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To say that 27-year-old Willis Earl Beal has lived a colourful life would be a serious understatement. The Chicago native will tell you that his life has been one of "monotony" - which it has at times - but stints in the army, an ongoing desire to be a superhero, bouts of serious illness and a stretch of sleeping rough in an unfamiliar desert town would suggest otherwise. As an outsider artist, Beal's career always existed just beyond his imagination, with a history of leaving homemade novels, artwork and CD-Rs across America to promote his work, suggesting a desperate desire to be heard. This practice of "gifting" - matched with a natural booming voice, rich with range and a talent for penning raw, beautiful melodies - led to early features in both Found and the Chicago Reader that changed his life's course. Beal's creativity caught the attention of Hot Charity / XL Recordings who released Acousmatic Sorcery in March, 2012 - an 11 song set Beal wrote and recorded on a discarded karaoke machine while living in Albuquerque, NM. Since the release of Acousmatic Sorcery, Willis Earl Beal has toured the world, performing in clubs and festivals with nothing more than his guitar and back-up tape machine to support him. Delivering soul baring performances night after night, Beal has been lauded for not only his vocal mastery but the intensity with which he performs. And, even though his following has grown and the broadsheets have backed him, his desire to be heard on his own terms has not changed - which is why he's collaborating with BitTorrent to continue his practice of "gifting" music to the world for the curious to discover.

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CATCH WILLIS EARL BEAL ON HIS NORTH AMERICAN 'PRINCIPLES OF A PROTAGONIST' TOUR THIS OCTOBER

1 October @ The Drake Toronto, ON - Tickets available at Rotate This and Soundscapes 2 October @ Il Motore Montreal, QC - Buy Tickets 3 October @ TT the Bears Cambridge, MA - Buy Tickets 5 October @ Milkboy Philadelphia, PA - Buy Tickets 6 October @ Red Palace Washington, DC - Buy Tickets 9 October @ Bowery Ballroom New York, NY - Buy Tickets 13 October @ Lamberts Austin, TX - Buy Tickets 14 October @ Austin City Limits Festival Austin, TX - SOLD OUT 17 October @ Casbah San Diego, CA - Buy Tickets 18 October @ The Echo Los Angeles, CA - Buy Tickets 20 October @ Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, CA - Buy Tickets 22 October @ Mississippi Studios Portland, OR - Buy Tickets
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Originally written in the summer of 2010, amidst heartbreak and unemployment, Willis Earl Beal's Principles of a Protagonist novella was first released as a photocopied booklet that Beal distributed throughout Chicago. The story - as biographical as it is fantastical - loosely revolves around a Beal-like protagonist that wanders through Chicago, waiting for the apocalypse to come. Given a second life as an integrated 48 page supplement to Beal's 2012 debut album Acousmatic Sorcery on Hot Charity / XL Recordings, the novella has now been turned into a shortanimated film comprised of new, highly detailed illustrations created by Beal and re-recorded songs from Acousmatic Sorcery which serve as the film's soundtrack.

23 October @ Barboza Seattle, WA - Buy Tickets 24 October @ Electric Owl Vancouver, BC - Buy Tickets

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