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Clara Mann

Rift

    One of the UK’s most exciting new singer-songwriters and multidisciplinary artists, Clara’s evocative debut album ‘Rift’ navigates the fractured environment of the in-between - those liminal spaces exposed between light and dark, growth and remorse, loss and reclamation. It is a record that makes a strong case for hope, those luminescent silver linings in the dark.

    Mann’s music reflects the people and places that have shaped and held her - physically, emotionally, and creatively. Raised in the Lot Valley in rural France before moving to the UK for her teens, these formative years provided her with a deep sense of belonging, identity, and growth. Yet, it is in motion, in placelessness, that Mann feels most at home: “Just the sun above me and my keys and my car.” Her new record is a testament to this state of in-betweenness, inviting you to step into a place that has always existed within yourself.

    After releasing her second EP ‘Stay Open’ in 2022, the time and space between then and now has culminated in ‘Rift’, Mann’s first album, which vividly gestures toward the fractures and ruptures that define our lives. Yet, it is more than just an album; it captures the journey and strength it takes to look inward and to move forwards through the pain of it all. Its first track, ‘It Only Hurts’, begins in a place of hopelessness, stemming from the loss of a relationship and, in turn, a future. It is a blank space that stretches out before you, where the landscape is torn apart like icebergs cracking and drifting. But hope remains a beacon of light throughout the album, a lighthouse guiding you across tumultuous waters.

    Influenced by artists like Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Judee Sill, and Tom Waits, Mann has a deep love and care for songwriting. Her lyrics are vivid and visceral, and her approach to songwriting is not one of purging emotions but rather of composting them—digesting life’s experiences and cultivating them into something meaningful, tangible, hopeful. She is also a talented visual artist, and this often plays an integral role in her songwriting process. Using the intricate and sweeping motion of illustrating with ink, charcoal, and sometimes watercolour, she can evoke thoughts and poetry onto the page, offering a way of making sense of things and to communicate in a way that words alone cannot.

    For Mann, the album is a tangible expression of her entire world—a snow globe raised in her palms for the world to see, in all its layers and complexities, containing all her love, relationships, memories, and experiences. It is this sheer transparency that has allowed her to relinquish and accept all parts of herself—the guilt, pain, and beauty of it all—like “swallows in the morning air, circling the dam.” Its truthfulness is its strength, not shying away from the painful experiences of life but embracing them as essential to the human experience and as part of our tapestry.

    With ‘Rift’, Clara Mann acknowledges the cracks through which both despair and hope can seep. It is a deeply personal record, yet it is universally resonant, holding the mirror up to herself and to the world around her. It is a record that reflects on embracing our fault lines, navigating the ruptures that can erupt from them and moving forwards, in motion, with a renewed sense of self and aliveness. Mann’s debut album, ‘Rift’ is all of her - her past, her present, her emotions, her experiences - and now, it is for you.


    TRACK LISTING

    Side A:
    It Only Hurts 3:14
    'Til I Come Around 3:04
    Driving Home The Long Way 2:49
    Stadiums 3:56
    Reasons 2:32

    Side B:
    Remember Me (Train Song) 3:08
    Doubled Over 2:32
    Rift 3:15
    Oranges 2:52
    The Dream 3:37

    Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the release of the sought-after soundtrack for cult 1980 French film "Clara Et Les Chics Types," featuring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil and the Splendid troupe actors. The Jazz-Funk soundtrack, composed by Michel Jonasz and featuring Manu Katché and Sylvin Marc has never been reissued since 1980. Remastered from with original master tapes, the release includes two never-released bonus tracks and a 4-page booklet with liner notes by French music expert and musician Guido Minisky (also a member of Acid Arab) who interviewed Michel Jonasz and actor Christophe Bourseiller for the occasion.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. "You Kill Me, I Kill You"
    2. Chanson De Clara (Retour Chez Soi)
    3. Aéroport
    4. Clara Et Les Chics Types (Chanson De Louise)
    5. Monkeys In The Street
    6. Le Train
    7. Amitié
    8. Une Java à La Fête Foraine
    9. Une Java Dans Le Minibus
    10. Une Valse à La Fête Foraine
    11. Le Reggae Du Lycée
    12. Chanson De Clara
    13 L'aube Sur Le Lycée
    14. Le Bœuf (vers Le Concert)
    15. Slow Dans Un Juke Box
    16. Le Funky Du Transistor
    17. Reggae Two
    18. La Salsa Du Juke Box
    19. Le Bœuf (au Lycée)
    20. Clara Et Les Chics Types

    Clara La San

    Made Mistakes

      On debut album 'Made Mistakes', visionary singer, writer and producer Clara La San creates a uniquely mesmerising and atmospheric space within alternative R&B, centred around a core of confident vulnerability.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Another Night
      2. Don't Worry About It
      3. Things You Didn’t Know
      4. Runnin
      5. Talking To You
      6. All I Wanna Do
      7. Far Away
      8. Upset With Ya
      9. Solo
      10. Made Me Feel

      Clara! hits AD93 with a 6 track LP ft. productions from the SKY H1, Pearson Sound & Low Jack.

      '"Pulso" is about sexual desire, my desire. Me as the subject, not only the object of it. I sing my pleasure and daydreams, because it's my body and my imagination, so I know what I like to feel."

      Sonically inspired by reggaeton, a genre that is personally nostalgic and reminiscent of times spent at parties listening to the imported genre as a teenager in her home country, Spain. Clara! works with producers who don’t usually dabble in the genre - SKY H1, Pearson Sound and Low Jack - in order to mix their own, unique universes with it. 

      It's another unwavering statement of intent from the anything-but-the-mainstream-goes, AD 93. 



      STAFF COMMENTS

      Matt says: Hauntingly alluring soundscapes, neck-snapping tight beats and seductive Spanish vocals equal another winner from the AD93 camp.

      TRACK LISTING

      Brillo
      Lluvia De Sal (Feat. El Manantial)
      Elle ( Feat. Kabaeushé)
      Te Llevo
      Pulso Gotas
      Pulso Charcos

      Loscil

      Clara

        The latest collection by Cascadian resident loscil aka Scott Morgan is a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest.

        The subsequent recording was lathe-cut on to a 7-inch, then “scratched and abused to add texture and color,” from which the entirety of Clara was sampled, shape-shifted, and sculpted. Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres.

        Although Morgan's compositional premise for Clara was quite defined, the resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts lush and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences. The album's title comes from the Latin for ‘bright': a fitting muse for this masterpiece of celestial electric currents and interstitial ether, where “shadows are amplified and bright spots dimmed.”


        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: I love a bit of Loscil. 'Sketches From New Brighton' and 'Plume' get a heavy workout on my home stereo, and 'Clara' is sure to go the same way. It's a beautifully rewarding and rich collection of textural washes and shifting soundscapes, perfectly in line with the rest of Loscil's impressive canon, but standing entirely on its own. Beautiful stuff as ever.

        TRACK LISTING

        1.Lux
        2. Lumina
        3. Lucida
        4. Stella
        5. Vespera
        6. Sol
        7. Aura
        8. Flamma
        9. Orta
        10. Clara 


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