Bellhound Choir - Worried Kid (2017)

Track listing:

01. Bellhound Choir - Gettin Bigger (5:32)
02. Bellhound Choir - Full moon Tide ( feat. Sebastian Wolff) (4:19)
03. Bellhound Choir - Oh, Little Michael (5:17)
04. Bellhound Choir - Bad Weather (4:04)
05. Bellhound Choir - The Jacket (3:16)
06. Bellhound Choir - Dawn (5:09)
07. Bellhound Choir - The Worried Kid (4:56)
08. Bellhound Choir - HOME (5:28)

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Christian Hede Madsen aka BELLHOUND CHOIR is now releasing his second solo album 'Worried Kid' - a contemporary blues album dealing with the struggles and winding roads of the soul. It is a record comprised of songs in their most basic form, without filter, without vanity; songs that leads the way into a very human universe, that will unfold, as one gives back.

Bellhound Choir is the sound of where it all began as well as the sound of now. Bellhound Choir is contemporary blues, a kind of folk music that with an eternal voice exposes the trouble of the soul as well as its hopes. Bellhound Choir is songwriter, singer and guitarist Christian Hede Madsen. Madsen is primarily known for his music, partly from his former band Pet The Preacher and now with the solo project Bellhound Choir, which released the debut album "Imagine The Crackle" through Bad Afro Records last year. Apart from being a musician, Madsen is a man of many other talents - an artist ever interested in finding new ways of expressing himself. He experiments with film, interactive media and not least litterature, which occupies an essential part of his music and beyond. Madsen just recently
released the debut novel 'Mřrkerćd' ('Fear of the Dark'), which is yet another take on his description of the existential conditions of mankind.

These conditions are are also the center of Bellhound Choir´s second album 'Worried Kid' - eight songs about being shrouded in darkness, with the shadows chasing you, on the way to something better. An album that revolves around the eternal struggle of being alive and preserving hope. Madsen describes the frail individual, that is continuously confronted with the world and its folly; the human which is bound to navigate through the wilderness of existence without a viable path, solely dependent on its own sensibility to find the way. Am I gonna pull through? Will I lose myself? Who will I become? And will you be there with me? The questions are numerous and in this sense 'Worried Kid' works as a catalogue of challenges, that a human is most likely to confront, overcome or succumb to.

In the same way as the record is characterized by the raw nature of the subject matter, the music, the performance and its aesthetics must necessarily possess an immediacy to fully realize the human potential in the themes at hand. Bellhound Choir's expression and approach originates in folk and blues - music, in which the bare necessities are the key value. Taking this stance as a point of departure, the eight songs of the album is performed live in the studio by Madsen with no overdubs - just a man, an instrument and a handful of songs for those who are able and daring enough to listen beyond the sparse surface. 'Worried Kid' is produced by Sebastian Wolff, front man in Kellermensch, who besides producing also contributes with vocals for a duet with Madsen on the album. The album is the first release on Madsens own newly formed label Salbar - an initiative, that shows an artist on his own road, doing things his way, while offering something unique to those who are willing to listen and be compelled by Bellhound Choir's stories of man and its path through life.