Co-Pilot share new track 'Swim To Sweden'

Co-Pilot
Share new track 'Swim To Sweden'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGjr-lgQUug

Taken from the upcoming album 'Rotate'
Released 28th July 2023 on Dell'Orso

Co-Pilot is the latest project from Alan Peter Roberts (Jim Noir) and Leonore Wheatley (The Soundcarriers / International Teachers of Pop). The pair first collaborated when Wheatley left her native Nottingham for Manchester, joining the Jim Noir live band on keys and vocals.

This new Co-Pilot single, Swim to Sweden, manages to traverse space and time, taking in the Golden Dawn’s ‘Evolution’, nautical accordion breaks, and J Dilla’s sense of woozy quantization. Taken in at breakbeat speed. All the while, Wheatley’s vocals saunter over you like a flight attendant calmly addressing passengers to brace for impact.

Powered by a ‘try anything’ approach, Co-Pilot blends the musical DNA of what you’ve come to expect from each of the pair’s previous flight paths. “Whatever is switched on or nearby gets used. There's no 'correct' for us. If it sounds good, record it,” Al tells. United through typically turbulent wonky pop and lurking samples, whether culled from 70s TV themes or recreations of past and found sounds (see the innocent ‘Swim to Sweden’ which opens with an ice cream van jingle Al recorded from his bedroom window), their process offers up a bucket load of Easter eggs. Its synth squelches and Tom Tom Club funk also received the blessing of Haroumi Hosono, Godfather of Japanese Electronica, who agreed to being sampled in an original version of the song. “We just kept listening back and hitting gold,” Al recalls. “I was thinking ‘yeah, not sure what this is but I like it! We were buzzing with what we had made.”

Tracklist
1. Swim To Sweden
2. Move To It
3. Motosaka
4. Brick
5. Can You See
6. I Am 1
7. She Walks In Beauty
8. Spring Beach
9. Corner House