Perry Farrell – Let’s All Pray For This World (UNKLE RECONSTRUCTION Remix)
Perry Farrell now continues the support for his forthcoming boxset with the release of ‘Let’s All Pray For This World‘ UNKLE Reconstruction via Last Man Music.
His highly-anticipated ‘’The Glitz; The Glamour’ is set to arrive on November 6th 2020 & is available to pre-order now.
Video: HÆLOS – Perfectly Broken
Perfectly Broken is the second installation from HÆLOS, adding to their latest body of work being released on their newly founded Æ imprint. An undercurrent of sophisticated yet less ordinary electronica forms the spine driving a melodic tale and stylised rendition of a fated partnership between the self and the state.
A perfectly uncertain reflection on the fragments of closure comforted with the familiar compliment of signature HÆLOS male-female vocal arrangement and the introduction of a third vocal from behind the fourth wall.
Testament to the hard-working, independent ethos of the band, they have self produced an apt visual to match which unfolds and unravels to climax through layers of digital data corruption.
Video: Howling – Need You Now (Adriatique Remix)
Taken from the album ‘Colure’, released 24 July on Counter Records: https://howling.lnk.to/colureSo
Massive Attack – Eutopia EP
The 3x track hybrid was created across 5 cities during the global lockdown period.
The “EUTOPIA” EP features new musical collaborations with Young Fathers and US artists Algiers and Saul Williams, with neural evolutions from AI Art pioneer Mario Klingemann. The project, co-written and produced by 3D (Robert del Naja) and Mark Donne, features arguments for global system change from UN Paris Climate Agreement author Christiana Figueres, founder of the Universal Basic Income Principle Professor Guy Standing and inventor of the US “Wealth Tax” policy Professor Gabriel Zucman. These elements fuse to form art as transmitter and message as medium.
Germinated in the dual realities of fear and hope that dominated pandemic lockdown, the EP takes direct inspiration from Thomas More’s classic text “Utopia” and the Skull Island map of “a better place, that does not exist” – created for the 1518 edition by artist Ambrosius Holbein.
A punk ethos was central to the aesthetic of the project, with machine learning image sampling and a cut and paste collaging process bringing together exiled minds and powerful tools to present arguments for change. The music was also woven together in the same remote fashion, with Massive Attack teaming up across the wire with the three musical collaborators.
Commenting on the project, Massive Attack said:
“Lockdown exposed the best aspects and worst flaws of humanity. That period of uncertainty and anxiety forced us to meditate on the obvious need to change the damaging systems we live by. By working with three experts, we’ve created a sonic and visual dialogue around these global, structural issues; taking the form of climate emergency, tax haven extraction and Universal Basic Income.
The spirit of this EP, its elements and ideas have nothing to do with naïve notions of an ideal, perfect world, and everything to do with the urgent & practical need to build something better. In this sense, Eutopia is the opposite of spelling mistake.”
Initially received as satire, More’s text has received more modern interpretations, including from US author Andrew Keen:
“By inventing an ideal society, More was demonstrating our ability to imagine a better world. And by presenting his vision of this community to his readers, he was inviting them to address the real problems in their own societies. Utopia then, is a call to action.”
Video: Jon Gurd – Lion
Jon Gurd follows up ’Together’ with ‘Lion’, the title track off of his forthcoming album which lands August 14 on Anjunadeep.
Rival Consoles – Vibrations on a String
Taken from Rival Consoles’ forthcoming new album ‘Articulation’, released on 31 July.
