LuckyMe Records

A much requested reissue of Cashmere Cat’s classic 2014 LUCKYME® EP, prior to production for Ariana Grande, Bladee, The Kid Laroi, SOPHIE, The Weeknd, Kanye West, FKA Twigs, Travis Scott, Charli XCX, Kehlani, Juice World & many more.

Almost ten years on this record still stands the test of time, every beat and electronic contortion bursting with character. The expressive waves of autotune and electro thump of previous single 'With Me' give way to the stuttering rhythms of 'Pearls' and the feather-light drip of 'Rice Rain'. Title track 'Wedding Bells' is the standout though, sultry voices and shiny, delicate production mixing with the thick low-end of 00s hip hop for infectious results.

New York-based composer and percussionist Eli Keszler will release his self-titled album via LUCKYME on 2nd May. Having garnered critical acclaim for his past solo records, the Grammy® Nominated artist’s latest is a freewheeling, Lynchian song-cycle in which his virtuosic performances traverse a living landscape of abstract electronic sound. The album breathes, creaks and sighs through its twelve tracks, with noirish jazz torch songs giving way to skittering drums and cinematic, dubbed-out textures, the lyrics whispered and cried by near-inaudible, distant voices. Featuring guest appearances from singer Sofie Royer and saxophonist Sam Gendel, Keszler realised he could take an erratic, granular language of percussion and apply it to something entirely distant in association. “The result is a reverent, almost religious feeling,” he explains, “a music of stasis built from tiny fragments.” Setting out to make an album of songs, he wanted to pursue a similar approach: recontextualization and recombination, exploring what happens when all the colours and moods that resonate collide. “I aimed to take a feeling and let the music move freely across mediums, materials, and genres—allowing it to go wherever it wanted while staying out of its way, gently guiding the process.” For Keszler, this fluidity often emerges from a place of personal turmoil, or a moment of transformation, and he knew he wanted to capture it. “A genderless character started to take shape —contemporary and familiar, appearing in various forms across culture” he explains. Out of this came nocturnal music, a blend of internal voices, coalescing into something nameless. Echoes of words
stretching into string clusters, guitar slides, melodic textures, whispered voices, walking basslines, underground chords, fast granular drums, and multi-directional rhythms. Everything coated in a sheen of despair and grandeur. 

LuckyMe present the new album from New York based percussionist and composer Eli Keszler Previously releasing music on Empty Editions, ESP Disk, PAN as well as ‘Stadium’ on Shelter Press – Boomkat’s 2018 Album Of The Year A frequent collaborator to Oneohtrix Point Never, Laurel Halo and Rashad Becker Keszler’s work has shown at The Lincoln Centre, MoMA PS1, MIT List and The Barbican.

Keszler’s latest solo venture offers up a latticework of melodic percussion, drum set, and electro-acoustic instrumentation, built upon fragments of American abstraction, ancient scales, industrial percussion, and jazz-age film noir to achieve its feeling of imperial decay. Keszler’s instrumental performances are framed by panoramic recordings of New York City and the Odyssey Cave, along with other on-location audio from his global travels, defining an expansive music that takes on hyperreal forms difficult to describe outside of the loss and wonderment that defines our age.

Los Angeles producer and artist Nosaj Thing AKA Jason W. Chung returns with his fifth album, Continua - featuring a stellar ensemble cast including HYUKOH, Toro y Moi, Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead), serpentwithfeet, Sam Gendel, Coby Sey, Julianna Barwick, Mike Andrews, Slauson Malone, Pink Siifu, Panda Bear & Eyedress.

Nosaj Thing's expertise is in crafting exquisite soundscapes that hold a mirror up to his journey from noise and punk shows at DIY venue The Smell, to his debut sets at Low End Theory, to touring with The xx and The Weeknd. Throughout, he has innovated with a live experiences conceived with Tokyo-based AV savant Daito Manabe. Chung's music carries such visceral humanity it feels like a disservice to refer to the 'mood' which pervades his records. But it's exactly that distinct mood which has made Nosaj Thing such a cult artists across his 16-year-deep discography.