Last month, we shared news of James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg‘s third album, All Gist, to be released on April 12th via Paradise of Bachelors. It is a long-awaited and highly anticipated follow-up to their previous album, Ambsace, released nine years ago.
Following their first single, a transmutation of Neneh Cherry’s monumental ‘Buffalo Stance,‘ they share their second single, “Death Wishes to Kill” (a phrase lifted from a T.F. Powys novel the two had each recently read and loved). We’re told that the song took its feverish shape in forty minutes full of shrieks, groans and hysterical laughs, hard-stopped by James rushing out late to get his son from school.
For the album, the duo are complimented by returning guest Wanees Zarour on violin, Pigeons band member Wednesday Knudsen, as well as Jean Cook on strings and Anna Jacobson on brass. For “Death Wishes to Kill” Zarour pulls out soaring violin solo.
They shared: “‘Death Wishes To Kill’ was the first song we wrote after an eight year lay-off. The original idea was Nathan’s and it came together surprisingly fast. The speed and ease with which it was written were the encouragements we needed to start making the album in the first place. When All Gist was finished it seemed fitting for this to be the first song, since here was where it started. Its title was drawn from a chapter in TS Powys’ novel Unclay, in which the character of Death descends upon a village to claim one of the inhabitants, but instead decides to become one of the villagers himself, having taken a shine to one of the local ladies. He then proceeds to make a proper nuisance of himself. Joining us are bassist Nick Macri on upright and general musical savant Wanees Zaroor, who contributes the woozily transcendent violin solo in the break. They contributed to our first two duo records, and we couldn’t make a third one without inviting them back.”
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