#tastysnippets 💥⁠ ⁠ Happy release day, @felixlaband!⁠ ⁠ >> FELIX LABAND - THE SOFT WHITE HAND <<⁠ ⁠ Three in a row: After 'Dark Days Exit' (2004) and 'Deaf Safari' (2015) we are extremely happy to release the next album by Felix Laband on Compost Records!⁠ ⁠ Felix Laband’s The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story.⁠ ⁠ In 'The Soft White Hand' Laband works with source materials that will be familiar to those who know his previous four records, which reached deep into the South Africa scene and its political culture to inspire its vocal and music sampling. However, the disengagement he felt from his homeland during his latest album’s creation – an abiding sense of untethered-ness to place and space, exquisitely rendered in tracks like “Death of a Migrant” – is perceptible in Laband’s desire to illuminate instead aspects of his own life.⁠ ⁠ “For this album, my source material became almost autobiographical as opposed to African statements I’ve worked with previously,” says the artist. “I have sampled a lot from documentaries from the 80s crack epidemic in impoverished African American communities and believe my work speaks unapologetically for the lost and marginalised, for those who are the forgotten casualties of the war on drugs. In the past, I have had my issues with substance abuse, and I know first-hand about the nightmares and fears, what it feels like to be isolated and abandoned.” ⁠ ⁠ The Soft White Hand is Laband’s most cohesive body of work to date. Yet it remains, in its sheer artistic scope, impossible to describe fully. Darkness abuts the gossamer light. A song that summons the sunrise and all the hope of a new day could also be about the final dipping down of the sun that portends a troubled night ahead. Interludes are invitations to expand outwards or shift inwards. Mistakes and “weird fuckups” in the sound are cherished as convincing statements against what Laband calls the “grossness” of perfect sound in modern music.⁠ ⁠ >> only 10 snippets allowed, 14 tracks in total.