Honour - Àlááfíà
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Alaafia

Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlááfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language—substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.

Àlááfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting fuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to take form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit—a tape-saturated composition that starts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song’s dream-like quality developed out of the artist’s grief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's shared faith bubbles to the surface.

“When Angels Speak of Love,” borrows its title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes of praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of melancholic guitar, “When Angels Speak of Love” engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers, folding them into Honour’s pantheon of ancestral guides. The album’s ninth track, “Giz Aard ($uckets),” is a dirge of regimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if its consequence will be death or eternal joy.

The album’s sole lyrical offering, “Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),” begins with a darkly humorous bar, “He went thru hell and back/ came back/ 2 get the strap,” that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion. A modern take on the Blues, Honour’s lyrics reify the artist’s status as a student of both literature and popular culture, crossbreeding the artist’s clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland & Bryon Gysin.

Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour crafts a record that marinates in its own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist’s shoulders have never been more tangible than with this emotive debut.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - Àlááfíà (PAN 121)

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Exploring the potential of music as pure texture, this week's TANK Mix of tactile electroacoustic environments comes from Milan-based sound artist and label head Daniele Guerrini, whose debut album X, Wheel was released on PAN last year.

Tracklist:
Irena And Vojtech Havlovi - Mysterious Gamelanland IX.
Shakali - Harhama
Michel Chion - Coup de soleil sur un vitrail
Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Rain Song
Heith & Teguh Permana - unreleased
Dawuna - The Ape Prince
Michael O’Shea - Voices
Peter Christopherson - In My Head A Crystal Sphere Of Heavy Fluid
Benjamin Lew & Steven Brown - S’ignorer
Per Nørgård - I Ching - Thunder Repeated: The Image Of Shock
Heith - unreleased
Elijah Minnelli - Cud
Klein - hope dealers
Serafina Steer / John T. Gast - Garden Of Love
PRICE - Come Back To Me Now feat. Leonardo Rubboli (guitar demo)

Photo by Sam Clarke.

TANK Mix: Heith

Three years after its first various artists compilation, Causal Chain presents the third instalment of the series, Évoque. Artists already established on the label are joined by newcomers, bringing forth new sounds yet to be explored on the imprint.

Track by @benedictemusic.
Mastering by SIM.
Album art by Bruno Lauzon-Tanzi.

If I Were To Meet The Water

Bénédicte - If I Were To Meet The Water

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Honour - U&Me (decemeberseventeen)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121S
Release Date: 06 September 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/U-Me

Honour shares ‘U&Me (decemberseventeen)’, the first single from the upcoming full-length album ‘Àlàáfíà’ out via PAN on November 3rd.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - U&Me (decemeberseventeen) (PAN121S)

Honour - Giz'aard ($uckets)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121S2
Release Date: 18 October 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Giz-aard

Honour shares 'Giz'aard ($uckets)', the second single from the upcoming full-length album 'Àlàáfíà' out via PAN on November 3rd.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - Giz'aard ($uckets) (PAN 121S2)

Honour - W-I-S (Above Every Other) (PAN 121)

Honour - dubbleUpptown (La Rocque) (PAN 121)

Honour - When Angels Speak of Love (PAN 121)

Honour - First Born (Redeemed) (PAN 121)

Honour - Hosanna (Greeting2MYPPL) (Meridian) (PAN 121)

𝐵𝒮𝐿𝒫𝟢𝟢𝟨 / 𝒞𝑀𝑅𝟢𝟢𝟨 - 𝒥𝒮 𝒟𝑜𝓃𝓃𝓎 - 𝐵𝓃𝒩 [𝒞𝒽𝓇ü𝓈𝒾𝓂ü𝓈𝒾 𝑅𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓍 𝐵𝒶𝓂𝒷𝑜𝑜 𝒮𝒽𝑜𝓌𝓈]

Order Vinyl / Download digits:
◈ https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/bnn
◈ https://chruesimuesi-records.bandcamp.com/album/bnn

As dawn breaks, amidst the lingering echoes of dreams and nightmares, which one remains etched in the depths of your mind? Caught in-between, Marseille-based project JS Donny delves into this hazy realm of recollection through their upcoming 10” vinyl single, ‘BnN’, set for release early 2024 via Bamboo Shows and Chrüsimüsi Records.
From the two-tracker exudes a fragile yet tense atmosphere, courtesy of JS Donny's unique presence, haunting vocals - soaring from restorative whispers to anguished screams – and raw energy electric guitar riffs. Further enhanced by the talents of Sarah-Louise Barbett (Drums), Jano aka Janomax (samples, keyboards) and Nadja Meier (bass), the recording seamlessly interweaves elements of slow-rock, shoegaze-folk, and soft-metal, all infused with progressive influences. A masterfully-performed balancing act between the ‘Busin***’ bittersweet ballad, and the ‘Never Forget U’ insurrectional outlet.
 
Forget and dream with the fluttering of the butterfly, available on digital platforms starting Dec. 11 and on a 10” clear-vinyl late February 2024!

Order Vinyl / Download digits:
◈ https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/bnn
◈ https://chruesimuesi-records.bandcamp.com/album/bnn

Credits:
Music, guitar, vocals: JS Donny
Drums: Sarah-Louise Barbett
Bass: Nadja Meier
Synth, Samples: Jano aka Janomax
Graphic design: Nadja Meier
Engineering: Anotine Nouel
Recorded in 2023 at Sound Love Studio, Grrrnd Zero

Co-released on Chrüsimüsi Records [CMR006] and Bamboo Shows [BSLP006].

Never Forget U

Buy Vinyl / Download

JS Donny - 02. Never Forget U [BSLP006 / CMR006]

Did I do this... Mary | silent hill inspired Intense / ambient music

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org

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