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As Pitchfork first reported: BADBADNOTGOOD has shared a new single & video from the upcoming album Talk Memory. The album releases on October 8th.
The video is directed by Camille Summers-Valli and is inspired by the 1878 film Horse in Motion.
In addition to releasing the video + audio, BBNG has shared the sheet music to "Beside April" on it's website - - > https://tv.badbadnotgood.com/
And a run of tour dates:
12-08 Calgary, Alberta - The Palace Theatre
12-09 Edmonton, Alberta - Midway
12-10 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Park Theatre
12-12 Victoria, British Columbia - Capitol Ballroom
12-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
12-17 Montreal, Quebec - MTELUS
12-18 Ottawa, Ontario - Bronson Centre
12-19 Quebec City, Quebec - Imperial Bell
12-22 Toronto, Ontario - History
03-07 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
03-08 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
03-10 Chicago, IL - Metro
03-11 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
03-12 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
03-14 Boston, MA - Royale
03-16 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
03-18 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
03-19 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
03-22 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
03-24 Austin, TX - Emo’s
03-25 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
03-26 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
11-18 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia
11-19 Stockholm, Sweden - Nalen
11-21 Oslo, Norway - Vulkan
11-22 Copenhagen, Denmark - VEGA
11-24 Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
11-25 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys
11-28 Vienna, Austria - Ottakringer Brauerei
11-29 Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
11-30 Zurich, Switzerland - X-Tra
12-02 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ronda
12-03 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
12-04 Cologne, Germany - Carlswerk Victoria
12-06 London, England - Brixton Academy
12-07 Paris, France - Le Trianon
12-09 Birmingham, England - O2 Institute
12-10 Manchester, England - Albert Hall
12-11 Bristol, England - Academy 1
12-13 Glasgow, Scotland - QMU
"soulful and sophisticated" - Under The Radar
"Such a beautiful track" - Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC 6 MUSIC)
“Watch out for a great singer from New Zealand called Arjuna Oakes” - Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 MUSIC)
Arjuna Oakes & Serebii "First Nights" EP is out now:
As premiered on Shindig, Frank Maston releases the latest single from his upcoming record, Souvenir (due out September 10th, 2021). According to Maston:
“‘Swiss Franc’ is the last song on the album and the song we close the live show with. The light and dark elements give it a nice sense of balance – like a discotheque dirge. The video was made using some analogue video synthesisers, blended with a swiss franc coin which I modelled and animated. It’s one of my favourite tracks on the record and is very emblematic of my relationship and musical collaboration with L’Eclair, hence the title.”
More on Souvenir:
In 2018, composer/producer Frank Maston was living in Paris, working on new music when he was introduced to Geneva based band L’Eclair. Blown away by what he heard, there seemed to be a mutual understanding and appreciation for that loungey, groovy world of library and soundtrack music from the ’70s. An immediate thought occurred to him – what if he could record with this simpatico group backing him up? The result is the colourful and kinetic album Souvenir.
Arjuna & Serebii are based in Wellington, Aotearoa in New Zealand. Serebii is the alias of Callum Mower, an accomplished musician and producer. Arjuna Oakes is an award winning singer/songwriter and producer. Meeting in the summer of 2017, the pair became fast friends and started working on music together.
On August 27, the duo will release their First Nights EP. After sharing previous single, "Even When You're Gone", you can stream "Satellites" now.
"Satellites" is a subversive downtempo jam critical of the surveillance state. Arjuna calls the listener to fight the powers that be - "You should be fighting for this // You could defy their orders" - rather than get spied on from satellites.
Serebii had this to share of the new single: "I had nothing prepared for this session. I almost always have something prepared. As a music producer your part as a collaborator is much more than just capturing / engineering. You must have techniques which can facilitate momentum, the direction & vision of the art. Working with a jazz trained pianist like Arjuna you need to be swift, so the pressure was on. I pulled up this wobbly synth & vocal hook I had been working on for my solo project, poured myself a very long black and waited
on his arrival. He loved it! So our search for meaning began. We built our lyrical concepts around the insignificance we were feeling towards society and the universe. We recorded our vocals, added upright piano & trumpets to ice the cake. That was the birth of Satellites."