Portrait With Firewood

by Djrum

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jef37 Great talented artist offering classic piano-jazz combined with dub-dubstep & footspet in a very soft mood. Favorite track: Showreel Pt.3.

. taylor hodges it's not how i do "it", but stellar track Favorite track: Sex.

jakkyboi i learn something new about myself everytime i give this LP a spin, powerful stuff Favorite track: Showreel Pt.3.

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Portrait With Firewood - Limited Edition LP & Art Prints
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• Limited edition of 50
• Nine track double LP
• In picture sleeve and printed inner sleeves
• Includes three A4 art prints by Michael Mitsas
• Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering

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Portrait With Firewood LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
• Nine track double LP
• In picture sleeve and printed inner sleeves
• Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering

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1.	Unblocked 02:00	buy track
2.	Waters Rising 06:19	buy track
3.	Creature Pt.1 04:43	buy track
4.	Creature Pt.2 05:38	buy track
5.	Sex 08:27	buy track
6.	Blue Violet 08:40	buy track
7.	Sparrows 04:40	buy track
8.	Showreel Pt.3 09:34	buy track
9.	Blood In My Mouth 03:00	buy track

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'Portrait With Firewood' is Felix’s most personal body of work to date, the product of an emotionally turbulent 2017, capturing the range of feelings and emotions he went through in vivid sonic beauty. By putting aside his previous sampleadelic approach he returned to his childhood instrument of the piano as a core starting point.

"It's a confessional record… I realise that's a word mostly used to describe singer/songwriter rather than (largely) instrumental music, but I think it's apt. There's a sort of emotional candour.”

Felix is classically trained in the jazz tradition and influenced by the likes of Keith Jarrett and Alice Coltrane. Previously he was shy at the prospect of fans hearing his piano playing, but determined to overcome this fear he has brought forward a new honesty to his work. "Finding the confidence to work with my own piano improvisations was a big part of that. Once I had figured out how I was going to make the music, it actually fell in to place rather quickly.”

Felix's goal was to create something "overwhelmingly beautiful", but also to capture the "inherent melancholy in beauty in all it's impermanance and fragility". He took inspiration and solace from performance artist Marina Abramovic. "She has an incredibly deep understanding of the human condition, and expresses it in such a poetic way. Many of the themes of her work had particular resonance for me over the course of 2017 as I worked on the album. I was moved to tears on several occasions watching her videos or reading about her work.”

Felix collaborated with cellist Zosia Jagodzinska and vocalist Lola Empire. Jagodzinska recorded several takes of improvisations over the track 'Creature' which Felix would chop, pitch and layer into new melodic lines and seed throughout the album.

Felix's new approach expanded to experimentation with field recording, contact micing his beloved piano and purchasing his first hardware synth, all in service of enriching the personal, humane quality of the record.
"Music helps me to communicate the sorts of things that I find almost impossible to put in to words. I think the process for this album has helped me create a more rich and emotionally complex body of work than I have managed before.”

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released August 17, 2018

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