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Artist:  Felix Laband
Album:  The Soft White Hand
Catalog No.:  CPT605-1 / -2 / -3
Format:  2-LP incl. download / CD / digital
Barcode / Format:
673794260518 > 2-LP incl. Download
673794260525 > CD
673794260532 > Digital

Tracklisting:
1. “Dreaming In Johannesburg (04:30) 
2. “Prelude” (04:59)
3. “Derek And Me” (05:49)
4. “Death Of A Pervert” (05:31)
5. “We Know Major Tom's A Junkie” (06:00)
6. “They Call Me Shorty” (06:25)
7. “Go To Sleep Little Baby” (05:46) 
8. “5 Seconds Ago” (04:27)
9. “7 Rise 7 House” (02:40)
10. “Borc Love” (02:55)
11. “Dreams Of Loneliness” (03:39) 
12. “Requiem For The Lord” (03:47) 
13. “Snug Retreat” (06:09)
14. “Death Of A Migrant” (07:20)

Felix Laband’s The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story.
Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband’s first full-length offering since the critically acclaimed Deaf Safari in 2015.


In The Soft White Hand Laband works with source materials that will be familiar to those who know his previous four records – Thin Shoes in June (2001), 4/4 Down the Stairs (2002), Dark Days Exit (2005) and especially Deaf Safari which reached deep into the South Africa scene and its political culture to inspire its vocal and music sampling. However, the disengagement he felt from his homeland during his latest album’s creation – an abiding sense of untethered-ness to place and space, exquisitely rendered in tracks like “Death of a Migrant” – is perceptible in Laband’s desire to illuminate instead aspects of his own life.
“For this album, my source material became almost autobiographical as opposed to African statements I’ve worked with previously,” says the artist. “I have sampled a lot from documentaries from the 80s crack epidemic in impoverished African American communities and
believe my work speaks unapologetically for the lost and marginalised, for those who are the forgotten casualties of the war on drugs. In the past, I have had my issues with substance abuse, and I know first-hand about the nightmares and fears, what it feels like to be isolated and abandoned.”

LINKS:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Felix-Laband-18041251748/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/felixlaband
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/felix-laband
Bandcamp: https://felixlaband.bandcamp.com/

Felix Laband - They Call Me Shorty (Snippet)

More than 30 years in business, over 800 catalogue releases, over 8000 songs + remixes and still going strong!! Compost is one of the most prolific, highly acclaimed and in demand indie labels in Europe. Compost and its sublabels Compost Black Label, Compost Disco, Drumpoet Community, Derwin Recordings and rumpelmusig standing for quality music, a sophisticated mixture of electrifying disco, house, techno, soul, jazz and a little bit of pop. XLR8R wrote: "...top address where electronica meets musicality". Besides internationally respected artist like Robert Owens, Trüby Trio, Koop, Beanfield, Christian Prommer, Felix Laband, Karma, Ben Mono, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Marsmobil, Eddy Meets Yannah, Sepalot, Alif Tree, Shahrokh, Wigald Boning a.o. the label is also well known for its praised compilation series V.A. "Elaste" (Vol.1-4), "Future Sounds Of Jazz" (Vol.1-14), "Partykeller" (Vol.1-3) or "Glücklich" (Vol.1-5). Like Gilles Peterson once said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.“

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past:
06.06. 2025 Klunkerkranich
31.08.2024 Kom.Bass & Mizule Open Air
28.07.2024 MIT DIR Festival, Klingemühle
31.05.-02.06.2024 Burningmill Festival
23.03.2024 Insitut, b2b Herr Zinnober 
09.03.2024 unverschämt, Berlin
10.02.2024 Kater Blau, Berlin
02.12.2023 mjut, Leipzig 
27.-30.07.2023 MIT DIR Festival, Klingemühle
17.06.2023 gart.n, Berlin
12.01.2023 KUKUMU Berlin, Berlin
28.-31.07.2022 - MIT DIR Festival, Klingemühle
26.-28.07.2022 - Jubeljahre Festival, Galenbeck
25.07.2020 Kom.Bass Open Air, Berlin
15.07.2020 pureFM, Frankfurt (Oder)
08.01.2020 Crack Bellmer, Berlin
14.12.2019 Birgit & Bier, Berlin
24.08.2019 Zug der LIebe, Berlin
12.07.2019 Feel Festival, Bergheider See
13.04.2019 AllClub, Berlin
01.03.2019 Polygon, Berlin
01.03.2019 Wurzelfestival Familientreffen, Berlin
14.12.2018 Polygon, Berlin
01.09.2018 Hometown, Berlin
25.08.2018 Zug der Liebe, Berlin
20.07.2018 Kom.Bass 2 Years Open Air, Berlin
01.04.2018 Humboldthain Club, Berlin
29.12.2017 Maze, Berlin
04.08.2017 Kosmonaut, Berlin
20.07.2017 Kom.Bass One Year Open Air, Schönefeld
28.05.2017 Kosmonaut, Berlin

Felix Laband - They Call Me Shorty (Snippet)

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