"Simple Pleasures" from new duo album by Josh Kyle & Sam Keevers "Songs of Friends"

Simple Pleasures

From the album EARS out April 1st on Western Vinyl

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Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
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TOUR DATES
March 	18 - London - Convergence Festival
March 	22 - Dublin - Button Factory w/ Battles
March 	24 - London - Electric Brixton w/ Battles
March 	25 - Paris - La Cigale w/ Battles
March 	26 - Reims - La Cartonnerie w/ Battles
March 	27 - Brussels - BRDCST Festival
March 	29 - Milan - Magazzini Generali w/ Battles
March 	30 - Rome - Spring Attitude Festival w/ Battles
March 	31 - Roncade - New Age Roncade w/ Battles
April 	01 - The Hague - Rewire Festival
April 	05 - Lausanne - Les Docks w/ Battles
April 	06 - Zurich - Rote Fabrik w/ Battles
April 	07 - Berlin - Kantine am Berghain
April 	12 - Belgrade - Resonate Festival
April 	13 - Berlin - Ableton User Group Meeting
April 	15 - Linz - Stadtwerkstatt / Kirchengasse 7
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Arthropoda"

From the album Centerfold - available February 26 via Washington Square / Kitsune.

Pre-order at geni.us/mothxr or mothxr.merchnow.com

MOTHXR is Penn Badgley, Jimmy Giannopoulos, Simon Oscroft and Darren Will

Produced by Jimmy Giannopoulos.

I wake up in a strange place
Sounds of Ethiopia
She's wearing the same thing
Every time

I'm so far from home
So far from grown
Keep hearing the same thing

She can't tell
I can't tell her
You wear it well
I know better

Sometimes I need the pain
Keeps me right
And I'm never gonna be the same
How I like

Still living like on the run now
And I'm living like on the run

She can't tell
I can't tell her
You wear it well
I know better
So far from home
So far from grown

http://www.mothxr.com

She Can't Tell

Hyperballad is written by Björk
Arranged by Luke Howard and Ben Abraham
Re-arranged by Tim Shiel

I love this song.

'Hyperballad' came out as a single 20 years ago today (Feb 12, 1996).

To celebrate the fact, I approached some talented friends to help me work on a cover — composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel.

The collaboration resulted in two beautiful versions that I am very proud to be a part of.

Luke's string arrangement makes the song feel like it could be a hundred years old; a testament to Björk's timeless songwriting. Tim's version, with electronic sparseness that pays homage to the original, reminds me that the song could have come out yesterday and it would still be fresh and arresting, and like nothing I've heard.

The lyrics have also become a personal narration for the stage of life I find myself in. I suppose that's what compelled me to want to record it. The exhaling that comes with singing the line "to be safe up here with you" is one of the song's many gifts.

Songs like this feel alive to me.

It's daunting to interpret such a canonised work and the original certainly didn't need to be added to or taken away from.

So with the utmost respect, here are the efforts of three friends who live on the other side of the world from this remarkable artist, celebrating her work with work of our own.

You can listen to Luke's version here: https://soundcloud.com/benabraham/hyperballad-with-luke-howard

Hyperballad with Tim Shiel

Most of the DJ world doesn't know who Guillaume Teyssier is. You're missing out. But that's ok, we're gonna help you here with 2 magnificient remixes of Teyssier's music. One is by Tigersushi's long time collaborators Principles Of Geometry. They go deep, like very deep, diving underwater with this shimmering remix of a very well known French pop hit from the 80s that Guillaume covered on his album. The other one is from a newcomer from Australia. Murray Lake runs a beautiful studio there and you can hear that in the lush production of this long epic Space take on Vortex Disco. A perfect set opener. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZUBtwVF1-o

GUILLAUME TEYSSIER - Vortex Disco (MURRAY LAKE REMIX)

So excited to have this mix from the gents. Enjoy.

Oh Innocence - DUNE - Client Liaison Remix

This Is Dune