New music from Simon Green, aka Bonobo, is always an event – but when it means the arrival of new album, it’s really something to get excited about! Migration is Green’s sixth album, and it’s a record which cements his place in the highest echelons of electronic music and beyond.
‘Kerala’ was the first track Green recorded for the record, and it’s both a classic piece of Bonobo music and a development – arpeggiated, twisted, layered strings, and a shuffling dance-floor rhythm. The music gradually builds until Bonobo introduces a sample from RnB singer Brandy, cut up and dealt with as a further texture, bringing the track to a sweet spot of uplifting euphoria that he’s so adept at finding.
The hypnotic video is directed by Bison (Jon Hopkins/London Grammar/ Rosie Lowe). It compliments the shuffling arpeggios and beats perfectly by creating staggered loop effects where the lead, Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace/Inside No. 9), battles through a mysterious, distorted reality.
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