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Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/mother

For over two decades Bjørke has cut his own path, as a solo artist and enthusiastic collaborator. Even a cursory listen exposes an impressive, ever-evolving career. However, few expected him to initiate the collaborative ambient / neo-classical project Kasper Bjørke Quartet. In 2018 The Fifty Eleven Project was released on Kompakt Records and the album topped many critics' lists, and was included among The Guardian’s Best Contemporary Albums of the year.

Mother, represents a quantum leap forward. Literally, when you consider the terrestrial shifts that informed it. Six compositions explore what the evolution of our planet sounds like and spans a timeframe from 4.5 billion years ago up to humankind’s impending demise. It hints at how that may be sooner than we think, as well as the earth’s resilience, and the promise of another chapter. 

“Formation” condenses 20 million years of runaway accretion into 20 minutes. It is sublimely padded by feature artist Sofie Birch’s gentle synths. “Abiogenesis” intimates a different type of emergence: the first life to inhabit our nascent planet. The entire cosmos is condensed into the layered choir of Philip|Schneider. Birch returns on “Miocene,” which signals the divergence of proto-humans from primates not with foreboding, but rather cascaded notes and swells adumbrating a pure and curious being, revealing nothing of what the Catch-22 of knowledge will bring. That’s addressed in the diptych of “Anthropocene” and “Tipping Points,” respectively marking the dawn and foreshadowing the probable downfall of homosapians, through wondrous advancements and their climate damaging byproducts. It’s tempting to think the album’s finale, “Requiem,” implies only a dark conclusion, owing to its sparkling verrillon’s coronach, and the return of Philip|Schneider’s empyrean vocals, but its juxtaposition with revolving, enigmatic piano chords infers the earth will enter its next act. 

Mother is a staggering achievement, encouraging contemplative thought.

Out now on digital platforms and as limited edition Double LP with artwork by multidisciplinary artist Trevor Jackson. 

Musician Credits:

- Kasper Bjørke (Synthesizers, Producer and Mixer)

- Davide Rossi (Violin, viola, cello) has collected multiple Grammys,and has studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Robert Fripp. He is without parallel as a modern arranger, having worked with Kanye, Alicia Keys, Frank Ocean, Moby, Jon Hopkins, The Verve, Goldfrapp, to name a select few, but may be best known for his long standing relationship with Coldplay.

- Claus Noreen (Synthesizers) has been active in Danish electronic and pop circles for years, as both musician and producer, currently under his brand new Langstrakt moniker.

- Jakob Littauer (Piano) Musician / Composer / Producer who works with artists including Mø and CTM.

- Mathias Friis-Hansen & David Hildebrandt (Marimba on Anthropocene) Versatile, classical musicians, both part of the award winning PACE Percussion Trio.

- Sofie Birch (Features with additional synths on Formation and Miocene) Musician, producer and NTS resident Sofie Birch is a rising artist on the ambient scene. Her new album Holotropica has been praised by the music press, incl. Pitchfork.

- Philip|Schneider (Features with vocals on Abiogenesis and Requiem) Celebrated performance duo Josephine Philip and Hannah Schneider who is known for their seductive spatial voice compositions that engage the body, ears and mind.

Mother

Kasper Bjørke Quartet - Formation feat. Sofie Birch

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Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Deaf Safari
Cat No: CPT 470-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital
Release: 29th May 2015

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Savage Bush Hotel (6:25)
2. Im So High. I Swear I Could (4:55)
3. Ding Dong Thing (11:59)
4. Righteous Red Berets (9:12)
5. Squeeze The Trigger (9:09)
6. The Devil Threatens Me (12:55)
7. Down The Garden Path (12:28)
8. Getting Old (5:05)
9. Pietermaritzburg (4:47)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in.
It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years.

The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my understanding of the beauty and power of the spoken word. I have experienced severe indifference to contemporary pop and electronic music as a whole over the last many years, as I have felt that social comment of any relevance has been ignored by music in general.
Deaf Safari attempts to bring sociopolitical comment into my music without taking any specific stand.
Sampled outside of musical influence directly from the news; from preacher sermons or from contemporary African documentaries.
I have finally created a story with sound that I feel accurately conveys my personal experience with the African world I live in.

My musical influences on this album lie mostly with local Kwaito house. Deaf Safari is an experiment within certain boundaries of the 4/4 genre, to create my own South African "house" album.
I am proud and inspired about the South African Kwaito house scene.
However, as with my first three albums, "Thin Shoes In June“ (2001) - "4/4 Down The Stairs“ (2002) and "Dark Days Exit“ (2005), I am still interested in making strange and evocative music.

American Roots music from the earlier periods of the 20th century has deeply resonated with me during the making of this album.
The incredible field recordings by Alan Lomax of Negro prison and chain gang work songs, and the
beautiful early recordings of artists such as Leadbelly have had a major influence on Deaf Safari.

I am truly excited to release this album and to start performing in the music world again. It has been ten years since I released "Dark Days Exit , and although I have been purposefully absent from the music world, I have none the less never stopped making music.
I feel that I have finally arrived at a mature and challenging stage in my pursuit of making emotional music of relevance .

Felix Laband 13=02=2015

Links:

facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: @felix-laband
resident advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015:
new.livestream.com/accounts/128788…videos/76528193

Felix Laband live @ Festival au bord de l’eau (Sierre, 2012):
Aubordeleau – Festival-weekend-au-bord-de-10

Deaf Safari

Pietermaritzburg

Felix Laband - Pietermaritzburg

Little Ashes and Robot Koch, Piano Rework with Julien Marchal
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https://therealrobotkoch.bandcamp.com/album/the-big-now

INFO
„The Big Now“ is the new release on Robot Koch`s „Trees and Cyborgs“ Label.
It`s a collaboration between the two LA based artists Little Ashes and Robot Koch, two critically
acclaimed artists/producers who both left their European home countries a few years ago to meet
in LA, where the song was created.
The Big Now is a somewhat dark, yet visceral song that is not afraid to be a popsong at the core of
it`s leftfield production.
The EP features both the original track, and a more minimal piano version, beautifully played by
Koch`s frequent collaborator Julien Marchal, as well as a Remix of the original track, which is
actually another collaboration in itself: Koch teamed up with Ryan Davis for the remix. Davis released
his latest EP „From Within“ on Anjunadeep, and his recent remix for Nils Frahm and Olafur
Arnalds was featured in the playlist of Aphex Twin.
VIDEO STILLS
Watching “The Big Now” is to take a first breath

Little Ashes and Robot Koch -The Big Now (Piano Rework)

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Spiritual jazz quartet Ill Considered return with a third free-flowing album of meditative, improvised music based loosely around simple pre-written themes or composed on the spot. Tinted with a mystical calm, Incantation premieres ahead of the forthcoming 'Ill Considered 3' to be released on April 1st.

Leon Brichard: Bass 
Idris Rahman: Sax 
Emre Ramazanoglu: Drums 
Satin Singh: Percussion

Artwork by vincent De boer

ILL CONSIDERED 3

Premiere: Ill Considered - Incantation

https://paulwhite.bandcamp.com

These tracks have been written across the globe and feature dear friends and family. I like experimenting with a broad range of musical ideas, so this mixtape felt like the perfect opportunity to freely combine different and current sonic interests without limiting myself to a more cohesive album format. 

I would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has been listening to my music over the years. While uncertain times aren’t over, your support means everything to me. I have therefor decided to make the mixtape available to download for free on Bandcamp - but any donations will be greatly appreciated. 

Proceeds will be given to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, a UK based charity working with communities and young people from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds, helping to transform lives and create a society in which everyone, regardless of their background, can flourish. 

Let’s keep pushing for positive change together! ✨ 

Much love, 
Paul White x

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Smile (See The Light) - Paul White ft. Iyamah & Remi 
Nostalgia - Paul White 
Strobe Lights - Paul White 
Altered States - Paul White 
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Fly Through - Paul White 
Drive - Paul White

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Artwork by Maria Livings 
Design by Ciaran Chapple-Canty

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