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Borrowed Voices

by White Label

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Paul 05:05
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Aphty Khea 04:10
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Billy 2 04:22
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Amy 05:25
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Syann 03:49
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Mark 04:27
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Emma 05:02

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Six years after the release of their audacious and much-acclaimed bootleg remix album, Stolen Voices, London/Berlin trio White Label return on 27 October with their first album of legitimate remixes, Borrowed Voices, featuring Paul Weller, Mark Eitzel, Emma Pollock, Erland Cooper & Hannah Peel (of The Magnetic North) and the late, great Associates singer Billy MacKenzie.
2011’s Stolen Voices reimagined a different musical past by creating elaborate, full band arrangements around the vocals from rare demos by the likes of David Bowie, John Lennon, Dennis Wilson and The Supremes. The Guardian praised White Label for “using technology to write their own version of musical history”, while on BBC 6Music Jarvis Cocker described Stolen Voices as “great…a really interesting album” and Lauren Laverne called it “a mean feat of alchemy…and totally excellent.”
When White Label’s successive release, the 1972 EP (featuring Neil Young, Marc Bolan and Roberta Flack) received plays on daytime Radio 2 from Laverne and Dermot O’Leary, the trio – Steve Aungle, Anth Brown, Tom Doyle – realised that their cheekily illegal experiment had maybe proved too successful. They were advised by lawyers to stop selling vinyl copies of Stolen Voices on their website, although the tracks from it are now inevitably floating around online.
As a result, though, the band began to be approached by artists looking for official remixes, the cream of which make up Borrowed Voices: from their slow-lane psychedelic soul take on Paul Weller’s Phoenix, the Laurel Canyon acid ballad Gold Dreaming by Amy Boone (of Portland, Oregon band The Delines) to their string-driven version of The Magnetic North’s High Life.
Other key tracks include White Label’s hypnotic treatment of Mark Eitzel’s We All Have To Find Our Own Way Out, their ‘60s country Glen Campbell/Jimmy Webb-styled approach to Billy MacKenzie’s Tallahatchie Pass and the haunted atmospherics of Emma Pollock’s A Certain Compulsion. Newer artists who feature include the trippy funk remix of Greek, London-based singer Aphty Khea’s Onyx Glitz and the broken orchestra sounds of Falling Away by Scottish singer Syann.
Borrowed Voices is available free for download from October 27 on Bandcamp. In the coming months White Label plan to play shows featuring them performing live to films made for tracks from Borrowed Voices (plus Stolen Voices and 1972 EP) by David Black of Black Creative.

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released October 27, 2017

Steve Aungle, Anth Brown, Tom Doyle, Paul Weller, Aphty Khea, Billy MacKenzie, Amy Boone, Syann Gilroy, Mark Eitzel, Erland Cooper, Hannah Peel, Emma Pollock

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Six years after the release of their audacious and much-acclaimed bootleg remix album, Stolen Voices, London/Berlin trio White Label return on 27 October with their first album of legitimate remixes, Borrowed Voices, featuring Paul Weller, Mark Eitzel, Emma Pollock, Erland Cooper & Hannah Peel (of The Magnetic North) and the late, great Associates singer Billy MacKenzie. ... more

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