Chris Liebing today announces details of a new album,
Another Day, set for release
November 19 on Mute.
Another Day – the follow up to Liebing’s 2018 debut for Mute,
Burn Slow – launches with
“Whispers and Wires” featuring
Ladan (formerly known as
Cold Specks) on vocals. On this new track, electronics simmer away gently with Ladan’s vocals floating over before the two coalesce. Watch the video, directed by Edith & Anna Bergfors at
StudioBergfors,
here.
The new album will be available on double clear vinyl and CD – both with a silver finish and 16-page booklet – as well as digital platforms. Pre-order
here.
Another Day sees Liebing once again collaborating with an eclectic mix of artists, including several who were involved with
Burn Slow.
Miles Cooper Seaton, in one of his last performances following his sad and untimely passing earlier this year, and
Polly Scattergood lend vocals to a track each, while
Ralf Hildenbeutel returns to produce.
Ladan,
Tom Adams, and
Maria Uzor (Sink Ya Teeth) are new collaborators for Liebing.
“With this album, I wanted to take myself out of it as much as possible,” explains Liebing. After three decades working dancefloors with pummeling techno, Liebing has a formidable reputation as a DJ and is certainly comfortable with being in the spotlight, but for his solo work he has chosen a different avenue.
Liebing jokes that him providing minimal guidance to the collaborators is the result of him “getting lazy,” but in reality, it’s more an exercise in intuition and spontaneity, allowing his musical experience - on and off the dance floor - to dictate the creative flow.
“I'm a strong believer in letting the moment decide what's happening,” he says.
“If you've studied your set up and you know what you're doing then you can let the moment take over because you're not busy trying to figure out how things work.” Despite Liebing very much directing and driving the shape, tone, and essence of the album, he ultimately views it as one rooted in collaboration, and one more contributor to the album is Mute’s Daniel Miller.
“Daniel's input was just incredible,” he says.
“He brought his modular setup in our studio and he added this extra flavor.” This added element, combined with Hildenbeutel’s silky production skills, the eclectic presence of the guest vocalists, and Liebing’s intuitive ear for compositions, results in something truly unique.
Liebing has begun work on reimagining the album for a club context. Later this month, he will premiere some of this music for the first time when he takes part in a new three-part stream series powered by
Beatport in collaboration with Microsoft Surface for
Game Changers. A 90-minute DJ set will be broadcast from Teufelsberg, a decommissioned Cold War listening station, in Berlin on
May 26 at 8pm CEST on Beatport’s channels including
Facebook,
Twitch and
YouTube. A documentary will follow in early summer.
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