Louis Carnell Shares Collaboration With Laraaji "eleven" || New Album '111' Due Out 4/23 On Mute

LOUIS CARNELL COLLABORATES WITH LARAAJI LISTEN TO ‘ELEVEN’  NEW ALBUM 111 - DOUBLE VINYL COLLECTION FEATURING ALL 15 COLLABORATIONS FROM ACROSS THE SERIES DUE OUT 4/23 ON MUTE

Photo credit: Charlie Soffe   Today Louis Carnell & Laraaji have shared a new collaboration, “eleven”, a transportive piece where bursts of hammered dulcimer and chiming dissonance flow in and out of vaporous drones. Listen to “eleven” by Louis Carnell & Laraaji HERE. Listen to the 111 series so far HERE. The track follows news of a 15-track double vinyl release, 111, due out on April 23, 2024 via Mute. The album brings together all of the collaborations from the 111 series: Keeley Forsyth, Lee Ranaldo, Ben Vince, Yasa Asmar, Coby Sey, KMRU, Okkyung Lee, Wu-Lu, Green-House and Laraaji, as well as unreleased tracks with Marta De Pascalis, Leila, Nailah Hunter and Damsel Elysium. Carnell explains the project, "As the engine of modern life funnels us into states of loss and isolation, 111 aims at a utopian poetics of hope. Re-aligning connections by exploring mutual spaces 111 attempts to empower its listener & forms an equivalent environment for each collaboration. Each artist that features on 111 has provided me with multiple moments of solitude and resilience, & I’m thankful to them all. Visually there are no obvious signifiers of hope, a reflection on the feeling or practice is individual to its arbitrator, but in their existence, we form a foundation of promise & possibility." Each track in the series is accompanied by one of three visual works by Arcin Sagdic (Maison Margiela, COMME des GARÇONS, Burberry) and Louis Carnell, extending Carnell’s visual collaborations that have included Daniel Sannwald, Frederik Heyman and Peter De Potter. Carnell is scheduled to perform at the ICA, London on May 23, 2024 on a bill with Keeley Forsyth, his first collaborator for the series. 111 live events have included performances at Café OTO and Stoke Newington Old Church in London and the Volksbühne in Berlin.   ​​LIVE DATES: 5/23/2024 - London, UK -  ICA (supporting Keeley Forsyth) Laraaji press photo credit: Liam Ricketts

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111 https://mute.ffm.to/louiscarnell_111 one – Louis Carnell & Keeley Forsyth two – Louis Carnell & Lee Ranaldo three – Louis Carnell & Ben Vince four – Louis Carnell & Yara Asmar five – Louis Carnell & Coby Sey six – Louis Carnell & KMRU seven – Louis Carnell & Okkyung Lee eight – Louis Carnell & Wu-Lu nine – Louis Carnell & Green-House ten - Louis Carnell & Daniel Miller eleven - Louis Carnell & Laraaji twelve - Louis Carnell & Marta De Pascalis thirteen - Louis Carnell & Leila fourteen - Louis Carnell & Nailah Hunter fifteen - Louis Carnell & Damsel Elysium Pre-order the album: https://mute.ffm.to/louis-carnell-111-vinyl   Further listening: Louis Carnell RA session: https://youtu.be/hkuAGZ7yJN4 ‘The Fold’ (from A Call To Arms): https://youtu.be/zHU3nbUlK3Q Selected previous work: A Call To Arms - Visionist (2021, Mute) Value - Visionist (2017, Big Dada) Safe - Visionist (2015, PAN)   Laraaji - American multi-instrumentalist musician Laraaji primarily constructs his lengthy, meditative soundscapes from an electronically- altered zither, hammered dulcimer, kalimba, synthesizers, piano, and other instruments, as well as natural sounds and vocals. He began playing music on the streets in the ‘70s, improvising experimental jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. His prolific releases include the Brian Eno produced Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (the third in Eno’s Ambient series) and the 2023 collection of his early works, Segue to Infinity, which was awarded Best New Reissue at Pitchfork. Daniel Miller grew up in North West London, the son of refugee actors from Vienna, and in 1978 he founded the influential independent British label Mute with the release of his own 7” single, The Normal ‘Warm Leatherette’ / ‘TVOD’. Since then, he has expanded Mute to include publishing, and has nurtured and worked with a hugely diverse roster of artists. As well as his work with Sunroof, the improvised modular project he formed with producer Gareth Jones, Daniel Miller has produced countless groundbreaking releases across all genres, is a well-respected techno DJ, and a keen street photographer. Green-House is Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan’s ambient electronic music project that acts as a love letter to Japanese environmental music, '70s library records, and early synth-based composers.   Wu-Lu (aka Miles Romans-Hopcraft) has built a name for himself as one of the most interesting names on the experimental hip-hop scene. Formed by the multicultural energy of South London, he makes a hell of a noise to wake us all from our slumber, defying genre conventions with a vital mix of metal, screamo, punk, dub and hip-hop, alongside inspirations from jazz, soul and beat poetry. In 2022 he released the masterpiece LOGGERHEAD on Warp Records.   Okkyung Lee is a cellist, composer and improviser who moves freely between artistic disciplines and contingencies. A native of South Korea, Lee has taken a broad array of inspirations, including noise, improvisation, jazz, western-classical, and her homeland's traditional and popular music, and used them to forge a highly distinctive approach. KMRU aka Joseph Kamaru is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise and improvisation. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms and an awareness of surroundings through creative compositions and installations.  Coby Sey is a producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Lewisham, London, offering a shifting, disorienting post-genre vision. Listed as 'One To Watch' by The Guardian, Sey has collaborated with Tirzah, and Mica Levi and his debut album, Conduit, was described by Pitchfork as flickering between “dream-pop boom-bap, industrial-grade noise, and densely collaged epics that are part free-improv jam, part volcano.” Yara Asmar is a Beirut-based multi-instrumentalist, video artist and puppeteer. Her new album, a deeply personal piece that uses her grandmother’s accordion and her grandfather’s reel-to-reel recordings of birds, Synth Waltzes And Accordion Laments, is out now on Hive Mind. Ben Vince is an experimental saxophonist and composer who works with improvised live-looping saxophone and has collaborated and worked with artists including Joy Orbison, Coby Sey, Cucina Povera and Jacob Samuel. Lee Ranaldo is an artist, producer and co-founder of Sonic Youth. He has a  solo discography that spans three decades, with his most recent releases Electric Trim, Names of North End Women and In Virus Times, all on Mute. Outside of his own musical compositions, Ranaldo has also produced albums for several bands, written numerous books and exhibited his audiovisual work at a variety of galleries and museums around the globe. Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer, and actor from Oldham in the northwest of England. Built upon sparse arrangements, Forsyth’s music is centered around a singular, emotionally-raw and magnetic vocal delivery, equal turns devastating and uplifting. Her 2020 debut album was praised by Pitchfork, The Quietus, and Loud and Quiet and she released her second album, Limbs, to critical acclaim.   CONNECT WITH LOUIS CARNELL: TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP CONNECT WITH MUTE: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | TIK TOK | WEB