{"id":20494,"date":"2023-07-11T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2023-07-11T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:12:25","slug":"bex-burch-signs-to-international-anthem-for-new-album-there-is-only-love-and-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=20494","title":{"rendered":"Bex Burch signs to International Anthem for new album There is only love and fear<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Chris Almeida<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s wonderful news from Bex Burch<\/a>, who turned our heads back in 2015 with the outstanding debut album from her band Vula Viel. The gifted composer, percussionist, producer and instrument maker went on to work and collaborate with various artists and projects, becoming a central figure of the contemporary UK scene. She has announced the release of There is only love and fear<\/em>, the first album to be penned under<\/span> her own<\/span>\u00a0name. The album was prompted by an invitation from Chicago-based IARC for her to spend a month in the US last summer. Armed with her hand-made xylophone, Burch got involved with the label\u2019s creative community and transposed the energy of the collaborations and environments she found herself in into what became There is only love and fear<\/em>. The sessions for upcoming album took place in various spaces\u00a0<\/span>including a storefront in Bridgeport, Chicago and a canyon in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, with an astonishing cast of musicians including Ben LaMar Gay, Macie Stewart, Anna Butterss, Mikel Patrick Avery, and Dan Bitney of Tortoise.<\/p>\n

There is only love and fear<\/em> is set for release on October 20th through International Anthem<\/a>. Alongside the announcement today, the album\u2019s first single, the stunningly deep and beautiful \u2018Dawn blessings’, is now streaming. Burch’s recording of a cuckoo on the Baltic coastline sparked the track’s inception as she explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDawn blessings were the start of all of this. I started a 90-day practice to make a tune a day for my friend Dawn. My only job was to breathe, let go, and ask \u201cwhat sounds do I like today?\u201d. One of these days I heard a Cuckoo at dawn, this moment of listening opened up my identity from musician to listener.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Dawn blessings’ comes with a gorgeous accompanying video directed by Louise Boer, who had this to say about it:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe music video for \u2018dawn blessings\u2019 is a meditation on the joy and subtle magic that can be found during a slow and solitary walk through landscapes of sand, stones and pine trees; sometimes wild, sometimes heavily damaged and disturbed, but always full of life. It\u2019s a hypnotic exploration of human and more-than-human entanglements in which the body dissolves into the environment and the invisible slowly becomes visible. Filmed during walks in Beerze (NL), Kennemerduinen (NL), Gaujas Ieteka J\u016br\u0101 (LV).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch the video below.<\/p>\n