We had already mentioned that Bibio is following up Silver Wilkinson, which was one of our 15 Album Picks of 2013, with a new six-track EP entitled The Green E.P.. Set for release on bottle green 12″ vinyl and digitally, the effort arrives on January 27th in the UK/Europe and a day later in North America via Warp. Ahead of it, Bibio is offering a taste of the whole EP in the form of a video sampler. Stream it below.

Bibio‘s Silver Wilkinson, released in May, is one of our 15 Album Picks of the year. So we’re very pleased to learn that the talented British producer and musician is following it up with The Green E.P., a six-track EP featuring the album’s gorgeous track ‘Dye The Water Green’. “I wanted to do a follow up EP with ‘Dye The Water Green’ as it is my favourite track off Silver Wilkinson,” said Bibio. “I also have a lot of music in my archives that would complement the track well”.
The Green E.P. will be released on bottle green 12″ vinyl and digitally on January 27th in the UK/Europe and a day later in North America via Warp.
To get you excited for this release, wrap your ears now around ‘Dye The Water Green’.

A couple of months ago, Bibio enticed us with the stunning lead single ‘À tout à l’heure’, taken from his forthcoming album Silver Wilkinson.
Now he’s offering a video to accompany the single, featuring 8mm film footage shot by himself over the last 13 years. The video was also directed by Bibio in collaboration with Russell Weekes. Check it out below and watch out for the album release on May 13th in Europe and May 14th in North America via Warp.

Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio‘s forthcoming seventh full-length album Silver Wilkinson arrives next month and the British producer and musician had already conquered us with the gorgeous first single ‘À tout à l’heure’.
Its follow-up, ‘You’, emerged a couple of days ago and comes with a statement from Bibio himself:

“‘You’ has the longest history on this album because an early version of it was actually made around 5 or 6 years ago. At that time I was making a lot of cut-up sampled hip hop type stuff on my MPC. I always liked the track but it felt unfinished at the time and I didn’t want to just put out short beat type tracks on my albums. Tracks like ‘Fire Ant’ (from the album Ambivalence Avenue) started in a similar way, until I worked more sections into it and fleshed it out. A similar situation happened with ‘You’ but this time it was partly prompted by the positive response I had from early versions of the track. I did quite a few shows between 2009-2011 around the world, mostly Europe, and an early version of ‘You’ got played at most shows. It always seemed to get a good response, people reacting like they already knew it… then people started asking what it was. It brought my attention back to the track when I was in my studio – thankfully I had saved all the original samples on my MPC so I ‘produced’ it again, pretty much from scratch, upping the tempo and making it bounce more and getting the groove to sit right. I still felt that it needed fleshing out, so I revisited the record where I got the original samples from and sampled more parts to create the outro as well as adding more of my own instruments and drums. The intro was made with live instruments, me playing bass, guitar, a sitar-like string instrument and rhodes piano as well as drum machine sounds. I referenced the melodies I had created in the main sampled section of the track by highlighting them in the instrumental intro section. Finally the track felt complete so it was then added to the ‘potential album’ playlists which had been growing over the last two years. Tracks in the playlists got added and taken off on a regular basis, but ‘You’, despite being one of the older tracks, always remained there – it felt right and I never tired of it. It’s also the only track on the album that relies more on samples as opposed to multi-tracked live instruments, so I think for this reason it kind of stands out.”

Listen to ‘You’ below and watch out for the release of Silver Wilkinson on May 13th in Europe and May 14th in North America via Warp.

British producer and musician Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio has announced the release of his seventh album fittingly titled Silver Wilkinson. The effort draws inspiration from organic environments, particularly his own garden.
“If there was a preconceived idea before this album started coming together, it was a fairly vague one: to focus more on an organic and live sound and to record more guitar and other live instrumentation”, said Bibio in a handwritten statement about his forthcoming album. “I like the idea of comparing albums to seasons – they stand alone yet are part of a bigger story. They complement each other. So this album, to an extent, started out with the desire for a new ‘season’, contrasting somewhat with the previous.”

Silver Wilkinson will hit stores on May 13th in Europe and a day later in North America via Warp. Ahead of it, Bibio dropped the first bright and gorgeous single, ‘À tout à l’heure’. Bibio explains how the song came about:

“The recording of  ‘À tout à l’heure’ started out in my garden on a gorgeous sunny day when it felt morally wrong to be hidden away indoors. I still had the urge to make music so I limited myself to a few bits of gear and set up in my garden: a 12 string guitar, an MPC sampler, a microphone and a cassette recorder. I drummed on objects in the garden, like a plastic watering can and ‘snipped’ garden shears for percussion parts. The guitar part was something I had been developing over some time in my head but it was this change of environment that led to recording the backbone of this song, which I then continued to build upon in my studio later. When I listen to the intro of that track now, I still hear the sunshine and the garden in it because for me it’s like a photograph of that moment. No doubt the sunny outdoors inspired the lyrics too.”

Listen to ‘À tout à l’heure’ beneath and grab it free here, in exchange for an email.