New Jolie Holland Album Wine Dark Sea Anti- Records is proud to announce that Jolie Holland will release her bold new album Wine Dark Sea this May 20th. In anticipation of the release, Holland is premiering a video for the joyous slice of deconstructed r&b, "Waiting For The Sun." You can watch here: www.youtube.corniantirecords Jolie Holland has always embodied everything weird and wonderful in the history of American music, but Wine Dark Sea takes it to a new level. Raw and unrestrained, bristling with kinetic energy, Wine Dark Sea is unlike anything she's ever recorded, but is also the purest and most assured evocation of Holland's vision to date. A joyfully unrestrained masterwork, the record delivers: louder, noisier, raw and visceral. It is an inventive and fiery reimagining of delta blues, free jazz, classic rEkb and country, infused throughout with a no wave abandon. The album features symphonic swaths of noisy electric guitars and percolating polyrhythms supporting some of the most powerful vocal performances of Holland's career. This combined with some of her most direct and memorable songs make Wine Dark Sea her most joyful and fully realized work to date. Wine Dark Sea was self-produced by Holland who mined New York's fertile downtown jazz and experimental scene for an ensemble of talented musicians including Doug Wieselman, Indigo Street and others. The sense of fun they had recording the album is tangible. You can Pre-order and find out more information at www. joliehollandmusic.com
Sonic Pairing Creates Young Magic's Sophomore Album Brooklyn-based group, Young Magic, is set to release their otherworldly sophomore album, Breathing Statues, on May 6th via Hi-Scores Recording Library. Reigning in the melodic chaos of their previous works, the dystopian beats on Young Magic's second release were conceived in a new series of experiments. Fans can listen to the album track "Fall In" and watch the Cerebral video trailer at www.youtube.comitsYoungMagic
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Young Magic is the sonic pairing between Australian producer Isaac Emmanuel and Indonesian vocalist Melati Malay. The duo pieced together their sophomore album over the past year while on tour - recording in Morocco, France, Czech Republic, Australia, Iceland and their home studio in New York. As a result, Breathing Statues unfolds in labyrinthine fashion, its surreal lyrics and ghostly harmonies emphasizing the record's otherworldly intimacy, growing darker as the album progresses from the agile Fall In to the lurching chants of Mythnomer. In the spirit of the album's spontaneity, the band invited a harpist to improvise over their songs, layering celestial fragments with the record's cavernous beats. The album operates in these extremes, with the airiness of Malay's vocals set in sharp contrast with the claustrophobic doom of Emmanuel's warped percussion. With Breathing Statues, Young Magic's series of audio experimentations coalesce into a new, holographic landscape, showing a band progressing with ambition towards a sound uniquely their own. Find out more at www.youngmagicsounds.com March 2014 - VandalaMagazine.Com 35