Richard Russell’s collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded announce and release Solstice Equinox – a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell’s West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary. Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the...
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, 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...
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...
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...
