Leifur James / Magic Seeds
Формат записи/Источник записи: [TR24][OF]
Наличие водяных знаков: Нет
Год издания/переиздания диска: 2024
Жанр: contemporary electronic, experimental, future jazz
Издатель (лейбл): Night Time Stories (NTS)
Продолжительность: 00:42:56
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: Только обложка альбома
Источник (релизер): qobuz
Треклист:
01. Smoke In The Air 06:00
02. Magic Seeds 03:39
03. Measure Of Mind 04:46
04. Euphoria 03:53
05. Forest Of Love 04:26
06. Inner Child 03:57
07. Lay 02:20
08. Wake Up Spring 05:00
09. Room 68 03:11
10. Alive 05:40
Контейнер: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Разрядность: 24/44,1
Формат: PCM
Количество каналов: 2.0
Доп. информация: https://leifurjames.com
Лог проверки качества
foobar2000 1.1.15 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2025-01-07 11:24:27
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Analyzed: Leifur James / Magic Seeds
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR5 -0.30 dB -9.33 dB 6:00 01-Smoke In The Air
DR6 -0.30 dB -8.94 dB 3:40 02-Magic Seeds
DR6 -0.30 dB -9.57 dB 4:46 03-Measure Of Mind
DR6 -0.30 dB -8.40 dB 3:54 04-Euphoria
DR6 -0.30 dB -8.32 dB 4:26 05-Forest Of Love
DR6 -0.30 dB -8.71 dB 3:57 06-Inner Child
DR6 -0.30 dB -8.56 dB 2:21 07-Lay
DR6 -0.30 dB -9.47 dB 5:00 08-Wake Up Spring
DR5 -0.30 dB -7.09 dB 3:12 09-Room 68
DR7 -0.30 dB -9.69 dB 5:41 10-Alive
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR6
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1466 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Об исполнителе (рус.) | About Artist (ru)
Лейфур Джеймс
Лейфур Джеймс – лондонский электронщик-экспериментатор, вокалист, продюсер и композитор, известный своим эзотерическим авангардным стилем. В 2018 году на лейбле Night Time Stories вышел его дебютный лонг-плей A Louder Silence, получивший признание критиков. Вскоре после этого вышел EP с ремиксами от передовых ди-джеев (Bruce, FaltyDL, Coby Sey, Whities и пр.). В июне 2020 года последовал второй альбом Angel In Disguise, а в ноябре 2024-го третий полноформатный диск Magic Seeds, закрепившие за Лейфуром Джеймсом репутацию одного из наиболее оригинальных молодых исполнителей нашего времени, объединивших в своем творчестве электронную музыку с джазовыми рифами, соул-мелодиями и космическими саунд-ландшафтами. https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Leifur+James
Об исполнителе (англ.) | About Artist (en)
Leifur James
Leifur James is a London-based experimental producer, composer and vocalist known for his esoteric avant-garde style. In 2018, his critically acclaimed debut album A Louder Silence was released on Night Time Stories, which was followed by a second album Angel In Disguise in June 2020.
Since beginning his career with his debut album A Louder Silence in 2018, Leifur James garnered critical attention, occupying the space between experimentation and introspection. Support on the airwaves came from leading radio presenters Tom Ravenscroft, Mary Anne Hobbs and Gilles Peterson on BBC6 Music, Young Turks label show on NTS and Bradley Zero & Charlie Bones on Worldwide FM. Soon after the album a remix EP followed with cutting edge reworks from up and coming talent across the electronic music spectrum. This included remixes from Bruce, FaltyDL and Whities producer Coby Sey, leading to praised reviews from music publications Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, Mixmag, Electronic Sound, Future Music UK.
In February 2020, James announced his follow up album Angel of Disguise on Night Time Stories. Leading up the release of Angel In Disguise, British electronic music magazine DJ Mag premiered the album's fourth single Ritual describing the track as feeling "indebted to Burial’s nightbus-tailored garage, while wavering synth cries and cinematic pianos".[6] A very well received album earned the place as 'Album Of The Month' by Future Music for a "magnificent record" by "a singular artist who revels in playing with boundaries" and a review from Crack Magazine stating that "Angel In Disguise certainly demonstrates James' skill as a producer". Upon the album's full release, Vinyl Factory dubbed it as "melancholic electronica", solidifying James' sonic development from the more upbeat A Louder Silence.
Although key to his creative process, visual media took centre stage in a collaboration with Hungarian director, Balázs Simon. Premiered on Boiler Room's '4:3' platform, known for showcasing the best in new moving visual media, Wurlitzer was then nominated for a UK Music Video Award. The masterful blend of James' harmonic vocals and Simon's powerful visuals earned the duo widespread support from CLASH Magazine, Director's Notes, Motionographer, the London Short Film Festival and the UK and Berlin Music Video Awards. Further showcasing his visual ability, James shared a series of photographs with Mixmag to accompany his 'Club Epiphany Tracks' from around the early years of the previous decade (2010s). In an intimate interview with ÂUGHT Magazine leading up to the release of Angel In Disguise, James discusses his musical influences and the importance of his experiences of free thinking while in education and turning an unfortunate event into a blessing.
As a live performer, James has taken his fusion of Jazz and experimental soundscapes to festivals including Bluedot, The Great Escape, We Out Here, Sundaze and Nova Batida. James supported German composer Pantha du Prince at a sold-out concert in the main Barbican Hall before selling out a string of his own live shows across Europe including the Southbank Centre in London - a highlight of his career so far. He was set to tour his new live electronic show for the release of Angel In Disguise in May 2020, via a string of intimate shows across the U.K. and further afield in mainland Europe, beginning in Copenhagen before heading to Berlin and then finishing in London. His touring schedule has been postponed and is set to resume Autumn 2021.
In 2021, James' music video "Angel in Disguise", directed by Balázs Simon, was nominated for Best Experimental at the Berlin Music Video Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leifur_James
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for 'Magic Seeds'
Over the past few years, James has steadily built a reputation as a vital new voice in electronic music on both sides of the Atlantic. He’s played prestigious London venues like the Barbican and Village Underground in London and toured Europe, as well as being named Pitchfork and KCRW’s ‘best new music’ in the US. And his music has been championed by the likes of tastemakers Gilles Peterson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Bradley Zero and actor Cillian Murphy, and from BBC 6Music to NTS.
He isn’t afraid of defying convention. James’s debut album A Louder Silence in 2018 deftly blended IDM and minimalist avant-garde influences with Nina Simone-inspired vocals. He wanted to capture heady nights at London’s long-lost and beloved club Plastic People, where DJs like Floating Points would play jazz in the middle of a set, and followed it with a remix EP, featuring respected leftfielders including Bruce, FaltyDL and Coby Sey.
And yet James refused to stay in one lane. A year later, he released the track ‘Wurlitzer’, an ominous crescendo of neo-classical piano and sub-bass that suggested Aphex Twin and Nils Frahm at Berghain and won acclaim at film festivals thanks to its visual by Hungarian director Balázs Simon. Then came his second, more challenging electronic full-length in 2020, where James continued to flex his experimental side. A clear rebellion against his first record, it was tellingly-titled Angel in Disguise. The album garnered attention from the dance music world, earning praise from Mixmag, CRACK and DJ Mag, and James was invited to perform it on Boiler Room in full.
Third album Magic Seeds is a rebirth of sorts and his most ambitious project yet. At the beginning of the recording process, James went into the studio in London and played keys with drummer Leo Taylor (The Invisible), violinist Raven Bush (Speakers Corner Quartet) and producer/engineer Oli Bayston (whose recent credits include Kelly Lee Owens). “It was just the four of us in a room for one day, improvising and enjoying the thrill of playing together,” he says. “I was thinking of the Talk Talk record Spirit of Eden, the way they wrote it for months in the dark and then heavily edited it afterwards. I wanted that feeling of a real room of musicians, rather than using samples.”
James embarked on the mammoth task of editing those sessions down into songs when he emigrated to Lisbon in 2022. Alone in a new place, he could focus on rearranging everything with laser-like precision over the following two years. The live recordings, as well as the analogue synthesisers, lends the album an organic pulse and rhythmic looseness, while its cavernous atmosphere and grainy layers call to mind trip-hop giants Massive Attack and hip-hop producer Madlib. Opening track and lead single ‘Smoke in the Air’ sets the scene, spectral and gently hypnotic. There are often literary and artistic references in James’s music but here it was the “barren romance” of the film Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Like many songs on Magic Seeds, ‘Smoke in the Air’ also evokes the wonder of the natural world but also the threat to it, underlined by gritty, DJ Shadow-influenced bass. The album has a sense of foreboding, but a lightness that draws you through to the end.
It’s an ambitious record that could work both in open spaces and in dank clubs – as long as there is a smoke machine, of course. But more than anything, it feels as if it’s living and breathing; a sonic collage of James’s past few years whirled into one.
released November 8, 2024 https://leifurjames.bandcamp.com/album/magic-seeds
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Leifur James, vocals, electronics
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