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One Liners: Beabadoobee, Jason Mraz, Pussy Riot, more
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 16 February 2023
APPOINTMENTS
Armada Music has appointed two new General Managers, Dan Smith in New York and Ben Malone in London. Says Maykel Piron, CEO of the Amsterdam-headquartered dance music label: “We have been actively working the US and UK territories with our own teams and offices for a while now, and those teams have always been managed by the Dutch management team. In order to take the next step and follow up on the major strides we’ve been making in both territories, we felt we needed to hire skilled local captains”.
Music services company Kartel Music Group has appointed Abi White as Head Of Dance And Electronic Promotions within its Kartel Marketing Agency. “We are incredibly excited to welcome Abi to the Kartel team”, says CEO Charles Kirby-Welch. “Abi’s depth of industry experience and PR expertise are well matched with her passion for music. We look forward to expanding the Kartel Marketing Agency to reach deeper into the eclectic dance music world that so many of us have grown up with and been inspired by”.
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LABELS & PUBLISHERS
Independent music publisher Phrased Differently has joined IMPEL, the digital licensing grouping for indie publishers. “We are delighted to be a part of this great collective on both a commercial and also ideological level, helping to make the voices of independent music publishers louder and a part of the major conversations”, says Hiten Bharadia, Phrased Differently’s Founder and MD.
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RELEASES
Beabadoobee has released new single ‘Glue Song’. “I wrote a lot of this song while on tour across Australia and Asia in the back of cars and travelling”, she says. “It’s a heartfelt song that means a lot to me – a love song and the first one I’ve written in my new relationship. I usually write these songs that are sad, in the past with my writing even when it doesn’t sound sad looking back the lyrics usually have been. For the first time this is just me being really happy. I’m in a really positive place for the first time in a long time and feeling love”.
Jason Mraz has announced that he will release new album ‘Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride’ on 23 Jun. Out now is first single ‘I Feel Like Dancing’.
Pussy Riot and Boyfriend have teamed up for new single ‘Dance With The Devil’. “I believe that Virgin Mary was a feminist, and if she lived today, she’d be making music with Boyfriend and Pussy Riot”, says Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova. “We’ve co-created this piece with two of my dearest friends, both incredibly strong, dedicated and vocal female artists, Boyfriend and Yulia Shur, and isn’t it everyone’s dream to work with your best friends on something that excites you deeply?”
Steve Mason has released new single ‘Brixton Fish Fry’, featuring Javed Bashir. His new album ‘Brothers & Sisters’ is out on 3 Mar.
Teleman have released new single ‘Trees Grow High’, taken from their upcoming new album ‘Good Time/Hard Time’, which is out on 7 Apr. “Here’s a track for anyone who had a strange or difficult childhood”, says frontman Tom Sanders. “The chances are you’ll be drawn to someone else with similar experiences, for better or for worse, and this song paints a picture of two people in that situation”.
Wesley Joseph has released new single ‘Sugar Dive’, featuring Dean. “I wrote ‘Sugar Dive’ with Leon Vynehall and Harvey Dweller in London last summer”, he says. “We wanted to make something that felt like the warmth of the season – and had a sense of romance and nostalgia to it. I kept the second verse free after we finished the production and shared it with my friend Dean, who is an amazing South Korean artist. He was feeling it and the rest came together really easily”. Joseph’s new album ‘Glow’ is out this Friday and he’s also set to play Koko in London on 18 May.
Ahead of the release of her new album ‘in|Flux’ tomorrow, Anna B Savage has released new single ‘Pavlov’s Dog’. “Desire is hard when you know it’s not feasible in the long run, and this song charts that particular bittersweet scenario”, she says. “A telling of a positive sexual encounter where my sexuality was recognised and expressed and seen as a positive, healthy thing. Of course, I couldn’t write something solely positive, so this is a scenario where you know you both like each other, but your worlds just don’t overlap: your woods/my mountains. Ultimately, you have to let that special moment be just that: a single, special moment”.
Fran Lobo has released new single ‘All I Want’ – her first for Heavenly Recordings. “It’s a dystopian trip through the inner psyche”, she says. “It’s a battle and a struggle. A lament and a prayer for a better inner and outer world. We venture through a twisted and dark terrain until we summon the holy choir who hear our call, tempting us into a deranged party where we live our sensual desires and play out our sadistic fantasies until we implode!” You can catch Lobo live at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters on 20 Feb.
Brandt Brauer Frick will release new album ‘Multi Faith Prayer Room’ on 2 Jun. Out now is new single ‘Act One’, featuring Mykki Blanco. “I remember being struck by the idea that Mykki’s story transported so effectively, it was as if the ultimate spiritual room could be nothing more than a dance club”, says Daniel Bradt. “And so it became the introduction to our album’s theme, the Multi Faith Prayer Room”.
Léa Sen has released new single ‘Dragonfly’. “I spent a long time questioning the contradictions within myself. ‘Dragonfly’ is a byproduct of me being so fed up with myself and my indecisions and stuck in endless internal quarrels”, she says. The track will appear on her new EP ‘You Of Now Part 2’, which is out on 21 Apr.
Tennin has released new single ‘Too Late 2 Cry’, the first track from her new EP ‘Recovery’, which is due to be released this summer.
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GIGS & TOURS
This Is The Kit have announced UK and Ireland tour dates in November, which will finish up at The Barbican in London on 25 Nov. If you want something sooner, there’s are show at the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno on 19 May, and for those of you who like to plan ahead, you can catch them at the Bristol Beacon on 3 Feb 2024.
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