It is Monday,autumn officially started and we still need to recover from the heaviness of last week’s Reeperbahn Festival. So, please allow us to take things a bit more laid back as the week is about to start. Old friend and electronic producer SAM SLATER delivers the perfect soundtrack for this situation. Gold Held Over (for Al Summers) is the second song the talented gentleman shares following the previously released Forest Gospel. And again it is influenced by his journey across the globe as it was recorded in the mountains of Burma.
The press release states: ‘It’s focus is on fertility as the voice of a woman, singing to a village after a fertility festival dips the mile distance to the microphone. This is set to sound of 14 year old Burmese boys, hammering gold into gold leaf, their leather hammers pulling a strange polyrhythm from the air. These recordings, when pieced together, become a work-song of blissed, youthful ambition.’
If you love eclectic electronic experiments á la FOUR TET you’re gonna love this one. SAM SLATER‘s debut album Languish Barriers is next month via label All Female Parliament, so watch out for it as well. In the meantime get ready to drift away with this sweet little gem right here.
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