Name: Dust
Brand: Marla Hansen

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

KALKLP116

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Colour

Black

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

140 Gram Vinyl.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-03-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0880918236902

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

KALKCD116

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2020-02-21

0880918236896

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Marla Hansen

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Karaoke Kalk

Karaoke Kalk is a record label founded in 1997 in Cologne by Thorsten Lütz. The name comes from the Köln-Kalk district where the label started out.

With over two decades of experience, Karaoke Kalk has established itself as a prominent player in the music industry. Known for its diverse and innovative releases, the label has been at the forefront of pushing boundaries and exploring new sonic territories.

Under the guidance of Thorsten Lütz, Karaoke Kalk has nurtured and supported numerous talented artists, showcasing their unique voices and artistic visions. From *experimental* to *electronic*, *ambient* to *indie pop*, the label's catalog offers a wide range of genres that cater to different musical tastes.

Having worked for years as side-woman for the likes of Sufjan Stevens, The National and My Brightest Diamond, Marla Hansen returns with her first solo album in twelve years. Dust has the weight and wisdom of hand-me-down folk songs, but also sparkles with the confidence and the excitement of an artist with new colours on her palette.

The slow-burn of Dust's inception can be felt as the album plays. The tracks have weight and wisdom like hand-me-down folk songs, but also sparkle with the confidence and the excitement of an artist with new colours on her palette. Wedding Day's breezy innocence has graduated into grown-up chamber music - Hansen's classical background comes into wide focus as solo plucked viola evolves into technicolour Americana dreamscapes, courtesy of Berlin's Oriel Quartett. The influence of Hansen's new hometown are all over this record - nowhere felt more than with the swashbuckling contributions of Berlin synth pioneer Barbara Morgenstern, crackling under the fireside songs like shards of electric glass. Andi Haberl (The Notwist) lurks under every track, his drums simmering like an approaching army of wooden horses. Taylor Savvy (Peaches, Bonaparte), Knox Chandler (Cyndi Lauper, R.E.M.) and Christian Biegai (Antony and the Johnsons) are all present at this banquet - a transatlantic tapestry sewn together by producer Robbie Moore (L.A. Salami, Jesper Munk) at his Berlin studio complex Impression Recordings. It is this tangled underbelly which allows Dust such an infectious friction. Hansen's iridescent, aching vocal delivery continuously breaks the gloom like a golden thread, effortlessly gliding above the thunderclouds - a front-row seat in the safety of her silver-lined spy plane with a view of the neon jungle below. Dust falls from an age-old story and lands in a whole new world.

Dust

Music GB