*announcing* RESAVOIR /// LP/CD/Digital Album out November 3rd /// Shows in Brooklyn and London
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Resavoir
Resavoir
LP, CD & Digital album out November 3rd, 2023
A day we've been waiting for a long time... Resavoir - the collaborative project led by Chicago producer/composer Will Miller - announces their second self-titled LP, Resavoir, today.
The album’s lead single “Sunday Morning,” which features Elton Aura and Whitney is out now, along with a stop motion video created by Nik Arthur.
(photo by Alexa Viscius)
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.
Lead Single/Video “Sunday Morning” featuring Elton Aura & Whitney
The album’s lead single “Sunday Morning” draws inspiration from a rainbow peaking through the clouds on a misty May afternoon, when Miller was tinkering with the jazz standard “Here’s That Rainy Day.” But “Sunday Morning” is far from it – stylistically it’s much more buttery indie R&B than classic jazz ballad, and leans much less on Miller’s trumpet than it does on Elton Aura’s sumptuous vocals and verses. Miller recalls: “I had wanted to work with Elton for a while so I invited him over to the studio. I was playing him a few different things before landing on this one, which I sort of knew he would want to write to right away. He wrote and recorded his verse that day.” The track culminates with a dreamy outro section featuring Miller’s longtime bandmates from Whitney. Miller adds: “Literally the day after I had Elton at the studio, Julien (from Whitney) sent me a voice memo of himself humming a melody over the exact same song… even though it had been over a year since I shared it with him. To me that was too crazy of a coincidence to overlook, so I invited Max and Julien over to finish writing to that melody, and the three of us crafted the outro section together.”
“Sunday Morning” also comes with an incredible stop motion video by Nik Arthur. About his work, Arthur says: “A water droplet mimics the movements of hard working hydrangea pollinators. Each droplet was placed carefully with a syringe and a lot of patience.”
Watch the video for “Sunday Morning” here.
Stream the “Sunday Morning” single on DSPs here.
(photo by Alexa Viscius)
<<< RESAVOIR LIVE DATES >>>
Along with today’s album announcement, Resavoir shares details of their first shows in over 3 years, as Miller debuts a revamped version of the live ensemble featuring a new generation of Chicago musicians including Eddie Burns, William Corduroy, and Kenneth Leftridge Jr.
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
*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).
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!
