Rough Trade Records
Radio Date: 26/01/2017
ANOHNI ANNUNCIA “PARADISE” EP
IN USCITA IL 17 MARZO SU ROUGH TRADE RECORDS
‘Paradise’ è il primo singolo tratto dall’EP omonimo in uscita il 17 marzo che è in qualche modo legato all’album precedente ‘Hopeleseness.
Sarà disponibile nei seguenti formati: 10” / CD / DIG
ANOHNI è stata nominata ai Brit Awards nella categoria BEST BRITISH FEMALE e questa è una notizia
che ci mette di buon umore
ARTIST STATEMENT
Her gentle touch
My Father's Hands
Rest on my Throat
"Our new leaders hope to crush our spirits and expedite ecocide in the name of virulent progress, consumerism and false security.
Like Jihadis, many capitalists and Christians compulsively seek to facilitate a righteous "holy war", or apocalypse.
For millennia, Men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators.
This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance and war mongering.
But as Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.
Mothers, your sons are trapped in a nightmare; they are not capable of responsibly negotiating the destructive agency that they now wield.
More profound even than a crime against humanity, fathers and sons now compulsively prepare to commit ecocide, in a final and irreversible assault upon creation itself.
Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course."
- ANOHNI, January 2017
PRE-ORDER ANOHNI’S “PARADISE” EP -- https://anohni.lnk.to/paradise
ANOHNI will release “PARADISE,” the companion EP to last year's HOPELESSNESS, one of the most critically acclaimed and discussed albums of 2016, on March 17th via Rough Trade Records. In collaboration with Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke, on “PARADISE,” ANOHNI seeks to support activist conversations and disrupt assumptions about popular music through the collision of electronic sound and highly politicized lyrics.
“PARADISE” includes new songs as well as material recently debuted live. On the title track, “Paradise,” Anohni voices ecstatic alienation, describing a dystopian life filled with horror, awe, comfort and threat. She expresses a sense of disembodiment: "Myself, I'm here... not here, as a point of consciousness." The music is wild and invigorating with a heavy beat conceived by Hudson Mohawke and twisting vocal treatments by Daniel Lopatin.
Nine portraits of women on the EP artwork reflect the feminine oracle that ANOHNI evoked in her live concert tour.
HOPELESSNESS was named one of the albums of the year, in the following
Crack Magazine, Loud & Quiet The Guardian, Time Out, Mixmag, Attitude, Uncut, The Skinny
New Statesmen, The Sunday Times, Q, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NME.
HOPELESSNESS was nominated for the last years Mercury Prize.
LISTEN TO ANOHNI’S “PARADISE” https://anohni.lnk.to/paradise
“PARADISE” EP TRACKLISTING:
1. In My Dreams
2. Paradise
3. Jesus Will Kill You
4. Enemy
5. Ricochet
6. She Doesn’t Mourn Her Loss
ANOHNI LIVE:
Sun. April 2- Hamburg, DE @ Elbphilharmonie
Sat. Nov. 18 - Aarhus, DK @ MusikHuset Aarhus w/ Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
WATCH/LISTEN/SHARE:
HOPELESSNESS Stream -- https://open.spotify.com/album/3dAx4u7AJy72a6M1ms6uYF
“Hopelessness” Video -- https://youtu.be/5ZW1BBkquFA
“I Don’t Love You Anymore” Video – https://youtu.be/PemmoQj2tqY
“Drone Bomb Me” Video -- https://youtu.be/aUEoic7ro_o
“4 Degrees” Stream -- https://youtu.be/Fi0q0O4V5Qs
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Roughtraderecords.com/artist/anohni
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