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Ancestor Boy

by Lafawndah

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Connaisseur_M UNEASY LISTENING!

Full attention required or else...

Am apalled and amazed equally.

Sometimes sounds like Bjoerk reborn.

Pick your tracks carefully and be rewarded. Favorite track: Daddy.
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whizzer0 Was completely sold just from "Tourist". A refreshing take on experimental pop bringing in influences from across the world. Plenty of fun and plenty of power, with enough space for dramatic moments, heartfelt moments, and opportunities for dancing. Favorite track: Joseph.
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Calle Falksten Wow. Quite an astounding piece of work. This could be one of 2019s defining records. Gives that worn out phase "global pop " a new vibrant glow. And just looking at the fantastic cover is quite enough to. Favorite track: Storm Chaser.
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Paul Cottington Bought this based on flicking through two tracks for 20secs worth of listening. Immediately captured by the warmth and smarts. I never knew that this what I needed but I so do. Joining the dots to so many areas.
And now this is on repeat repeat repeat
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1 Uniform
    A2 Daddy
    A3 Parallel
    A4 Ancestor Boy
    A5 Storm Chaser
    A6 Vous Et Nous

    B1 Waterwork
    B2 Substancia
    B3 Joseph
    B4 Oasis
    B5 Tourist
    B6 I'm An Island
    B7 Blueprint

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1 Uniform
    A2 Daddy
    A3 Parallel
    A4 Ancestor Boy
    A5 Storm Chaser
    A6 Vous Et Nous

    B1 Waterwork
    B2 Substancia
    B3 Joseph
    B4 Oasis
    B5 Tourist
    B6 I'm An Island
    B7 Blueprint

    Includes unlimited streaming of Ancestor Boy via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    1. Uniform
    2. Daddy
    3. Parallel
    4. Ancestor Boy
    5. Storm Chaser
    6. Vous Et Nous (Featuring – Bonnie Banane)
    7. Waterwork
    8. Substancia
    9. Joseph
    10. Oasis
    11. Tourist
    12. I'm An Island
    13. Blueprint

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    Long Sleeve black LAFAWNDAH T shirt, designed by Veeeky. 3 x screen printed with front & sleeve design. Made in UK. Available in S, M, L, XL.
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  • Other Apparel

    100cm x 100cm very limited edition Lafawndah slick silk-like fabric scarf, designed by Veeeky
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  • Special selection of incense sticks, sourced from Japan, in Lafawndah logo envelope packaging
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1.
Uniform 03:14
2.
Daddy 03:39
3.
Parallel 04:56
4.
Ancestor Boy 04:38
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Storm Chaser 03:15
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Waterwork 04:12
8.
Substancia 03:26
9.
Joseph 04:01
10.
Oasis 03:31
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Tourist 03:25
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13.
Blueprint 02:13

about

The debut full- length album from Lafawndah, ​ANCESTOR BOY,​ announced today and releasing on 22nd March 2019 via her own label imprint CONCORDIA, is a bracing statement of intent, heralding an artist unbound in scope, scale, and intensity. She opens 2019 with bold single DADDY, plotting new territory onto her own highly personalized map of influence – a map drawing the club, composition, and pop into thrillingly unresolved, ultramodern erotics.

Lafawndah’s 2018 was filled with myriad musical highlights and successes - including a celebrated performance featuring peers Tirzah, Kelsey Lu and more at London’s South Bank in December, growing from her acclaimed HONEY COLONY mixtapes. Meanwhile her heart-stopping inter-generational music & film collaboration with japanese ambient legend Midori Takada in Le Renard Bleu (with KENZO and Partel Oliva) continues to echo into new forms, with a full production performance titled ‘Ceremonial Blue’ premiering at the Barbican, London in April. And streaming now, her achingly beautiful self-directed video for JOSEPH - a lullaby and an ode to newborn life co-written with Jamie Woon and also featuring on ANCESTOR BOY - has set Lafawndah apart as an independent director with a singular vision spanning multiple media and artforms.

Having in her prior self-titled and TAN EPs upturned geography, in ANCESTOR BOY Lafawndah digs deep to unravel geology, mining emotions of the deep past and future. The album’s physicality is elemental; its memory, mineral. It is a becoming- of- age story for a people yet to come, created out of a need to find the others. In the middle of the album’s sonic and lyrical onslaught is the desire to share the uncertainties of growing up when you don’t belong anywhere. Crafted with the aid of fellow travelers Nick Weiss, Aaron David Ross, and James Connolly,

ANCESTOR BOY’s maximalism- it’s overflow of detail, of feeling, of ideas- serves to amplify a frequent lyrical motif: the sensation that one body, one lifetime, isn’t big enough for what you’re feeling. The record is pregnant with memories shared across more than one mind, recalling the storytelling antagonisms of Nina Simone at her most strident and unpredictable. In response, the rhythmic aggressions of her music have grown even more determined and psychedelic, drawing a line in fire between Jimmy Jam’s turnt industrialism on Control ​and the furious unease of ​Red Mecca-​era Cabaret Voltaire.

With a palate equal parts chrome and dirt, ice and depth, Lafawndah’s finesse with song architecture imbues the LP with an uncanny addictiveness: anthems loaded with trap doors.

ANCESTOR BOY imagines a pop music that is neither imperial nor local, but a freedom of movement; a residue, perhaps, from the album’s nomadic creation between Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, London, and Paris.

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released March 22, 2019

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Lafawndah Paris, France

Lafawndah’s journey to her current incarnation as a devotional pop polymath has wound as unpredictably as her compositional style. Her traversing of musical and artistic milieus has been defined by a freedom of tone, surrealist sense of space, and assured manipulation of formal and psychological tension. ... more

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