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Accolades
"Follow Your Bliss" named to Broadjam's Classic Rock Top 10!
"Something New" named to Broadjam's Classic Rock Top 10!
"Love's Face" named to Broadjam's Modern Rock Top 10 FIVE TIMES!
"The Pure Thing" named to Broadjam's Folk Rock Top 10!

Press
"...soothingly romantic to romantically defiant and always witty... (Al) has a
penchant for saying what most people think about everyday issues in
an off-beat, slightly sarcastic way." - All Access Magazine

Airplay

“Born To Be Your Man” played on KCLC/St. Louis, MO
“John Wayne” played on KCSN/Los Angeles, CA
“The Pure Thing” played on KCLC/St. Louis, MO
“Mystery Song ” played on Radio Paradise Dot Com

Man Quits Job, Sells House, Goes to Jungle, Releases CD

PORTLAND, OR (Oct. 2007): It’s not every day that a well-paid corporate man quits his job, becomes a full-time singer-songwriter, and then sells his house to go on a personal pilgrimage in South and Central America, but that’s what Al Polito did. Then he released an album reflecting his experience.

The Fall of Man, Al Polito’s third CD, is a collection of songs filling in the details of the artist’s personal “Saturn Return,” or the time in a person’s life when he or she comes to terms and embraces who he or she truly is.

In-between the time he quit his job and the time he received shipment of The Fall of Man, Polito quit his technical writing job, took on music full-time, studied shamanism and Tantra (a form of Indian mysticism that views physical pleasure as a legitimate pathway to God), recorded the CD, sold his home in Los Angeles, traveled to Peru to further his studies in Shamanism and organize a fish farm in the rainforest, and then moved to Portland, OR.

“I don’t do life half-way anymore,” Polito acknowledges. “I believe life is meant to be lived fully. I try to live by the commandment, ‘Thou Shalt Not Bore The Lord Thy God.’”

The Fall of Man is Polito’s most overtly spiritual album to date. “Such Is My Love” and “I Need You Now” are both “messy prayers,” according to Polito. “Raise My Sail” and “Follow Your Bliss” take on the proverbial leap of faith into the unknown, and “Farther I Go” expresses the wonder of a life spent pushing one’s own spiritual limitations past the point of no return. The sitar-laden “Temple Door” is what Polito calls a “lusty devotional” inspired by tantric experience.

The CD’s most blatantly spiritual track, “That’s Why I Love God,” uses the traditional country/western style to disassociate faith with traditional Christian values. Polito compares God to an exotic dancer: “If God were a dancer, I would worship as the clothes fell to her feet. She would empty out my pockets, laugh and give my money back to me.” Polito comments: “I’ve long thought that if God were my best friend I could take him to a strip club. This song is my manifesto about God – the God that made me love to look at a pole dancer or a giant redwood, or even to see myself with the wondrous eyes I believe God sees each of us with.”

The Fall of Man was co-produced by Polito and Scotty Manzo, an in-demand session bassist who sometimes plays for Three Dog Night. Polito and Manzo assembled a who’s who of Los Angeles studio greats, including drummer Chet McCracken (Doobie Bros.) keyboardist “JT” Thomas (Bruce Hornsby, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt), Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night) and pedal steel player Doug Livingston (George Strait, Randy Newman).

The Fall of Man is currently available on CDBaby.com and at Polito’s live shows.