Lee Ranaldo Releases New Video For "Moroccan Mountains"; Rough Trade In-Store Tonight in Brooklyn

LEE RANALDO RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR “MOROCCAN MOUNTAINS” ROUGH TRADE IN-STORE PERFORMANCES CONFIRMED IN NYC AND LONDON NEW ALBUM ELECTRIC TRIM OUT SEPTEMBER 15

Photo: Fred Riedel

Ahead of the release of a brand new album, his first for Mute, LEE RANALDO has shared the video for “Moroccan Mountains,” the opening track from Electric Trim, out Friday, September 15. Watch here. In addition, Ranaldo has confirmed two Rough Trade in-store performances, one in New York tonight, and one at London’s Rough Trade East on October 2. In addition to these special in-store performances, Ranaldo has announced a full band European tour for 2018. This fall, Ranaldo and the band will tour across North America in October and November. Further dates, including London and Berlin, will be announced in the coming weeks. For those who can't make it to Ranaldo's in-stores, signed copies of Electric Trim can be purchased here. Ranaldo explains, “’Moroccan Mountains’ was begun sitting atop a blood-red carpet with yellow mountain shapes woven into it that was brought back from Fes on my first trip there in 1995. I was strumming the chords that became the song and those mountain shapes took me back to my first trip to the country and into the Rif Mountains where I first met and played with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, in their little hilltop village with no running water or electricity. Somehow those memories infused a certain ‘Moroccan spirit’ into the song. It was a magical time, for Morocco is a magical place, and I found myself transported back via the chords from my guitar. The opening spoken section about ‘falling into the crack between the window and the world’ is based on true events that took place on a train approaching Grenoble, France in 2015…” Directed by Fred Riedel, the video is an excerpt from the forthcoming documentary on the making of the album, shot on location in Morocco, France, New York City, Berlin, and somewhere in the skies over the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2016. The feature length documentary, HELLO HELLO HELLO : LEE RANALDO : ELECTRIC TRIM tracks the making of the album by filmmakers Fred Riedel and Jerry Fried. The documentary will be touring select film festivals in the US and Europe. Screenings include the New Jersey Film Festival on album release day, Fonomo Music and Film Festival in Poland, Gig Harbor Film Festival in Seattle, and London’s Doc‘n Roll Festival in November. Watch the trailer for HELLO HELLO HELLO here. Electric Trim was recorded in New York City and Barcelona in collaboration with producer Raül “Refree” Fernandez and extends the work of Ranaldo's solo canon, the most recent being his 2013 album, Last Night On Earth. Through his collaboration with Fernandez, Ranaldo moves into some rich new sonic territories and production techniques, experimenting with electronic beats and samples alongside live players. Ranaldo is a co-founder of Sonic Youth, a visual artist, producer and writer. In addition to Fernandez, he worked with several special guests on Electric Trim, including Sharon Van Etten who sings on six of the tracks and duets on “Last Looks” and Kid Millions (aka Man Forever) as well as longtime friend and collaborator Nels Cline (Wilco). In addition, the album features Ranaldo’s band The Dust (fellow Sonic Youth member Steve Shelley, guitarist Alan Licht, and bassist Tim Luntzel). Ranaldo collaborated with award winning New York author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn / The Fortress of Solitude) for lyrics on six of the songs, including “Thrown Over The Wall." American artist, Richard Prince, who previously painted the sleeve for Sonic Youth’s 2004 album Sonic Nurse, created the artwork for the album. LEE RANALDO 2018 TOUR: October 24 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon October 25 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel October 27 – Portland, OR – Bunk Bar October 28 – Seattle, WA – Barboza October 29 – Vancouver, BC – The Cobalt November 1 – Burlington, VT – ArtsRiot November 2 – Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa November 3 – Toronto, ON – Great Hall November 4 – Detroit, MI – El Club November 5 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean November 6 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups November 8 – Boston, MA – ONCE Ballroom November 9 – Brooklyn, NY – Bell House November 10 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda's November 11 – Washington, DC – Black Cat February 16 – Barcelona, Spain – Sala Apolo February 17 – Madrid, Spain – Moby Dick February 20 – La Rochelle, France – La Sirene February 21 ­– Nantes, France ­– Stereolux February 22 – Rennes, France – Route Du Rock D’hiver at Antipode February 23 – Paris, France – La Maroquinerie / Honzai Night February 24 – Tourcoing, France – Le Grand Mix February 28 – Gent, Belgium – Vooruit March 1 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Bitterzoet March 2 – Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel March 3 – Berlin, Germany – Roter Salon Am Volksbühne March 4 – Heidelberg, Germany – Karlstorbahnhof March 6 – Trento, Italy – Teatro Sanbapolis March 8 – Winterthur, Czech Republic – Salzhaus March 9 – Metz, France – Les Trinitaires March 10 – Lyon, France – Epicerie Moderne Further dates to be announced, for full details and ticket links, go to http://po.st/LRWebsite HELLO HELLO HELLO : LEE RANALDO : ELECTRIC TRIM SCREENINGS September 15 – New Brunswick, NJ - New Jersey Film Festival - 7pm Opening Night Presentation September 29 – Madrid, Spain – Madrid Art Film Festival - Opening Night October 10 – San Francisco, CA – The Roxie Theater October 14 – Menen, Belgium – CC De Steiger Menen (as a component event of Lee Ranaldo: Lost Ideas exhibition) October 20 – Bydgoszcz, Poland – FONOMO Music & Film Festival October 26 – Portland, OR – The Clinton Street Theater October 28 – Seattle, WA – Gig Harbor Film Festival November 1 – Burlington, VT – Arts Riot November 2-18 – London, UK Doc'n Roll Film and Music Festival November 9-12 – Chicago, IL – Chicago International Movies & Music Festival Updated screening information available from https://goo.gl/PKa9q1