Space Afrika - Honest Labour - TEST PRESSING -UK Ambient Modern Classical Burial

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This is a rare vinyl test pressing of the Dais Records release of Space Afrika's Resident Advisor "Album of the Year" and Bandcamp "Ambient Album Of The Year" Honest Labour

"Listening to Honest Labour feels like street lights burning onto tired retinas and long nights of feeling small in a big city. On their sophomore album, producers Joshua Inyang and Joshua Reid created a series of nocturnal meditations, a series of nineteen short tracks bleeding into one another, in tribute to their hometown of Manchester. The duo's instrumentation is replete with field recordings of urban white noise, balanced by resonant cellos, hazy guitars and spectral guest performances with fragments of profound conversations—as if overheard from the night before—resulting in the audio equivalent of subconscious dreamscape.

"Put simply by Inyang and Reid themselves, Honest Labour is "an album about love and loss." The track "Indigo Grit," for instance, abruptly ends just as the speaker is about to explain the difference between liking and loving someone—a fleeting snippet of wisdom lost just before listeners could grab hold of it. But as with any inquiries into life’s most existential questions, the artists weren't intending to arrive at any conclusions. Through their album, they embraced the sheer mystery of the human experience, remaining at the mercy of their emotions just like the rest of us." - Emeka Okonkwo, Resident Advisor "Album of the Year" 2021

"A genre-spanning collection of cryptic transmissions, interludes, and asides, the Manchester duo’s second album gets at emotion in an oblique fashion, remaking your desires as it plays." - Pitchfork

"Manchester family Space Afrika's Dais debut is a sprawling, genre melted tapestry of charged diasporic innovation and unshakably Northern, British working class eccentricity >> Like Dean Blunt, DJ Spooky, Cocteau Twins, Klein, West Mineral, Tricky, Third Eye Foundation, Actress 'n Michael Nyman boiled into a waxy narrative epic, 'Honest Labour' is as smoky and mysterious as it is rewarding. Undoubtedly one of the most viscerally affecting records of 2021." - Boomkat

Information:

Artist: Space Afrika

Title: Honest Labour

Cat.: DAIS181

Release Date: August 27, 2021

Record Label: Dais Records

Side A:

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Indigo Grit (feat. Guest)

Lose You Beau

Solemn

LV

Preparing the Perfect Response ~

Ny Interlude

Rings (feat. Guest)

Noise Sweet

B£E (feat. Blackhaine)

Side B:

Like Orchids

Meet Me At Sachas

U (feat. kinseyLloyd)

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Girl Scout Cookies (feat. Bianca Scout)

Ladybird Drone

With Your Touch

Strength (feat. LA Timpa)

Honest Labour (feat. HforSpirit)

RIYL: Burial, Huerco S, LEYA, Actress, Arca, Björk, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Demdike Stare, Arca, Hiro Kone, FKA twigs, Andy Stott, Klein, Rosalia's "Lux", Tor Lundvall

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