Red Lama Post “State of the Art” Video; Dogma EP out Dec. 7
Quick turnaround from Danish heavy psych rockers Red Lama, who issued their second album, Motions, earlier this year. Their new EP, recorded in an apparent burst of creativity, is titled Dogma, and the drift-prone seven-piece are giving a glimpse at some of the float its four tracks might hone in a new video for “State of the Art” recorded live at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Nice digs. They seem to have recorded the EP live as well, so whether or not the video is from the same session that resulted in the studio version of the song, I don’t know, but what matters more than that is of course the live feel of the music itself, which comes through as no less a priority than the gorgeous melodicism that always seems to typify Red Lama‘s work, pastoral and serene as they are.
The video is at the bottom of this post and the EP cover and info follow here, courtesy of the PR wire:
RED LAMA – ’DOGMA’ – NEW EP OUT DECEMBER 7th
Red Lama will release a new EP called ’Dogma’ on December 7th which has been written and recorded during a single month in the fall of 2018. The first track to be released is ’State the Art’. Accompanying the track is a video that shows the band recording the track in a session at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. ’Dogma’ is the band’s second release in 2018 and it follows the acclaimed album ’Motions’.
’Dogma’ is the result of an intensive writing and recording period which stretched over a single month in the fall of 2018. The release is conceptual in the sense that its basic dogma is immediacy. The music and its creation shall remain immediate and thereby avoid being too planned out and overly produced. Vocalist, Johannes Linnet, says about the process:
”I look back at the time we spent making ’Dogma’ as a very free and pleasant journey for the band as a whole. Working with immediacy and being able to let go of natural satisfaction has given the writing process much more depth and concentration than earlier. Small ideas became raw pieces over a weekend in late September and was then polished and recorded as live sessions in the Royal Danish Academy of Music’s Studio 3 in order to preserve the energy that we bring to live shows.”
The EP has been made in cooperation with the British producer Graham Sowerby (AK/DK). Red Lama has worked with Tommy Kamp Vestergaard (60 minutes of Mew) in mixing ’Dogma’, and the award-winning producer, Rune Rask, has mastered it. The four
songs that make up ’Dogma’ unite the beautiful and grandiose with the raw and powerful – and at the same time show that Red Lama once again explores new musical territories.
The first single ’State the Art’ and its video which is shot and produced by Jonas Møller (Playground Productions) will be out prior to the release of ’Dogma’. It shows the band during the recording of the track as a one-take in Studio 3 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Tracklist – ’Dogma’
1. Time
2. State the Art
3. RLP
4. Tearing up the Snow
Red Lama live 2018
17th of November HeadQuarters Aarhus (DK)
24th of November Kulturmaskinen Odense (DK)
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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