Failure have released a live video of “Macaque” off the band’s concert film “We Are Hallucinations”.
The limited-engagement streaming event that launches today at 12 noon pacific/3 pm eastern/8 pm gmt and 9 pm cest and remains available through Dec. 18.
Greg Edwards shared this about it: “This film is comprised of performances from our Summer 2022 Wild Type Droid tour of North America. It’s crazy that we have never made a concert film before, but I think this will really stand as a definitive document of the dynamic between the three of us on stage and the connection we have with our fans.”
Nadine Khouri has shared a new single, “Keep On Pushing These Walls”, off her new album “Another Life” that was just released via Talitres.
TRACKLIST:
Another Life
Keep On Pushing These Walls
Briefly Here
The Broken Light
Lo-fi Moon
Vertigo
Visitations
Song of a Caged Bird
Box of Echoes
The video for “Keep On Pushing These Walls” was directed by Ramzi Hibri. Nadine said this of the track: “I wrote “Keep On Pushing These Walls” in tribute to the late, great Lhasa de Sela. I’d seen Leslie Feist, Melissa Laveaux and others pay tribute to her life and work at the Barbican in London and came home and wrote this song. More generally, it’s about songs written by another that open us up to ourselves, to each other and to the world. Lhasa was a one-of-a-kind artist, whose music has accompanied me all throughout my life. People often talk about her as an extraordinary singer or performer, but she was equally a brilliant songwriter and storyteller. I often wonder what Lhasa would make of the world today. Her humility, openness and quest for authenticity always inspire me. Her music was expansive, beyond language and genre, she sang from and for the soul.”
The album’s producer is John Parish snd he shared this: “Nadine’s voice is undeniably beautiful. But as well as beauty, there is an intimacy that makes her images come alive, and a gravitas that focuses her anger, particularly when directed at the corruption she sees in her homeland.”
Nadine shared this about her album: “I wanted this record to sound more direct than the previous one; though there is a lot on there about being in a liminal place, between past and present, presence and absence.”
The album was inspired by The last song of the Kaua’i O’o’ bird. The album was written and performed by Alex Zhang Hungtai and it was recorded live at the LA River in Los Angeles, CA and Meserole, Brooklyn. The album was mixed and mastered by Michael Beharie.
LIES have shared a new single, “Camera Chimera”, which is out now via Polyvinyl.
The video was directed by the POND creative. Rachel Cabbit of POND Creative shared: “Our inspiration for the video started with the meaning behind the creature of the single title, a chimera, or a mythical hybrid creature. Through the lens of the viewer, we wanted Nate and Mike to become more and more distorted as the video went on, a hybrid form of themselves. We leaned into our abstract analog technique of printing and scanning thousands of frames to further the distortion to create a mysterious lo-fi visual that lives alongside LIES’ new releases.”
Mike Kinsella shared this in a press release: “‘Camera Chimera’ is about the scary, and often crippling, side effects of interacting / existing on social media. It’s about not only feeling manipulated by others, but also being confronted with the reality and consequences of your own lies and manipulation, and how that can mentally and emotionally cause one to spiral.”
Milan Records today announces the release of BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE NETFLIX FILM), an album of music by BRYCE DESSNER and ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU. Available Friday, December 9.
TRACKLIST:
1. Back to the Womb 2. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Esquivel 3. Mateo’s Freedom 4. Absurd Metals 5. El Día De Mi Suerte – Orquesta Pavel Urkiza & Luis Bofill 6. Liminal 7. Father Ghost 8. Let’s Dance – David Bowie 9. Dreaming a Dream 10. Migration Dreams 11. Aguanile – Orquesta Pavel Urkiza & Luis Bofill 12. Lost Silbido 13. Mi Niña (Acapella Version) – José José 14. Silbido Tlayacapan 15. Silverio Last Train 16. La Pava Congona – Andrés Landero 17. In the Cage (Excerpt) – Genesis 18. Aquarium 19. Salsa y Bembé – Joe Cuba Sextet 20. Bardo Finale 21. Juanga 22. Qué Lio – Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe 23. Mirror Lamento 24. Los Aretes de la Luna – La Sonora Mantacera 25. Silbido Arpa Jarocha / Silbido a Cappella
Bryce Dessner shared this: “Early in the process of Bardo and before shooting began, Alejandro and I began talking about what the music for the film could sound like. What might the melody of the film be? What sounds would we hear in the world of Bardo? We started exchanging ideas, including field recordings and melodies Alejandro would whistle to himself, first on scouting locations and later on set as he began to shoot the film. These fragments of melodic ideas along with the sketches I had begun making would start to take seed and grow into the vast musical landscape that envelopes the film. Eventually we met in Los Angeles to work directly as we finished the details of each composition. The music moves between very simple brass pieces, to very layered complex orchestral and electronic pieces and everywhere in between. We recorded the score in Mexico at the beautiful Sony Music Studios in Mexico City and Topetitud Studio in Coyocan. The process of recording the music for Bardo and working with amazing Mexican musicians, including Brass bands from Oaxaca and musicians from the National Symphony, in the studio was an incredible joy for me and something I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Billy Nomates has shared the 4th single, “spite”, off the upcoming album “Cacti” out January 13th via Invada Records.
TRACKLIST: 1. balance is gone 2. black curtains in the bag 3. blue bones (deathwish) 4. CACTI 5. saboteur forcefield 6. roundabout sadness 7. spite 8. fawner 9. same gun 10. vertigo 11. apathy is wild 12. blackout signal
The video was directed by NWSPK.
Billy Nomates shared this about the album: “Writing CACTI took just over a year. I wrote very intensely and then none at all. This seems to be the way I work best. I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing. I hope everyone finds their own narrative in CACTI. I think it’s about surviving it all.”
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