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Red Lama Announce New Album Motions; Premiere “Awakening” Single

Posted in audiObelisk, Whathaveyou on January 10th, 2018 by JJ Koczan

red lama photo Sarah Michelle Riisager

A little guest clarinet goes a long way in terms of setting the mood in the new single from Danish psychedelic rockers Red Lama, along with a wash of brooding guitar and a rhythm that seems to bounce and roll at the same time, heavy, melodic fluidity a continuing theme for the seven-piece following their intriguing 2016 debut, Dreams are Free (review here). “Awakening” is the new track, and it’s Bjonko Chalgija guesting on the aforementioned clarinet, and the single is out on Friday and premiering below for your streaming enjoyment.

You might recall Red Lama previously unveiled the single “Post Optimism” in similar fashion back in September. Well, both tracks come from their second album, which the band today announces is titled Motions and will be out next month through All Good Clean Records. Whether you heard “Post Optimism” or not — it’s not to late! that link really works! — take it under advisement to check out the new track below and get yourself brought up to speed on where Red Lama are headed coming off the debut. Cover art, info, links and audio all follow.

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RED LAMA premieres new single and announce second album

On their sophomore album ‘Motions’, RED LAMA, throw an investigative gaze on a reality that consists of more than the eye is immediately capable of seeing. With a point of departure in the youth of psychedelic rock music, the band travels on through more recent decades of art rock and sonic experimentation and hereby expands with a modern expression that leads the band onto new paths. As such, ‘Motions’ appears as a fresh sounding and unique rock album with a narrative succeeding in both embracing and illustrating the eternal creative movements of the world.

The rock seven piece RED LAMA was formed by a group of friends in 2011. By 2015, the band found their last member and completed the present lineup, who in April 2016 released their debut LP ‘Dreams Are Free’. The album showcases a young rock band with a rhythmical focus and control of their expressive palette seeking to develop the organic, analogue and psychedelic rock music. RED LAMA manifests themselves strongly in a live setting and here the band made a strong mark in 2016-17 with their intense and personal live shows in primarily Denmark. Those having witnessed a RED LAMA concert can confirm the power with which the band communicates its material live.

On RED LAMA’s second album ‘Motions’, the band maintains the same atmospheric, warm and rhythmically based soundscape, still strongly rooted in classic rock music, as also heard on the first album. ‘Motions’ is a collection of songs that appears even sharper in regards to songwriting, arrangement and production compared to the debut. From their starting point in the rock n’ roll of the 60’s and 70’s, the band has expanded its expression with references to kraut rock, British trip hop and Talk Talk-ish art rock of the 80’s. A more disciplined as well as grandiose aesthetic reveals itself and contributes in a wondrous manner to those psychological-kaleidoscopic horizons already disclosed by the musical roots of the band and RED LAMA thus utilizes the potential in the sonic mind travels of more recent decades. Hereby, a more modern rock sound appears and one that, while floating through the decades, relates itself to its present time and its own reality – where this reality might origin from and what it might become.

Reality – what it comes from and what it can become – is exactly the main theme on ‘Motions’ as is the idea of movements and the interrelation of all things. We are all a product of the humans and actions that precede us in the same manner that posterity always will be influenced by the motions we initiate and the actions we perform. Hereby, RED LAMA seeks to describe an immersion into reality where it reveals itself through motions as well as distorted states of reality, that displays the mystical and alternate in the world. In this way, the band works with a form of magical realism, where the ones submerging into the world are likely to also experience those facets of transcendence and the mystical that can express itself through motions and ‘glitch’. The album artwork is created by the artist Nikolaj Hollænder and depicts a wave washing up on a tourist beach. What might appear as a skyline of tourist hotels is instead a glitch, a stretched and distorted representation of reality that can challenge normal perceptions.

Thus on ‘Motions’, RED LAMA is skillfully balancing thematics of reality and consciousness and a compelling synthesis of several decades of spiritual rock music, which as a whole conjures a captivating narrative for the body and mind in eternal movement. This narrative will gather its full strength at the band’s forthcoming shows, where waves of action, consciousness and energy will be exchanged – movements which inevitably will reach and shape every present being and the space surrounding them…as everything will do at all times. Our lives and the space in which it unfolds are forever in motion and ever changing and are therefore eternal as such.

Artwork: Nikolaj Hollænder

Release Date: February 23rd
Label: All Good Clean Records
Format: LP/Digital (album)

Tracklist; Motions:

1. Perfect Strangers
2. Awakening (feat. Bjonko)
3. Post Optimism
4. Have a Great Today
5. Come What May
6. Fular
7. Wave
8. Elements I
9. Elements II

Red Lama:
Johannes Linnet: Vocal
Oliver Fick: Guitar
Jonas Rahbek: Guitar
Frederik Randrup: Bass
Morten Kaas: Organ
Niklas Sjøbeck: Percussion
Marius Linnet: Drums

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www.instagram.com/red_lama_band
www.soundcloud.com/red-lama
www.redlamaband.bandcamp.com
http://www.allgoodcleanrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/allgoodcleanrecords/

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