FLORA YIN-WONG – HOLY PALM

Despite only having a couple of releases to her name so far, Flora Yin-Wong has been around the experimental ends of the electronic music scene for some time, working as both a writer and a DJ. The London-born, Chinese-Malaysian artist made confident and striking first steps into production with a cassette release in 2016 and a contribution to PAN’s Mono No Aware compilation the following year. Now she lands on Modern Love label with a debut album of glacial ambience, fierce beats and boundary-pushing sound design. Full of field recordings from her travels and abstract snapshots of her identity, Holy Palm is a conceptual, sonic collage like no other.

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LUGH – RE MUNUS

“There is grief, exultation and relief inherent in belonging to community. Re Munus reflects on the tone of deep gravity with which the re munisation of the de munised is unravelling. The generations which dismantled their social contract, achieved immunity, revoked solidarity.

Severe circumstances foment collectivity, suffering and empathy, interrupting the ethereal dream of social weightlessness. Re Munus sketches sensations and observations during a time of reorientation, rediscovery of lived sensibility on a relational scale. An encounter with sensations which we had said defined us—the tangibility of which we had forgotten, believed to be confined to the past. There is tension between the physical withdrawal and lived intensity which permeates these works.” Lugh

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RONNIE HEREL PRESENTS NEO SOUL SESSIONS VOL. 1

Cutting his teeth on the 80’s and 90s club scene in London, MOBO nominated DJ and producer Ronnie Herel has been a powerful champion of high-quality soulful music in the UK for over 3 decades. One of BBC Radio 1Xtra’s first signings, Ronnie went on to scout talent for TV show‚ The Voice’ before finding a new home as head of music at internationally renowned station Mi Soul.

Offering up a meticulously selected selection of hip-hop soul gems, Ronnie Herel’s Neo Soul Sessions Vol. 1 shines a light on a number of incredible artists, singers, songwriters, musicians and producers who find themselves in the netherworld between ‘underground’ and ‘overground’: too accomplished to fall into the former category, yet not ‘mainstream’ enough to fall into the latter. “The fact is” says Herel, “there’s a whole world of smokin’ grooves out there that most of the time gets overlooked for radio playlists; the powers-that- be opting for the more manufactured, purpose-built mainstream record.”

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ROGER ENO & BRIAN ENO – MIXING COLOURS EXPANDED

Finally making music together for the first time since 1983’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks and More Music for Films, world-renowned pioneer of ambient music Brian Eno and his criminally lesser-known brother Roger expand their Mixing Colours LP with yet more excursions in mood, tone, colour and texture. Intricately-laden and mindfully-conceived for only the deepest of listens, Mixing Colours Expanded features the original album in full, lavished with slow, searching compositions for piano and sound design, accompanied by bonus tracks such as the burnt waltzes of ‘Moss’ and ‘Violet’, originally featured on the Luminous EP.

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