PRE-ORDER: The Air Contains Honey - The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes [Vinyl]

Taking an unconventional approach to communal musicmaking with a theatrical twist, The Air Contains Honey present their debut album, The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes. Founded by Montreal-based Adam Kinner and Jacob Wren in 2018, the project combines professional and amateur singers repeating quotes from literature and theory over lilting arrangements that land somewhere between musical theatre, indie pop and spiritual jazz. If that sounds like a curious fusion, it's entirely by design. Wren's background as an artistic director and accomplished writer is matched by his passion for quotes, while Kinner's life as a professional musician has taken him across the world working on solo and group exhibitions and workshops, choreographic projects and interdisciplinary works. They founded The Air Contains Honey (named after a quote by Tori Kudo) in search of the heart-warming energy of group creativity, eventually settling on the idea of a community orchestra of amateur and professional musicians that could be loose and open, but also occasionally advanced. Resisting the productivity treadmill of modern times, The Air Contains Honey has gently grown over time from a duo to a larger, ever-evolving ensemble. By 2023, the group's body of work pointed towards recording an album, starting with a small core working on arrangements and building up melodic and harmonic parts before Kinner orchestrated the music to be played by a larger group of 19 musicians, 18 of whom also sang around a single microphone. Pietro Amato, Liam O'Neill and Kinner mixed the album, bringing the homespun spirit of the orchestra to the foreground in an aurally satisfying blend of finely sliced electronics woven through expressive flourishes of wind and keys. Skittering electronic pulses collide with a loping ensemble of horns that spiral upwards without a precise destination. Joyous without being saccharine, clever without being pretentious and heartfelt without being sappy, The Air Contains Honey has a lot to say about the value of collaboration and group expression as an experience that should be available to all.

01. Certain Joy
02. In My Best Moments
03. Told Not To Cry
04. Sexuality
05. America Hasn't Even Begun As Yet
06. Desire
07. How To Think
08. Kill Me
09. I Adore Everything I Don't Understand
10. The Great Mistake Of The Marxists
11. Magic Is Evoked