Album Notes

DEBUT ALBUM 'STATE OF MIND' OUT JUNE 7 ON MANHATTAN/EMI

In a recent rave about Manhattan/EMI recording artist Raul Midon, Billboard's Melinda Newman predicted "get a little wind under these wings and [Raul] is going to take off." Over a month before his debut album 'State Of Mind' (Manhattan/EMI, June 7) hits stores, that wind is approaching gale force.

And the rest of the country will get a glimpse of Midon's "guitar fireworks and Stevie Wonder-inspired song sense" (LA Times) on June 30 when he makes his national television debut on The Late Show with David Letterman.

Midon has been drawing ecstatic, sell-out crowds for his club shows in NYC lately. Time Out NY observed that "Raul Midon has won an eager cult with his mellifluous vocals and nimble, percussive guitar work." Those traits are on full display on 'State of Mind,' an album that doesn't so much mix genres as ignore their constraints entirely. Midon thinks nothing of segueing from the exuberant melodic pop of "Sunshine" into the cookin' Afro-Cuban flute-and-percussion workout of "I Would Do Anything," then doubling back to the tranquil, imagistic ballad "All In Your Mind."

Midon may blur genres with abandon, but he delivers his message - live for today, see the beauty that's all around you - with powerful clarity. He arrived at these tenets through his own personal experience. Blind from birth, Midon grew up in the small town of Embudo, NM. His mother died when Raul and his identical twin brother were very young, but his father, an accomplished, Argentinean-born dancer, instilled a love of music in his sons from a early age.

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