ORIGINAL SWIMMING PARTY RELEASE 'SKIN UPON SKIN'ORIGINAL SWIMMING PARTY RELEASE NEW SINGLE SKIN UPON SKIN
Monday 8 August 2016 - Cape Town based electronica group Original Swimming Party have released 'Skin Upon Skin', the second single from their forthcoming album Hypergiant, due out in October 2016. This release coincides with an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, their live show S KIN this Thursday in Cape Town and taking in part in Johannesburg's African Digital Innovation Festival Fakugesi in August. October sees OSP take to the stage at Western Cape festival Rocking The Daisies. Listen to Skin Upon Skin here: http://bit.ly/skinuponskin Drawing influence from an African tradition of rhythms and harmony merged with elements of left-field electronica they create a unique sound that is emotionally powerful and rhythmically captivating. The band is made up of ex Dirty Skirts lead singer Jeremy de Tolly (vocals, synths) and Tom Glendinning (Ableton Live). For their live show they are joined by Frank Latter (visuals). The live show includes projected visuals that tightly integrate with the music via MIDI & audio sync. They work behind the scenes to create their own visual material through design, code & film as well as sourcing the highest quality content from world-class collaborators. Original Swimming Party was formed in 2013, in 2014 they released The Blue EP followed by wavs in 2015. October will see them release their album Hypergiant. ‘Skin Upon Skin’ is the follow up to their anti-colonial April single ‘Life In The Colony’. Says de Tolly “’Skin Upon Skin’ is an emotional, sexy, beat-heavy mashup of new African dance grooves with experimental electronica. Its soaring chorus sings a story of loneliness, of being single and never finding love, and somehow finding the light in that.” The release of ‘Skin Upon Skin’ coincides with Original Swimming Party’s launch of a two week Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for their Hypergiant Audio / Visual Tour. The campaign gives fans an opportunity to be a part of the development of live visual content for Original Swimming Party’s audio / visual show. The show will be toured in South Africa, before being taken to Europe and North America in November 2016. “The band is rewarding fans who donate with exclusive content, early access album downloads, free access to shows, ringtones designed by the band, beautifully designed merchandise and more” explains Tom Glendinning. Go to http://bit.ly/support-osp for more info. On Thursday 11 August at 8:30 Cape Town fans can experience ‘Skin Upon Skin’ and other tracks off Original Swimming Parties last two EP’s at S KIN, a live show at The Waiting Room on Long Street. The S KIN lineup includes accordionist and singer Thuso Sepabe (African Folk with Xhosa & Sotho influences) and singer Sdumo Viwe (House & Gqom) who have been collaborating with OSP on their forthcoming album. There will be curated playlists of African music between each set. Tickets are R50 at the door. Johannesburg will get to taste Original Swimming Party for the first time when they take part in Fakugesi, the African Digital Innovation Festival taking place in Braamfontein 19 August - 3rd September 2016 (http://fakugesi.co.za) They will collaborate in the 2-day FUTURE SOUNDS closed workshop with South African filmmakers, musicians and artists Lebogang Rasethaba, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Sanele Lasta Mkhize and Berlin-based digital artists The Constitute (http://theconstitute.org/about/). The event is being hosted by the Create Africa Collective (Nathan Gates, artist and lecturer at Wits University; Kerry Friend, Exec Creative Director of digital agency Isobar & innovation programme Nowlab; Luntu Sishuba, entrepreneur and operations), in collaboration with the Goethe Institut. The workshop seeks to explore new forms of music and performance using prefabricated tech components. The final FUTURE SOUNDS musical projects will then be performed by the artists along with The Constitute at a public event on the 1st of September a The Tshimologong Innovation Precinct. Original Swimming Party will be performing at Rocking The Daisies 6 – 9 October 2016 on Saturday afternoon at the Nu World Beat Stage. Rocking The Daisies takes place in Darling, Western Cape
Original Swimming Party Biography Original Swimming Party (OSP) are an audio-visual group from Cape Town, South Africa. Drawing influence from an African tradition of rhythms and harmony merged with elements of leftfield electronica they create a unique sound that is emotionally powerful and rhythmically captivating. The lineup is Jeremy de Tolly (vocals, synths) & Tom Glendinning (Ableton Live). For their live show they are joined by Frank Latter (visuals). The live show includes projected visuals that tightly integrate with the music via MIDI & audio sync. They work behind the scenes to create their own visual material through design, code and film as well as sourcing the highest quality content from world-class collaborators. OSP released their first music in the form of The Blue EP, recorded at Red Bull Studios Cape Town in February and March of 2014. They launched the EP in April 2014 with a sold out show at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. The Blue EP has since received highly favourable reviews. The EP’s lead single, Weeping Song II has amassed over 60,000 plays between the band’s Soundcloud and YouTube. At the end of 2014 the band returned to Redbull Studios, Cape Town to record their 2nd EP, wavs as part of a residency at The House of Machines, a venue in Cape Town. The EP was released in May 2015 again receiving positive coverage from blogs as far as Poland. Original Swimming Party have played at festivals and conferences across South Africa including Littlegig (2016), Oppikoppi (2014, 2015), Design Indaba (2015) and Mammoth BI (2014) Jeremy is a trained vocalist and guitarist with years of experience on the road with South African alternative rock band The Dirty Skirts. He is also an experienced composer and writes music for advertising, games, dance and theatre. He has released a solo album of ambient piano pieces, ‘Piano Noctures One’ Tom is one of three Ableton Certified Trainers in South Africa and is an expert with Ableton Live music production software as well as having an extensive knowledge of synthesis and music production. His musical career began as a drummer for numerous bands encompassing styles as varied as Jazz and Psychedelic Rock and he has a deep understanding of rhythm and groove. He is also an obsessive technophile and can spend hours tinkering with old analog synths or writing lines of code building tools to use for both sound and visual creation. Frank performs live visuals with several of SA’s top bands as well as being a resident VJ for many of the top local festivals. He is an animator and creates a lot of his own visual content from scratch.
September 12, 2016 8:06am ET by Tickybox Media
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