LATE NIGHT TALES PRES. JORDAN RAKEI (2LP, STANDARD

UPC: 5060391093581 Incl. unmixed tracks via download as MP3 / FLAC/ WAV A1 Fink - Covering Your Tracks 5:32 A2 Alfa Mist - Mulago 4:07 A3 Charlotte Day Wilson - Mountains 4:08 A4 Moreton feat Jordan Rakei - Count a Heart 3:35 (Exclusive track) B5 Puma Blue - Untitled 2 3:30 B6 Connan Mockasin - Momo's 3:38 B7 C Duncan - He Came From The Sun 3:56 B8 Oso Leone - Virtual U 5:04 B9 Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin - Idiom ft Oscar Jerome 4:36 C10 Snowpoet - Everternity 7:04 C11 Maro - Forever & Always 2:52 C12 Homay Schmitz - Speak Up 4:58 C13 Bill Laurence - Singularity 7:22 D14 Jordan Rakei - Lover, You Should've Come Over (Cover) 3:00 (Exclusive Jeff Buckley cover version) D15 Cubicolour - Counterpart 5:14 D16 Jordan Rakei - Imagination 5:50 (Exclusive new track) D17 Alejandro González Iñárritu - Imagination 4:09 (Exclusive spoken word piece) OVERVIEW: šI wanted to try and showcase as many people as I knew on this mix. My idea of Late Night Tales was to distil a series of relaxing moments; the whole conceptual sonic of relax- ation. So, I was trying to think of all the collaborators and friends that I knew, who™d recorded stuff with this horizontal vibe. Plus, I was also trying to help my friends' stuff get into the world. I know the story of Khruangbin blowing up after appearing on the series (in fact, I think that's how I discovered them). So, the main idea was to create a certain atmosphere, but also to help some of my favourite collaborators and bud- dies to give their songs a little push out into the world. Hope you like it› Jordan Rakei Due for release on 9th April, Late Night Tales celebrate their 20th anniversary with the release of multi-instru- mentalist, vocalist and producer Jordan Rakei™s majestic compilation. The 28-year-old modern soul icon effortlessly stamps his own jazz and hip-hop driven sound all over this gorgeous array of handpicked tracks. A beautifully layered blend that is mirrored in the music he™s made, it comes as no surprise that such a supremely gifted songwriter should deliver a mix that is all about the song. Rakei, born in New Zealand, but raised in Australia, moved to the UK in 2015; he released his debut album, Cloak, with Oz label Soul Has No Tempo, but his two subsequent LPs, Wallflower and Origin, came out on Ninja Tune, the former #2 in Album Of The Year for Gilles Peterson™s Worldwide poll, while Origin was nominated for Best Album at the AIM Awards. Jordan had this to say on his upcoming mix: As Jordan says, there™s so much more to the song selection on Late Night Tales™ latest outing than a random collection of artists. Many have some sort of personal connection, so just as Bonobo provided a platform for the breakout of Khruangbin on a previous LNT, this may have the same ef- fect for Rakei™s friends. After a soothing opener from Fink, good friend and big influence Alfa Mist (part of the Are We Live collective) delivers ˜Mulago.™ šI want to champion their sound and show the world how good he is, and I thought it™d be fitting to start the mix with family,› says Jordan. Next up is Charlotte Day Wilson with ˜Mountains,™ followed by ˜Count A Heart™ from Moreton, an exclusive collab- oration with Jordan, who grew up on the same street in Brisbane, Australia. šShe was the first artist I ever collabo- rated with, and one of the first artists to be involved in my career,› he explains. Elsewhere we hear Scottish producer and multi-instrumentalist C Duncan™s haunting ˜He Came from the Sun,™ Barcelona collective Oso Leone deliver a dreamy ˜Virtual U™ and Bill Lauren™s ˜Singularity,™ which evokes a striking sense of time and place. Snowpoet™s ethereal ˜Evitenity™ is a šlong mediative nar- rative over a beautiful soundscape,› which at times seems chaotic, nicely juxtaposed with undeniable beauty, and Maro™s kooky songwriting shines on ˜Always And Forever.™ Long-time buddy Armon-Jones contributes ˜Idiom,™ and Jordan™s exclusive cover version is a two-for-one, Radio- head™s ˜Codex™ merging with ˜Lover, You Should™ve Come Home™ by Jeff Buckley and another exclusive, original com- position by Jordan, ˜Imagination.™ The latter works as a piece with the spoken (Spanish) word voiced by movie director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, and The Reve- nant,) who is a big fan of Jordan™s. šHe messaged me when I went to L.A and asked to come to my show. I was in such shock and we hung out after. I thought it would be nice to get him to do this in his native tongue, because I don™t think that™s been done yet on the series.› It certainly is a family affair. Not the blood is thicker than water kind, but certainly musical kindred spirits. PRESS/ONLINE: LateNightTales will be alerting 80k Facebook followers 52k Soundcloud subscribers, 12.8k Twitter, 70k YouTube and 23k Instagram followers. Email targeting to 60k+ website subscribers. Jordan Rakei will be releasing updates to 56k+ Facebook followers, 97k Instagram followers, 69k Soundcloud and 40k+ YouTube followers. Jordan has 230k Spotify followers and 1.75 million monthly listeners With a targeted marketing plan and strategy, there will be billboard campaigns, magazine adverts, online advertising, radio plugging, and social media engagement RADIO: OTHER ACTIVITY: https://latenighttales.co.uk/