Clap! Clap! Announces New Album with Off-Kilter Lead Single

Italian producer, Clap! Clap!, today announced his second album A Thousand Skies for Bristol imprint Black Acre. Following his contributions to influential singer-songwriter Paul Simon's Stranger to Stranger album earlier this year, the record includes work collaborations with Cape Town band John Wizards, Johannesburg folk singer Bongeziwe Mabandla, fellow Italian producer HDADD, and more.

With the LP's announcement he also shared the record's lead single in "Ar-Reqis," pairing a jubilantly off-kilter synth progression with several layers of hiss-laden percussion fragments and a lead vocal loop run through playful pitch-bent effects.

Black Acre previously released his debut album Tayi Bebba in 2014, as well as four of the artist's EPs. Ahead of the record's release next year, they have released a limited, vinyl-only album sampler featuring one track not on the record.

A Thousand Skies tracklist:

01. Discessus
02. Nguwe feat. Bongeziwe Mabandla
03. Oriens. Oriri
04. Hope feat. OY
05. Ar-Raqis
06. A Thousand Skies Under Cepheus' Erudite Eyes feat. John Wizards
07. Ode to The Pleiades
08. Betelgeuse's Endless Bamboo Oceans
09. Witch Interlude
10. Rainy Souls, Gloomy Futures
11. Flowing Like a Snake in Ophiuchus' Arms
12. Centripetal
13. Rainbow Coast
14. Elephant Serenade
15. Ascension Psalm feat. HDADD

A Thousand Skies will be released on vinyl and digital formats February 17.

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