My selections for March 2020. Hear the full playlist at http://www.birp.fm/playlist/2020/march-2020

BIRP! March 2020

La Luz

The Pines

From their white label days in the early 90s to chart-topping success and iconic remixes for artists like The Rolling Stones, Bjork, and New Order Fluke have been there done that!

Still, they step into a vibrant new era with their latest single, 'Insanely Beautiful'. Up step Sean Johnston aka Hardway Bros offering a main vox mix and an alternate version featuring Leah Clever. 'Insanely Beautiful' "heralds the dawn of Firebird, a project brimming with collaborations and tracks set to unfold in the months ahead.  If you build it, they will come..."

Let's get it on. 

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-fluke-insanely-beautiful-hardway-bros-meet-monkton-uptown-mix/

@hardwaybros

PREMIERE: Fluke - Insanely Beautiful (Hardway Bros Meet Monkton Uptown Mix) [Surface]

Unfamiliar Skin

In My Heart

Hear a bit of the first track from Prinzhorn Dance School's new LP, "Home Economics". Listen to the whole thing at DFA Direct! 

Digital preorder - http://hyperurl.co/PrinzhornHE 
Ltd Wine-colored vinyl preorder - http://store.dfarecords.com/products/dfa2444


Buy Ltd Vinyl

Prinzhorn Dance School - Reign (Snippet)

Inspired by the song from the 1956 Broadway musical "My Fair Lady".

Without You

Early Bird

Ainda É Cedo

You got all that weight on your shoulders
Take a breath, have a laugh, think it over
It ain’t all bad that you're older

You got all that ache in your temple
Stop losing your mind like you’re mental
It ain't all bad with the candle burning out

And may all these things that concern you fly
In time you won’t be here and that’s all right

You got all that life in the mirror
If you look real close you can see her
Waiting in line at the theatre

She’s got all that look in a smile
And something that says just stay a while
A flicker in the kitchen tile

And may all these things that allure you fly
In time they won’t be here and that’s all right

You got all the time in the whole world
Just you and me and our little girl
Looking at those little curls

All That Weight

AUDACIOUS
from new album 属 Belonging, out now on City Slang Records: https://ianchang.lnk.to/belonging

Written and performed by KAZU and Ian Chang
Produced by Ian Chang
Mixed by Ryan Lott 
Mastered by Heba Kadry

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属 Belonging

Audacious (feat. KAZU)

All Mine

hey been a minute this is a 4 track demo of some shit I've been working on love ya x

afternoon (demo)

属 Belonging, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg - part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. 

In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch 属 Belonging's jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album's melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath the surface glimmers innovation, as if the neurons firing in each melodic idea have become audible.

When Chang describes his creative process, the phrase "third culture” keeps coming up. Born in the colony of Hong Kong in 1988, Chang has lived a nomadic life. Stationed out of New York for 10 years, he built an impressive roster of progressive pop collaborators such as Moses Sumney, Joan As Policewoman, and Matthew Dear, among others, all while performing internationally and recording as a member of Son Lux and Landlady. Now relocated to Dallas, Texas, Chang's discovered an inquisitive confidence that can only come from newfound isolation. Between tours, he dedicated himself to developing his international musical language, facilitated by a home studio and a burgeoning relationship.

属 Belonging is set for digital release April 24th, 2020 and physical release May 29th, 2020 via City Slang, with the new singles "Audacious" featuring Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead and "舞狮 Lion Dance" out now.

- Written by Ross Edwards

Audacious (feat. KAZU)

Ian Chang

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