Remixes, by Ian William Craig / Olivier Alary

Remixes

by Ian William Craig / Olivier Alary

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	1.	A Single Hope (Olivier Alary Remix) 04:24		buy track
	2.	Olivier Alary - Nollywood (IWC Remix) 06:38		buy track

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In advance of new releases from both artists, Ian William Craig and Olivier Alary trade remixes on this wonderful two track digital single.

Following the widespread critical acclaim of his brilliant ‘Centres’ album (July 2016), which made it into numerous end of year ‘best of’ lists (including Uncut, Drowned In Sound, The Quietus, The 405, Popmatters and Metacritic), Vancouver-based vocalist / composer Ian William Craig takes on ‘Nollywood’ from Olivier’s forthcoming debut album, ‘Fiction / Non-Fiction’, which is due out in February next year. Running the stems of the track through his studio and a circuit-bent Audiotronics 147 and a Ekdahl Moisturizer, Ian reinvents Olivier’s lusciously swooning ‘Nollywood’, adding his own voice as source matter, and scuffing and morphing the track through a patina of tape distortion, overlaying a web of glistening texture and looping rhythm to repurpose it in a stunning, sprawling new work.

By way of return, Montreal-based Frenchman Olivier takes on Ian’s album gem ‘A Single Hope’, extracting the pop song hiding behind Ian's billowing textures in order to render it in a bright new light. Before starting the remix, Olivier decided to restrict electronic elements to a minimum, so what you hear here are purely acoustic instruments. As Olivier explains, “some of them are processed, but I tried to keep the integrity of their sonic nature. From the original piece, only the vocals were kept. Then I recorded a clarinet choir to replace the original organ. Some flutes and naturally detuned accordion were added to add an eerie quality to the chords.” Olivier added new drums made out of found objects (an accordion case for bass drum, a broken cymbal, some sheets of paper hit by brushes, a shaker and a spring reverb gently hit by a stick). To add a 'stuttery' quality to the piece, he then recorded some acoustic guitar, played at double-speed. To add more rhythmical elements, some fast, arpeggiated saxophone and slow melody lines were also added with the aim to create a remix which could simultaneously be perceived as both slow and languid as well as fast and jittery.

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released January 13, 2017

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