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out now: Stella Rose – Hollybaby EP [Kro Records]

Artist:
Stella Rose

Title:
Hollybaby EP

Label:
Kro Records

Cat#:
tba

Release Date:
13th December 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Hollybaby

02.
MS.45

03.
Beautiful Twentysomethings

04.
Drugstore Romeo

Press Info:
Today, Hollybaby is released via KRO Records, and is shared alongside a video for track “Beautiful Twenty Somethings.”

The writing process for Hollybaby saw Stella Rose differ from familiarity. Not only did she shift from her native New York to Los Angeles to complete her home recorded demos, she also adopted a more urgent style of writing, embracing time constraints and challenging herself to give her original ideas a “second life”.

Each day reached 100+ degrees as Hollybaby came together during the hottest week of the summer in LA. Both Stella Rose and her producer Yves fed off that uncomfortable heat in the studio, culminating in her loudest, rawest and arguably most entrancing material to date.

2024 has been a year of growth and transformation for Stella Rose, seeing her grow into an international fashion muse for houses like Ann D, Celine and EDR. She is receiving the full embrace of the booming underground scene in New York City, having recently performed at the very first show at the buzzy Hancock, frequented by Pretty Sick and The Dare. Having recently wrapped up a successful run of UK/EU tour dates with A Place To Bury Strangers, Stella Rose embarks on her latest chapter with the wind firmly in her sails.

With influences like Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, and evidently, her father Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, Stella Rose’s unapologetically expressive and alluring persona and lyrics are sure to captivate.

Full Track Streaming:

Videos:
“Beautiful Twentysomethings”

“Drugstore Romeo”

“MS. 45”

Recommendation:
Stella Rose’s “Eyes Of Glass” on Kro Records

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out now: Jan Wagner – Energie Braucht Zeit [Quiet Love Records]

Artist:
Jan Wagner

Title:
Energie Braucht Zeit

Label:
Quiet Love Records

Cat#:
QLR082

Release Date:
05th June 2024

Format:
download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Jan Wagner
Watch

02.
Jan Wagner
SFA

03.
Jan Wagner
Fall

04.
Jan Wagner
Overcome

05.
Jan Wagner & Tobias Preisig
Holy

06.
Jan Wagner & Aint About Me
Oblige

07.
Jan Wagner
Abend

08.
Jan Wagner
Spring

Press Info:
With his latest album, “Energie Braucht Zeit” (energy requires time), composer and pianist Jan Wagner concludes a trilogy of sonic meditations on the theme of loss, centered around the passing of his mother. With this installment, he addresses the concept of time: the foundational element of reality and the force ensuring the inevitable dissolution of all things. He proposes that it is the acceptance of this polarity that not only makes healing possible but also makes it impossible to align yourself with the vital energies within and around you without it. In other words, this music is a big and undeniable yes towards life, wrapped up in eight delicate compositions. Incandescent, full-bodied, tactile – this music oscillates between the gentle, serene, and somewhat spectral; and a rich gradient of forms pulsating, dancing, and ecstatic. The album features guest appearances from violinist Tobias Preisig and spoken word artist AINT ABOUT ME.

“When I started to work on this record, I felt like I had nothing to say. I also couldn’t touch the piano. What I realized was that the grief I felt after my mother passed away was entangled with the sound of the piano. On my first album (“Nummern”), I literally pressed my grief into the keys and made it resonate in the wooden body of this instrument. So every time I played it, I was transported back into that space. Then “Kapitel“, my second album, dealt with the aftermath. But I’ve moved on since. I had nothing more to add to what I had said on my previous records.

What I found was that the background noise, the so-called throwaway stuff of recording, sounded more interesting to me than the sound of the actual piano. In the beginning, I was using all these expensive mics, but eventually, I recorded with my phone or MacBook. Looking back on it, I think that I wanted to experience the distance between me and the piano, literally. So instead of recording the instrument, I started to record the room. And that’s when the record revealed itself to me, and everything started to fall into place. Synchronicities started to occur. For example, with the spoken word track featuring AINT ABOUT ME, I had a feeling I should drop the recording of his vocals into an instrumental composition I was working on at that time, and it worked without any adjustments! And not only that, but it put words to what I was feeling: that it was time to move on. It was not only time to accept the loss and own it but to accept all the beautiful things that life has been feeding me. When you look at the album cover, it’s that. It’s the commingling of tragedy and love, and specifically, this deep love for life that makes the picture complete.” — Jan Wagner

Snippets:
soon

Full Track Streaming:
“Holy” [w/ Tobias Preisig]

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Special:
“NovaFuture Blog Mix April 2020”

Recommendations:
“Kreuzberg 05 EP” by Answer Code Request x Jan Wagner on DEFTR
“Out Of EP” by Answer Code Request x Jan Wagner on DEFTR
“Yes I EP” by Answer Code Request x Jan Wagner on DEFTR
“Kapitel 30” by Jan Wagner featuring Rosa Anschütz on Quiet Love Records
Jan Wagner’s “Kapitel” on Quiet Love Records
Jan Wagner’s “Nummern” on Quiet Love Records
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out now: 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

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“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

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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”

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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
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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.

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