It's Already Tomorrow - Artists
It's Already Tomorrow - Vinyl Release
It's Already Tomorrow - Album Artwork by Daniel Blackball
It's Already Tomorrow - Artists
It's Already Tomorrow
2020
Eight new luminous tracks harvested from artists redefining themselves in the pandemic. The fruits of a long-distance lockdown collaboration from New Zealand producers and guest performers living in Germany, Greece, Serbia, and home in Aotearoa New Zealand. From introspective ambient tracks to hybrid folk-electronica to dystopian synth-rock, this album refuses easy categorisation. But one thing across all the emotional intensity is a strong placement in the immediate historic moment. This music is from right now by artists profoundly living and feeling the convulsions in the world around them. The future’s here, now what?
It's Already Tomorrow is a large-scale collaborative album featuring a wide range of artists working together remotely during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project was produced and curated by John Psathas and Jack Hooker. It features artists Grayson Gilmour, NAME UL, Briar Prastiti, James Euringer, Purple Pilgrims, Arjuna Oakes, Indi, Hayden Chisholm, James Wylie, Sofia Labropoulou, Ariana Tikao, Vagelis Karipis, and Joshua Kennedy, who produced eight collaborative tracks under long-distance lockdown conditions.
It’s Already Tomorrow was released on vinyl and digital formats. The album was funded through Creative New Zealand’s COVID-19 Arts Continuity Grant, to whom we extend our many thanks for making the project possible.
Alimos
Jack’s own piece on the album is Alimos, an expansive instrumental piece that showcases his meditative and percussive guitar playing alongside three acclaimed musicians: Vagelis Karipis on Greek percussion, James Wylie on Iranian kamancheh, and Hayden Chisholm on soprano saxophone. Recorded remotely under lockdown conditions, the collaborators each contributed from different parts of the world—Jack in Aotearoa, Vagelis in Athens, James in Thessaloniki, and Hayden in Belgrade. The piece takes its name from Alimos, a coastal suburb of Athens on the Saronic Gulf, where Jack had been living for a few months soon before returning to New Zealand amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
In his review of the album on the New Horizons programme for Radio New Zealand Concert, William Dart noted: “Jack’s contribution to the album, titled Alimos, is the perfect gateway into this powerful testament to the spiritual clout of music and musicians. Hooker launches the track himself on guitar recorded on the Kapiti Coast. His meditative strains seem to reach across the oceans drawing in fellow music makers from the other side of the globe. Vagelis Karipis joins in with his Greek percussion all the way from Athens, and you’ll also hear James Wylie, based in Thessaloniki with his bowed Iranian kamancheh, and in Belgrade; Hayden Chisholm… It’s not difficult to hear the generosity and spirit of John Psathas as well“
Credits
It's Already Tomorrow was mixed by Lee Prebble at Surgery Studios (except ‘Sappho’, mixed by Matthew Gunn) and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Cover artwork by Daniel Blackball. Video production by Ben Dickens. Promotion by Cheree Ridder. Website design by Kenyon Shankie and Patricia Nunez. Vinyl album printed by Holiday Records.
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