Posts Tagged ‘Julia Holter’
Track Premiere: We Like We ‘Someone told me I was Paradise for you’
We are delighted to premiere the new single ‘Someone told me I was Paradise for you’ from the gifted Copenhagen-based quartet We Like We. The gorgeous new sonic creation is the first material since the band’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘A New Age of Sensibility’ (released in late 2014). The highly anticipated single is released tomorrow, 1st September 2016.
Copenhagen-based quartet We Like We comprise the gifted talents of Katrine Grarup Elbo (violin) Josefine Opsahl (cello) Sara Nigard Rosendal (percussion) and Katinka Fogh Vindelev (voice). All four members are classically trained, but each share a desire for exploring, experimenting and shaping a unique sound of their own, as reflected in their diverse musical influences. The group’s first live performance took place at FROST festival in Copenhagen in February 2013: a unique double-bill concert with Efterklang. We Like We have collaborated with an array of musicians and projects in the past: Efterklang; Julia Holter; Mew; Sofia Gubaidulina; The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, to name but a few. We Like We’s debut album ‘A New Age of Sensibility’ is available now on The Being Music.
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“This single is one of the results of our work over the past six months. We have had a close collaboration with sound engineer Marc Casanovas (NorCat Lyd) with whom we have explored sound, space and different ways of recording”.
—We Like We
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Someone told me I was paradise for you is the endless mantra that is whispered in to your ear during the late hours of a dark blue summer night. It is four individual voices and reflections braided together as a unit in the depths of the collective unconsciousness.
From the opening dream-like pulses of delicate percussion – beginning with two gongs before soft ripples of vibraphone effortlessly melds together – We Like We’s brand new recording invites the listener deep into a labyrinth of fragile beauty and encapsulating dreams. The ambient works of Harold Budd lies somewhere in the ether of these burning flames, wherein a tenderness and stillness of night radiates with each and every meditative heart-beat. Soon, achingly beautiful instrumentation of violin is carefully added, evoking the glimmering rays of hope across cascading skies: dapples of light flicker along the horizon. The modern-classical soundscapes and divine instrumentation conjures up the timeless sound of the prestigious Touch or Type labels with the spirit of Peter Broderick, Sylvain Chauveau and Hildur Guðnadóttir
At the half-way point, the mesmerising voice of Katinka Fogh Vindelev whispers directly to one’s mind’s eye. Like a bird in full-flight, these four combined elements of strings, voice and percussion soars majestically with unlimited possibilities of discovery, exploration and chance. The mantra-like phrases sung by Vindelev transports the listener to the poignant, dream-like fantasies of Kazuo Ishiguro’s master novels or the otherworldly realm crafted by Kafka. This sublime tapestry of gradual blissed-out tones reveals inner-most truths and awakens a myriad of feelings and emotion. The compelling, ambitious and sublime new single is nestled nicely amidst the avant-garde, modern-classical and luminaries such as Scott Walker (‘Tilt’ era) and L.A’s Julia Holter and ‘Parallelograms’-era Linda Perhacs.
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Released on The Being Music 2016, www.thebeingmusic.com
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S1E7 | July mix
July 2016 opened with world-renowned German composer Nils Frahm’s magnificent “Possibly Colliding” weekend of music at the Barbican Centre, London. Curated by Frahm, the special lineup featured live performance, conversation and film screenings where the headline act was Frahm’s monumental sold-out Barbican show, comprising his “most ambitious concert to date.”
Possibly Colliding felt not only like a celebration of the visionary artist’s cherished songbook (thus far) but rather a distillation of the most ground-breaking moments of today’s contemporary music scene. The angelic, hushed solo piano pieces were interwoven with the sprawling and sublime synthesizer-led pieces and many live collaborations – cellist Anne Müller, Nonkeen (with the addition of gifted drummer Andrea Belfi), London-based vocal ensemble Shards, and the André de Ridder-led stargaze ensemble – rendered new versions of Frahm’s towering body of work and offered new insights into the gifted composer’s sonic sphere.
During July we were delighted to be invited to participate in Irish actor Cillian Murphy’s curated IMMA Summer Party happening at the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin. Murphy’s music lineup featured performances by celebrated German composer and pianist Hauschka, gifted Irish fiddle player and composer Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Irish-based indie band Meltybrains? Some selections from our DJ set appear in this month’s mixtape.
Limerick-born and London-based composer Áine O’Dwyer has long been one of our most cherished and favourite contemporary musicians. O’Dwyer has released records on such independent labels as: Mie Music, Second language and Fort Evil Fruit, while her versatile talents are evident in her rich and varied recorded output to date, which have featured: live recordings for pipe organ, music for harp and voice and music for solo piano.
This year’s Le Guess Who? festival features special guest curators – including the inimitable L.A. songwriter Julia Holter – who has invited Áine O’Dwyer to this year’s lineup in Utrecht which takes place on 10–13 November 2016.
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S1E7 | July mix
To Read/listen on La Blogothèque:
http://www.blogotheque.net/2016/07/27/fractured-air-x-blogotheque-s01e07-july-mix/
Tracklisting:
01. Woodkid & Nils Frahm – “Winter Morning II” (with Robert De Niro) (excerpt) (Ellis OST, Erased Tapes)
02. Peter Broderick – “Carried” (Erased Tapes)
03. Nonkeen – “Diving Platform” (R&S)
04. Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler – “A Road” (Thrill Jockey)
05. Áine O’Dwyer – “Falcon” (Second Language)
06. Jherek Bischoff – “Headless” (The Leaf Label)
07. Agnes Obel – “Familiar” (Play It Again Sam)
08. Jonny Greenwood (Copenhagen Phil, André de Ridder) – “Future Markets” (There Will Be Blood OST, Deutsche Grammophon)
09. Radiohead – “Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief” (XL Recordings)
10. Kedr Livanskiy – “Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)” (2MR)
11. Lil Silva – “Jimi” (Good Years)
12. DJ Shadow – “The Sideshow” (feat. Ernie Fresh) (Mass Appeal)
13. Underworld – “I Exhale” (Universal Music Group)
14. Floorplan – “Music” (M-Plant)
15. Róisín Murphy – “Simulation” (Permanent Vacation)
16. Hot Chip – “Night and Day” (Daphni Mix) (Domino)
17. Junior Boys – “Big Black Coat” (Robert Hood Remix) (Jiaolong / City Slang)
18. Peder Mannerfelt – “Perspectives” (Peder Mannerfelt Produktion)
19. Aphex Twin – “CHEETAHT2 [Ld spectrum]” (Warp)
20. Ólafur Arnalds – “RGB” (LateNightTales)
21. Julianna Barwick – “Someway” (Dead Oceans)
22. Julia Holter – “Finale” (Leaving / Domino)
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Compiled by Fractured Air, July 2016. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
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Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S1E2| February mix
Part Two of our mix series for La Blogothèque. We’ve tried to include something here from as many of our favourite labels as possible. Also included is a short excerpt from an interview we did with the legendary Los Angeles-based folk singer Linda Perhacs (to coincide with the release of her second solo LP “The Soul Of All Natural Things” on Asthmatic Kitty in 2014). February’s mix also comprises a few original scores to films (“Belladonna of Sadness”, “#HORROR”, “Mistress America” and “Mustang”) where each soundtrack certainly conveys a very singular mood and spirit for their respective subjects (and films). While it’s a little foolish to single out a particular song/artist (isn’t that the complete opposite of what a mixtape is supposed to be?) we would like to conclude by mentioning someone very special whom we only recently discovered: Tia Blake (thanks to Josh Rosenthal’s gorgeous book “The Record Store of the Mind”); her sole album was 1971’s “Folksongs And Ballads” (by “Tia Blake and her folk-group”), a most beautiful and precious thing indeed.
Fractured Air x Blogothèque – S1E2 | February mix
To Read/listen on La Blogothèque:
Tracklisting:
01. Fire! – “She Bid a Meaningless Farewell” (Rune Grammofon)
02. Dawn of Midi – “Ijiraq” (Erased Tapes)
03. nonkeen – “chasing god through palmyra” (R&S)
04. 1115 – “The Drowned World I” (Alien Transistor)
05. Julia Holter – “Vasquez” (Domino)
06. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “Arthropoda” (Western Vinyl)
07. Cool Maritime – “Spring” (Leaving)
08. Linda Perhacs – Interview (excerpt) (Fractured Air)
09. Linda Perhacs – “Parallelograms” (Kapp/Sunbeam)
10. Jóhann Jóhannsson with Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – “End of Summer Part 4” (excerpt) (Sonic Pieces)
11. Bob Dylan – “Father Of Night” (Columbia)
12. Lubomyr Melnyk – “Sunshimmers” (Erased Tapes)
13. Lee Hazlewood – “Hands” (MGM, Ace)
14. Masahiko Sato – “Valle Incantata” (Belladonna of Sadness OST, Finders Keepers)
15. The Fabulous Luckett Brothers – “Help Me to Carry On” (Honest Jon’s)
16. A Hawk And A Hacksaw – “Wedding Theme (Ukraine)” (LM Dupli-Cation)
17. Calexico – “When Only The Ashes Are Left” (Our Soil, Our Strength)
18. Thomas Köner – “Tiento de la Luz 4” (excerpt) (Denovali)
19. Ricardo Donoso – “Morning Criminal” (Denovali)
20. EMA – “Amnesia Haze (Vox & Guitar Only)” (#HORROR OST, City Slang)
21. Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips – “Mistress America” (Mistress America OST, Milan)
22. Alex Smoke – “Fair Is Foul” (R&S)
23. Lord RAJA – “Footwork” (Ghostly International)
24. Roly Porter – “In System” (Tri Angle)
25. Warren Ellis – “Mustang” (Mustang OST, Milan)
26. Tia Blake – “The Rising of the Moon” (Water)
27. Langley Schools Music Project – “Space Oddity” (Bar/None)
28. Qluster – “In deinen Händen” (Bureau B)
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Compiled by Fractured Air, February 2016. The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
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Mixtape: When Time Flies [A Fractured Air Mix]
When Time Flies [A Fractured Air Mix]
To listen on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/when-time-flies-a-fractured-air-mix/
Tracklisting:
01. David Allred ‘When Time Flies’ [Oscarson]
02. Beach House ‘Levitation’ [Bella Union/Sub Pop]
03. Air ‘Empty House’ [‘The Virgin Suicides’ OST / Virgin]
04. Laurel Halo ‘Focus I’ [Honest Jon’s]
05. Arthur Russell ‘This Is How We Walk On The Moon’ [Audika]
06. Dawn of Midi ‘Algol’ [Erased Tapes]
07. The Bad Plus ‘Never Stop’ [EmArcy]
08. Sun Ra ‘Plutonian Nights’ [Strut]
09. Cheech & Chong ‘Basketball Jones’ [‘Being There’ OST]
10. Peter Broderick + Gabriel Saloman ‘Lament For Philip Seymour Hoffman’ [Beacon Sound]
11. Guillaume Roussel ‘Meurtre du fou’ [‘La Connection’ OST / Gaumont, Légende Films]
12. Symmetry ‘Streets Of Fire’ [Italians Do It Better]
13. Max Richter ‘Lullaby’ (feat. Robert Wyatt) [130701]
14. Julia Kent ‘Heavy Eyes’ [The Leaf Label]
15. Julia Holter ‘Have You In My Wilderness’ [Domino]
16. Harold Budd & John Foxx ‘Adult’ [All Saints]
17. The Band ‘I Shall Be Released’ [Capitol]
18. Georges Delerue ‘Camille’ [‘Le Mépris’ OST / EmArcy]
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This mixtape will be our final post on Fractured Air. We’d both like to take this opportunity to thank each and every person who has helped or supported us in one way or another over the last 3½ years. It has been a real pleasure for us to have found ourselves in a position to be able to do our small part in helping promote the true wonder that is independent music. Most of all, we’d like to say a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of our readers who helped us keep going as long as we did. Thank you.
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Mixtape: With the Dark Hug of Time
With the Dark Hug of Time [A Fractured Air Mix]
To listen on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/with-the-dark-hug-of-time-a-fractured-air-mix/
Tracklisting:
01. Nordic Affect ‘Clockworking’ [Sono Luminus]
02. Masayoshi Fujita ‘Tears of Unicorn’ [Erased Tapes]
03. Julia Kent ‘Tramontana’ [Leaf]
04. Cork Gamelan Ensemble ‘The Three Forges’ [Diatribe]
05. Jerusalem in My Heart ‘A Granular Buzuk’ [Constellation]
06. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld ‘With the dark hug of time’ [Constellation]
07. Roll The Dice ‘In Deference’ [Leaf]
08. Dawn of Midi ‘Dysnomia’ [Erased Tapes]
09. Lower Dens ‘Quo Vadis’ [Ribbon Music]
10. Micachu & The Shapes ‘L.A. Poison’ [Rough Trade]
11. The Fall ‘Early Days of Channel Führer’ [Narnack]
12. Helen ‘City Breathing’ [Kranky]
13. Time Is A Mountain ‘Alicetti’ [Repeat Until Death]
14. Musette ‘Send In The Clown Clones’ (excerpt) [Häpna]
15. Roslyn Steer ‘Gently’ [KantCope]
16. Rafael Anton Irisarri ‘Will Her Heart Burn Anymore_00’ [Self-Released]
17. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm ‘Wide Open’ [Erased Tapes]
18. Ellll ‘Now’ [Unreleased]
19. Holly Herndon ‘Home’ [4AD]
20. Julia Holter ‘Night Song’ [Domino]
21. Eleni Karaindrou ‘The Weeping Meadow I’ [ECM]
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Mixtape: Nature of Daylight
Nature of Daylight [A Fractured Air Mix]
To listen on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/nature-of-daylight-a-fractured-air-mix/
Tracklisting:
01. Meg Baird ‘Dear Companion’ [Drag City]
02. Max Richter ‘Path 5 (Delta)’ (excerpt) [Deutsche Grammophon]
03. Linda & Irene Buckley ‘Passages’ (excerpt) [Sounds from a Safe Harbour]
04. Christina Vantzou ‘Pillar 3’ [Kranky]
05. Mikael Tariverdiev ‘Boys and the Sea – part one’ [Earth Recordings]
06. Julia Holter ‘Lucette Stranded on the Island’ [Domino]
07. A Hawk And A Hacksaw ‘Lajtha Lassu’ [LM Duplication]
08. Marlene Dietrich ‘Go ‘Way from My Window’ [Columbia]
09. Joe Meek Orchestra ‘Cry My Heart’ [Castle Music]
10. Townes Van Zandt ‘Waitin’ Around To Die’ [Poppy]
11. Micachu & The Shapes ‘Oh Baby’ [Rough Trade]
12. Corrina Repp ‘Woods’ [Caldo Verde, Discolexique]
13. La Nuit ‘Road Snakes’ [Beacon Sound]
14. Rival Consoles ‘Morning Vox’ [Erased Tapes]
15. Cillian Murphy ‘In The Morning’ [Late Night Tales]
16. Brumes ‘I heard you’ [Bandcamp]
17. Dinah Washington & Max Richter ‘This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight’ [La French OST / Gaumont, Légende Films]
18. Blaze Foley ‘If I Could Only Fly’ [Lost Art]
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Linda & Irene Buckley’s ‘Passages’ is taken from an installation piece commissioned by Sounds From a Safe Harbour (more info HERE).
Cillian Murphy’s ‘In The Morning’ is written by Enda Walsh exclusively for Nils Frahm’s Late Night Tales compilation (more info HERE).
The copyright in these recordings is the property of the individual artists and/or their respective record labels. If you like the music, please support the artist by buying their records.
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Mixtape: A Call For Distance
A Call For Distance [A Fractured Air Mix]
To listen on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Fractured_Air/a-call-for-distance-a-fractured-air-mix/
Tracklisting:
01. Steve Reich ‘It’s Gonna Rain, Part I’ (excerpt) [Nonesuch]
02. Colin Stetson And Sarah Neufeld ‘Won’t be a thing to become’ [Constellation]
03. So Percussion ‘Music for Wood and Strings: Section 1’ [Brassland]
04. Nils Frahm ‘Wall’ [Erased Tapes]
05. Dawn of Midi ‘Nix’ [Erased Tapes]
06. Craig Leon ‘She Wears A Hemispherical Skullcap’ [RVNG Intl]
07. Holly Herndon ‘Morning Sun’ [4AD]
08. Severed Heads ‘Dead Eyes Opened’ [Dark Entries]
09. Lower Dens ‘Your Heart Still Beating’ [Ribbon Music]
10. Heather Woods Broderick ‘A Call For Distance’ [Western Vinyl]
11. Chris Isaac ‘Wicked Game’ [Reprise]
12. Julia Holter ‘My Love My Love’ [Tompkins Square]
13. John Bence ‘Disquiet, Pt. 1’ [Other People]
14. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis ‘Far from Men 2’ [Goliath Entertainment]
15. Edan ‘Beauty’ [Lewis Recordings]
16. Richard Strauss ‘Vier letzte Lieder: IV. Im Abendrot’ (excerpt) [CBS]
17. Tom Waits ‘You Can Never Hold Back Spring’ [Anti-]
18. The Beach Boys ‘Look (Stereo Mix Of Take 20)’ [Capitol]
19. The Books ‘“Ah…, I See”’ [Temporary Residence Limited]
20. Glen Campbell ‘Guess I’m Dumb’ [Ace]
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