Transgressive North's charity album, featuring Four Tet, Jarvis Cocker, Rustie, Owen Pallett, Deerhoof and many more is out today. Here's a rundown of the best tracks from the release
Scottish art collective Transgressive North are looking to buck the trend for schmaltzy charity singles on their Everything is New project. Their double-album, released today, aims to benefit charity Scottish Love in Action, which raises awareness for Dalit caste children in India. Artists including Jarvis Cocker, Rustie, Deerhoof, No Age, Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Dan Deacon lent a hand to the release, cutting and pasting recordings of performances from a choir of Dalit children at the Light of Love Home and School, in Tuni, south-east India, into original compositions.
The project, which has been about six years in the making, was recorded on three continents and spans all of Boats, a two-disc release of 29 tracks, and Sun Choir, an album created by Edinburgh-based art pop band Marram and a handful of musical guests.
Here are some of our favourites from the release.
Bear In Heaven – The Green
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The Brooklyn-based trio smother this skittish, reverb-heavy track in a wash of synths. As became the band's go-to stance on their 2012 album, I Love You, It's Cool, a tale of lovesick longing underpins The Green, its climax driven to just the right level of intensity by a rhythm that wouldn't sound out of place on a spaced-out remix by Clams Casino or These New Puritans.
Four Tet – Gillie Amma, I Love You
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This offering from the prolific producer aptly evokes an album-closer sound, rounding off the first Boats disc. Four Tet loops and layers the choir children's voices over pulsating synths, as the song slowly builds. The ASMR-like clicks and whispers at the end make it a blissful listen.
Keepaway – You're Silk
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Clocking in at just over two-and-a-half minutes, this track from New York's Keepaway bounces and throbs with a bass tone favoured by producers such as Canadian sad-boy king Ryan Hemsworth and London-based beat-maker Gold Panda, both playful and melancholy.
Marram feat. Owen Pallett – With Us Instead
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Following his recent Oscar nomination, Owen Pallett appears on Marram's exultant track, whipping up a flurry of energy, all baying horns and loud-to-quiet verses exploding into choruses.
Son Lux – My Father's Children
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Son Lux's Ryan Lott is no stranger to working on unconventional albums like this: he accepted National Public Radio's 2011 RPM challenge to write and record an entire full-length, from scratch, in a month. Here, his dreamy take on electronic music turns the choir into a punctuating melodic tool, the children's voices humming and yelping over a bizarre keys solo.
by via Music: Electronic music | theguardian.com
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