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August 1, 2019

August 1, 2019May 20, 2020 Mew Zikwryder

Kitzl shares video offbeat new video for ‘Wizard Girls’

Producer and composer Kitzl has released her quirky new video for ‘Wizard Girls’ taken from her album 40 Moons That We Know Of. The video premiered on tastemaker publication Clash Magazine.

Kitzl is a turntablist master and showcases this in her song ‘Wizard Girls.’ Taking sounds that one wouldn’t think to use in music – she and has, has created a sonic masterpiece. ‘Wizard Girls’ is fantastic, combines elements of ambient-electronic-pop, art pop and experimental shoe-gaze into one beautiful cauldron pot of sounds.

Speaking on the track Kitzl explains: “We filmed it all in Elora and in Guelph, close to home. We were chasing an unearthly, neon forest kind of vibe. In the day the wizard girls laze around and recharge, and at night they get down to business. The night-time stuff was really cool to film because the lights in the dark trees immediately looked so eerie, exactly how we’d hoped. I made a lot of moth friends that night.”

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March 25, 2019

March 25, 2019May 21, 2020 Mew Zikwryder

Holly Herndon Announces Debut Barbican Show+ New Album ‘PROTO’ Out 10 May

In support of her forthcoming album, PROTO (out 10 May), Holly Herndon has announced an inaugural headline performance at London’s Barbican on Wednesday 16th October as well as a summer show in her adopted home city, Berlin. Tickets go on general sale this Friday at 10AM GMT.

A hybrid of studio project and touring band, Herndon’s live show will incorporate an expanded vocal ensemble and a newly developed A/V experience.

Holly’s third full-length album PROTO (out 10 May) isn’t about A.I., but much of it was created in collaboration with her own A.I. ‘baby’, Spawn.

For the album, she assembled a contemporary ensemble of vocalists, developers and an inhuman intelligence housed in a DIY souped-up gaming PC to create a record that encompasses live vocal processing and timeless folk singing, and places an emphasis on alien song craft and new forms of communion.

PROTO makes reference to what Holly refers to as the protocol era, where rapidly surfacing ideological battles over the future of A.I. protocols, centralised and decentralised internet protocols, and personal and political protocols compel us to ask ourselves who are we, what are we, what do we stand for, and what are we heading towards?

‘Eternal’
Holly Herndon
‘Eternal’ follows the 2018 release of Holly and Jlin’s collaborative song ‘Godmother (feat. Spawn)’. The skittering track, which was created by Spawn reimagining the artworks of her ‘godmother’ Jlin in a trained model of her mother’s voice with no editing or sample trickery, was praised everywhere from NPR to The Guardian to New York Times, and elsewhere.

You can hear traces of Spawn throughout the album, developed in partnership with long time collaborator Mathew Dryhurst and ensemble developer Jules LaPlace, and even eavesdrop on the live training ceremonies conducted in Berlin, in which hundreds of people were gathered to teach Spawn how to identify and reinterpret unfamiliar sounds in group call-and-response singing sessions; a contemporary update on the religious gathering Holly was raised amongst in her upbringing in East Tennessee.

“There’s a pervasive narrative of technology as dehumanizing,” says Holly. “We stand in contrast to that. It’s not like we want to run away; we’re very much running towards it, but on our terms. Choosing to work with an ensemble of humans is part of our protocol. I don’t want to live in a world in which humans are automated off stage. I want an A.I. to be raised to appreciate and interact with that beauty.”

Since her arrival in 2012, Holly has successfully mined the edges of electronic and Avant Garde pop and emerged with a dynamic and disruptive canon of her own, all while studying for her soon-to-be-completed PhD at Stanford University, researching machine learning and music. Her LP Platform closed out 2015 by gracing year-end lists from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Uncut, and The Wire. In the aftermath, Radiohead hand-picked her to open up their European tour.

Just as Platform forewarned of the manipulative personal and political impacts of prying social media platforms long before popular acceptance, PROTO is a euphoric and principled statement setting the shape of things to come.

HOLLY HERNDON TOUR DATES:
27 April – KREMS, AT, Donau Festival
16 May – New York, NY, Red Bull Music Festival
18 May – LOS ANGELES, CA, Teragram Ballroom
20 May – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August Hall
22 May – CHICAGO, IL, Thalia Hall
14 June – BERLIN, DE, Volksbühne
19 July – BARCELONA, ES, Sonar By Day – SonarHall
20 July – MANCHESTER, GB, Manchester International Festival
16 October – LONDON, GB, The Barbican

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February 17, 2019May 21, 2020 Mew Zikwryder

Chromatics share new single & video “Time Rider” – announce North American tour.

Chromatics, made up of Ruth Radelet, Johnny Jewel, Adam Miller & Nat Walker, share new single & video “Time Rider” & announce a North American tour.

In “Time Rider”, Chromatics employ the metaphor of a motorcycle as an inter-dimensional bridge between the future and the past. In this dream, the motorcyclist mirrors myths of the grim reaper as Ruth Radelet eerily asks “Can I take your hand? I want to ride with you into the storm.”

Chromatics announce their first public concerts in over 5 years. The last time Chromatics was on stage was for the filming of their Roadhouse appearances in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. This six week North American tour will be the first time the band performs live with vocalist Ruth Radelet in many of the cities. Onstage, the group will be playing their favorite moments from Night Drive, Kill For Love, Cherry, & Dear Tommy.

Montreal’s Desire will be performing in direct support of Chromatics. Front woman Megan Louise sings in French and English over Italo Disco laced Dream Pop. Their single “Under Your Spell” made a splash on the silver screen in Nicolas Winding Refn’s cult classic Drive alongside label mates Chromatics, Electric Youth, & Kavinsky.

From Vancouver, B.C., Italians Do It Better label mates In Mirrors open the nights with their hypnotic brand of Minimal Wave, Krautrock, and Post Punk.

Visually, the entire night features films directed by Johnny Jewel mixed live by video artist Danny Perez (Antibirth, Panda Bear). Bringing a cinematic experience to the concerts, the bands will be blurring the line between stage and screen. European tour dates are set to be announced soon.

Tour Dates:
30/04//2019 – The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
02/05/2019 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
04/05/2019 – The Observatory, North Park – San Diego, CA
07/05/2019 – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
09/05/2019 – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX
11/05/2019 – Emo’s – Austin, TX
12/05/2019 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
13/05/2019 – Republic NOLA – New Orleans, LA
15/05/2019 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
17/05/2019 – Royale – Boston, MA
19/05/2019 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
2105/2019 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY >
22/05/2019 – The 9:30 Club – Washington, DC ^
24/05/2019 – Higher Ground – South Burlington, VT
25/05/2019 – SAT – Montreal, QC *
27/05/2019 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON *
28/05/2019 – Majestic Theater – Detroit
30/05/2019 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
31/05/2019 – Park West – Chicago, IL
04/06/2019 – The Palace – Calgary, AB
06/06/2019 – Vogue Theater – Vancouver, BC
07/06/2019 – Showbox – Seattle, WA
08/06/2019 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
11/06/2019 – Mezzanine – San Francisco, CA

w/ Tess Roby
w/ DJ set by Holy Ghost!
^ Tickets on sale Feb. 21 @ 10am

Tickets will be on sale February 22nd @ 10am.

Chromatics have partnered with PLUS1 and $1 from every ticket sold will go towards helping local teachers and classrooms get the supplies and resources they need to deliver the education every child deserves.