Ambient Tech / Downbeat Electronica - - Dealed LP on 180g Vinyl - Following his recent signing to Ninja Tune, Leon Vynehall announces his debut album Nothing Is Still - a record that sees him digging deeper into the family history that has always inspired his most iconic tracks, whilst returning to his own musical roots.
Nothing Is Still is, at its core, an album dedicated to Vynehall’s grandparents. Emigrating from a leafy south east U.K. to New York City in the 1960s, their seven-day journey via boat from Southampton to Brooklyn, and the stories that followed, have only truly come to light upon the passing of his grandfather four years ago. “I knew they had lived in the U.S. and heard many anecdotes, but it was only after Pops died and my Nan presented these polaroids of their time there; of her waitressing at the New York Mayor’s Ball in ’66, or Pops with horses on a ranch in Arizona, that she delved deeper into their story, and I started to become overtly inquisitive about it” Vy
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From The Sea/It Looms (Chapters I & II)
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Movements (Chapter III)
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Birds On The Tarmac (Footnote III)
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Julia (Footnote IV)
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Drinking It In Again (Chapter IV)
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Trouble (Parts I, II, & III - Chapter V)
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Envelopes (Chapter VI)
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English Oak (Chapter VII)
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Ice Cream (Chapter VIII)
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It Breaks (Chapter IX)
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Leon Vynehall is British producer and DJ, born in Kent, in the south east of England. Vynehall's music combines the "percussive energy of contemporary House music" with "rich harmonies of sample-centric producers". Vynehall lists Aphex Twin, Afrika Bambaataa, Man Parrish and DJ Shadow as some of his major influences. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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