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out soon: Louis Carnell – 111 [Mute]

Artist:
Louis Carnell

Title:
111

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM507

Release Date:
23rd April 2024

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Louis Carnell & Yara Asmar
Four

A2.
Louis Carnell & Okkyung Lee
Seven

A3.
Louis Carnell & Daniel Miller
Ten

A4.
Louis Carnell & Leila
Thirteen

B1.
Louis Carnell & Lee Ranaldo
Two

B2.
Louis Carnell & Coby Sey
Five

B3.
Louis Carnell & Laraaji
Eleven

B4.
Louis Carnell & Nailah Hunter
Fourteen

C1.
Louis Carnell & Ben Vince
Three

C2.
Louis Carnell & Kmru
Six

C3.
Louis Carnell & Green-House
Nine

C4.
Louis Carnell & Marta De Pascalis
Twelve

D1.
Louis Carnell & Keeley Forsyth
One

D2.
Louis Carnell & Wu-Lu
Eight

D3.
Louis Carnell & Damsel Elysium
Fifteen

Press Info:
Louis Carnell has announced details of a 15-track double vinyl release that will collate all of the tracks that comprise his 111 series. The series, which started in 2023, has so far seen Keeley Forsyth, Lee Ranaldo, Ben Vince, Yasa Asmar, Coby Sey, KMRU, Okkyung Lee, Wu-Lu and Green-House collaborate on tracks that have been released every three weeks and will continue to do so until beyond vinyl release date.

111 is curatorial statement, drawing on visual, recorded and live performance with collaborations still to come from Laraaji, Marta De Pascalis, Leila, Nailah Hunter and Damsel Elysium. Each piece is accompanied by one of three visual works by Arcin Sagdic (Maison Margiela, COMME des GARÇONS, Burberry) and Louis Carnell.

Carnell explains the project, “As the engine of modern life funnels us into states of loss and isolation, 111 aims at a utopian poetics of hope. Re-aligning connections by exploring mutual spaces 111 attempts to empower its listener & forms an equivalent environment for each collaboration.

Each artist that features on 111 has provided me with multiple moments of solitude and resilience & I’m thankful to them all.

Visually there are no obvious signifiers of hope, a reflection on the feeling or practice is individual to its arbitrator, but in their existence, we form a foundation of promise & possibility.”

His meticulous attention to the visual world has resulted in collaborations with Arcin

Sagdic, Daniel Sannwald, Frederik Heyman and Peter De Potter, and recent 111 events have included performances at Café OTO and Stoke Newington Old Church in London and the Volksbühne in Berlin.

Snippets:
soon

Videos:
“Eleven” w/ Laraaji

“Ten” w/ Daniel Miller

“Nine” w/ Green-House

“Eight” w/ Wu-Lu

“Seven” w/ Okkyung Lee

“Six” w/ KMRU

“Five” w/ Coby Sey

“Three” w/ Ben Vince

“Two” w/ Lee Ranaldo

“One” w/ Keeley Forsyth

more soon

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Louis Carnell @ Bandcamp
Juno
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Louis Carnell @ Bandcamp
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soon

Booking:
Potnia Theron for Louis Carnell

Websites:
Louis Carnell
Mute
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Mute Deutschland @ Threads

out now: K Á R Y Y N – The Real [Mute]

Artist:
K Á R Y Y N

Title:
The Real

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
I2MUTE635

Release Date:
21st February 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
The Real

Press Info:
Armenian-American vocalist, songwriter, composer/producer and multimedia artist KÁRYYN announces the first single ‘the REAL’, taken from her just announced Calm KAOSS! EP, due for release via Mute on 22 May 2024.

Born in the prolific period following her European tour, Calm KAOSS! was created in partnership with British record producer James Ford (Blur, Haim, Gorillaz, Depeche Mode, Florence & The Machine). The project sees KÁRYYN commune with her past, present and future selves, traveling through time to reveal transformative premonitions from the future in scientific and spiritual language.

On the EP’s lead single ‘the REAL’, KÁRYYN steadies herself in humility and a newfound power. One of the first productions from her collaboration with James Ford, the song strips away at posturing and ego, reminding us that we are all one consciousness. The song is steeped in the Sumerian poem The Descent of Inanna — a tale of a goddess who enters the realm of death in search of wisdom — and themes from the Vedic text The Upanishads, which declares: “[o]neself is a world for all beings.”

“I’ve always been an I to We person,” she notes. “What excites me is collaboration.” The track shines with both producers’ transcendent chemistry, building a limitless recording space where KÁRYYN’s vision can come to life. “There is no other,” she reminds us. “We are all reflecting one another.”

Snippets:

Video:
“The Real”

Special:
“Boiler Room x VIVA! Festival”

Recommendations:
K Á R Y Y N’s “Anthem For Those Who Know” on Mute
K Á R Y Y N’s “The Quanta Series” on Mute
all stuff on Mute we featured

Buy Download:
K Á R Y Y N @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
JunoDownload
Beatport
Bleep
Clone Digital
more soon

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Qobuz
Spotify
Deezer
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Websites:
K Á R Y Y N
Mute
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out for a while: Lost Under Heaven – Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing [Mute]

Artist:
Lost Under Heaven

Title:
Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM388

Release Date:
06th May 2016

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
I&I

02.
Unites

03.
Beneath The Concrete

04.
Future Blues

05.
Someday Come

06.
$ORO

07.
Here Our Moment Ends

08.
Loyalty

09.
Lost Under Heaven

10.
First Eye To The New Sky

11.
Lament

12.
The Great Longing

Press Info:
LUH began 2016 by releasing ‘I&I’, a song about daybreak, new beginnings and fresh starts and with a sound so bold and unflinching, it served as perfect way to describe the shape of things to come.

Today they announce details of the their debut album ‘Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing’ available for pre-order now and out on 6 May 2016 on Mute. The album was produced by The Haxan Cloak (known for his own genre-bending experimental compositions and work on Björk’s Vulnicura album) on the remote island of Osea.

LUH (which stands for Lost Under Heaven) is Ellery Roberts and Ebony Hoorn. Over the past two years, they have been releasing music, art, photography, film and manifestos into the world, including 2014’s ‘Unites’ video and the expansive ‘Lost Under Heaven’ music and artwork package at the end of last year.

Ellery’s name might be familiar as the frontman of WU LYF, whose raw and primal voice helped create a sound that shaped a new model for the untamed fury of youth. Ebony is an audio-visual artist based in Amsterdam, where the pair now live, and co-directed the new video for ‘I&I’ with Florian Joahn.

Following a successful run of shows across Europe in February and March – LUH have now announced new live dates. Full details below, tickets are on sale on Wednesday 9 March at 10am.

Snippets:

Trailer:

Videos:
“I&I”

“Lament”

Video Special:
“Live On KEXP”

Recommendations:
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WOM
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Bleep
Rough Trade
Juno
Decks
WOM
HHV
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Lost Under Heaven @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
iTunes
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Spotify
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Websites:
Lost Under Heaven
Mute
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Mute Deutschland @ Mastodon

out now: K Á R Y Y N – Anthem For Those Who Know [Mute]

Artist:
K Á R Y Y N

Title:
Anthem For Those Who Know

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE671

Release Date:
10th January 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Anthem For Those Who Know

Press Info:
Armenian-American vocalist, songwriter, videographer and composer/producer KÁRYYN shares her first new song in four years, ‘Anthem For Those Who Know’. The single was co-produced with Hudson Mohawke and is out now on Mute.

“I wanted to give this song to you now because I think it speaks to the moment. It’s about standing up with the magnitude of peace in the face of violence of any kind. This was my own personal protest song for the last few years, for myself and for my life.

The message of this song is about liberation; personal and collective. My hope is that it inspires strength in anyone who needs it, to speak truth to power, and cut through bullshit and illusions to say: “I’m not going to let fear imprison or silence me.”

I know what it’s like to be alone and afraid of being punished for speaking up. I also know the immense freedom that arises from embracing your worth & using your voice for the truth.

If nothing else, know that you’re not alone, and if no one else knows, I know.”

— KÁRYYN

In communing with her past, present and future selves, KÁRYYN reaches through time to tell stories of her lineage in scientific and spiritual language; childhood summers in Syria and winters in Indiana. Her debut project The QUANTA Series saw her explore her own past to dizzying effect, bringing acclaim in the press (Pitchfork, WIRED, The Guardian, DAZED, Fact, i-D) and a cult audience of fans and fellow artists (Björk, Actress, Hudson Mohawke) alike.

As KÁRYYN readies new music for the year ahead, she first offers this rallying cry to see if it can be put to use personally and collectively.

Full Track Streaming:
“Anthem For Those Who Know”

Special:
“Boiler Room x VIVA! Festival”

Recommendations:
K Á R Y Y N’s “The Quanta Series” on Mute
all stuff on Mute we featured

Buy Download:
K Á R Y Y N @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
JunoDownload
Beatport
iTunes
Bleep
Mute
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Spotify
Deezer
Apple Music
Youtube Music

Websites:
K Á R Y Y N
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Facebook
Mute Deutschland @ Mastodon

out for a while: K Á R Y Y N – The Quanta Series [Mute]

Artist:
K Á R Y Y N

Title:
The Quanta Series

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM437

Release Date:
29th March 2019

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Ever

02.
Yajna

03.
Purgatory

04.
Binary

05.
Ambets Gorav

06.
Un-c2-See

07.
Mirror Me

08.
Cytokinesis

09.
Aleppo

10.
Today I Read Your Life Story 11 11

11.
Segment & The Line

Press Info:
Multi-disciplinary artist, composer and vocalist K Á R Y Y N today shares details of her forthcoming debut album ‘THE QUANTA SERIES’. The album will be available from 29 March 2019 on Mute. Alongside today’s announcement, K Á R Y Y N shares a new edit of her single ‘EVER’, available to buy and stream on all partners. Listen below…

Written and recorded over a seven-year period, ‘THE QUANTA SERIES’ tracks K Á R Y Y N’s movements across continents on a voyage of self-examination. Beginning in 2011 following the death of two relatives in Aleppo, K Á R Y Y N left her native LA for Cherry Valley, upstate New York to process her grief in seclusion. During the 18 months she lived in Cherry Valley, K Á R Y Y N wrote two songs for ‘THE QUANTA SERIES’.

The first was a visceral, emotional piece recorded in one take called ‘TODAY I READ YOUR LIFE STORY 11:11’. The second, a musing on impermanence and understanding the impact of our choices called ‘SEGMENT & THE LINE’. Over the years that followed, K Á R Y Y N spent time living in Berlin where she wrote ‘PURGATORY’, a song inspired by a memory from her childhood spent in the Forty Mountains of Idlib province in Syria.

As she travelled, she found inspiration everywhere, leaning into her own familial legacy, feelings of grief and love and observations on human interaction. A deep connection to her lineage is a concurrent theme in K Á R Y Y N’s work, with an interpretation of traditional Armenian folk song ‘AMBETS GORAV’ present on the album plus a beautiful choral patchwork called ‘MIRROR ME’ providing an introspective break in the album – a track about “facing yourself, the good, the bad; searching for the parts in us that have been lost.”

After a steady drip feed of songs released to widespread acclaim, including ‘ALEPPO’ and ‘BINARY’, the first two singles released under her artist moniker in 2017, ‘THE QUANTA SERIES’ will soon be available digitally and on vinyl via electronic music powerhouse Mute. The album’s full tracklist is below. In addition to the album, K Á R Y Y N today announces her upcoming tour with Mute labelmate Apparat. Beginning in Munich, the tour covers seven cities including a performance at London’s Barbican on April 27th with full details below.

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