LA Times Article On Duncan Sheik Legerdemain Release

Oct 9 Release Date On Kobalt Records

Duncan Sheik and Michael Tudor started making this record in 2011. Five years in the making and we have an opus of 16 songs born of two inspirations…

So, working in his secluded studio in upstate New York, he hauled out his dusty gear and started dabbling. The initial results were iffy. “I sent some stuff to my friend Dave Dresden,” a DJ who’d remixed a single from Sheik’s 2002 album “Daylight,” “and he was basically, like, ‘Eh, no — not really cutting it,'” the singer said. But Sheik was inspired; he committed himself to learning to use Ableton, the music-production software, and set about “creating this weird hybrid of dance music and song.”