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JERUSALEM IN MY HEART SHARES SPRING 2019 EU TOUR DATES

Original photo by Hashem Al Madani & Akram Zaatari
Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation
Re-photography and treatment by Charles-André Coderre

Following a busy spring touring across North America, Jerusalem In My Heart is excited to bring their groundbreaking audio-visual show back to Europe this May. The duo of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Charles-André Coderre will be performing live in France, Switzerland, and more, including festival appearances at Sound Sound in Pully and WNWH in Nantes. Full itinerary below, with more dates to be added soon:

JERUSALEM IN MY HEART
SPRING 2019 EU TOUR DATES

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
23.05.19	Rotterdam, NL	WORM
24.05.19	Pully, CH	Festival Sound Sound
26.05.19	Nantes, FR	Festival WNWHl
27.05.19	Saintes, FR	Silo
28.05.19	Toulouse, FR	Dada
29.05.19	Bulle, CH	Ebullition
30.05.19	Geneva, CH	La Reliure
01.06.19	Luzerne, CH	Südpol Club
04.06.19	Brussels, BE	Ancienne Belgique

Revisit Jerusalem In My Heart's widely acclaimed album Daqa’iq Tudaiq:

Jerusalem In My Heart

Daqa’iq Tudaiq

CST137
180gLP / CD / DL

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Praise for Daqa'iq Tudaiq:

“Beautiful, beguiling, astonishing. A transcendent entry point into a world of shared culture, one without borders in which ideas are freely exchanged” A CLOSER LISTEN

“Exhilarating. a revelation of sorrow that goes beyond all language – with JIMH providing an articulate, angry and poetic voice for the mess we’re in.” NEW INTERNATIONALIST

“Blends virtuosity with unbridled inventiveness in composition, songwriting and collaboration to create an evocative and richly referential body of work. Reflects a wider motif of duality, and just how brilliantly music can mediate these poles, particularly when it comes to understanding the modernity of the Arab world.” THE WIRE (Feature Review)

Light Conductor share new tour dates

Modular synth duo Light Conductor will be taking their outer-limits jams on the road this May with a new series of dates alongside Spencer Krug. Enter their blissfully immersive sonic world at the following dates across the US and Canada:

LIGHT CONDUCTOR SPRING/SUMMER 2019 TOUR DATES

DD/MM/YY	PLACE	VENUE
02.05.19	Vancouver, BC	The Lido
04.05.19	Portland, OR	The Old Church
06.05.19	San Francisco	Swedish American Hall
07.05.19	Los Angeles, CA	The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
08.05.19	Las Vegas, NV	Beauty Bar
19.06.19	Toronto, ON	The Great Hall
20.06.19	Montréal, QC	Sala Rossa
21.06.19	Boston, MA	The Red Room at Cafe 939
22.06.19	New York, NY	Le Poisson Rouge
24.06.19	Washington, DC	Black Cat
25.06.19	Pittsburgh, PA	Club Cafe
27.06.19	Greenwich, RI	The Odeum
28.06.19	Portsmouth, NH	The Press Room - Upstairs

Revisit the 17-minute video for the A side of Light Conductor's forthcoming LP Sequence One, out this Friday on Constellation, and preorder the album below.

Light Conductor

Sequence One

CST139
180gLP / DL
Out 8 March 2019

Tracklist:
1. A Bright Resemblance
2. Chapel Of The Snows
3. Far From The Warming Sun
4. When The Robot Hits The Water
5. Light Conductor

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Light Conductor is the twilight slow-burn modular synthesis duo of Young Galaxy’s Stephen Ramsay and Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes. Sequence One is their first album: a warm shimmering sonic hug of enveloping drone and hypnotic arpeggiation flowing along buoyant filter-sweeping eddies and waves. Gently immersive like a saltwater bath under a starry sky, Light Conductor make nighttime/sunrise music in widescreen high-fidelity at their vintage-equipped Breakglass Studios in Montréal, pinning the pre-amps with stately, slowly shifting synth tones, stereophonic squelches and pink noises.

Lasek is among Canada’s most seasoned producer-engineers; his recordings and mixes marinate in slow-cooked analogue glaze, balancing spacious soundstaging against sumptuous saturation – as fans of his esteemed power-shoegaze rock band The Besnard Lakes can attest (and as can be heard on other award-winning recordings Lasek has helmed, by the likes of Patrick Watson, Suuns, Moonface and Esmerine). With Light Conductor, Lasek brings this studio sensibility to bear on music of slow inexorability and simplicity, co-piloted by the spartan and sultry aesthetic that has guided Ramsay through six albums of acclaimed electro-pop by Young Galaxy over the past decade. The two have been kicking out these Light Conductor slow jams for years, and fans of their respective bands should find profoundly dazed and satisfying respite alongside Lasek and Ramsay when taking the mesmeric plunge into Sequence One.

Come float in their cosmic soup, as Side A unspools around the twinkling ostinato melody of “A Bright Resemblance” like a satellite signal pulsing through celestial refractions, with various atmospheric pressures increasing and eventually blanketing all transmissions in a white-noise blizzard on “Chapel Of The Snows.” Side B starts out in deeper space, on the fittingly titled “Far From The Warming Sun,” where a residual glitch skips amidst oscillating dark matter drones and distant intercepted tones, before returning to earth in the flinty rhythmic interlude of “When The Robot Hits The Water.” Sequence One ends with full ignition and lift-off: the duo’s eponymous electro-psych-rock closer “Light Conductor” (featuring Young Galaxy compatriot Catherine McCandless on backing vocals) is a throbbing empyrean slab of methodically levitational fuzz. Thanks for listening.

Deluxe LP is 180gram heavyweight audiophile midnight ultrablack vinyl pressed at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a thick 24pt/450gsm jacket printed in 2 spot colours (blue + metallic bronze) on uncoated 100% recycled paperboard, with a 12"x24" art print poster, and 320kbps MP3 download card.

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Light Conductor unveil video for entire A side of their forthcoming album Sequence One

Light Conductor's debut album Sequence One is out next Friday, and leading up to the official release date the duo have shared a deeply psychedelic new video that spans the entire A-side of the album. Consider it an audio-visual primer to get in the zone for the full album: let the swirling synths and technicolour visuals draw you in, and prepare for the full trip next week.

Light Conductor 2018

Long time friends Jace Lasek and Stephen Ramsay formed Light Conductor out of a mutual desire to create expansive drone, ambient, and electronic music. After fortuitously acquiring a trove of rare analog electronic gear and meticulously restoring it from various states of disrepair back into pristine working condition, the duo began to explore the creative territories that were opened by their new musical tools. Using their mutual admiration for the celestial wig outs of Spiritualized, the quiet majesty of Eno's ambient albums, and the experimental landscapes of William Basinski as a template, Lasek and Ramsay ultimately carved out a sound of their own, resulting in their debut album Sequence One.

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Deadbeat & Camara share 'Two From Trinity' digital 12" featuring two tracks from forthcoming album 'Trinity Thirty'

Ahead of the release of Trinity Thirty on April 26, we're excited to share a digital 12" featuring two tracks from the double LP.
“Mining for Gold” opens the album with a sweeping re-imagining of the Cowboy Junkies’ a cappella take on this traditional worksong, ushering the sombre tone of its lyrics into the sonic space while still remaining arms-length from the funereal. Atop a haze of churning synth drone and a rumbling electric bassline tracing a malleable rhythmic structure, Camara delivers some of record’s most expressively clear vocal lines, chanted Nico-like across a vast expanse.
With “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” layers of near-whispered voice encircle each other, forming a ghostly chorus of quavering harmony. Dulcet but deliberate plucked bass notes root the tune in a slow blues, while the tremolo of a distant guitar and well-placed organ shimmers lead the way through the melancholy scales of this Hank Williams classic, here rendered as an achingly sedate, reverb-drenched waltz.

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Trinity Thirty is a reinterpretation of the beloved Cowboy Junkies classic The Trinity Session, on the occasion of the album’s 30th anniversary. Berlin-based Canadian producers Deadbeat and Fatima Camara bonded over a shared love of this iconic album (and their shared small-town Ontario roots) and embarked on their first-ever collaboration. The Trinity Session is legendary for its naturalistic, languorous covers of classic tunes and traditional work songs – and for being recorded with a single microphone in single takes at a church in Toronto. While Deadbeat and Camara couldn’t entirely replicate this approach as a duo, they similarly re-recorded everything with single mics in a big open space at Berlin’s Chez Cherie studio, relying heavily on natural room acoustics, committed to raw first takes, guided by an overriding strategy of slowing down the tempos as far as they could while continuing to channel the warm asceticism of the original album. The result is a gorgeously somnambulant acoustic-meets-electronic collection of ‘covers of covers’, where the reference point is always the Junkies’ original approach, stretched to new and beguiling limits of deceleration and dubby narcotized spaciousness – a sensibility further reinforced by the mastering treatment of minimalist dub-techno legend Stefan Betke (~scape, Pole).

The first pressing of Trinity Thirty by Deadbeat & Camara is double 180gram audiophile vinyl pressed at Optimal (Germany) packaged in a wide spine jacket with artworked inner sleeves and a 12"x19" poster, all printed on uncoated papers and boards, featuring original photography by Kieran Behan. The 2x180gLP edition includes a 320kbps MP3 download card.

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CD comes in a custom mini-gatefold jacket printed on uncoated 100% recycled paperboard, with an inner dust sleeve housing the disc.

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NEW RELEASE: Deadbeat & Camara, Trinity Thirty out 26 April

Deadbeat & Camara

Trinity Thirty

CST141
2x180gLP / CD / DL
Out 26 March 2019

Tracklist:
1. Mining For Gold
2. Misguided Angel
3. Blue Moon
4. I Don't Get It After Midnight (Medley)
5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
6. To Love Is To Bury
7. Dreaming My Dreams With You
8. 200 More Miles
9. Working On A Building
10. Postcard Blues
11. Sweet Jane

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Listen to advance tracks "Mining For Gold" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

Trinity Thirty is a celebration and reinterpretation of the much beloved Cowboy Junkies classic The Trinity Session, on the occasion of the album’s 30th anniversary (originally released in late 1988). The idea was spawned when Berlin-based Canadian producer Scott Monteith — best known as DJ and dub-inflected minimal techno-electronica recording artist Deadbeat — heard the Junkies’ Trinity version of "Sweet Jane" playing in an airport a few years back. Viscerally reminded of how much he loved the album, and how surprisingly overground the record ended up becoming (by mid-1989 The Trinity Session would be certified Platinum in both Canada and The United States – truly another era!), Monteith immediately reached out to the band to ask if they had anything planned to mark its 30th birthday. Before Monteith even touched down back in Berlin, the band had replied saying they had no such plans but would enthusiastically support whatever angle Monteith/Deadbeat might want to run with.
Monteith then recalled conversations with musician/producer and fellow Canadian-in-Berlin Fatima Camara (whose acclaimed debut solo album Before We Sleep came out on Parachute Records in 2016) about their shared love of The Trinity Session, feeling she’d be the perfect partner to involve in a reinterpretation. Camara was thrilled by the idea, and the two began meeting to explore how to approach things conceptually and aesthetically. This would be their first collaboration – and the first time either artist placed their own vocals at the forefront of a project (with guest vocalist Caoimhe McAlister adding harmonies on certain tracks).
The Trinity Session is rightly celebrated for its naturalistic, profoundly languorous covers of classic tunes and traditional work songs (“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”, “Mining For Gold”, “Blue Moon” et al) – and famous for having been recorded with a single microphone in single takes at a church in Toronto. For Trinity Thirty, Deadbeat and Camara similarly re-recorded everything with ambient mics in a big open space at Berlin’s Chez Cherie studio, relying heavily on natural room acoustics, committed to raw first takes, guided by an overriding strategy of slowing down all the tempos as far as they could while continuing to channel the warm asceticism of the original album.
Initially imagining they would run a fair amount of electronic treatments during the mix, Deadbeat and Camara instead found themselves absorbed by the spaces, silences and atmospherics, guided by a spirit of preservation and restraint in further homage to the original. The result is “a less electronic album than we imagined making”: a gorgeous somnambulant collection of ‘covers of covers’, where the reference point is always the Cowboy Junkies original approach, stretched to new and beguiling limits of deceleration and narcotized spaciousness (a sensibility reinforced by the mastering treatment of minimalist dub-techno legend Stefan Betke of ~scape/Pole).
The gauzy, quavering, reverberant slowcore vibes of artists like Galaxie 500, Grouper and Codeine are a key reference point for Deadbeat & Camara’s prevailing aesthetic: clouds of textured drone and hushed vocals drift through cavernous space, where long decays gently warp and distort the melodic vocal lines and the insistently languid percussion, anchored by thick saturated bass tones representing the most overt influence carried through from their electronic music bona fides. Trinity Thirty is a gorgeously sedate, subtly avant-garde and wonderfully reverent re- interpretation of this classic album.
Thanks for listening.

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