Albert Frost

Rocking the Blues for two decades! Albert Frost made a name for himself in the early nineties as the 15-year-old guitarist for the seminal band the Blues Broers.

He is an all-round master guitarist with a passion for music that reflects happiness over any audience and for lovers of all genres. He has performed and recorded with some of the world’s best musicians including Ali Farka Toure, Vusi Mahlasela, Arno Carstens, Koos Kombuis, Valiant Swart, Riku Latti, Louis Mhlanga and Simon Orange. He has shared stages with The Rolling Stones, R.E.M. and Simple Minds and performed for Nelson Mandela. Alongside Arno Carstens, he shared the stage with Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and the Pixies.

He’s played all major festivals in South Africa as well as having had the honour of performing solo at the famed Isle Of Wight festival, where he also did a collaboration with James Walsh from ‘Starsailor’. He’s played 11 Grahamstown Festivals, 8 Oudtshoorn KKNK festivals, 6 years at Aardklop, did a 4th performance at Woodstock, Splashy Fen – and incredibly, 2009 year marked Albert’s 23rd Oppikoppi Festival performance.

He effects success into the albums of many artists and is loved by crowds all over the world. Frost has just released his first solo studio recorded EP, “Devils & Gods” and plans for 2010 are focused on re-inventing himself as a solo artist.

He relocated his family from Johannesburg back to Cape Town in January and he’s currently working on new material and with the latest South African super-group, “The Gods”, whom you’ll be able to see at the Up The Creek festival in February.

“The music could speak volumes more, but the man (Albert Frost) is a veritable living legend at 30 and fondly dubbed “SA’s best blues guitarist” by way too many people to be denied a bit of hero worship” – Jess Mitrani – Levi’s Music Mag 2008

Albert Frost started playing the guitar in 1990, when he’d barely turned 13. He was voted as Best Blues guitarist in South Africa by Stage Magazine. This fact, however, shouldn’t let you underestimate the man’s serious Rock abilities.

In 1994 he started playing alongside his father, the legendary Frank D. Frost, in the awesome blues band, the Blues Broers. Frosted Orange was created in 1996 with artist Simon Orange, who played keyboards and vocals for the Blues Broers.

Albert performed with Valiant Swart from 1999 to 2003 and recorded Blou Kombuis with Koos Kombuis in 2000. In 2004, he played with the Belgian band, Blues Lee at the internationally acclaimed music festival, Pukkelpop, in Belgium. Daniel Lohues, an international blues performer from Holland, collaborated with Albert at an electrifying Oppikoppi show during the same year.

Recording a live solo album in 2002, titled Catfish, created a new spectrum with his performances of original songs and Frost-versions of the classics from Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters to name a few. Albert is a mood-man who can perform intimate solo shows and an electrifying fusion of blues and rock and roll funk with his Trio band.

Arno Carstens’ New Porn was formed in 2003 when Albert joined forces with Arno Carstens (Springbok Nude Girls) Albert collaborated with Arno in the making of both Arno’s solo albums, on lyrics and in defining the essence of how the album sounds. “Another Universe” went gold and Arno won Best Rock Album Award at the SAMA Awards in the same month they supported REM on their world tour in March 2005. He brought a raw quality to the music and his extended blues background gave it a delicious flavour. With the successes of the Internationally released, “The Hello Goodbye Boys”, he spent most of 2006 and 2007 touring with some of South Africa’s finest musicians, the legendary Brendan Jury (Urban Creep & Transky) on strings and keyboard, Jerome Reynard (OHM & Nine) on drums and Warren Leicher (Plum) on bass guitar.

2008 saw the release of folkrock singer Myburgh’s debut album, Woestyn, an album that Albert produced. Myburgh and Albert were at school together in Somerset West. They had a band called The Fauves and were in later years the original founders of the infamous (now not so very) South African band, Dorp.

His first solo studio album, “Devils and Gods” was released in 2009 on Seed and is available in stores now!

The music video of the title track, “Devils & Gods” was voted one of the Top 5 downloads for 2009 by Mail & Guardian in December of the same year.

FHM, NOVEMBER 2009 – “Frost has brought his voice a long way since his first solo album way back in 2002. It’s more refined and melodic, complementing his bluesy rock tunes, although this six track album exposes his ability to mould influences from Jazz and Funk. The title track borders on grundge, just to keep things interesting. Overall it’s way too short, but that’s okay. We’ll put it on repeat.”

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