Description
I wanted to try and showcase as many people as I knew on this mix. My idea of Late Night Tales was to distil a series of relaxing moments; the whole conceptual sonic of relaxation. So, I was trying to think of all the collaborators and friends that I knew, whod recorded stuff with this horizontal vibe. Plus, I was also trying to help my friends’ stuff get into the world. I know the story of Khruangbin blowing up after appearing on the series (in fact, I think that’s how I discovered them). So, the main idea was to create a certain atmosphere, but also to help some of my favourite collaborators and buddies to give their songs a little push out into the world. Hope you like it Jordan Rakei
As Jordan says, theres so much more to the song selection on Late Night Tales latest outing than a random collection of artists. Many have some sort of personal connection, so just as Bonobo provided a platform for the breakout of Khruangbin on a previous LNT, this may have the same effect for Rakeis friends. After a soothing opener from Fink, good friend and big influence Alfa Mist (part of the Are We Live collective) delivers Mulago. I want to champion their sound and show the world how good he is, and I thought itd be fitting to start the mix with family, says Jordan.
Next up is Charlotte Day Wilson with Mountains, followed by Count A Heart from Moreton, an exclusive collaboration with Jordan, who grew up on the same street in Brisbane, Australia. She was the first artist I ever collaborated with, and one of the first artists to be involved in my career, he explains. Elsewhere we hear Scottish producer and multi-instrumentalist C Duncans haunting He Came from the Sun, Barcelona collective Oso Leone deliver a dreamy Virtual U and Bill Laurens Singularity, which evokes a striking sense of time and place.
Snowpoets ethereal Evitenity is a long mediative narrative over a beautiful soundscape, which at times seems chaotic, nicely juxtaposed with undeniable beauty, and Maros kooky songwriting shines on Always And Forever. Long-time buddy Armon-Jones contributes Idiom, and Jordans exclusive cover version is a two-for-one, Radioheads Codex merging with Lover, You Shouldve Come Home by Jeff Buckley and another exclusive, original composition by Jordan, Imagination. The latter works as a piece with the spoken (Spanish) word voiced by movie director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu (Babel, Birdman, and The Revenant,) who is a big fan of Jordans. He messaged me when I went to L.A and asked to come to my show. I was in such shock and we hung out after. I thought it would be nice to get him to do this in his native tongue, because I dont think thats been done yet on the series. It certainly is a family affair. Not the blood is thicker than water kind, but certainly musical kindred spirits.
VINYL TRACKLIST (Unmixed tracks with mixed/unmixed track download code)
A1 Fink – Covering Your Tracks 5:32
A2 Alfa Mist – Mulago 4:07
A3 Charlotte Day Wilson – Mountains 4:08
A4 Moreton feat Jordan Rakei – Count a Heart 3:35 (Exclusive track)
B5 Puma Blue – Untitled 2 3:30
B6 Connan Mockasin – Momo’s 3:38
B7 C Duncan – He Came From The Sun 3:56
B8 Oso Leone – Virtual U 5:04
B9 Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin – Idiom ft Oscar Jerome 4:36
C10 Snowpoet – Everternity 7:04
C11 Maro – Forever & Always 2:52
C12 Homay Schmitz – Speak Up 4:58
C13 Bill Laurence – Singularity 7:22
D14 Jordan Rakei – Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (Cov- er) 3:00 (Exclusive Jeff Buckley cover version)
D15 Cubicolour – Counterpart 5:14
D16 Jordan Rakei – Imagination 5:50 (Exclusive new track)
D17 Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu – Imagination 4:09 (Exclusive spoken word piece)
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