- 2024-07-30
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MUSIC
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Mura Masa Announces New Album “Curve 1”, Premieres New Song “FLY” featuring Cherish on BBC Radio 1
British electronic music producer Mura Masa has announced his fourth studio album “Curve 1” will be released on August 23, 2024.
The album is his first body of work in two years since the 2022 album “Demon Time”.
Also, it is the first release under his own label Pond Recordings as an independent artist.
The album returns to his roots in club music. Mura Masa said, “I'm just really wanting to get back to club music. I started off really electronic music in my bedroom like no features just using samples. And I just wanted to like get back to grassroots kind of electronic music.”
Mura Masa said of the album, “Curve 1 is ultimately a manifestation of an attitude I've been cultivating in my personal life; ignore everything. All the content, all of the attention economy, all of it. In doing that, the really meaningful and vital parts of what's around you make themselves known and unignorable, demanding your energy.”- He continued, “It's my first offering as an independent artist through my own record label, and as such I wanted it to be as free and anti-narrative as possible. Impressionistic. Music as entertainment has in many cases, to me, become very advertorial and excessively sentimental in terms of creating narrative around albums and artists. I wanted to strip this away as much as possible to leave room for the music to create its own meaning in the lives of people who form connections with it. It's hard for me not to explain away the intricacies and ideas contained within these records after having theorised and toiled and executed them over the course of nearly three years, but I think it's far more fitting of the album's intent to say simply: listen to it in the dark.”
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From the album, he premiered a new song “FLY” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
This time, he teamed up with Atlanta-based R&B quartet Cherish on the track.
The extended version of the song is around nine minutes long.
The track was written by Alexander Crossan, Fallon King, Farrah King, Felisha King Harvey, Jasiel Amon Robinson, and Neosha Lawrence. Produced by Mura Masa.
He has already filmed a music video for the song, which is coming soon.
Mura Masa told Jack Saunders, “There's a nine minute version of this song over it's much trickier. This is good too. It is just kind of a like the club record, like I played it. I played all nine minutes of the actual version about a month ago and got so many messages afterwards like 'What was that song?' We shot the video last week and not to spoil it, but there's a lot of like, levitation in the video. And that's kind of how I wanted it to feel. This is like the album closer.”
Photo by Dani Bastidas - source : BBC Radio 1
