CELEBRATED AMERICANA ARTIST MUHAMMAD SEVEN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, NEW PODCAST AND THE RELEASE OF DEBUT SINGLE BABY I AIN’T FROM NOWHERE ON AUGUST 25

Boston, MA (via Seneca Falls, NY) - Live Arts Boston award winner Muhammad Seven and his band The Spring have announced the August release of the first single from their highly anticipated new album, Temples Out Of Joy (Studio In A Bowl Records). Temples Out Of Joy is the follow up to the band’s self-titled 2019 debut, which got accolades from Vanyaland, DigBoston, The Harvard Gazette, Red Line Roots, The JP Gazette, The Dorchester Reporter and the Radio 8Ball Podcast (links here).

After receiving a Live Arts Boston grant in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, Muhammad Seven got the news that his father had died in his home country of Iran, stuck there for 18 months after the airlines shut down while on a short family visit. Thus, after spending three years working to record the band’s next album, Temples Out Of Joy took on a new hue.

M7’s debut album had wrestled with notions of class struggle, dignity and the meaning of home. During the pandemic, M7 & The Spring worked with the teen choir of the Boston City Singers to make a video that featured 27 artists all singing remotely from their homes in lock-down, condemning racist police violence in the United States - a song written by M7 titled “In The Name of Amadou Diallo”.

Having accumulated more than three album’s worth of new songs since the release of his debut, M7 and producer Colin Lester Fleming combed through his notebooks to make a new collection that explored hope, honesty and the many faces of love. The tracks also embraced his life as a blue collar worker and union leader on the grounds crew of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. In March 2022, M7 spent a week living with a collection of band mates past and present at Great North Sound recording studio, an old farmhouse-turned-studio in southern Maine, and on August 25 2023 he’ll release the debut single, “Baby I Ain’t From Nowhere” (click here for unreleased Soundcloud Link. Wide release 8/25/23)

“Baby I Ain’t From Nowhere” features gorgeous organ work from Great North Sound studio owner Sam Kassirer and harmony vocals from Kelly Jo Reed, and is M7’s most personal song to date. It is both a love song written for his wife, chronicaling their 25 year relationship and the birth of their son, but it also asks the question “if you have no home town, where are you actually from?” The droning organ holds an almost spiritual space for M7’s raw vocal poetry and KJR’s gorgeous harmonic palette. The album features band co-founder Patrick Mussari on lead guitar in addition to a list of gorgeously talented musicians.

A year after the death of his father, M7 and his wife and son left Boston (their home of 25 years) for central New York, where his father Dariush had lived. Given M7’s decade long struggle with chronic illness (which he wrote about in the song “Welcome Every Breath”, 2019) the move to a smaller town with a slower pace opened up oppertunities for healing and more time for his career as an artist.

On August 1, 2023 M7 released the first episode of his new song writing podcast We Flew Off The Page, where each episode M7 interviews a great songwriter, talks craft and dives deep into two of their songs. The first episode features indie darling Mirah and subsquent episodes will feature Boston’s own Moe Pope of STL GLD, Peter Mulvey, Chris Sand and Austin MacRae. The podcast goes hand in hand with M7’s work teaching songwriting at his local library and in private lessons.

For press information about Muhammad Seven & the Spring, please contact Nima Samimi at nimasamimi@gmail.com (617) 780-7688

Muhammad Seven is based in Seneca Falls, NY.

Bio

Muhammad Seven is a blue collar Americana singer-songwriter hailing from Boston, MA and currently living in the Finger Lakes region of New York. The son of an Iranian immigrant father and French-Canadian mother, he and his music were born in the fallout of the '79 Islamic Revolution and the Regan/Bush era, and draw influences from '60s protest music, '70s rock and roll, '80s pop, '90s hip hop and 20th century folk.

Release Schedule

Lead Single “Baby I Ain’t From Nowhere” Release Date: 8/25/23

(click for PDF press release)

Second Single Release Date: 9/29/23

Vinyl Record Release Date: TBA

Full Album Release Date: TBA

“Temples Out OF Joy”

TRACK LISTING:

(* Target Tracks)

1. Journeyman (1:32)

2. Bittersweet (3:02)

3. Elements (3:27)

4. Medicine (3:29)

5. Baby I Ain’t From Nowhere* (4:26)

6. The Moon (4:34)

7. Blue Collar Math (3:08)

8. It’s So Hard To Write A Love Song (3:30)

9. Always You And I (4:33)

10. Things We Lost In The Fire (3:58)

10. To Love A Man (4:04)

10. Every Bump In The Road (4:02)

Muhammad Seven

vocals, actoustic guitar

Patrick Mussari

Electric Guitar

Colin Flemming

drums

Sam Kassierer

keys

Produced by Colin Lester Fleming at Great North Sound Society

PRAISE FOR

MUHAMMAD SEVEN & THE SPRING

“Muhammad Seven IS folk music.”

Amanda Shires

“Resplendently crafted and elegantly simple…undertones of struggle and adversity are buoyed by notions of hope.” Andy Kaufmann, Music Connection

“Equals parts dogged and delicate.” Victoria Wasylak, Vanyaland.

“A lush, polished Americana album.” Daniel Sheehan, The Dorchester Reporter

“Muhammad Seven & The Spring’s debut release is bold, loving, and extremely human.” Amanda McColgan, Ten Miles, MA