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DAWN CHORUS OUT OCTOBER 18 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN OCTOBER 17
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Video Still from “Do It Without You”
Today, Jacques Greene is sharing the new Mathieu Fortin video for “Do It Without You”, the first single from his upcoming LP, Dawn Chorus, out October 18 via Arts & Crafts.
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A bold step forward, Dawn Chorus is also Greene’s most collaborative project to date, featuring additional production and instrumentation from film composer Brian Reitzell (Lost In Translation), cello by London’s Oliver Coates, additional production from Clams Casino and original vocal contributions from ambient artist Julianna Barwick, rapper Cadence Weapon and singers Ebhoni and Rochelle Jordan, all sampled, processed and stitched back into the album.
If Greene’s 2017 debut album, Feel Infinite, was the soundtrack to a dream pregame – amping you up to lose yourself in the club – then Dawn Chorus resides in the post-rave reflective moment. A time of heightened sensuality and latent possibility.
Greene approached the making of Dawn Chorus as if he were a band. He lived in the studio for five months this past winter – half the time at home in Toronto, the other half in Hudson Mohawke’s studio in L.A. – and wrote these songs in a sprint to capture this chapter in his life. Ten years into the game and not yet in his thirties, his perspective on the value of dance music and where it rests with his daily life and inspiration bare out on this album. While samples played a big part in his early output, his creative process for Dawn Chorus revolved around recording a stellar cast of musicians, arranging new parts.
To craft the sound of the record, he thought about the artists he held dear and researched the gear they used as a means of being in dialogue with their emotional tenor. Some of the gear he sourced included the delay that My Bloody Valentine was renowned for, as well as a compressor used by French Touch producers Alan Braxe and Fred Falke. Working with mix engineer Joel Ford (of Ford & Lopatin), he created a rule book for the album’s sonics that saw each part, from the drums to the pads, be processed in a specific way, through guitar pedals and outboard equipment.
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Dawn Chorus opens with “Serenity”, an all-back-to-mine breaks tune that Greene describes as “a weird, euphoric take on Chemical Brothers.” “Night Service” is a neon-lit hip house anthem helmed by Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, who drapes a love letter to the club around Greene’s acid-dipped synths. Elsewhere, “Distance” blends ambient textures with sampled birdsong and the snaking lines of Oliver Coates’s cello.
Now 29, Greene has been making music “about the club” for over a decade. His sound could be described as an emotional haze, in that its balance of sonic elements work to illuminate the overlapping feelings that lie between the familiar binaries. Outside of his own releases, Greene has explored his relationship with the club in a variety of contexts, from remixing Radiohead to producing for Katy B and Tinashe and touring with The xx.
He will tour Dawn Chorus in Europe and North America this fall with a stop in Montreal on October 26. Full dates can be found below.
ARTWORK CREDIT: Hassan Rahim // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
DAWN CHORUS TRACKLIST
1. Serenity
2. Drop Location
3. Do It Without You
4. Night Service
5. Sel
6. Let Go
7. For Love
8. Sibling
9. Whenever
10. Understand
11. Distance
12. Stars
Photo Credit : Mathieu Fortin // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
TOUR DATES
Oct 17 - Berlin, DE @ Burg Schnabel
Oct 18 - London, UK @ St. Pancras Old Church (Sold Out)
Oct 18 - Manchester, UK @ Warehouse Project (DJ set) (late show)
Oct 19 - London, UK @ Five Miles (DJ Set)
Oct 23 - Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
Oct 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
Oct 26 - Montreal, QC @ Ausgang
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