Richard Russell steps up under his rLr alias to remix his own Everything Is Recorded project. The rLr remix of ‘Never Felt Better’ sees Russell breaking apart the original into a bass-heavy audio collage that warps and chops Sampha and Florence Welch’s original vocals while beaming in legendary mixtape pioneer Kid Capri from somewhere in 1990’s New York City. It’s the first rLr remix in over five years, following previous...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases Temporary. The record features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Temporary was recorded in...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases new single ‘Swamp Dream #3’. The third song taken from Everything Is Recorded’s highly-anticipated third album Temporary, out 28th February. Everything Is Recorded releases are often characterised by Russell’s unique ability to bring multiple musicians and collaborators together on record. On ‘Swamp Dream #3’ Russell strips things right back to himself and just one collaborator – Mary...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, announces his third studio album. Temporary will be released on 28th February 2025 and features an incredible roll call of collaborators that have been sourced over four years from 2020 to 2024. Everything Is Recorded also releases ‘Losing You’, the second single to be taken from the album. It features the redemptive vocals of longtime collaborators Sampha and Laura Groves alongside musical...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, returns with a brand new single, ‘Porcupine Tattoo’. It’s a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons – Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan – who appear on record together for the very first time. The collaboration came together while Russell was hosting sessions for a forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album. Reaching out to Callahan, Russell asked the simple...
As with the first album, almost all of FRIDAY FOREVER was recorded in Richard Russell’s Copper House studio in London. It features an instinctively curated set of collaborators of all ages and backgrounds including South London’s FLOHIO and James Massiah, the Manchester rapper Aitch, Trinidad-born Berwyn, Ireland’s Maria Somerville and Kean Kavanagh, Staten Island rap god Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan, long term EIR collaborator Infinite Coles, west London’s A.K....
Last week, Everything Is Recorded – Richard Russell’s collaborative artist project – returned with a new single ‘10:51PM / THE NIGHT‘ via XL Recordings / Remote Control and a subsequent Toby Ziegler-directed music video. It was the first new music in nearly two years from the London artist and producer whose eponymous 2018 debut album went on to be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and was hailed by Q...
Pure energy; stripped-back simplicity; a big Smog sample; creative spontaneity; two contrasting but equally vital new collaborators; the universal feeling of anticipation and excitement that fuel a Friday night out… these are the raw materials that make up ’10:51PM / THE NIGHT’, the new single from Richard Russell’s collaborative artist project Everything Is Recorded. It introduces two new Everything Is Recorded collaborators in the form of Trinidad-born Londoner Berwyn (his...
Today, Everything Is Recorded premieres Everything Is Recorded, a film by CHILD and Mahaneela that intimately captures the evolution and creation of Everything Is Recorded’s debut album and live shows, told by the musicians directly involved. The documentary film features exclusive interviews with Richard Russell and musical collaborators, unseen behind-the-scenes footage of the recording sessions (featuring Baluji Shrivastav, Ben Reed, Giggs, Green Gartside, Ibeyi, Infinite Coles, Joe Brown, Lil C,...
Everything Is Recorded – the collaborative artist project helmed by Richard Russell – has announced his forthcoming 8AM EP out later this year. To celebrate, Everything Is Recorded has released a new single ‘Carry Me’. Listen below! ‘Carry Me’ features Obongjayar, the Nigerian-born, UK-based newcomer who previously collaborated on Everything Is Recorded By Richard Russell track ‘She Said’. It also features the Bahrain-raised, UK-based trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed. In...
Everything Is Recorded releases a brand new video for ‘She Said (featuring Obongjayar and Kamasi Washington)’, from the debut album Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell, released earlier this year. Watch below! Directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, the video sees appearances from the enigmatic Nigerian-born, London-based artist Obongjayar and Richard Russell himself, alongside the British Olympic judo team. Speaking about the video, Richard Russell says: “I first heard Steven (Obongjayar) via...
To celebrate the release of his debut album, Everything Is Recorded (aka musician, producer and XL Recordings co-founder Richard Russell) presents a video for new self-titled single ‘Everything Is Recorded’ (feat. Sampha & Owen Pallett). Watch below! The video has been created by friend, collaborator and acclaimed visual artist Toby Ziegler and builds on Ziegler’s work exploring the algorithms of online image search engines. From a series of over 3000...
Richard Russell has announced details of the debut album from his collaborative artist project Everything Is Recorded. The musician, record producer and XL Recordings co-founder will release Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell on Friday 16th February. Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell features an international and inter-generational cast of collaborators and musicians who include Sampha, Obongjayar, Kamasi Washington, Damon Albarn, Giggs, Ibeyi, Wiki, Syd, Rachel Zeffira, Infinite, Green Gartside, Peter...
Everything Is Recorded have released ‘Show Love feat. Syd & Sampha’. The new single comes with an accompanied lyric video, watch below! Back in August Richard Russell stopped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show in which he discussed his respect for Syd and working with her for Everything Is Recorded. Bridging the gap between London and Los Angeles, ‘Show Love’ begins with Russell’s percussive instrumentation, interlaced with an introductory verse from Sampha,...
Everything Is Recorded have released a new single, ‘Mountains Of Gold’. It sees the record producer and XL Recordings head collaborating with Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki and Kamasi Washington and is accompanied by a Nick Walker-directed video. Watch it below! “‘Mountains of Gold’ is sound system inspired, you can hear a lot of strong and different personalities and voices in the one song, but the feeling is consistent. Everyone has plenty of...
Everything Is Recorded is the new collaborative artist project from record producer and XL Recordings head Richard Russell. With Russell at the helm, his west London studio ‘The Copper House’ has become a creative second home for a revolving cast of vocalists and musicians who pass through to write, record and share ideas, mixing traditional recording sessions with extended, uninhibited live jams. Out now, the Close But Not Quite EP...
