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Revanchist PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://evianchrist.ffm.to/revanchist
"On Embers" LISTEN: https://evianchrist.ffm.to/onembers (September 6, 2023) Today, Evian Christ announces his long-awaited debut album Revanchist due on October 20th via Warp Records. Alongside the announcement, Evian shares the first offering from his forthcoming project with the track "On Embers." The eight-track record explores the latent potential in trance to evoke, beyond euphoria, the fullest feeling of the sublime. In addition to the album news Evian will also be heading on tour. Starting this Friday Sept 8th, Evian will embark on live dates across New York, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Barcelona and more. "On Embers", Revanchist’s opening track and lead single, encapsulates Christ’s inclination towards the total annihilation of trance’s default affects; soaring, rapturous supersaws meet a tempest of indecipherable noise, mangled 808s and broken shards of defected gospel house acapellas. Revanchist follows 2020’s "Ultra", a landmark label-debut that demonstrated Christ’s emerging command of an abstractly destructive musical vocabulary. The album draws from an unlikely and diverse pool of influences; compositing, at once, the suffocating throttle of Demiurge-era Emptyset (2011); the worldliness of Madonna and William Orbit’s Ray Of Light LP (1998); the acute uncanniness of Laibach’s Across The Universe (1988); and a highly stylized approach to mixing and sound design primarily inspired by Sasha’s seminal Xpander EP (1999).
Revanchist’s album artwork is designed by long-standing collaborator and celebrated graphic designer David Rudnick, and features works by 19th century Norwegian landscape painter Lars Hertervig and British video artist Chris Bucklow. Inspired by classic trance singles, the limited edition CD is housed in a screen printed slimpack jewelcase with 5-colour printed PVC inlay and wrap around sticker. The vinyl, similarly limited to an initial pressing of 1000, is housed in a screen-printed transparent bag with a printed inner-sleeve and double-sided 36x24” fold-out poster. Evian Christ (b. Joshua Leary) is an Ellesmere Port-based musician, producer and music programmer signed to Warp and DONDA/Sony ATV Publishing. Initially recognized for his production contributions to Billboard-topping albums by Kanye West and Travis Scott, and subsequently as the founder of the enduringly influential TranceParty clubnight, Christ’s recent years have seen him lead an idiosyncratic range of projects that enquire into the legacy of trance in contemporary cultural life.
Pre-order Revanchist above, find tour routing details below, and stay tuned for more from Evian Christ soon.
Upcoming Live Dates † = Revanchist: Live * = Revanchist: DJ
9/8 - Tilburg, NL @ Draaaimolen * 9/28 - Prague, CZ @ Lunchmeat † 9/30 - Paris, FR @ Nemo Biennale † 10/20 - New York, NY @ The Meadows * 10/26 - London, UK @ TranceParty Outernet † 10/27 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique † 10/28 - Amsterdam, NL @ Parallel † 11/3 - Turin, IT @ C2C † 11/4 - Guimarães, PT @ Mucho Flow † 11/11 - Barcelona, ES @ Mira † 11/25 - Manchester, UK @ New Century † 12/1 - London, UK @ TranceParty Corsica * 12/8 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo * 12/9 - Dublin, IE @ The Racket Space *
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