London-based duo Luca Santucci & Ben Fitzgerald aka Stubborn Heart offer indulgent listeners a new post-dubstep era. Their distinguished blend of electronic soul carries with it some jaded relics from a bygone dubstep age, and also incorporates the sounds and the memories from an even more distant past – from Northern soul nights, techno house gatherings, and garage rock weekenders. It’s all here.
We thought that their ‘Starting Block’ Remixes EP : “Has a a whisper of slyness about it… it’s like watching a boozy waiter juggling with too many trays. It feels as if it will all fall apart … as the transparency of the rhythms creates a [genuine] rustle of pleasure…”
Stubborn Heart now return with a new 4-track 12” & DL single ‘Penetrate’ (delivered 30th September) and also announce their biggest set of UK & European shows to date:
19th July Latitude Festival Suffolk (UK)
25th July Circolo Magnolia, Milan (Italy)
21st August Exit07 Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
5th September Dimensions Festival Pula (Croatia)
13th September Sneaky Petes Edinburgh (UK)
28th September Marsatac Festival/ DOCK DES SUDS Marseille (France)
2nd October The Bulls Head Birmingham (UK)
3rd October Jazz Café London (UK)
4th October Prince Charles Berlin (Germany)
9th October The Exchange Bristol (UK)
10th October Bungalows and Bears Sheffield (UK)
11th October Nation of Shopkeepers Leeds (UK)
7th December La Peniche Lille (France)
The original version of ‘Penetrate’ is accompanied by an eerily atmospheric video directed by young upcoming Czech filmmaker Emile Rafael.
We had a listen to ‘Penetrate’, and here’s what we thought:
Among the splashed decking of sound, a vivid vocal seduces you with it’s sweetness. He claws at your windows - grabs the latch- and demands to come inside. Swivelling rhythms shimmer and shake, like palm leaves in the breeze. And the pillows of sound trickle themselves into the lowest of the crevices. This is bashful, sleepy and salacious.
- © Neil_Mach July 2013 -
Link: https://www.facebook.com/StubbornHeartuk
