Even voorstellen – Ibibio Sound Machine – The Black Notes EP

IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Announce ‘The Black Notes EP’ out 4 September

“black notes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQIgTjYTs8

LIVE:
15 Sep – Leffingeleuren
16 Sep - La Botanique, Brussels

Ibibio Sound Machine - The Black Notes EP
1. Black Notes

2. Honey Bee
3. Pull The Rope (Captain Planet Remix)
4. Got To Be Who U Are (Vanguard Remix)
   
   Praise for new album ‘Pull The Rope’
   Electronic afro-funk group Ibibio Sound Machine are back with news of a brand new set of songs, ‘The Black Notes EP’, and are sharing the title-track ahead of their remaining summer festival slots.
   A vibrant and sunny blend of electronica, dance music, and pop, ‘Black Notes,’ begins with a surging choir, pulsating synths, and infectious beats above which singer Eno Williams delivers one of her most rousing performances to date.
   Ibibio Sound Machine say of the EP: “Moments of joy and feeling grateful for the sun on your face. Black Notes & Honey Bee are two sides of a coin - soulful dance and an electronic take on highlife for 2024. Captain Planet’s funky Afro house remix take on Pull the rope and Vanguard’s acid tinged version of Got to Be who u are round out the selection.
   
   ‘Pull the Rope’, the new record released by Ibibio Sound Machine earlier this year, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhard-led outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remains, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Electricity’, the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues, from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat-soaked, all-night dance club. The atmosphere has changed, but you’re still having the time of your life.
   Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators, recording Pull the Rope with Sheffield-based producer Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys, M.I.A.) over the course of two weeks. The way the pair wrote songs changed significantly — rather than Eno penning lyrics to music generated by Max and company’s jamming, Orton started with Eno and Max writing together before adding the band. With less time in the studio and a new way of considering how they built songs, the duo found making decisions about Pull the Rope’s sound quicker and more instinctual than before.
   In melding their songwriting process, Grunhard and Williams have, impossibly, pulled the trick of making Ibibio Sound Machine a tighter band than ever before, building out from their core in a way that highlights the electrifying group of musicians they play with. Rather than recording with the full band in the room, Pull the Rope was sculpted, elements added and shaped by Grunhard, Williams, and Orton along the way.
   The message in both their fantastic album ‘Pull the Rope’ and the new ‘The Black Notes EP’, is hope in darkness, bliss in spite of bleakness. Ibibio Sound Machine are here to provide the soundtrack to the best night of your life, and the better world to come.