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‘Message From The Other Side’ is the title track from the forthcoming album by Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons

• Album out May 18th available to pre-order - geni.us/MessageFromTheOtherS
• Album produced by James Ford & Damian Lazarus in Los Angeles, London and Mexico.


A career spent DJing across the globe was the catalyst for Damian Lazarus’s latest project – Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons.  Masterminded by Lazarus, the album brings together a wide assortment of vocalists, collaborators and players from around the world. Taking inspiration from Lazarus's Lazpod series, Get Lost events and Day Zero festival in Mexico, this is music for deserts, jungles and sunrises.

Kicking off in LA, Lazarus was joined at the production controls by James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Florence) as the album moved to London, and then final recording sessions completed in Mexico . The resulting album, ‘Message From the Other Side’, is a revelation. It runs the gamut from the wonderful Qawwali-flavoured techno of last year’s alternative dance hit ‘Lovers Eyes (Mohe Pi Ki Najariya)’ to the African-tinged house of ‘Sacred Dance of the Demon’, dense dark ambient of ‘Inner Core’, and the bubbling depths of forthcoming single Vermillion, this is a rich and ambitious album. 

 "There is nothing that compares to DJing under the stars” Lazarus explains “In the night air or being responsible for soundtracking the rising of the sun and I wanted to create an album that reflects these beautiful moments.”

Lazarus brought together the widest range of musicians to achieve his goals. Initially there was Moses Sumney, an LA singer-songwriter and guitarist whose vocals light up the dynamic deep house groove of ‘Vermillion’, and the epic closing number, ‘Tangled Web’. Lazarus’s long-standing friend and associate Ali Love, contributes vocals to the soulful groove of ‘We Will Return’.

Other collaborations came from further afield. Hossam Ramzy, an Egyptian master- percussionist, most famous for his work on Jimmy Page and Robert Plant’s ‘No Quarter’ album laid down the amazing rhythm tracks for the Ancient Moons. ELEW (Eric Lewis), an American jazz pianist played a ‘treated piano’ in an unexpected, experimental way. Lazarus and Ford turned to Andrew Waterworth, double bassist with the acclaimed Penguin Café for the album’s lush string arrangements courtesy of Mexico’s Yucatan Symphony Orchestra. 

Meanwhile, Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad and Hamza Akram, are Pakistan’s leading exponents of Qawwali singing, the hypnotic sacred Sufi music that Lazarus fell in love with after hearing it on the soundtrack of political thriller ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. They appear not only on ‘Lovers Eyes (Mohe Pi Ki Najariya)’, but also the spaced out, sitar-laden ‘Amber Palace’, a piece that features the sitar work of Sidartha Siliceo, a former student of Ravi Shankar.

Keen to include an Afro-beat flavour, Lazarus turned to the studio owner brother’s wife, a princess of Guinean origin whose vocals became the centrepiece of the bubbly, joyful ‘Sacred Dance of the Demon’. Adding to the vibe on the same track is an appearance by Mozambican guitar prodigy Neco Novellas.

By gathering this gumbo of music from across the globe Lazarus has created a collection that’s as happy on the dancefloor as off, a set of songs and moods that work both as an album and, when cherry-picked, as a groove that would move from Ibiza to San Francisco to the UK festival circuit. It’s also a body of work which will be coming to life and touring when they hit the road in 2015. 

The Ancient Moons have confirmed the following US dates – with further festival dates to be announced soon.  

Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons Live:
21st May - IMS Dalt Vila, Ibiza
30th May -  Forbidden Fruit Festival, Ireland
WITH more festival shows to be announced

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Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons - Message From The Other Side

From the upcoming release "Math Ilium Ion" out June 1st (UK/EU) and June 2nd (US) on Smalltown Supersound.

UK digital pre-order:
 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/math-ilium-ion/id988478715

UK pre-order vinyl:
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/92970

US pre-order digital:
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/yours-sincerely-andre-bratten/id981897286?i=981897290

US pre-order vinyl:
 http://www.amazon.com/Math-Ilium-Ion-Andre-Bratten/dp/B00V9F38JA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429890812&sr=8-1&keywords=andre+bratten+math+ilium


Math Ilium Ion

Yours Sincerely, André Bratten

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Preorder here: bit.ly/XOAPreorder

It won't come as too much of a surprise that our favourite track on XOA's new EP comes in the form of a Byron The Aquarius remix as the young producer has been on fine form recently.

We premiered 'The Love Below' back in June and we knew that the Detroit producer had fire in his locker and this new edit of 'In So' is another house masterclass. Check it below and drift off to the clouds.

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Crosstown Rebels deliver a unique underground music experience. Firmly dedicated to the support and development of the best cutting edge electronic dance music, Crosstown Rebels, run by artist and dj Damian Lazarus, loves quality alternative sounds, adores a great party and thrives on creative, young people armed with something new to say.