Darkside’s Dave Harrington to Release Dave Harrington Group LP, Co-Produced by Nicolas Jaar

Photo by Chad Kammenshine (Pictured: Ben Lieberman, Tlacael Esparza, Cale Parks, Will Epstein, Morgan Z, Dave Harrington, Jordan Goldstein, Nate Sloan, Andrew Fox, Dr. Kevin Patton, Nicolas Jaar, Samer Ghadry)

Darkside‘s Dave Harrington is readying his debut album with the Dave Harrington Group. It features a group of his “favorite musicians and closest friends,” including his Darkside partner Nicolas Jaar. Become Alive is out April 15 via Jaar’s imprint Other People. That’s the title track above. Update 6:07 p.m.: Jaar co-produced the album with Andrew Fox and Samer Ghadry.

Here’s a statement from Harrington about the process of making the record:

This record is the result of improvising with different combinations of people, and then processing and re-sculpting those improvisations—isolating passages, turning them into something new, overdubbing layers of myself, maybe taking something from another piece and superimposing it out of its original context. But each track is always me interacting with other people, sometimes just one or two… sometimes ten.  There was flute, vibes, organ, Fender Rhodes, guitar, bass, two drummers, percussion, sax…just full-on, over-blown energy. I took all that and treated it as raw material in the mixing stage… but when you have ten people in a room, you can only edit so much. Everything is in every microphone anyway—it’s all connected, so it’s about turning it into whatever it wants to be.

Become Alive:

01 White Heat
02 Slides
03 The Prophet
04 Cities of the Red Night
05 Steels
06 Become Alive
07 Spectrum
08 All I Can Do

Watch Darkside’s full set at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris:

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