Pure energy; stripped-back simplicity; a big Smog sample; creative spontaneity; two contrasting but equally vital new collaborators; the universal feeling of anticipation and excitement that fuel a Friday night out… these are the raw materials that make up ’10:51PM / THE NIGHT’, the new single from Richard Russell’s collaborative artist project Everything Is Recorded.
It’s the first new music in nearly two years from the London artist and producer, whose eponymous debut album was released in 2018 and went on to be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, being hailed by Q Magazine as “a masterclass in the art of collaboration”. If that debut album was part defined by its looseness – born out of an open door policy at Russell’s Copper House studio, open-ended recording sessions and an idiosyncratic mix of collaborators including Sampha, Giggs, Kamasi Washington, Ibeyi, Syd, Green Gartside, Damon Albarn, Owen Pallett and Infinite – ‘THE NIGHT’ is a much more focused creation, written and recorded in just a couple of days.
Listen to ’10:51 / THE NIGHT’ HERE
It introduces two new Everything Is Recorded collaborators in the form of Trinidad-born Londoner Berwyn (his first official release) and Galway’s Maria Somerville. It captures and narrates that “anything can happen” feeling we’ve all experienced at the moment the working week becomes a hazy memory and we launch into a Friday night, a snapshot from a longer story that Everything Is Recorded are exploring. It’s built around a sample from Smog’s “Hollow Out Cakes”, the latest in a line of musical tributes to Bill Callahan from Russell. And it’s an enticing glimpse of what’s to come from Everything Is Recorded in 2020.
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