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ANA DA SILVA & PHEW

ISLAND (2LP)
Label SHOUTING OUT LOUD!
Catalog SOL1LP
Format LP
Discs 2
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2018-09-28
Description
180g vinyl double LP (including download coupon). Gatefold cover with original painting by Ana da Silva. CD edition with additional song Let’s Eat Pasta”. New collaborative album from Ana da Silva (of The Raincoats) and Japanese electronic musician Phew. A bracing odyssey in industrial noise, Island is full of absorbing textures, tactile beats, and a masterfully dynamic compositional style. Each cavernous track feels like a conversation, and out of the ominous dark comes a generative hope. Ana and Phew contribute pointillist bits of spoken word in each other’s native tongues of Portuguese and Japanese, reflecting on isolation, friendship, and nature. Each song was collectively composed by both Ana and Phew, who exchanged files via email. At times, Island evokes the sinister throb of Phew’s recent Light Sleep album. Island’s logic is one of wise minimalism. There is a feeling of discovery that will be familiar to Raincoats fans—a sense of poetry and inquisitiveness, of intuition and invention, of new languages taking shape // Ana da Silva is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. With the 2017–18 international release of her album Voice Hardcore legendary Japanese musician Phew consolidated her binary interests as vocal performer and, latterly, analogue electronics improviser. Indeed, since her 2013 conversion to analogue electronics Phew has continued evolving her live solo project around the world. In Japan she has made a series of acclaimed records under her own name, or with leading bands such as Novo Tono and her contemporary punk group Most. Her other projects include the electronics and voice duo Big Picture with Hiroyuki Nagashima.
tracklisting
1. Islands
2. Strong Winds
3. Conversation
4. Bom Tempo
5. Stay Away
6. Here To There
7. Konnichiwa!
8. The Fear Song
9. Dark But Bright
 

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