Resavoir's "Sunset" // new single + animated video by Nik Arthur out today
(photo by Alexa Viscius)
Today Resavoir - the collaborative project led by Chicago producer/composer Will Miller - releases “Sunset,” a new single from their forthcoming LP Resavoir (out on LP, CD, and digitally on November 3rd, 2023). Listen here.
The track follows the album’s lead singles “Sunday Morning” (featuring Elton Aura & Whitney) and “Inside Minds,” which Treble called “breezy, playful, and effortlessly lovely.” The new single also comes via a film made by Toronto-based experimental animation artist and director Nik Arthur.
“Sunset” is a dreamy respite from the middle of the new Resavoir suite, composed, produced and performed by Miller alone, on synths, keys and sampler. To complement the song’s static but stirring, melodic slow motion panorama, the animator Arthur created a video using glass and a handheld steamer over two days with clear dusk time skies. He recalls: “As blue changes to yellow, orange, and then red, steam clouds roam around a window and form shapes, with the falling sun as their audience. Two frames pass for every one synth note, creating a feel of change as gradual as the song, and the sunset.”
About working with Arthur, in a Q&A published by FLOOD Magazine, Resavoir’s Miller says: “Nik's interest in organic materials is what initially drew me to his work. His style feels truly original to me which I really respect and admire. We clicked so well over our first zoom call that I asked him to do all three music videos for the project instead of just one. He said something like ‘your music is what I want my animations to sound like’ and I was like ‘your animations are what I want my music to look like’ and it was the start of a beautiful bromance.” Read the full piece via FLOOD here.
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Resavoir
Resavoir
LP, CD & Digital album
out November 3rd, 2023
Written and produced over three years beginning in April 2020, the eleven effervescent songs of the new Resavoir feature a vibrant cast of collaborators from the Chicago music community, including Akenya, Matt Gold, Eddie Burns, Lane Beckstrom, Jeremy Cunningham, Irvin Pierce, Macie Stewart, Peter Manheim, Elton Aura, Whitney (indie band that Miller has been a regular member of since 2016) and more.
The core songs of Resavoir are ear-pleasing but deeply-layered studio constructions, demonstrating the astute production-craft that Miller’s sharpened over recent work with Knox Fortune and SZA (on top of his already-lengthy resume that includes work with Mac Miller, Chance the Rapper, Saba and Lil Wayne). Other pieces were built from free, group improvisations recorded in the empty lot next to Miller’s Humboldt Park apartment during the pandemic. And others are delightfully fleeting vignettes, compositionally elegant but only slightly more polished than demos, reflecting Miller's intent on capturing the moment of discovery and embracing what gives music its vulnerable, human qualities.
All together, the new Resavoir corrals a broad diversity of sound, inter-weaving modern-day soul-jazz, bedroom beats, synth serenades and twilight sonatas into a subtly radiant symphony.
<<< RESAVOIR LIVE DATES >>>
This fall, Resavoir will do their first shows in over 3 years, as Miller debuts revamped versions of the live ensemble featuring a new generation of Chicago musicians including Eddie Burns, William Corduroy, Kenneth Leftridge Jr., and more.
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
London UK @ Church of Sound
(part of EFG London Jazz Festival) – tickets here
Friday, December 1st, 2023
Brooklyn NY @ Pioneer Works
(double bill with Makaya McCraven) - tickets here
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
Chicago IL @ Constellation
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
Resavoir comes on a 140-gram vinyl LP (pressed by Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST) inside a heavyweight matte jacket with a custom-printed inner-sleeve.
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 555 copies of *Dusk Cloud* color vinyl.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on CD and Classic Black Vinyl LP (same package specs as listed above).
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Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW
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