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The first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, Upper Hell, released worldwide on Howie B's HB Recordings label on April 27th.

Album Release: ‘Upper Hell’
Release Date: 27th April 2015
Label: HB Recordings

“ timeless,organic and quite simply beautiful “ – Norman Records - 10/10

“ an enlightening, everlasting album” – The List - 5/5

“a quiet, emotional power” – The Scotsman - 4/5

“Deliriously inventive” – Clash Magazine 

'Album of the Month’ – Monorail Records

“…Ela Orleans is a revelation. Both utterly timeless and of the moment…” Rough Trade 

“She is Moondogmatic in her intransigent commitment to producing compositions of subtlety and incongruent beauty. These are polysemous confections which make you feel that you are listening to pop music for the first time again” – Time Out NY

‘Upper Hell’ is the sixth album to be released by pop noir collagist Ela Orleans. Produced by Howie B, it’s due out on 27th April 2015 and will be released on his new label, HB Recordings. Howie was introduced to Ela’s music by his sister and was so wowed that he offered to produce an album for her. She is also the first artist signing to HB Recordings.

Inspired by Dante’s ‘Inferno’, ‘Upper Hell’ is an intriguing, cerebral body of work that sees Orleans push her pastoral pop roots into more cinematic terrain, experimenting with carefully considered sound art segments and complex electronic textures.

Ela has been flirting with the dance aesthetic for a while under another moniker TRACT so Howie’s offer to produce this album allowed her to explore that further with this album.

Orleans is a Polish musician now based in Glasgow. She was a member of the genre defying Glasgow band Hassle Hound, has played with various luminaries of the New York experimental and noise scenes and is a composer for the screen and theatre.

During her career this hugely prolific artist has released five solo albums and collaborated on several more. Her 2012 album ‘Tumult in Clouds’ won the Mercury alternative the Dead Albatross Prize in 2013 and her work has won her admirers in The Pastels, David Lynch, Thurston Moore and Ian Rankin.



Ela Orleans - The Sky and the Ghost

Einsturzende Neubauten-Letztes Biest (am Himmel)

O-Bad Phenomenon

Mute are delighted to announce a new partnership with an extensive catalogue for recordings and publishing.

A Certain Ratio - Studio album discography

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Sextet (1982)
I’d Like To See You (1982)
Force (1986)
Good To  (1989)
ACR:MCR (1990)
Up In Downsville (1992)
Change The Station (1997)
Mind Made Up (2008)

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A Certain Ratio - Mickey Way (Force)

Depeche Mode - Sister Of Night (One Night In Paris 2001)

06 Complex Situation

Deliluh is an emerging experimental art-rock group that has solidified a reputation in Toronto as a torchbearer for the DIY music community. Their sound fuses elements of punk, drone & experimental music into a organic, yet fiercely resonating sonic identity.

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Deliluh - Rabbit

Hexvessel - A Letter In Birch Bark, from the album No Holier Temple 
Released September 7th 2012 via Svart Records

Music and lyrics by Mat McNerney, arranged by Hexvessel
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Hexvessel - A Letter In Birch Bark

"414 Seconds" is taken from Pere Ubu's brand new album 'Lady From Shanghai' which is due out 7 Jan/8 Jan (US) on Fire Records. 
 
Smash the Hegemony of Dance. Stand still. The dancer is puppet to the dance.

Order here: http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00000000974

Pere Ubu will be embarking on a UK tour in April, see tour dates here: http://www.ubuprojex.net/calendar.html


Pere Ubu - 414 Seconds

Escape: Expanded Edition

Motorcycle, I Love You

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Whilst maintaining a firmly eclectic roster, from the earliest days of The Normal, Fad Gadget and DAF through to the techno era with artists such as Plastikman / Richie Hawtin and Speedy J, and to the present day with electronic artists such as Diamond Version and Maps, the label has always been a champion of electronic music.

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