Photo: Neil Krug
One of the most anticipated releases of 2017 arrives early with Bonobo‘s new album Migration (Jan. 13 on Ninja Tune). If you don’t know your British DJ/producer/ from your menswear brand of the same name, you will after Bonobo’s (real name Simon Green) highly-anticipated sixth album, who’s first single, “Kerala” went #1 on the Spotify Global Viral Chart with over a million streams in its opening week.
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The second single “Break Apart” off Migration is even better, featuring the rapturous vocals of Rhye. The drone shot music video (see below) directed by Neil Krug features sweeping overhead footage from some of the far away places that inspired the new album’s emotive imagery.
“Part of the writing process was to drive up to these places and live with the tracks as I was making them,” says Green in a press statement. “This was a new part of the world to me, where the landscape is quite alien and Martian.”
You can preorder Migration (HERE). Bonobo will support the album with a North American tour (see below for dates):
Bonobo Tour Dates
Apr 24 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
Apr 25 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis
Apr 26 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
Apr 28 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
Apr 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
May 1 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
May 2 – Richmond, VA – The National
May 3 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
May 11 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up
May 12 – Denver, CO – Red Rocks
May 13 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
May 15 – Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
May 16 – St. Louis, MO – The Ready Room
May 18 – Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall
May 19 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
May 20 – Madison, WI – Orpheum Theater
May 21 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
May 24 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
May 25 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
