DUDLEY BENSON Announces New Remix Album
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15/10/14
DUDLEY BENSON & GOLDEN RETRIEVER RECORDS are thrilled to announce the November 3rd release of Deforestation, a new album of remixes of Benson’s critically acclaimed 2010 album Forest: Songs by Hirini Melbourne.
Three years in the curating, Benson has gathered a diverse cast of producers and contributors from around the world to
re-imagine his Taite Prize-nominated acapella recordings of Hirini Melbourne’s classic bird waiata.
Deforestation features remixes and contributions from respected sonic magicians Matmos (US), Berlin’s electronica icon Barbara
Morgenstern (Germany), prodigious glitch-pop producer Shuta Hasunuma (Japan), Kranky-signed ambient producer Justin
Walter (US), New Zealand’s synth-pop enigma Stef Animal, and Dunedin’s reclusive drum-machine authority ISO12. Dame Anne
Salmond appears as guest narrator in Dudley’s own remix of Kiwi, which also features taonga pūoro by Waka Atea (Alistair
Fraser & Rob Thorne). Cover artwork is by the celebrated outsider artist Susan Te Kahurangi King, subject of Dan Salmon’s 2012
film Pictures of Susan.
Deforestation is released on November 3rd, exclusively through dudleybenson.com. The album is available in two formats: a combined
180g 12” vinyl & CD package in a limited edition of 250, and digital download for any donation of $1 or more.
All profits from the sales of Deforestation go directly to the Ulva Island Charitable Trust, for their on-going conservation work on the bird sanctuary off Stewart
Island.
Tracklisting
1. Pīpī Manu E (Matmos Remix)
2. Tūī ft. Vashti Bunyan (Stef Animal Remix)
3. Ruru (Shuta Hasunuma Remix)
4. Kiwi ft. Anne Salmond & Waka Atea
(Dudley’s Patriot Prayer Remix)
5. Tīrairaka Dub ft. Barbara Morgenstern
6. Pīpīwharauroa (ISO12 Remix)
7. Pūngāwerewere (Justin Walter Remix)
Dudley will launch Deforestation with one live show in Auckland on Saturday 1st November at The Audio Foundation. Tickets are limited to 75, and are
available now at dudleybenson.com. He will also premiere a new work at the annual New Zealand Arts Awards on November
3rd in Auckland.
Dudley is currently producing his third album, the final in the trilogy that began with The Awakening (2008) and continued with Forest: Songs by Hirini Melbourne (2010).
Deforestation was mastered by Ben Sinclair for Images & Sound, Auckland.
Website: http://www.dudleybenson.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DudleyBenson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DudleyBensonNZ
LINKS
Vinyl & CD pre-orders: http://tinyurl.com/m9mtpwf
Digital download pre-orders: https://dudleybenson.bandcamp.com/album/deforestation
Launch event tickets: http://tinyurl.com/o8u5uoy
AUDIO LINKS
Tūī ft. Vashti Bunyan (Stef Animal Remix):
Ruru (Shuta Hasunuma Remix):
https://soundcloud.com/dudleybenson/ruru-shuta-hasunuma-remix-edit target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/dudleybenson/ruru-shuta-hasunuma-remix-edit
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