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Washed Out - New Theory (RAC Mix)

BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Khruangbin - Right

Lyrics:
Tearing apart the cracks in your mind
A light keeper’s song in the tide
A man on a screen performs the obscene 
Edges are coming undone
Pulled along

Waking alone
Sightless, unseen
Your hollow inside
Stuffed like a straw man
Hiding his eyes at the edge of the world
From what the inferno will bring

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Always around in the air that we breath 
Choked by the sands
When will the rains come?
Flooding the stage at the edge of the world 
Blood in the eyes of a king
Waking alone at your hour of need
Pray to a stone your stuffed like a straw man 
Hiding his eyes as the hour arrives
Shedding your crow-skin disguise

Empty inner vision
Drowning the song in the tide 
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me?

Empty inner vision
Threading a broken design
Helpless are the hands that guide you 
Waters are breaking
Why does it break me in?

Wasteland (single edit)

Written/Produced by: Shane Dinet 

Released: 12/11/2013

Lyrics: 
Abandon summer, abandon spring, see what the autumn has to bring.
Wild- eyed smiles to feel like a child again.
I was your melody, you were my harmony we were washed out beneath the autumn sky.
Stutter thoughts of that autumn to hear the sound, the sound of your laughter in which I drowned. I was your melody you were my lullaby, washed out beneath the autumn sky.
With you I'm ready to......
Going as times are slowly showing, take me to the autumn sky. Fading as our leaves are falling, but with you I'm ready to die. Summer turn me green, winter shed my leaves. How strange just to be anything. Now that I'm the seasons I'm come alive.
How strange just to be anything at all.

Autumn Sky

Second single taken from debut EP, available online via Deaf Ambitions.

Buy our debut EP here:
https://deafambitions.bandcamp.com/album/redspencer

Ride It Out

Oh no

Music and Performances by Balancer

Produced, Mixed, and Engineered by GG Reynolds at the Electrokitty Sound Studio in Seattle, Wa

Mastered by Rich Morales at Superfine Audio

Clarity

Pleased to announce our second release will be Lunch Ladies' debut LP, "Down on Sunset Strip." The seven-track album is out now via all digital formats.

Lunch Ladies:

Matt Whitley
Cynthia Rittenbach
Matt Ramiz
Peter Gargano

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http://lunchladies.bandcamp.com/album/down-on-sunset-strip
https://twitter.com/lunchladies666

Down on Sunset Strip

Love Is Overrated

Lunch Ladies - "Love Is Overrated"

Music & lyrics by Dean Valentino
Produced by James Freeman & Dean Valentino
Recorded & mixed by James Freeman at Big Sky Audio
Mastered by Dave Walker at Stepford Studio
Artwork by Sarah Ujmaia

Fernweh

Run Away by Holiday Party 
Release Date: 9 August 2018

(MCDONALD/BROMILEY/BERNOTH/MORRISSEY/TICKLE/MACKIE)
Publisher: Universal Music / Native Tongue

Run Away

Coal Harbour (Brand New Life)

released July 1, 2019 
Music by William Evans, Nicholas Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by William Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
It goes it comes the feeling right now
It goes it comes the feeling right now

The time I wait, the time I waste
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste
(Under the night of day, the time I waste)
The time I wait, the time I waste

Eyes

Laridae

Eyze

Download on Bandcamp

Common Tongue

released August 1, 2019 
Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount 
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
© 2019 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Broken Palace Records

Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa 
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA.

Nick Evans - vocals, guitars 
Zach Blount - vocals, bass
Will Evans - vocals, drums, percussion
Arielle Korman - violin

Cover design by Kris Williams

Lyrics:
Never thought that I could be so cold?
Try me
After all the rest have all gone home
And I’m
Living on a caldera how dare I
Temper myself
Fortunate that I’m not 
Sinking
These days
These days

Thinking of the past that other world
Spying
Whose enamored authors wore their 
Better selves?
Honestly the truth seems
Oh, so very empty,
Mislaid 
These days
These days
These days
These days

These Days

Recorded at The Nave, Leeds
Produced by Alex Greaves
Written & Performed by bdrmm

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our new album 'BLOSSOMER' is out Aug 22 ❀ pre-order vinyl on https://strayfossa.com/

Eyze

Stray Fossa

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