BADBADNOTGOOOD AND CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON TEAM UP FOR NEW SINGLE, “SLEEPER”

BADBADNOTGOOD AND CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON COLLABORATE ON “SLEEPER”
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Today, BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson join forces for new single, “Sleeper”. Recorded at the legendary Los Angeles studio Valentine Recording Studios on analog tape, “Sleeper” sees the lush vocals of Charlotte Day Wilson drift in and around a refreshing instrumental by BADBADNOTGOOD. The single gets a full digital release today via XL Recordings alongside artwork by fellow-Canadian creative, Mark Krzepis. 

BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson first premiered “Sleeper” at the London festival, All Points East in August. After a rapturous response there, the alt-jazz ensemble and singer-songwriter reunited to tease the hotly-anticipated single to the sold-out crowd at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Friday, where they supported Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Caesar. “Sleeper” is the latest collaboration between the Toronto-natives, a musical relationship that ignited in 2016 with the highly-praised “In Your Eyes” taken from BADBADNOTGOOD’s fourth studio album, IV. Since then, they have collaborated on live shows, including the viral NPR Tiny Desk, and on “I Can Only Whisper” for Day-Wilson’s 2021 debut album, ALPHA. 

Speaking on “Sleeper” and working again with BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson says “‘Sleeper’ wrote itself…we were in the studio just messing around and the guys came up with the colorful instrumental while I freestyled the lyrics. The song portrays someone who chooses the path of least resistance and finds themselves in a lifeless, loveless relationship.”

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ABOUT CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON
Charlotte Day Wilson’s musical touchstones reach far and wide, twisting elements of folk, gospel and R&B into the silky DNA that makes her romantic and often existential musings so intoxicating. In 2021, Day Wilson released her highly praised debut ALPHA, a record that served as a metaphorical coming out, finding her openly and honestly tapping into her queerness for the first time as a storyteller. A breathtakingly confident and sensual Day Wilson emerged as a front runner in a new generation of quiet storm-inspired artists, Pitchfork even comparing her sonically to the queen of the movement, Anita Baker. A few months after the album’s release, fellow Toronto native and North Star of the music industry, Drake immortalized early album favorite “Mountains”, co-written by Babyface, by sampling it in the chart-topping radio hit “Fair Trade” featuring Travis Scott. Day Wilson also gained praise for the supergroup remix of her song “Take Care Of You” featuring Syd, joined by other landmark queer female artists King Princess, Amaarae and Meshell Ndegeocello. Most recently, she joined UK producer SG Lewis and Channel Tres on the disco-infused “Fever Dreamer”. In August, Day Wilson embarked on a new musical chapter, signing with XL Recordings to release “Forever” featuring Snoh Aalegra. Tethered loosely to a warped interpolation of The Foundations’ classic, “Baby, Now That I Found You”, the single was praised by The Fader, The Line of Best Fit and more. Thus far, Day Wilson has earned JUNO Award, Polaris Music Prize and Libera nominations, marking an early and undeniable era of music in a soon to be legendary canon.

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ABOUT BADBADNOTGOOD 
Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD made their name by crossing genre. This seamless movement between style hit hard when they took hip hop into jazz and vice versa. The band formed in 2010, moving between three and four members before establishing its current line up in 2015. The band, aka Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar and woodwinds), met on the Humber College jazz program in Toronto. At the time, instead of working with traditional jazz standards, the group sidestepped and drew from hip hop and other contemporary genres to create a unique sound. They developed their instrumentation across two self-titled albums, the 2014 III and critically acclaimed 2016 album IV. Outside of their own project, BADBADNOTGOOD have collaborated with a global-roster of artists across hip-hop, dance, and neo-soul including Ghostface Killah, Kaytranada, Little Dragon, and Kendrick Lamar. In 2021 they debuted on XL Recordings with their fifth studio album, Talk Memory. Inspired by their live performances, Talk Memory was released to critical acclaim and included contributions from a breadth of multi-instrumentalists including Arthur Verocai, Laraaji, Terrace Martin, Brandee Younger, and Karriem Riggins, with the album mix coming from Russell Elevado. Since then, they’ve toured to some of the best venues and festivals across the globe, released an EP with Turnstile and released their own haunting single, “Open Channels”. 

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RUBY SINGH RELEASES TWO NEW TRACKS FROM FLORA, FAUNA, AND FUNGI COLLABORATION LPS

RUBY SINGH TO RELEASE NEW DOUBLE LP, kraKIN - A MORE-THAN-HUMAN HIP-HOP COLLABORATION - AND POLYPHONIC GARDEN SUITE II - AN AMBIENT COLLECTION. 

BOTH ALBUMS INCORPORATE ‘BIOSONIFICATION’ OF FLORA, FAUNA, AND FUNGI, FIELD RECORDINGS AND KEYBOARDS TEMPERED WITH THE SONGS OF VARIOUS ANIMALS INCLUDING WOLVES, ORCA AND OWLS

DOUBLE LP SET FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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Today, JUNO Award nominated artist, 2023 WCMA Winner (Global Artist of the Year) and the recent recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in Music and Art, Ruby Singh is sharing two new tracks from his upcoming double albums; one a hip-hop collaboration entitled kraKIN, the other, Polyphonic Garden Suite II, explores the pulses and soundscapes of life. Both albums were created incorporating ‘bionsonification’, raising songs from indigenous flora and fungi, transforming bioelectricity into midi data to inform pitch and rhythm.

“Into the Clouds” is the second single from the upcoming more-than-human hip hop LP, kraKIN. With mushrooms playing 808’s and basslines, melodic percussion built from the calls of Steller's Jays, and rapid tapping hi hats created out of the rhythm of a Woodpecker, this bouncing track is infused with the natural world. Joining the fray are biosonified indigenous plants: Horsetail on horns, and Wild Blueberry and Hellebore on ambient and staccato synths. Singh and Datura’s lyrics invite us on a pilgrimage to the mountaintop to contemplate our impact on the environment and invite our imaginations to take flight into what could be possible. One of the verses is even written from the perspective of Woodpecker who has hopes for joining the Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Rrratitatitat: now that’s where it’s at / guard a habitat with a rapid tap / punch a hole through the back of this bark like a hole through the dark | stacking bills, making marks with this art / keep it sharp.” 

“This tune was inspired by the alpine regions of the world which have always been destinations for spiritual pilgrimages,” says Singh. “All the sounds come from Mt Washington in Strathcona National Park on the lands of the K’omoks people on Vancouver Island. The colourful lyric video was created by Alevate Studios with animations from the flavourcel collective.” 

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In BC less than 1% of Old Growth Forests are left standing and even with so few intact ecologies surviving, they are still being logged and destroyed for short term gain. “Fairy Creek Lament”, the second single from Polyphonic Garden Suite II was created from field recordings from Fairy Creek, on the lands of the Pacheedaht First Nations, site of one of the largest cases of civil disobedience in canada’s shortsighted history. This meditation on loss was created through tempering keyboards with the song of Robin, Thrush and the endangered Western Screech Owl, creatures and kin that stand to lose their habitats due to human impact. The sublime animations for this video were created by the artistic wonder that is Sab Meynert. May we begin to choose new paths that understand our interdependence with this world and show care for all that surround us. 

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MORE ABOUT kraKIN and POLYPHONIC GARDEN SUITE II
In physical form, these 2 albums will incarnate as a 100% post consumer fibre book collaged with lyrics, poetry and artwork by Sab Maynert, the Flavourcel Collective and Singh himself. Set for release in November, the book will be accompanied by a seed bomb bookmark with QR codes for the albums. 30% of the profits will be donated to the incredible work of Raven Trust, who support the inherent and constitutionally-protected rights of Indigenous Peoples as a powerful pathway towards reconciliation and environmental justice.

kraKIN is a more-than-human hip-hop collaboration bringing together the sonic stylings of Singh, the amphibious intellect of Dr. Michael Datura (aka professah exile), and a boom-bap menagerie of West Coast plants, amphibians, and mushrooms. In an age of ecological crisis, this multi-species assemblage aims to decompose human dominion and reintegrate our minds with the resonant ecology of a living world. kraKIN creates their unique place based sound by cutting and crossfading samples of field recordings of biomes throughout western canada and incorporating “biosonification”—a technology that translates the bioelectric signature of flora, fauna and fungi into musical information. 

Singh named his latest project, kraKIN, based on the birth of the project in the Octopus Islands, the habitat of the giant pacific red octopus, in Desolation Sound. The tracks include everything from cedar tree basslines, wolf-howl and orca song synths, fungi-triggered 808s, to woodpecker hi-hats —resulting in an ecological portrait aiming to shapeshift perceptions and help us stay awake to the ways of the world.

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Singh’s ambient offering, Polyphonic Garden Suite II, intimately explores our relationship with this living, breathing and animate world. He created the album over the course of two years of travels to six biomes throughout so-called ‘british columbia’. The emerging melodies are then mixed with field recordings and unique instrumentation (tambura, mohan veena and fujara). Singh tempers keyboards with the songs of coastal wolves, orca, and birds (western screech owl, thrush, robin, song sparrow). To further deepen these sonic landscapes, the midi data of plants and fungi trigger the songs of their animal cohabitants: a Cottonwood tree triggers the call of the Song Sparrow that lives within its branches; bull kelp triggers the song of orcas. What emerges are complexly layered sonic ecologies of connection and wonder for the natural world, where Singh imagines how we might move towards right relations with these generous lands, waters and skies.

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During this age of climate crisis, Singh continues to examine his role as an artist. This double release, kraKIN and Polyphonic Garden Suite II, ask us to question our relationship with this living planet and all the creatures and kin we share it with. In these twinned projects, Singh creates sonic ecologies, shining light towards our interdependence within every ecosystem. Polyphonic Garden opens a fragrant ambient invitation to explore this relationship, while kraKIN serves as an urgent warning of the crisis we face through a pointed critique of capitalism, colonialism and the terrible choices we have made and continue to make. At the time of writing, canada is experiencing the worst forest fires in recorded history. Singh believes that art has a crucial role in reimagining futures and repurposing aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice. 

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kraKIN TRACKLIST
01 Better Days
02 Midnight Wings
03 EchoLocate
04 Cross Pollinated
05 Tooth N Claw
06 Into The Clouds
07 Magnetic North

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POLYPHONIC GARDEN SUITE II TRACKLIST
01 Amrit Vela
02 A Wolf In Cedars Clothing
03 Fairy Creek Lament
04 After The Fires
05 Lost In The Grasslands
06 Cotton Song Of The Sparrow
07 Shorelines 

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HELENA DELAND RELEASES NEW ALBUM, GOODNIGHT SUMMERLAND, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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HELENA DELAND’S NEW LP, GOODNIGHT SUMMERLAND, OUT TODAY VIA CHIVI CHIVI

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INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 2023

“Lingering in liminality and probing at the void, the Montreal songwriter has a knack for harnessing negative space and capturing the intense fragility of vulnerability.” - Exclaim!

“On Goodnight Summerland, Deland takes a step back, and turns her gaze outwards — and her songwriting has never been sharper or more self-assured…Deland has a meditative approach to grief: she tends to it, pays it quiet attention, noting her emotions down before allowing them to wash over her. It’s a strategy we could all do well to adopt. Summerland is a record as enjoyable as it is edifying.” - Stereogum (Album Of The Week)

“...Goodnight Summerland…is all about her process. Processing the grief behind her mother’s passing, the feeling of losing the connection to her mother’s stories and also of losing what her mother’s connections and understandings could be of her own stories and experiences. It’s obviously a deeply personal collection of songs. It is also a deeply beautiful collection of songs and one that could be used to help us all process the questions we hold in our hearts.” - Northern Transmissions

“Helena Deland’s latest album, Goodnight Summerland, pivots from the experimental and cerebral work that preceded it to a heart forward rumination on loss and the cobbling together of memories.” - Under The Radar

“Much of Goodnight Summerland has a hypnotic quality to it, Deland’s voice glimmering through its accompaniments, and vice versa.  It’s a stunning way for Deland to transform her grief and experience into a tangible collection of careful reflection.” - Treble

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Today, the acclaimed Montreal-based songwriter and musician Helena Deland releases her second album, Goodnight Summerland, on Montreal independent Chivi Chivi. A beautiful, tender collection of folk songs meditating on the joys of life, the questions we face as we grow older, the agonies and ecstasies of love and the abject sorrow of loss and grief.

To further celebrate the release of Goodnight Summerland, Helena Deland has released a stunning video for new single “The Animals” directed by Romain F. Dubois. In keeping with this soaring, torch song's callout to an estranged lover, the atmospheric, nocturnal video depicts water droplets traveling through unsettled, burnished landscapes and moody, inky black skies. 

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“The Animals” follows on from previous single “Strawberry Moon” a folk lullaby full of wistful piano melodies, textured guitar and Helena's exquisite, crystalline vocals. The moonlit solo performance video by David Connor is intimate and entirely moving.

It's been quite a journey for Helena Deland's second release, with the rumble of press praise growing ever louder as we approached today's release day. Stereogum named Goodnight Summerland their Album of the Week.

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Goodnight Summerland also features the previous elegiac singles Deland released throughout 2023 and beyond. This August brought the lush, harmony-laden “Bright Green Vibrant Gray,” accompanied by a charming video directed by Xavier Beldor depicting Deland going on a painting expedition through the deep snow in Charlevoix, Quebec. The melancholy wonder of 2022’s “Swimmer” was praised by The New York Times, The FADER and PASTE and the breezy, uplifting “Spring Bug” made it onto Pitchfork’s SELECTS staff picks playlist.

Helena Deland is interested in how songs can hold what eludes everyday language. Her music draws on reading and walking around. Goodnight Summerland was recorded with Sam Evian at Flying Cloud Recordings in the Catskill mountains. It was engineered by Sam, co-produced by Helena and Sam, and mastered by Heba Kadry (Bjork, Beach House, Slowdive). Deland's new songs have simpler musical arrangements than 2020's debut Someone New, focusing on the sheer joy and transformative power of a good song.

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ABOUT HELENA DELAND:
Helena's beloved debut album, Someone New, was released in 2020 on Luminelle Recordings, garnering press acclaim from Brooklyn Vegan, THE FADER, NPR, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paste, Pitchfork, and Stereogum among many others. It was followed by the release of Hildegard, a collaborative album with fellow Montreal musician Ouri on section1. 2023 has also seen Helena collaborate with claire rousay, on the “Deceiver” single, released in May as part of Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series, and on July’s “Sigh In My Ear” as part of Saddle Creek’s Document series.

In November 2023 Helena will embark on her First Headline Tour of North America, followed by her first headline dates overseas in February 2024. She has extensively toured North America and Europe opening for the likes of Weyes Blood, Andy Shauf, The Weather Station, Connan Mockasin, Soccer Mommy, and Iggy Pop. 

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11/02/2023 - Vancouver - Fox Cabaret
11/03/2023 - Seattle - Madame Lou’s 
11/04/2023 - Portland - Mississippi Studios 
11/06/2023 - San Francisco - Cafe du Nord
11/07/2023 - Los Angeles - Lodge Room
11/08/2023 - San Diego - Casbah 
11/09/2023 - Phoenix - Valley Bar
11/11/2023 - Denver - Lost Lake 
11/13/2023 - Minneapolis - 7th st
11/14/2023 - Chicago - Lincoln Hall 
11/15/2023 - Detroit - El club 
11/16/2023 - Toronto - Horseshoe 
11/18/2023 - Brooklyn - Music Hall of Williamsburg 
11/19/2023 - DC - Songbyrd 
11/24/2023 - Montréal - La Tulipe
11/25/2023 - Québec - Le Pantoum
02/13/2024 - Baden - One Of A Million Festival
02/14/2024 - Munich - Milla     
02/15/2024 - Berlin - Privatclub
02/16/2024 - Amsterdam - Paradiso Upstairs
02/17/2024 - Paris - Pop Up Du Label
02/19/2024 - Brussels - Botanique
02/21/2024 - London - The Lexington

MORE PRAISE FOR HELENA DELAND

"Personal loss and worries about global warming merge in ‘Swimmer.’ Helena Deland sings in a hushed, humble voice over acoustic guitar picking and rumbling noise undercurrents. She’s singing to someone who won’t be around long, who flinches at a cold ocean swim but who also realizes that ‘The warmer waters get, the more the oceans expand.’ The song contrasts brief human lifetimes to the inexorable forces of nature; the noise is the eternal sound of crashing waves." - The New York Times (The Playlist)

“An introspective jewel of a song, "Bright Green Vibrant Gray" weaves together our relationships to each other and nature, making the losses a little softer and the world a bit brighter.”
CBC Music

“‘Spring Bug’ is a lush landscape of oil-painted acoustic pondering, traipsing lightly through meaningful lyrics. Deland opens the track with cyclical acoustic guitar fingerpicking, warm in tone and pensive in sound. The easy current of the guitar almost gives off the feeling of meditation, coursing through dissonant progressions. A quirky acoustic bass line joins in the second verse, nodding to the eccentric twinge in Deland’s sound.” - Ones To Watch

“‘Swimmer’ is dedicated to the memory of Deland’s mother, who passed away last year. Its instrumentation is as spare as its emotions are abundant: Deland’s porcelain vocals rest on a bed of fingerpicked acoustic guitar and atmospheric synth accents, foregrounding lyrics (inspired by poet Mary Oliver’s “Clamming”) that are both heartbreaking and beautiful.” - Paste

“‘Bright Green Vibrant Gray,’ the new single off of her upcoming second record, Goodnight Summerland, has a different texture. Where the songs on Someone New shared a phenotype with the velvety, sensual trip hop of Portishead, ‘Bright Green Vibrant Gray,’ is wispier, folkier. The song is concerned with new loves, the loss of a parent, thinking of human existence as something geological… The instrumentation mirrors this lyrical pastoralism: the way the drums turn it all into a sleepy sort of waltz, the way the guitars turn like the tides. It is an exquisite, small song. Something to rub your eyes to as you greet the day, remembering how the world is very big and old.” - Pitchfork

“Helena Deland is back with {“Spring Bug”} a radiant, swaying springtime anthem, buzzing with the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of renewal.” - Gorilla Vs. Bear

“​​’Swimmer’ strips things back into a ghostly folk song where Deland's voice perches itself above doleful acoustic guitar lines.” - The FADER

“{“Spring Bug” is} introspective, moving…Against warm chords, her voice is like a breeze on a spring day.”- Uproxx

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GOODNIGHT SUMMERLAND TRACKLISTING
1.Moon Pith
2.Saying Something
3.Spring Bug
4.Bright Green Vibrant Gray
5.Drawbridge
6.Roadflower
7.The Animals
8.Who I Sound Like
9.Swimmer
10.Night Soft As Silk
11.Strawberry Moon

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