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April 17, 2019 For Immediate Release Listen To Claude Fontaine’s New Single, “I’ll Play The Fool” , From Debut, Self Titled Album Out April 26th On InnovaGve Leisure (photo credit: Ma< Correia) “If you love a good Jamaican-inspired beat, then Claude Fontaine will have you hooked from the jump.” — Refinery29 “'Claude Fontaine’ promises 10 tracks of arQul reverence and tasteful reimagining of globetroRng sounds.” — Noisey “The Los Angeles-based Fontaine is preparing for the release of her debut album […] ‘Cry for Another’ is a wonderful early warning.” — Los Angeles Times Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter Claude Fontaine will release her debut, self-Ytled album on April 26th via InnovaGve Leisure. Following “Hot Tears”, which Refinery29 described as fusing Fontaine’s “French-chanteuse sounding vocals with classic Jamaican drums and dancehall trumpet,” Fontaine is pleased to share “I’ll Play The Fool,” a Bossa Nova-inflected preview of the album’s Brazilian-inspired b-side. Claude Fontaine was tracked in two potent sessions with guitarist Tony Chin, whose playing with Althea and Donna, King Tubby, Dennis Brown and so many more very arguably defined a significant part of the classic reggae
