Premiere: Albon, ‘Big Sur Theme’

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Albon

Albon is the nom de tune of L.A.-based singer-songwriter Alexander B. Lappin, a native of suburban Chicago whose journeys, emotional and geographical, take flight in airy, gently orchestrated folk and psych-pop. His compositions have a left-field feel, like a gust of wind that breaks the still of an otherwise placid afternoon.

Lappin, who learned to play the guitar upside down and writes his songs backwards (a result, he reasons, of learning disabilities that included symptoms similar to ADHD), works slowly. He released the full-length “Plumblossums” in 2015, but now he’s plotting the Jan. 31 release of a new EP, “Dream Weaver/Bee Keeper,” made at the new Tropico Beauty studios in Glendale.

Embellished with strings, woodwind and hand percussion, the new single “Big Sur Theme” evokes the spectacular vistas of its title. The euphoria that comes with communing with nature shines in the song’s free-spirited flow.

“I wrote this song during a seven-day trip through Big Sur,” Lappin says. “After seeing the orcas, I was so overwhelmed with feeling that I kind of shut down. I’m pretty obsessed with whales and basically everything the water has to offer, so seeing the apex predator of the ocean was a big deal for me. The morning after seeing the orcas, I was in a small wooden sun-filled motel room in the middle of Big Sur. I was finally able to process the experience afterward and I began to write this song.”

||| Stream: “Big Sur Theme”

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