Our crazy friends from Copenhagen are finishing a new EP.
Since their debut EP on Gomma the New York/ Copenhagen based music collective has been involved in ballet music for the danish royal theatre, did several Jazz festival gigs and lot of other fucking amazing musical things that go far beyond the usual dancefloor electronic.
Now they are finishing their next EP with the help of some serious Jazz musicians.
Get ready…

Hess Is More is a 7 person musician’s collective based in New York and Copenhagen around musical mastermind Mikkel Hess. They released their Gomma debut EP last June. Strange, beautiful music from outta space.

Now here come the remixes. Dimitri from Paris did an effective, supersexy disco stomper. Keeping a lot from the original version. The crazy voices, the Punk Funk feel, the moody, new wave atmosphere. But now it’s a club bomb. Then Williamsburg’s hidden underground star Lorne Dune reworked the other song. In a more edgy, distorted way. Beautiful. Then you have a version by Munich’s Pollyester. The former bass player of Munk now has gone solo. She does this kind of naive, early 80ies, powerdisco you could hear at clubs like the Loft or DJ Harvey playing. The EP also features a extra long version of the song Primate. Orgastic Hardcore Disco Rock.

Get the vinyl on Juno: juno.co.uk/products/hess-is-more-bearsong-primate-remixes/582830-01/
Digital on Beatport: pro.beatport.com/release/bearsong-primate-remixes/1603269

King of Disco Dimitri From Paris did a few things for Gomma and our sublabel Toy Tonics.
Now he is back with a remix for the new Gomma band Hess Is More. The experimental collective around composer Mikkel Hess.
The band released their “Bearsong” EP in june. Now here comes the Remix EP with remixes by Dimitri From Paris, Pollyester and Pitchfork favorite Lorna Dune from NYC.

Download here

Get the full EP digital here:
https://pro.beatport.com/release/bearsong-primate-remixes/1603269
Vinyl preorder:
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/hess-is-more-bearsong-primate-remixes/582830-01/

The New York based collective of musicians around danish composer Mikkel Hess released “Bearsong/ Primate” – their fabulous experimental double single on Gomma in june 2015. Hess is a multitalented composer. Coming from Jazz music, he also wrote lots of contemporary ballet pieces and movie soundtracks. So no wonder that there are so many different aspects in these two released tracks. Now his friends from Royal Ballet of Kopenhagen made a video for “Bearsong”. Check it out. Features…. a bear!

Hess Is More – The new band on Gomma. Watch their live show at Royal Theatre of Kopenhagen.

The Jazz Electronic Group based in NYC just released two songs on Gomma.
You can get them on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bearsong-primate-single/id994666267

 
Wanna know more?

When a band is selected “Top 10 live acts of the year” by glitterballnyc it really has to be something special. That’s the case for Hess Is More. A transatlantic music ensemble. 7 international musicians around Danish composer and drummer Mikkel Hess.

Hess is a composer of music for film, theatre and ballet. Latest he was nominated for the prestigious Robert Award and Carl Award with his score for the feature film “When Animals Dream“.
Bearsong and Youarenotaprimate were arranged during the group’s residency at Clocktower Gallery in downtown New York. Recorded Live to Tape and mixed by Andrew Raposo (Midnight Magic /Hercules & Love Affair / DFA) at Midnight Sun Studios in Greenpoint.

These seven musicians, with their unique instrumentation and unorthodox arrangements create a very danceable yet at times puzzling sound. Melodies with unusual developments, basslines that have their roots in late 1970 jazz funk. Youarenotaprimate is an orgy of No Wave drums, Afrobeat-bassline and distorted rhode pianos. The lyrics can haunt you for days: „You are not a primate, you are not Maharishi either, but in between there is someone called yourself“. Hess Is More have a hugh fanbase already in New York’s undergound music scene. People like James Murphy of DFA, Pitchfork’s favourite avantgarde pop musician Lorna Dune and Lowbrow Reader editor Jay Ruttenberg are big fans of their live shows. Pips from Petty Nobles Collective just wrote this nice quote: “I believe I just witnessed the future of live dance music“.

A vinyl with remixes by Dimitri From Paris, Pollyester and Williamsbourg’s hidden star Lorna Dune will come out in september.

 
Hess Is More – musicians:
Matt Parker: Saxophone, clarinet, keys & gang vocals
Michael Hanf: Vibraphone, bass & gang vocals
Pavel Kogan – Guitar & gang vocals
David Mason – Electric Drums & gang vocals
Rasmus Bille Bahncke – SH101 bass synth & gang vocals
Nikolaj Hess – Grand piano, Fender Rhodes & gang vocals
Mikkel Hess – Drums & lead vocals