Published
Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 13:20
- The Berlin collective's first LP is coming out in November.
Dial Records will release Eternal Love, an album from Berlin crew Dawn Mok, on November 27th.
Dawn Mok is described by its founder Felix Mura as an "open collective," with members from the US, Asia and Europe, though the album was mostly the work of Mura and vocalist Bundi. The collective's first appearance on Dial was "Like Thoughts Or Moments We'll Fall," a track that featured on the label's recent 15-year anniversary compilation. They'll return with a full album, which took 12 months to record and was mixed by Ville Haimala, AKA Renaissance Man.
"While coming from an entirely different background, in this album working with the vocals of Bundi—who is much inspired by artists ranging from Prince and D'Angelo to old and new generations of RnB music—I've somewhat acquired a production method of elimination," says Mura. "I've tried to sift through rhythmic and tonal relationships, and shape the sounds to end up with re-contextualized musical and sonic references. Not with the aim of re-approaching them, but to employ the (often just emotional) connotations of each chosen element as part of the songwriting itself, thus ending up with something I felt was formally interconnecting with many moments of music history, but not indulging in formulaic approaches."
For more on Dial, check out Will Lynch's recent label of the month feature.
Listen to "Like Thoughts or Moments We'll Fall" below.
Tracklist
01. Untitled
02. Downpour
03. What We Came To Be
04. You Ended Up Being All I Know
05. Like Thoughts Or Moments We'll Fall
06. Fade
07. (Interlude I)
08. End
09. Daze
10. Fade Town, You're My Evidence
11. Still With You
12. (Interlude II)
13. (Interlude III)
14. Time
Dial Records will release Eternal Love on November 27th, 2015.