Marina Herlop - Pripyat
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 128
Format: DL
Release Date: 20 May 2022
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Pripyat

Marina Herlop is often described as a pianist, a lingering remnant of her classical training. But what strikes the listener on Herlop’s breakout track miu is the intricate trickery of her voice, tracing rhythmical clusters around the subtlest of musical beds, in a technique inspired by Carnatic music of Southern India. 

miu, the opening track of Herlop’s new studio album Pripyat, was among the first songs that the young Catalan artist made on a computer, after two albums - 2016’s Nanook and 2018’s Babasha - that brought spectral elegance to the sound of piano and voice. This spirit of adventure continues into Pripyat, Herlop’s first full album produced on a computer, and her most intensely emotional work to date. 

Listening to Pripyat you can feel the emotional toil and creative endeavour that went into the record. Fans of Nanook and Babasha will recognise the combination of melancholic piano and elegant vocal lines that is found on Pripyat tracks like abans abans. But Pripyat has a far fuller, almost chaotic sound when compared to Herlop’s previous work, with the addition of electronic drums, electric bass lines and a wealth of sublime production effects. 

Added to this production expertise are songs of incredible grace and poise. Kadish is a spectral torch song rendered in emotional 3D by Herlop’s gorgeous voice; ubunto has a feeling of deep longing and lingering sorrow; and shaolin mantis is like a pop song refracted through disorienting production effects and percussive vocal cut ups. Pripyat is the perfect combination of computer production trickery and intimate emotional release. 

Songs composed, produced and performed by Marina Herlop. 
Mix: James Ginzburg 
Mastering: Joker 
Mix and mastering of 'miu (choir version)': Borja Ruiz 
Ukulele and ending synth in 'shaolin mantis': Adri González 
Electric guitar in ‘lyssof’:Òscar Garrobé 
Electric bass in ‘ubuntu’ and ‘miu’: Òscar Garrobé

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Homebreakin Records proudly serve up a hot new single from Vancouver-based DJ and producer Neighbour, featuring the vocals of Piper Davis, and bolstered by a selection of top remixes from 6th Borough Project, Cyclist, Tad Wily and Enno Karr.
Homebreakin Records and Punchout label co-boss Neighbour is known for his disco, deep house and analog flavours and is a prolific talent who really knows how to nail a groove. Here he enlists the local vocal services of Pampa star Piper Davis.
Their single ‘Light Breaker’ is a slo motion disco-house chugger with steppy, arpeggiated synths driving it along. The louche drums are as lazy as the rippling melodies that light up the track, and oodles of sensuousness comes from the dreamy, icy vocals of Piper Davis. It’s a starry, expansive feeling track that will send hands in the air and as well as making you dance will have you singing along in no time.
First to remix - and he does so twice - is famed disco dons 6th Borough Project aka Craig Smith & Graeme Clark (The Revenge) who have worked together in the studio for almost a decade and very much define the output of labels like Instruments Of Rapture, Domino Records and Delusions Of Grandeur. Their first remix is a squelchy, go slow bit of organic funk with grinding drums and swathes of lovely reverb. Their second, which features as a digital exclusive, is a slightly flabbier, more melodic version littered with little keys and percussive effects that makes it all the more magical.
Next comes Mark Penner aka Cyclist, who has remixed and collaborated with some of modern disco’s greatest names. His version is full on cosmic, with celestial explosions of melody and big, slow, fat synth lines all dancing above churning, purposefully deep and groovy drums.
Then Polish born, London based producer Tad Wily (Matt Kuderski) steps up following fine work on Gomma and Retrofit. His version is a darker, more insular affair that does clever things with the original vocal and packages it into more of a post punk, new wave groove with twanging guitars and rooted drums at the heart.
Lastly, South African born artist Enno Karr is a musician, composer and DJ residing in Calgary. His remix was the winner in a recent competition carried out by the label in association with Ableton Beat Camp and features here as anotehr digital exclusive in the package. Karr’s version is the most blissed up and chilled out, with soothing vocal intonations, cute melody stabs and a breezy pop-dance vibe that really strikes at your most sensitive emotions.
This is a fulsome packaged stuff with all sorts of disco bombs that cannot fail to find their way into your affections.

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MIKE SLOTT - MIRROR II
ESKILD MYRVOLL - SOLO
FAKETHIAS - UNRELEASED
CHARLIE SKIEN - GASSLEKKASJE
URSULA BOGNER - STRAHLUNGEN (1974)
SMERZ - OH MY MY
JUNKER - UNRELEASED
URSULA BOGNER - NACH EUROPA
YLI - RESTLESS BEAUTY
ESKILD MYRVOLD - SLÅBALL
SIGNE D. ØGRIM - DISAPPEAR
JUNKER - UNRELEASED
SPENCER - TO BE YOU
YVES TUMOR - ROLE IN CREATION
DOROTHY ASHBY - ESSENCE OF SAPPHIRE
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MIKE SLOTT - MIRROR III
URSULA BOGNER - JÜBILAUM
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Recorded by Fraser Montgomery and Nick Edin at The Aviary Recording Studio

Mixed by Alex O'Gorman

Mastered by Ross Cockle

Produced by Dan Parsons and Rodeo Pony

Additional recording by Alex O'Gorman and Jake Rush at Madeline Studios, respectively.

Personnel:
Acoustic and electric guitar: Dan Parsons
Drums: Bree Hartley
Bass: Alex O'Gorman
Keyboards: Robin Waters and Jeremy Marcotte
Pedal Steel: Ben Franz
Harmonies: Tracy McNeil
Electric guitar on 'Never Made a Promise': Tim 'Big Dog' Baker

Never Made a Promise

Water can put out flames 
But nothing can stop this day
I feel a high tide in my eyes 
Brimming at the sight of you 
I feel a high tide in my chest
Ready to flood this house 
Gush down the hallway 
Crashing through the windowpane 
Wash the pain away 
Water can put out flames
But nothing can stop this day

Written and performed by Eartheater 
Produced by Acemo and Eartheater
Mixed by Kiri Stensby 
Mastered by Heba Kadry 
Cover art direction by Christian Velasquez 
Photography by Sam Clarke

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