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Title - [NOT HERE] New Unknown
Artist - Hundred Watt Heart

Today, “Captain” Kirk Douglas releases his third solo single of the year “Breathe In” with his second full-length solo album, New Unknown under the name Hundred Watt Heart out now (November 4th, 2022).

Listen to “Breathe In” HERE.

“Breathe In” is a stripped-down, psychedelic track full of introspection. It begins with a military-style drum roll and lithely picked melodic guitar and orchestral strings, in-part performed by Peter Readman.

The idea came to Kirk during the height of of the pandemic, as an ode to self-meditation as he sings on the chorus, “Breathe in Breathe out, It all comes to an end, Within without, It all begins again.”

“It speaks on how to manage one’s emotions through difficult moments,” Kirk says about the song, “A lot of people experienced trauma over the past few years. There were divisions in families, friendships, and relationships. However, it brought up the need to do internal healing. All of the other drugs and medicines weren’t working. We’ve got to return to the body’s self-healing abilities through breath. Music is a great healer.”

“Breathe In” follows on the heels of two critically acclaimed singles. He kicked off this year’s solo endeavors with, “We Can Be One,” which features a wah-pedal drenched funk riff, simmering beat, and boisterous horn section alongside a trippy music video directed by Alexander Fischetti.

American Songwriter called the single “soul-shaking,” while WXPN raved “we can be assured [the album is] something to look forward to.” Meanwhile, rock-forward single, “Over The Ocean,” was called a “terrific display of Douglas’s riff-writing talent” by Guitar World.

1. Breathe In
2. Land Of Look Beyond
3. Ain’t No High
4. Illuminate
5. We Can Be One
6. Over The Ocean
7. Breath Of Life
8. Neverending
9. Alone
10. Retaliate

This oh-so pure, magnificently cultured and jubilantly profound new album opens on the rhythmically free flowing Breath In and the languishingly organic Land Of Look Beyond and then we get the veritably ethereal, shimmering Ain’t No High, the ornate gossamer, at first, the Kravitz-esque rock later of Illuminate and then we are brought forth the funk-rock vibe of We Can Be One.

Up next on this sumptuous creation of organic rock music delivered with power and grace, is one of my own personal favorites on this new recording, the exuberantly enthusiastic Over The Ocean which is in turn followed by the percussion-imbued, layered rock of the instrumental Breath Of Life, the blistering, Hendrix-esque Neverending, the album rounding out with the graceful balladry found within Alone, closing on the blues-rock of Retaliate.

Audiences worldwide recognize “Captain” Kirk Douglas’s scorching singular style as a six-string powerhouse. Joining The Roots back in 2003, he has supplied guitar and background vocals for a series of critically acclaimed Top 10 albums on the Billboard Top 200, including The Tipping Point [2004], Game Theory [2006], Rising Down [2008], How I Got Over [2010], and Wake Up! [2010] with John Legend.

The latter garnered a pair of GRAMMY® Awards, namely “Best R&B Album” and “Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance” for “Hang On In There.” In addition, his guitar powered The Roots’s tastemaker-approved …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin in 2014.

Between countless sold-out live shows, he holds down guitar duties for the band nightly on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He also notably forces with Gibson Guitars to release his own signature SG model.

Inciting widespread applause, Guitar Player has celebrated Kirk’s “blazing fretboard work,” and American Songwriter noted, “His wild, bending solos careen off the staccato, precise drum fills from the group’s leader and drummer, Questlove.”

Recorded at Electric Ladyland Studios, he dropped his debut Turbulent Times under the moniker Hundred Watt Heart. Of the latter, Rolling Stone applauded his “melodies that range from contemplative, blues-tipped and soulful to raw and raucous.”

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