues Club and Bluesbury festival.
Pat’s previous release, Dark Side of the Blues (Pat Fulgoni Live In Prague), was very well received with the Chicago Blues Guide describing it as “a collection of impeccably reworked blues and rock covers.”
Pat Fulgoni
In his time Pat has sung across many genres and worked with award winning producers as well as touring the world as a live artist. As far as the blues goes, he cut his teeth over in the Czech Republic with various greats from that scene, performing on breakfast TV and playing the Blues Alive Festival in the town of Sumperk.
Returning to that festival in 2021 with the Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience, one Czech reviewer wrote it was “like meeting up with an old friend” as the outfit blazed their way onto national TV.
Pat has played Glastonbury four times with Huddersfield band Kava Kava and once with legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel’s favourite dub band Zion Train. Some of his acclaimed drum and bass collaborations have won prestigious awards with one featuring in the Celebrity Big Brother end credits.
Pat is highly respected within the music industry with US magazine Billboard saying: “Fulgoni could sing a pearl from its oyster” and Blues Matters adding it was “completely blown away because he can sing, I mean really sing, ridiculously well.”
Pat has always dedicated himself to promoting Huddersfield bands everywhere he can in the world. He’s done this most notably at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas (known as SXSW) where he ran a Yorkshire Showcase for several years.
Pat’s also pushed Huddersfield bands by having compilation albums made called Sounds From A Big Town and handed them to music industry connections at conventions and festivals.
The track listing for the Pat Fulgoni Blues Experience album is:
1 Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
2 Drifter
3 Keep The Blues Alive
4 Midnight Train
5 Bleeding Heart
6 Lady Day & John Coltrane
7 Confusion Blues
8 The Thrill Is Gone
9 Stickin The Knife In Blues
To get the album and also Pat’s live blues album go to https://patfulgoni.bandcamp.com/
For more information on the band go to https://www.facebook.com/patfulgonibluesexperience
Written by ANDY HIRST who runs his own Yorkshire freelance journalism agency AH! PR (https://ah-pr.com/) specialising in press releases, blogging, website content, copywriting and ghost writing autobiographies.
