Fans of Cabaret Voltaire now have a reason to be excited. The band’s vocalist and bassist Stephen Mallinder announced that he will be releasing an upcoming album titled Um Dada. The album will be the artist’s third solo album, the other two being Temperature Drop and Pow-Wow which was released over 35 years ago. The announcement of the album naturally came with Mallinder’s first single off the album “Working (You Are).” Um Dada comes out on October 11th of this year via Dais Records. Check out Mallinder’s single “Working (You Are)” below:
Over the last 30 years, Mallinder has been busy touring with his own groups and projects including Wrangler, Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby & Mallinder. In addition to performing, Mallinder has spent his time as a journalist, broadcaster, producer and now a professor of Digital Music & Sound Art at the University of Brighton. When reflecting on his versatile career and the release of Um Dada Mallinder explains, “There’s too much digital finger-licking right now; every thought and desire at the turn of a dial… well a click of the mouse. And there’s a giddy, false nostalgia about the analogue past. Sorry to burst your bubble but the truth of history is more mundane: practical, pragmatic…Um Dada is about ‘play’ – cut and paste, lost words, twisted presets, voice collage, simple sounds – things that have been lost to technology’s current determinism. Let the machines talk to each other, let them dance .. they lead, we follow.”
Check out the track list for Um Dada below:
1. Working (You Are)
2. Prefix Repeat Rewind
3. It’s Not Me
4. Um Dada
5. Satellite
6. Colour
7. Flashback
8. Robber*
9. Hollow*
*CD & Digital bonus tracks
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