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Rahm - Melt (feat. Walrus)

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The Shrek Orchid

Available today via Terrible / Siberia Records.

Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/shrek-orchid-bc
Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/shrek-orchid-apple
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John Carroll Kirby, INGA - The Shrek Orchid

Bringing electronic music to the physical realm, genre-bending drummer Ian Chang is set to release his debut EP 'Spiritual Leader' this September. An acclaimed drumming virtuoso known for his work in Son Lux and Landlady, Chang uses his kit to control and manipulate samples resulting in a seamless synthesis of raw performative intensity and sophisticated sound design. 

The process began in 2015 when Chang was beta-testing Sunhouse’s Sensory Percussion, culminating in a psychedelic light show of a video and track entitled “Spiritual Leader.” Since then, Chang has honed his creative voice in gearing up to release his debut with Kowloon Records. The EP explores the relationship between human and machine, exuding an intuitive physicality meshing off-kilter rhythmic ideas with hypnotic textures and exploring the edges of IDM, ambient, free jazz, and much more with futuristic creative abandon. 

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chang was shaped by the city’s diversity and vibrancy. He moved to New York in 2007 to pursue music and quickly gained a reputation as a “gigantically talented drummer” (NPR). To date, Chang has recorded and/or performed with such varied artists as Son Lux, Landlady, Joan As Policewoman, Body Language, Matthew Dear, Dave Douglas, Rafiq Bhatia, Rubblebucket and Moses Sumney.

Spiritual Leader

ASMR

Reemerging in 2017 with four new tracks, Son Lux’s new EP 'Remedy' is the ferocious trio’s response to an ever-encroaching reality of social and political upheaval. Reflective but defiant, Ryan Lott, Ian Chang, and Rafiq Bhatia synthesize their signature unpredictable experimentation into an explosive examination of what it means to live, to create, and to resist in America today. These songs were born the week of the 2016 election, and they capture a band both mournful and refusing to accept the new normal. "How does it feel, to be your own deceiver," Lott whispers in our ears, just ahead of the steady approach of swarming, mechanized woodwinds and rising torrents of noise. "I watch you fall, hollow and depleted. A city razed/raised, to bury you beneath it.”

The EP's final statement is a plea, sung in unison with a crowd-sourced choir of more than 300 people. "Find your voice, in the sea of surging bodies and breath, to form a melody, to find a remedy."

In that spirit, Son Lux will donate all proceeds of the sales of 'Remedy' to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of American society.

Remedy

Stolen

Purchase

I once tweeted to my 6 twitter followers to ‘find a song that makes you cry.’ An old hymn called "It Is Well" did that to me, so I echoed with my response if the same name. It's a defiantly solemn, quietly resolute way of promising myself that I wont loose hope in the face of catastrophe. As much as there is reason to worry in the world, everyday a new sensational and overwhelming news item, people everywhere still quietly push through, sometimes fueled only by survival. It's not glamorous, nor is it simple, but I applaud that. As many flaws as we have in the human condition, we also have a stubborn will to continue; to keep moving. "It Is Well" is the fuel keg I keep in the back for the moments when I am drained by the journey because I also have to keep moving

Cover art by Mihailo Andic
Mixed by Johannes Raasina
Master by Douglas Schadt

It Is Well

Written and produced by JIL
Mixed by @fernsouza and JIL
Mastered by Chris Gehringer

Artwork by The Morumotto

Virgin Atlantic

Jack Hallenbeck, Lucio, and I made this

Photo-Zoë Mcgee