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GUT

    GUT, the brand new album from Ivor Novello winning musician and composer Daniel Blumberg.

    An unflinchingly raw and personal album. A suite of six songs performed entirely by Blumberg comprising an extraordinary, soaring vocal take and an unconventional palette of bass harmonica, Steinberger ebass, synthesiser and electronic drums. The album makes reference to the intestinal disease Blumberg has suffered over the last few years, its songs tracing a body stripped back and rebuilt: renderings of pain, frustration and fatigue in ballads made sinew and bone.

    New York director Brady Corbet (Vox Lux, Childhood of a Leader) has made a film to the album shot on 16mm, which will be released at a later date.

    GUT is Blumberg’s third solo record on Mute following the release of Minus (2018) and On&On (2020), as well as his award winning score for the film The World To Come (dir. Mona Fastvold, 2021).


    TRACK LISTING

    1. BONE
    2. CHEERUP
    3. HOLDBACK
    4. BODY
    5. KNOCK
    6. GUT

    Daniel Blumberg

    The World To Come

      Daniel Blumberg has composed an enchanting new original score for Mona Fastvold’s critically acclaimed The World To Come. The film premiered at the 77th Venice Film Festival 2020 and was released in UK cinemas during Summer 2021. Highlighted as “a marvelous score” in Variety and “powerfully moving” by The Film Stage, the score includes the title track featuring Josephine Foster. Blumberg enlisted the talents of an ensemble of radical, internationally revered musicians, whilst the score was co-produced with world-renowned producer Peter Walsh (Scott Walker).

      Released on Limited edition double clear vinyl and CD.

      TRACK LISTING

      A1 Opening (Dyer’s Farmhouse)
      A2 Nellie
      A3 Abigail’s Walk
      A4 Tallie
      A5 Flummoxed
      A6 Chicken Plucking
      A7 The Storm
      A8 Falling In Love
      B1 First Kiss
      B2 The Orchard
      B3 The Woods
      B4 Spying House
      B5 Thoughts And Townships
      B6 The Fire
      B7 Empty House
      B8 Tallie Missing
      C1 Finny Letter
      C2 Atlas
      C3 The Wagon
      C4 Love And Death
      C5 Rooftop
      C6 The World To Come
      D1 Abigail’s Theme (Brötzmann Solo)
      D2 Tallie’s Theme (Brötzmann Solo)

      Daniel Blumberg

      On&On

        On&On, is the brand new album from Daniel Blumberg. A 9-track song-cycle that confirms the London musician and visual artist as a unique creative force, pushing the art of song into expansive new territories.

        On&On - which follows 2018’s Minus, Blumberg’s debut for Mute - is a consolidation of the deconstructed song aesthetic he has developed, operating at the intersection between conventional song structures and free improvisation. Now he takes this further, incorporating recurring, shape-shifting motifs and at times dissolving the boundaries between songs altogether.

        Born out of live sessions with the same core group of players as Minus: Daniel Blumberg (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Ute Kanngiesser (cello), Billy Steiger (violin), Tom Wheatley (double bass) and Jim White (drums), with the addition of electronic maverick Elvin Brandhi (vocals). As such it represents a deepening of relationships and distillation of techniques for this tight-knit group of free-playing musicians, who are loosely based around Café OTO.

        The album is recorded by Peter Walsh (Scott Walker), who has captured the group’s extraordinary performances - encompassing the full expressive range of their instruments from softly-bowed melodies and tender vocal harmonies to rough-hewn scrapes, plucks and rattles - while the sound of the room and the outside world spill naturally into the sound field.

        TRACK LISTING

        1 On&On
        2 Sidestep Summer
        3 On&On&On
        4 Bound
        5 Silence Breaker
        6 On&On&On&On
        7 Teethgritter
        8 On&On&On&On&On
        9 Pillow

        Daniel Blumberg

        Minus

          Daniel Blumberg announces his debut album release for Mute, ‘Minus’, the first release under his own name.

          An astonishing work, the record weds an improvisational, free-music ethos to the rawest emotional songwriting, rooted deep in the personal turmoil Blumberg experienced whilst making the record.

          The album was recorded live with legendary producer Peter Walsh (Scott Walker’s collaborator since ‘Climate Of Hunter’) in just five days during a remote residential stay in Wales, amidst a debilitating breakup with his partner of seven years along with Blumberg's ongoing struggle with mental illness which resulted in his hospitalization just a week before recording.

          Still only 27 years old, Blumberg has written himself a rich musical history; from his teenage band who signed to XL whilst he was still at school, onto and through the projects of Yuck, Oupa and Hebronix, whilst solidifying close creative partnerships with the likes of David Berman (Silver Jews), Low, Lambchop and Royal Trux’s Neil Michael Hagerty (with whom Blumberg has performed as a member of the Howling Hex).

          With ‘Minus’, though, there is a sense that Daniel Blumberg has finally arrived at the place he has been searching for - an arresting and progressive work, one which is set to establish him as one of Britain’s most unique contemporary voices.

          TRACK LISTING

          Minus
          The Fuse
          Madder
          Stacked
          Permanent
          The Bomb
          Used To Be Older


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