After a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign in January 2018, and a year-long public gestation, during which Lawrence Arabia wrote, produced and released twelve monthly singles, Lawrence Arabia’s Singles Club is available today to the public in its complete form, on LP, CD and digital, accompanied by a brand new NSFW music video for early single “Everything’s Minimal,” a duet with Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook.
NSFW Watch: Lawrence Arabia’s ‘Everything’s Minimal’
James Milneis a brave human. Whilst the sleeves of many artists are adorned with well-worn hearts as they release their complete albums into the world, as singer-songwriterLawrence Arabia, James’ latest project offers a rare glimpse into the creative process through 12 separate Lawrence Arabia’s Singles Club releases – now available on digital services and soon on one handy LP or CD and bringing together an extensive list of VIP members.
And that, as they say, is a wrap! …well nearly…Twelve songs in twelve months. Written, produced, mastered and released digitally. Tick!
Next up is the release of the physical versions of this opus on March 29 2019, to be quickly followed by some out of the box show dates around New Zealand complete with a six-piece band.
“It truly was the perfect way to wrap up a fairly monumental year of music making.” – Lawrence Arabia
On November 18, 2018, Ryan Youens conducted a woodwind section and double bass playing Van Dyke Parks’ arrangement of the final single from Lawrence Arabia’s 2018 Singles Club, “Just Sleep (Your Shame Will Keep).”
WATCH: A day of recording at Roundhead Studios in Auckland, NZ, shot and edited by Florian Habicht.
One of New Zealand’s most acclaimed songwriters returns to releasing music, but in a new way. Feeling strangled by music industry release norms of premieres, deadlines and embargoes on his music,Lawrence Arabia(James Milne) decided to take a step closer to his fans, sending them his new music as he makes it.
Listen: Lawrence Arabia’s ‘Oppositional Democracy’
One of New Zealand’s most acclaimed songwriters returns to releasing music, but in a new way. Feeling strangled by music industry release norms of premieres, deadlines and embargoes on his music, Lawrence Arabia (James Milne) decided to take a step closer to his fans, sending them his new music as he makes it.
Milne describes his ninth addition to the collection ‘A Walk Into The Suburbs’ as “an impressionistic, dreamlike wander through the streets of West Auckland.”
On single nine Lawrence himself looks after most of the instrumentation with the help of Peau Halapua on violin and the adept skills of James Dansey mixing and mastering.
Listen to Lawrence Arabia’s ‘A Walk Into The Suburbs’:
One of New Zealand’s most acclaimed songwriters returns to releasing music, but in a new way. Feeling strangled by music industry release norms of premieres, deadlines and embargoes on his music, Lawrence Arabia (James Milne) decided to take a step closer to his fans, sending them his new music as he makes it.
Milne describes his eighth addition to the collection ‘People Are Alright’ as “a song about trying to celebrate the beauty of human life, despite all evidence to the contrary.”
Single eight features the drumming of Elroy Finn (Wild Nothing, Neil Finn) – Lawrence himself looks after the remainder of the instrumentation on this anthem for our times.
One of New Zealand’s most acclaimed songwriters returns to releasing music, but in a new way. Feeling strangled by music industry release norms of premieres, deadlines and embargoes on his music, Lawrence Arabia (James Milne) decided to take a step closer to his fans, sending them his new music as he makes it.
Milne describes his seventh offering ‘Meaningless Words’ as an “ambiguous sketch,” typically underplaying the lushness of the recording of strings, brass and vocal overlays that form an epic rumination on the songwriting process and the current state of the world.
Adding to the Lawrence Arabia’s Singles Club stalwarts of Alistair Deverick on drums and James Dansey on mixing and mastering duties are supremely talented instrumentalists, Peau Halapua (violin), Tim Stewart from Hopetoun Brown(trumpet) and Jeff Henderson (clarinet/saxophones) also director of the Audio Foundation.
‘Everything’s Minimal’ (with Tiny Ruins)is the 2nd single to be released in the series. Sent toSingles Clubmembers over 2 weeks ago, fans are still signing up in droves on Lawrence Arabia’s bandcamp pageHERE.
Everything’s Minimal (with Tiny Ruins) Abstract:
An Instagram brag rap from the perspective of a couple who have three creative, well-behaved toddlers and a collection of immaculate Danish furniture.
Listen here:
SpotifyHERE
Apple MusicHERE
Google PlayHERE
YouTube – Below
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One of New Zealand’s most acclaimed songwriters returns to releasing music, but in a new way. Feeling strangled by music industry release norms of premieres, deadlines and embargoes on his music, Lawrence Arabia decided to take a step closer to his fans sending them his new music as he makes it.
With an ambitious task of producing one brand new single every month for 12 months, Lawrence has buddied up with Kickstarter to form the Singles Club. Fans receive new material hot off the press in return for pre-ordering the full album or other nominal contributions to the cause. As Lawrence explains, “Lawrence Arabia’s 2018 Singles Club is a chance to support the creation of my new music AND receive my very latest work as close as possible to its creation without having to wait for the long process of the pressing and pre-release publicity of a record….Essentially you’re purchasing my next “album” in advance.”Continue reading →
