LA Priest releases new single and video “Apple”
Following the release of “City Warm Heart”, LA Priest releases his new EP La Fusion, featuring groove-laden new single “Apple”, mixed by French Touch legend Alan Braxe.
“Apple” is lyrically otherworldly, “a pep talk from an alien”, and harks back to the stories of spirits and imaginations of life on the ocean bed that were prevalent throughout Fase Luna, his acclaimed 2023 album. “I wanted it to be enlightening even if the words don’t seem to make sense.” says Sam.
The accompanying video is an extension of the video for “City Warm Heart”; set in a dark forest, a masked figure dressed in a velvet suit dances and bops to the music as if enchanted by its sound.
Watch the video for “Apple” here.
La Fusion was written towards the tail-end of Eastgate’s time living in the Costa Rican jungle where he also wrote the bulk of Fase Luna, and recorded upon his return in his garden shed studio in Wales using his handmade drum machine, GENE.Where Fase Luna offered a raw and unfiltered ticket to another world, La Fusion was written at a time when Sam, although happy in the solace of seclusion, was simultaneously aware that his reconnection with wide-society was on the horizons.
“You cannot blend fusion with something else,” Sam reflects on his return. “Fusion itself is the blending of realities. These are ideas I couldn’t have recorded in the jungle. Maybe they are metropolis songs. I took ideas written outside looking inward and finished them inside thinking outward.”
Variously known as Sam Dust, LA Priest and L.A. Priest, Eastgate has built a reputation as a subversive, unpredictable musician, consistently innovating over the course of his work with his now defunct breakout band Late Of The Pier, his cherished Soft Hair collaboration with Connan Mockasin as well as his solo work under LA Priest. As well as releasing his acclaimed album Fase Luna last year which was labelled by MOJO as “a loose, hazy treat”, he also completed a successful string of US, UK and EU dates plus supported BRIT award-winners Jungle, aka electronic producers J Lloyd and Tom McFarland, on their European tour.
LA Priest will be taking the joyous sounds of La Fusion on a UK and European tour this May and June which includes a date at London’s Number 90 Live on 6th June. Tickets on sale now from here.
Live dates:
30th April - Zeiss-Grossplanetarium, Berlin, DE
1st May - Yard Club, Cologne, DE
2nd May - Cactus Café, Brugges, BE
4th May - Bogen F, Zurich, CH
6th May - La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR
7th May – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, NL
1st June - White Hotel, Manchester, UK
2nd June - Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
3rd June – Stereo, Glasgow, UK
5th June – Patterns, Brighton, UK
6th June – Number 90 Live, London, UK
7th June - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
8th June – Lost Horizon, Bristol, UK
Tickets
La Fusion is available to save digitally now here.
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