Gorillaz: Song Machine Live From Kong in cinemas Dec. 8. Performance video clip feat. Fatoumata Diawara

GORILLAZ PRESENT SONG MACHINE LIVE FROM KONG

COMING TO CINEMAS GLOBALLY

Wednesday 8^th December  

 

WATCH LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO CLIP

‘DÉSOLÉ’ FEAT. FATOUMATA DIAWARA FROM THE SHOW HERE

 

WATCH FULL TRAILER HERE

 

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Visit songmachineliveincinemas.com  

 

Includes pre-show programme and exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette, ‘Inside Live From Kong’

 

“The bonkers virtual extravaganza was the perfect home for Damon Albarn's animated band and their roster of glitzy special guests. ★★★★” Daily Telegraph

 

“...a gig that invites you to join in the chaos. ★★★★” NME

 

“A genre-straddling success story… Double drummers, six backing singers, Robert Smith, Peter Hook and slowthai guesting… Damon Albarn plays master of ceremonies in an impressive night of collaborations. ★★★★” The Observer

 

 

In celebration of Gorillaz: Song Machine Live From Kong heading to the big screen for one day only on Wednesday 8^th December, today Gorillaz release an exclusive live performance clip of ‘Désolé’ featuring Malian singer-songwriter and multiple Grammy Award nominee Fatoumata Diawara. The song is taken from their celebrated 2020 album Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez. Watch it HERE

 

This thrilling virtual show from Gorillaz, captured at the band’s Kong Studios HQ in London, comes to cinemas globally via Trafalgar Releasing, along with the cinema-exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette, ‘Inside Live From Kong’ with unseen interview footage and commentary from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. Tickets are on sale now via songmachineliveincinemas.com.

 

Following their much-anticipated return to the stage in December 2020 with the dazzling SONG MACHINE LIVE, the biggest virtual band on the planet will once again bring fans magnificent Jamie Hewlett visuals and thrilling live performance blended together in the unique Gorillaz way.

 

Guitarist Noodle, bassist Murdoc Niccals, drummer Russel Hobbs and frontman 2D - in all their cinematic glory - will be joined by Damon Albarn and the full Gorillaz live band plus a host of special guests both virtual and joining them on stage, including Beck, Leee John, Georgia, Peter Hook, Kano, slowthai, Slaves, Robert Smith, Matt Berry and many more delivering an unmissable celebration of Gorillaz music.

 

On 12^th & 13^th December 2020, SONG MACHINE LIVE saw Gorillaz’ first live performance of their latest album Song Machine: Season One - Strange Timez - and the band’s first live performance since 2018, broadcast live around the world with three shows across three time zones through pay-per-view streaming platform LIVENow.

 

Trafalgar Releasing CEO, Marc Allenby says, "We are delighted to be partnering with the LIVENow and Eleven Management teams to bring Gorillaz: Song Machine Live from Kong to cinemas worldwide. We saw great success with Gorillaz' previous cinema event Reject False Icons, and we look forward to welcoming cinema audiences to experience their outstanding live show on the big screen, with immersive surround sound and exclusive bonus content."

 

James Massing, Chief Commercial Officer at LIVENow says, “Our goal at LIVENow is to give fans unparalleled access to the ultimate live music experiences, so we’re delighted to partner with Trafalgar Releasing to bring Gorillaz' Song Machine: Live from Kong to cinemas across the globe. Last year, we brought Gorillaz fans a one-off opportunity to watch the band perform their critically acclaimed album during a time where live music stopped. We’re proud to share the performance once again but on the big screen.”

 

Gorillaz: Song Machine Live From Kong is available at cinemas worldwide for one day only on Wednesday 8th December*. For full ticket and viewing information, see www.songmachineliveincinemas.com

 

*Some international dates may vary

CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON ANNOUNCES 2022 US TOUR & ALPHA (DELUXE)

CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON ANNOUNCES 2022 US TOUR + DELUXE VERSION OF DEBUT ALBUM ALPHA

PHOTO CREDIT: Othello Grey “The immaculately mixed ALPHA is instead built on weighty writing and daring arrangements in which Day Wilson stays front and center, never allowing the production to overshadow her presence.” - PITCHFORK   "Her debut full-length is all her—vocally forward and lyrically bare. The songs are centered on Wilson’s rich, soulful voice, giving her tracks the intimacy of a private performance, while also boasting dense, artful production." - BANDCAMP   "...a singular creative force. A singer-songwriter who records and produces her own work with a tenacious yet flexible vision....Alpha is not so much an announcement of a prodigious new talent, as it is a confirmation of one." - FADER   "Wilson occupies a lane distinct from most burgeoning R&B stars and often allows her soulful music to be the center of attention. Wilson’s sound fills a space entirely its own, setting up the Toronto-born songwriter as one of this year’s most promising up-and-coming R&B acts....what is perhaps most striking about Wilson doesn’t involve her voice, but rather her production." - BILLBOARD     Today, the Toronto-based musician and producer Charlotte Day Wilson released the deluxe edition of her breakthrough debut album ALPHA. The deluxe edition expands on the sonic narrative Charlotte introduced with the initial release of ALPHA by including an unreleased track "Even Is the Lie" and the remix of "Take Care of You" featuring King Princess, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Amaarae that was previously exclusively on Amazon. ALPHA (Deluxe) is out on all digital streaming platforms, with the vinyl edition of the album now available for pre-orders.   Charlotte Day Wilson will also embark on a headlining US tour in 2022. Full tour dates are listed below. Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday, December 3 at 10 AM local time.   ALPHA is a euphoric blend of R&B, jazz, and soul music. The album amassed critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork, Billboard, FADER, Okay Player, and more. Charlotte made waves in the industry with the release of her debut EP CDW in 2016, along with her collaborations with BADBADNOTGOOD, Daniel Caesar and Kaytranada. She made a return in 2018 with the poignant Stone Woman EP. Most recently, Drake sampled her song "Mountains" in his track "Fair Trade" (featuring Travis Scott) released on his album Certified Love Boy. With the release of ALPHA, Wilson established herself as a worldwide name.     LISTEN TO ALPHA (DELUXE) https://orcd.co/alphadeluxecdw   PRE-ORDER THE ALPHA (DELUXE) VINYL https://charlottedaywilson.com/   WATCH “IF I COULD” VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4QnvbgRtOI&ab_channel=CDWVEVO   WATCH “KEEP MOVING” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXJeoDxeXU&ab_channel=CDWVEVO   WATCH “CHANGES” VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgNu8kooiQc

ALPHA (DELUXE) TRACKLIST: 1. Strangers 2. I Can Only Whisper (feat. BADBADNOTGOOD) 3. If I Could 4. Lovesick Utopia 5. Mountains 6. Danny’s Interlude 7. Changes 8. Take Care of You (feat. Syd) 9. Keep Moving 10. Wish it Was Easy 11. Adam Complex 12. Even is the Lie 13. Take Care of You Remix (Feat. King Princess, Amaarae & Meshell Ndegeocello) 14. If I Could (Music Video) 15. Keep Moving (Music Video) 16. Changes (Music Video)     2022 US TOUR DATES   PURCHASE TICKETS: https://charlottedaywilson.com/Tour   March 2 - Detroit March 3 - Chicago March 5 - Philadelphia March 6 - Washington D.C March 8 - NYC March 10 - Atlanta  March 12 - Dallas  March 13 - Houston  March 16 - Las Vegas March 17 - Los Angeles  March 20 - Santa Ana March 21 - Oakland March 23 - Portland March 24 - Seattle     FOLLOW CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK YOUTUBE

Frank & Co Conversations with Frank Zappa 1977–1993 by Co de Kloet

Frank & Co Conversations with Frank Zappa 1977–1993 by Co de Kloet

Through two decades of conversations and correspondence, Frank & Co offers a unique insight into the life and work of the legendary American musician and composer Frank Zappa. Published February 15th 2022 by Jawbone Press.

“I think the best way to start when somebody says something can’t be done, just look at them and say: why not?” Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, 1990 “With this book, the Zappa fan will get a glimpse into Frank that I don’t believe any other book written by him or about him expresses. And us Zappa fans love that.” Guitarist and composer Steve Vai “This book is somewhat analogous to a documentary movie for your brain. Whether my father is expressing his views of religion and politics as well his opinions of their ill-advised enmeshment or his bleak opinion about some of his former employees playing his music in public, he gives it to you straight. Well, he gave it straight to Co, and now he’s giving it to you!” Dweezil Zappa   Co de Kloet and Frank Zappa were friends for many years, and during that time Co recorded nearly every conversation the two men had. They also corresponded frequently—about life, music, politics, and much more besides—and this book offers a unique chronicle of their friendship, from their first meeting in 1977 to Zappa’s death in 1993. Co is renowned as an expert on Zappa’s music, but this book is about far more than that, and is unlike any other collection of interviews. As his son Dweezil writes in his foreword, Frank was a reluctant and sometimes combative interviewee, yet his conversations with Co were open and wide-ranging. Through more than two decades of these discussions, Frank & Co reveals a thoughtful, sensitive, and expansive Zappa, offering readers new insights into the life and career of one of the great masters of twentieth-century American music. It also includes Co’s favourite memories of Frank, as well as interviews Zappa alumni Flo & Eddie, Jimmy Carl Black, Pamela Zarubica, and Don van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart).

Martha Skye Murphy releases ‘Concrete’ feat. NYC duo LEYA

Martha Skye Murphy  Releases ‘Concrete’ feat. LEYA  The title track from new self-combusting triptych out via Practise Music   Watch accompanying video co-directed by Martha Skye Murphy and Nina Porter [here] Photo credit Ceidra Moon Murphy  "Murphy wails her voice raw, shrieking like a slasher-flick victim. It’s the album’s most exhilarating stretch of sound." - Pitchfork "Her avant-pop contains so much graceful drama”  – The Observer  “The aura of Martha Skye Murphy's music is something like turning the page in a dusty, cobweb-bound diary — there's an undeniable forward motion in a path that feels haunted and full of unrealized secrets” – The Fader London-based artist Martha Skye Murphy releases ‘Concrete’ feat NYC duo LEYA plus Simon Raymonde of the Cocteau Twins on bass - the title track from her preternatural triptych out today via Practise Music. ‘Concrete’ follows Murphy’s transcendental singles ‘Stuck’ and ‘Found Out’ and has been co-produced by Martha Skye Murphy and Ethan P. Flynn. Always weaving theatre into her music, ‘Concrete’ is told from the perspective of a captor to their beloved hostage. Part lamentation, part chant, this is the last joust in a triad on escapism and desire. Discussing the video Murphy offers: “Using my surrounding city environment in its constant developing yet abandoned state, and nodding to the visual language of video games, I wanted the film for ‘Concrete' to turn a static building in its harsh location from something stoic and functional into a charged site of dysfunctional memory. This concrete block can become anything you wanted, saw, imprisoned, thought or lost, it can be past or present, real or imagined. Thinking of Edward Burtynsky’s harrowing aerial photographs of large scale industrial waste and short films such as The Black Tower by John Smith, I wanted to comment on the capacity for spaces to host, entrap and influence feeling.” [LISTEN TO CONCRETE HERE] For the triptych artwork Murphy uses a piece by the musician’s sister and frequent collaborator, artist Ceidra Moon Murphy. The photograph is taken from her series ‘Salt’, a sequence of manipulations of a low-res scan through which the artist states she is 'making the clear, unclear and the ruined, Romantic’. Murphy’s multidisciplinary attitude spills into other mediums such as acting, she has toured the UK with the documentary theatre company she co-founded, I Swear I Saw This, in a one-woman show ‘Two Body Problem’. Murphy’s latest melding of disciplines comes in the form of an opera which she describes as an improvised field recording. This piece will have a multi-media release early next year, with an interactive premiere at The Purcell Rooms. Murphy has recently featured on Squid’s lead single ‘Narrator’ taken from their debut album Bright Green Field, released the score for enigmatic motion picture The Late Departure directed by Ivan Krzeszowiec and collaborated with producer Dan Carey on his Quarantine series. She has also been honing in on her flair for cinematic sounds, working alongside film score composer Maxwell Sterling on a project coming out in the new year with Chicago based label American Dreams.  This summer Murphy has been busy beguiling audiences at festivals like Pitchfork London, Green Man and Latitude where she joined Squid for a breathtaking rendition of their single ‘Narrator’ and went on to support the Bristol five-piece at their first ever London sold-out headline at Printworks.  A limited run of 'Concrete' CDs are available for pre-order now.   [PRE-ORDER 'CONCRETE TRIPTYCH']

Concrete tracklisting  Concrete feat. LEYA  Stuck Found Out

New Zealand's Mild Orange announces new LP, shares two new tracks & announces North American tour

New Zealand's Mild Orange announces new LP, shares two new tracks & announces North American tour dates

Looking For Space is out Feb. 11, 2022

STREAM "WHAT'S YOUR FIRE?" & "HOLLYWOOD DREAMS"

PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE THE ALBUM HERE

“New Zealand’s dreamiest indie-pop band”
- MONSTER CHILDREN

“Mild Orange has mastered the art of making music for the nostalgic”
- BILLBOARD

“you’re in good company with New Zealand Dream-Pop outfit Mild Orange.”
- RAGE

“wonderful energetic summer bummer psychedelic rock”
- ZAN ROWE, DOUBLE J 

“dreamy”
- TONE DEAF

“..tongue-in-cheek indie dream-pop”
                                              - RIOT MAGAZINE (UK)                                                

“..a strong new voice”
- AMERICAN SONGWRITER     

“..sweeps listeners off their feet”
- UNDER THE RADAR (NZ)

 

Today New Zealand-based internet cult phenoms Mild Orange announces its third album, Looking For Space, due Feb. 11. The band, who have racked up over 100 million streams across all platforms, has shared two new singles "What's Your Fire?" and "Hollywood Dreams." The band will be touring the world in 2022, hitting North America in February (see full dates below). 

Looking For Space is the band's most ambitious project yet, recorded in six beautiful locations across Aotearoa New Zealand over a year, and it’s also Mild Orange's first time entering a proper studio which was a necessary part in making this record sound as intended. It’s a sonic journey about navigating life, always finding room to grow, considering outlooks and maintaining belief in oneself as we choose our paths. True to MO, it doesn’t sit on one sound and will take you up and down, while feeling like a natural progression - shown on their latest two singles.

 

Looking For Space will feature video collaborations from NZ to Japan, Indonesia to LA, France and beyond. Despite many hurdles, Mild Orange persisted to connect with the world on this project during this period of global lockdowns and border closures. That’s what Mild Orange have always tried to do - from NZ, for the world.

The just released album cover (see below) by frontman Josh Mehrtens was taken in Switzerland after a Mild Orange headline show at Baden in 2019, and has been tinkered with in tandem with the album so that both feel as each other look and sound. There’s a calmness yet passionate energy felt coming from the electric glow that flows.

 

Some thoughts from the band on the two new singles:
 

"We recognize that everybody's 'fire' is going to be different, so we would like to leave this song up to personal interpretation, whether that 'fire' be political, societal or one's personal motivations. For me, 'What's Your Fire?' came from a time in my life where I was trying to figure out who I am, or who the person I want to be is. It asks some intense questions, though hopefully helps oneself find light in the idea that there is always something that you can do to improve yourself or the world around you - no matter how big or small. It's when we ask ourselves these questions that we consider a potential answer. We have been playing it as an encore at our concerts and festivals in NZ for over a year now, and since then, it has been a highlight of our live sets with it always being the main takeaway from the set when we talk to fans after the show.
 

'Hollywood Dreams' was written while feeling crushed by the disappointment of not being able to play music and tour internationally during mid-2020, with no end in sight as to when we could resume chasing our dream to play music around the world and embark on adventures. There's always light at the end of the tunnel though, and things don't have to happen instantly. It actually ended up being a really productive period for the band, since it forced us to cancel tour plans, and to instead hunker down and record a third album. It's made us more ready than ever to head out into the world again." - Mehrt
 

After spending two albums carefully organising the framed photos and applying an even layer of paint, Mild Orange felt the urge to tear apart the four walls that defined their bedroom pop sound, capturing the wilderness that lay beyond. And rather than be deterred from that goal by a pandemic and lockdown that left the New Zealanders stuck on their island, Mild Orange used that time to envision a new world. “Colourise”, the first track off the quartet’s fittingly titled third album, Looking For Space (due February 11th 2022 via AWAL), feels like the gate to the land of Oz, a portal behind which hypercolour and fantasy unfolds. “Trust the waves and where you’ll go/ ‘Cause you never know what it may hold,” Josh Mehrtens sings, a snare march, lithe electric guitar, and washes of echo trailing behind. Together, frontman/producer Mehrtens, lead guitarist Josh Reid, bassist Tom Kelk, and drummer Jack Ferguson aren’t just looking for space, they’re carving out grand landscapes all their own.

That collaborative vigour and childlike imagination should come as no surprise for a band in which two of the members didn’t even realise they’d once been childhood friends. Halfway through recording Mild Orange’s debut album, Reid told his mum about how he’d been working on a new project with a guy named Josh Mehrtens. Her response: dusting off some old photo albums. “We had been best friends at ages three or four years old, but then we both moved to different towns,” Reid explains. “My mum had these photos of us playing together when we were kids, and we had no idea that we even knew each other.”
 

Midway through recording the album, Mehrtens came down with pneumonia and pleurisy, a single breath capable of leaving him in excruciating pain. The experience not only changed the perspective of the rest of the record, but of Mehrtens’ life. “That put me into some pretty dark spaces,” he says. “But I’m an optimist, so I was searching for the beauty in the dark.” That buoyant spirit shines in lead single “This Kinda Day”, the first song Mehrtens wrote while recovering. “But for now this moment too will all make sense someday,” he vows. The song arriving at a tender moment looking out at the beachfront. “A storm was battering the coastline of Oākura and I realised that the turbulence eventually passes and is a requisite part in growing, shaping and maintaining the balance on the beautiful beach - like us”.

After building a catalog based on understanding the intimacies of the human heart, Looking For Space honours and extols the far reaches that the resulting emotions are capable of. Fittingly, Mild Orange spent chunks of last year surveying and recording in far-flung parts of New Zealand, embracing isolation as a route to deeper connection. “Out there, on the beach, with a paddock of five horses just out the window, we could make as much noise as we liked,” Reid says. By honouring those spaces and crafting their own, Mild Orange have not only struck outon their search for meaning, but simultaneously found meaning where they were all along.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

TICKETS AT MILDORANGE.COM

2/16 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
2/18 – Toronto, ON – Baby G
2/19 – Chicago, IL – Schuba's
2/23 – Oakland, CA – Starline
2/24 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
2/26 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar

 

Mild Orange
Looking For Space
(AWAL)
Release Date: Feb. 11, 2022

Track List:

Colourise
F.E.A.R.
The Time of Our Lives
This Kinda Day
Oh Yeah
What's Your Fire? (extended mix)
Take A Moment (interlude)
Aurora
Hollywood Dreams
Music.
Photographics
 

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