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The first single from the new album "Love Letters"
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We Fall In Love (Single Edit)

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From debut album 'Mosaic' 
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Mixed by Thijs van der Klugt
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My Money Is On You

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Written by Sue the Night
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Mastered by Joe Lambert at JLM NYC

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'Meet In The Middle' is taken from Ta-ku & Wafia's collaborative (m)edian EP, out now on Future Classic. 

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Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

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For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home.

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America.

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees.

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.

IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid: ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning II (with Robert De Niro)

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"Thought Forms - Forget My Name" taken from forthcoming album "Songs About Drowning".

Thought Forms - Forget My Name

Murmuration Season is the second EP by Alcuna Wilds. 'Faithless' is the first single of the EP. 

Alcuna Wilds is: Nadja Freeman, Pete Barnes, Jordy Pama & Simon Hölscher

2 To Be Let Go

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headline dates:
15/11 – antwerpen, BEL – muziekcentrum trix
16/11 – maastricht, NED – muziekgieterij
17/11 – den haag, NED – paard van troje
18/11 – arnhem, NED – luxor live
21/11 – london, UK – the lexington
22/11 – paris, FRA – le pop up du label
25/11 – bologna, ITA – covo club
26/11 – milan, ITA – dude club
27/11 – zurich, SWI – mascotte
28/11 – luzern, SWI – schüür
30/11 – berlin, GER – kantine am berghain
1/12 – prague, CZE – chapeau rogue
2/12 – munchen, GER – milla club
3/12 – leipzig, GER – neues schauspiel
6/12 – hamburg, GER – prinzenbar
7/12 – groningen, NED – vera
8/12 – tilburg, NED – 013
30/12 – amsterdam, NED – paradiso

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Alcuna Wilds was a British/Dutch band based in the Netherlands. The band created atmospheric trip-rock music, combining ambient soundscapes, driving beats and strong melodic riffs, with rich, melancholic vocals and observant, reflective lyrics. Formed of members from both sides of the North Sea, their diverse influences contributed to their distinctive sound. Their last EP ‘Nothing Is Nothing’ was released on 25th January 2019.

Between 2015 and 2020 the band chalked up more than 100 shows throughout the Netherlands, UK, Germany and Belgium. These included performances at some of the Netherlands’ top music venues, such as AFAS Live (Amsterdam), Vera (Groningen), Patronaat (Haarlem), Ekko (Utrecht) and Hedon (Zwolle), and at festivals such as Greenbelt Festival (UK), Stroud Fringe Festival (UK), Bevrijdingsfestival Amsterdam (NL), La Truite Magique (BE), Surfana (NL), and Popronde (NL). The band supported national and international acts, such as Sigur Ros (IS), Still Corners (UK), Gallops (UK), Thought Forms (UK), Dralms (CA), Sea Change (NO), Tears & Marble (NL) and Throws (UK). In January 2019 the band were invited to perform at the European showcase festival Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen to promote their new EP.

Members
Nadja Freeman (UK) vocals, synths; Pete Barnes (UK) on guitar; Sjoerd Tieleman (NL) on bass and synths and Sjaak van Dam (NL) on drums and samples.

QUOTES:
“...the end of the performance is a hurricane of sound. The band holds out to the very last second squeezing out every last drop of energy.”  - 3voor12 Utrecht, the Netherlands

“Tousle haired Nadja has a dreamy voice drenched in the same warm moonlight and starlight rays as Beth Gibbons, Margo Timmins and Hope Sandoval.” - Birmingham Live, U.K.

"...a unique and mature sound...exciting use of soundscapes and vocals promises a lot for the future." - Liberation Day Festival, the Netherlands

“Each member of the band is clearly skilled in their area, but like in so many art works it’s the coming together which yields the true beauty. The seamless union of technology and human artistry produced a mesmerizing performance.” - Bath Gigs, U.K.

2 To Be Let Go

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