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Red Snapper set to release collaborative EP, Tight Chest, featuring David Harrow

10 November 2024

Red Snapper have a new EP releasing next week, following last year’s LP Live at The Moth Club. Entitled Tight Chest, the 4-track EP saw the revered British band collaborate with producer, DJ and multimedia artist David Harrow. Living in different parts of the globe, Rich Thair in Wales, Ali Friend in London and David Harrow in Los Angeles, they kept exchanging ideas back and forth until they were happy. The band comments:

“One of the great joys of the writing and production time was the lack of pressure on what shape and sound needed to come out – the process felt very open and expansive, much like the approach to Red Snapper’s Remixing. There was space to experiment and look for new things, knowing that the outcomes could be as different and diverse as we wanted.”

Tight Chest EP arrives on November 15th through Lo Recordings and ahead of it they’ve let loose the dub infused opening track, ‘Hold My Hand Up’. Take a listen now.

In other related good news, Red Snapper are embarking on a UK tour in March 2025 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their first record and a Warp classic, Reeled & Skinned.

Red Snapper to release new album Everybody Is Somebody in May

07 April 2022

There’s a new album on the way from British mavericks Red Snapper. Entitled Everybody Is Somebody, the record was recorded over the past 3 years and arrives on May 6th through Lo Recordings. The 15-track album is described as “a glorious and heady take on the band’s pioneering alternative, trip hip and nu-jazz infused sound” and finds the outfit of Rich Thair (drums), Ali Friend (double bass) and David Ayers (guitar) and long term collaborator Tom Challenger (sax) “carry[ing] their signature and always-captivating sound into a new realm.”

Red Snapper have shared four singles from Everybody Is Somebody ahead of its release. Here’s ‘Tarzan’ and ‘Truth 1’ for an electrifying taster of what they’ll be throwing at us.

To celebrate the album release, Red Snapper are heading on a 12-date tour across the UK this spring, kicking off on May 4th at Bristol’s The Jam Jar. Check all their stops here.

Mixtape #61

01 April 2015

British mavericks Red Snapper have proven to be one of the most consistently inventive and ground-breaking band since their inception in the early 90's. Crafting a unique sound combining traditional jazz instrumentation and contemporary electronica, the outfit of Rich Thair, Ali Friend and David Ayers, and more recent member Tom Challenge, are well known for their thrilling live shows. Being huge fans, we asked Red Snapper to curate this month's mixtape and the band's groove master Rich Thair put together a tremendous collection of tracks. Enjoy!


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Red Snapper announce Wonky Bikes EP

21 March 2015

Red Snapper - Wonky Bikes

Last year Red Snapper released the outstanding Hyena, which was one of our Album Picks of 2014. So we’re excited to know they are following it up with a new EP called Wonky Bikes. A mind-blowing live version of the main track, originally lifted from Hyena, is offered in the EP. As the press release describes, the band injected the live cut “with a seething dose of voodoo funk that perfectly encapsulates the raw, live Red Snapper sound.”.
The EP also features a remix by the band’s drummer Rich Thair of his favourite album track, ‘Traffic’ and a remix by Saint Petersburg based DJ and producer Kito Jempere of ‘Blue Chest’. Grab the EP when it drops on April 27th via Lo Recordings and now get dancing with the live version of ‘Wonky Bikes’.

Red Snapper are back with new album, drop first single

30 May 2014

Red Snapper - Card Trick

Lo and behold! For a new album from British ground-breaking and outstanding band Red Snapper has been announced. Hyena was inspired by the score they composed for the 1973 classic Senegalese film Touki Bouki, directed by Djibril Diop Mambety and restored recently by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation.
Ahead of Hyena‘s release on September 1st via Lo Recordings, Red Snapper got us salivating with the first funky and infectious single, ‘Card Trick’. The single, which has its own The Card Trick EP, came out last Monday and it also features remixes by Auntie Flo, Tici Taci and Rich Thair.
Now play ‘Card Trick’ again and again.