Artwork Credit: Daisuke Yokota
MIXED BY DAVID WRENCH (CARIBOU, FKA TWIGS, THE XX)
SINGLE FEATURES WARPAINT’S J. L. LINDBERG ON BASS, M. REFOSCO (ATOMS FOR PEACE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS) ON PERCUSSION,
A. CARAPETIS (NINE INCH NAILS) ON DRUMS
COLLABORATION CREDITS WITH PRODUCERS COLE M.G-N (BECK, ARIEL PINK) G. RAPHAEL (THE STROKES), S. DiPERRI (DIIV, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE) + MORE
“13//ali_fawn unleashes a swirling psych-pop anthem on debut release ‘Future Swim’”
–THE 405
“13//ali_fawn definitely makes an impact with his debut single ‘Future Swim’, hitting all the right boxes when it comes ot psych-pop”
–WHEN THE HORN BLOWS
Detroit-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Alister Fawnwoda AKA 13//ali_fawn releases his new single “Mirrorshade” today (January 22), a second taste of forthcoming album Ruby Beach due summer 2020. It is mixed by Welsh powerhouse David Wrench (Caribou, FKA Twigs, Sampha, Shura, The xx, Young Fathers, +++).
Listen now here: Https://fanlink.to/mirrorshade.
Born in Motor City, Fawnwoda cultivated his musicianship through learning violin and piano from a young age. Honing his métier, he studied music, poetry and visual arts at The University of Miami and then the Tibetan Buddhist-founded Naropa University.
In 2016 he moved to LA to work under the tutelage of Hans Zimmer as an intern, and by 2019 moved back to Detroit to quench a hankering for eclectic collaborations, both as a producer and as a musician. To date, he’s worked on projects with producers Cole M. Greif-Neil (Beck, Ariel Pink), Gordon Raphael (The Strokes), Sonny DiPerri (DIIV, Animal Collective), Marta Salogni (Björk, The xx), and many more. Additionally, he’s joined forces with musicians including Alex Carapetis (Nine Inch Nails, The Voidz), Jenny Lee Lindberg and Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint), Mauro Refosco (Talking Heads, Atoms for Peace) and Philip Peterson (Portugal. The Man).
Ali talks about his newest feat “Mirrorshade”:
“The emotional inspiration was to make a song people could make love and babies to.
One of the conceptual ideas was to create a song form that features bursts of drum parts that evolve over time held down by a percussion phrase. The main low instrument in the percussion section is Mauro’s Surdo drum. ‘Mirrorshade’ is a track featuring Alex Carapetis on drums, Mauro Refosco on percussion, Jenny Lee Lindberg on Bass, Joey Stevens on guitar and me on synthesizers and programming. It was mixed by David Wrench and mastered by John Davis.”
13//ali_fawn debuted in late-2019 with first single “Future Swim,” which he notes “…is about time-travel and death, and contemplates whether or not the two are intertwined as one thing.”
With a keen eye for aesthetics, Fawnwoda enlisted photographer Daisuke Yokota to curate the visual side of the project. Daisuke and www.anothersomething.org share some words regarding the colour photographs, “With this series,” Yokota explains, he “tried not to take pictures,” and instead sought to “draw out the physical aspect of film.”
Another Something talk through the physical process,“Yokota layered sheets of unused large format colour film and applied unorthodox developing methods before scanning the results. Here, documentation is replaced with darkroom alchemy in order to show that the essence of photography rests not necessarily with the camera, but in film itself.”
Fawnwoda was influenced by Daft Punk’s breakthrough album, Homework in addition to electronic artists like Suzanne Ciani, Aphex Twin, Helena Hauff and composer Arvo Pärt. His work is a combination of all these interests, with a deep passion for production processes that harkens back to his love for The Beatles’ White Album.
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