Leon Vynehall explores 'Rojus' with new release

Leon Vynehall has a new double-pack titled ‘Rojus’ coming out on Running Back, the label run by Gerd Janson.

The eight-track release is “sequenced as if it were a club night,” and follows a concept based on exotics birds’ mating rituals and people’s behaviour in clubs.

Speaking about the record, Vynehall revealed: “Two years ago I played at Studio 9 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The following day I missed my flight home and ended up spending an extra day, which gave me a chance to explore the city with my friend Linus, who took me to the Contemporary Art Centre. It was there I spotted a book named Rojus, that Linus told me translated as 'Paradise'. The word and striking cover of the book stuck in my mind.

"A few days after returning home, I turned on to a National Geographic documentary named Designed To Dance, explaining the courtship rituals of birds of paradise. As I watched, I jokingly began drawing similarities between these birds' attempts to captivate and impress the opposite sex with dance, and the way strangers try to attract one another in clubs and interact on the dance floor.

“This gave me the idea of creating a record of functional club music, sequenced as if it were a club night, from doors to closing, using samples of these birds of paradise and their habitat. Thus, 'Rojus'."

No release date has been announced yet, but you can see the tracklist below.

Tracklist 01. Beyond This 02. Saxony 03. Beau Sovereign 04. Paradisea 05. Wahness 06. Blush 07. Kiburu’s 08. … There Is You

[Via: RA]

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