July 2022 – After a year stuck in the global vinyl shortage queue, Dean Owens’ internationally acclaimed Sinner’s Shrine (recorded in Tucson AZ, with musicians from Calexico) is now available on vinyl – a gatefold sleeve, and luscious Tucson blue coloured vinyl!
DOWNLOAD Press Release – Dean Owens – Sinner’s Shrine – Vinyl
Long awaited transatlantic collaboration – Dean Owens with desert noir icons Calexico – new album released Feb 2022
DOWNLOAD: Press Release – Dean Owens – Sinners Shrine (with Calexico)
Aug 2021 – Live and Online: Adam Holmes, Dean Owens and Joey Burns (Calexico), Shamanic LIVE (Summary of shows at Edinburgh Fringe)
July 2021 – A “monumental multimedia spectacular” at The Pleasance Online at Edinburgh Fringe. Part of Made In Scotland showcase
DOWNLOAD: Press Release – SHAMANIC at Ed Fringe 2021
July 2021 – Dean Owens and Joey Burns (Calexico) present their Celtic Connections show at Edinburgh Fringe; The Hopeless Ghosts (ft Grant-Lee Phillips) and Vol 3 of The Desert trilogy EPs out end Aug; live tour dates
July 2021 – Vol 3 of The Desert Trilogy and new single release The Hopeless Ghosts ft Grant-Lee Phillips
DOWNLOAD: Press Release – Dean Owens – The Desert Trilogy EPs (Ghosts)
January 2021
DOWNLOAD: Press Release – Dean Owens – The Desert Trilogy EPs
New single, which shares its title with Ian Rankin’s new Rebus novel, inspired by a blackbird. Featuring John Convertino (drums) and AMA-UK Instrumentalist of the Year Thomas Collison on keys and everything else!
Oct 2020
DOWNLOAD: Press Release – Dean Owens – Rebus crossover (1-10-20)
Giant new artwork – Justice for Sheku Bayoh – at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall joins the rapidly expanding Mural Trail as Scotland’s artists and arts organisations combine their voices to support Black Lives Matter.
Scotland’s Black Lives Matter Mural Trail is expanding rapidly. The addition this week of 5 new artworks at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall takes the total to 24 (across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness) with over a dozen more planned in the coming weeks, in Stirling and Dundee, as well as Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The latest additions are by Kirkcaldy artist Abigail Mills aka Abz (picture below with Sheku Bayoh’s sister) including an impressive 5.5 metre x 6.5 metre print on the Usher Hall’s Glass Wing, and a further 4 images next to Lothian Road. Striking, colourful and thought provoking, Abz’s work reflects her regular job as a tattoo artist, but goes far beyond that, reflecting her Scottish/Jamaican heritage and self identifcation as a “queer artist”.
The Glass Wing artwork – Justice for Sheku Bayoh – is inspired by the death in 2015, in police custody in Kirkcaldy, of Sheku Bayoh (now the subject of a recently announced public enquiry).
Download Press Release here.
See Gallery for more images.
More info at website.
Scotland wide Mural Trail in support of Black Lives Matter, inc street art, digital art, photography, video, text by poets, writers and musicians from Scotland’s BAME creatives
Jul 2020
Update – New installations in Edinburgh and Inverness
DOWNLOAD: Press Release 2 – Scottish BLM Mural Trail – Jul 2020
DOWNLOAD: Press Release – Scottish BLM Mural Project – 15 Jun
