VISIONIST today shares the video for
“Form,” the latest track to be taken from his forthcoming album,
A Call To Arms, out
March 5 on digital platforms and
March 26 on vinyl and CD via Mute.
The new album is the first time Visionist’s singing voice has been heard in the form of song and lyric. On
“Form,” vocals are shared with the opera singer
Lisa E. Harris and
Wu-lu joins on guitar.
Multi-disciplinary artist
Arcin Sagdic, who directed the video, explains their collaboration,
“We had an exchange about ideas and visions on a regular basis that brought us all the way to this outcome. The work-flow with Visionist was very natural and easy for me, I felt very comfortable doing the clip for such an amazingly atmospheric, persistent and experimental track.” Watch the video
here.
Pre-order
A Call To Arms here.
Collaborators and guests on the album include
Haley Fohr of
Circuit Des Yeux; multimedia artist and opera singer,
Lisa E. Harris; experimental multi-instrumentalist
K.K. Null;
Ben Romans Hopcraft (
Childhood); artist and producer
Wu-lu; pianist
Matthew Bourne;
Morgan Simpson (
Black Midi); and experimental saxophonist
Ben Vince. Visionist explains,
“A lot of the preparation for a song takes place inside my head, I imagine how different instrumentation can come together and this includes voice. Tone is important but mainly I am drawn to storytellers, and how they can relate to my message.” Watch the video for
“The Fold” here. Featuring vocals by Haley Fohr, the video was created using footage filmed of
Jonathan Schipper’s 2016 installation,
Cubicle, from the Rice Gallery in Houston, TX.
The album artwork is by Visionist and Belgian artist,
Peter De Potter, longtime collaborator with Raf Simons, whose recent artwork includes Kanye West’s
The Life of Pablo.
To mark the album’s release, Visionist and Copenhagen-based fashion label
Heliot Emil have launched the official
A Call To Arms album capsule collection, available to pre-order via Visionist’s Bandcamp page
here.
Visionist has also launched a new
Bandcamp subscription service. Available in two tiers, the service will provide subscribers with guaranteed access and discounts to the Heliot Emil album capsule, all vinyl releases, the entire digital back catalog as well as behind the scenes material, free access to DJ and live streams and – hopefully, one day soon – in-person events.
MORE ABOUT VISIONISTFor Visionist (aka Louis Carnell) each album is a chapter in a bigger storyline. “
My music very much reflects how my life has played out,” he explains.
Safe [2015 / PAN] dealt with his battles with anxiety while
Value [2017 / Big Dada Recordings] was a defiant album, built originally from anger, betrayal and anguish. Both of the albums were seeding the land for
A Call To Arms, an album that takes on big themes, in a personal voice. Not in the everyday political sense though. Instead, he builds intimate settings, creating spaces where he can place the shadows of the world’s current crises.
While in the past his work flirted with the dance floor, this time the songs support a brand new sound architecture.
“Now that I have done so much, I’m allowing my freedom,” says Visionist. The songs on
A Call To Arms are made for people who
“take time and consider.” This new record marks a confident moment in Visionist’s life and musical career. “
I had to stop taking refuge in the premise of ‘people don’t want to understand me’ and focus on being the best communicator I can be,” he explains.
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