Marram Featuring Jarvis Cocker and Margaret Bennett, “Falling from the Sun” (from Sun Choir):
Four Tet, “Gillie Amma, I Love You” (from Boats):
From the Everything Is New Project website:
Sun Choir is an album of new music by Edinburgh-based band Marram, recorded with and for the Light Of Love Children’s Choir, and featuring collaborations with renowned musical personalities from around the world, including Jarvis Cocker, Owen Pallett, doseone, White Hinterland, and Margaret Bennett.
BOATS – a 29-track double album featuring exclusive tracks from Four Tet, Dan Deacon, Bear in Heaven, Califone, Deerhoof, El Guincho, Gang Gang Dance, Lucky Dragons, Julian Lynch, Max Tundra, No Age, The Ruby Suns, Rustie, Son Lux, Sun Airway, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Taken By Trees, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), YACHT, and many, many more. Each artist on BOATS created their songs using samples of the Light Of Love Children’s Choir, originally recorded for Marram’s Sun Choir.
The albums benefit Scottish Love in Action, a charity that provides food, clothing, education, and medical care to children in southeast India.
More info here.
And here:
Both albums will be released January 20, 2014.
— A Days of the Crazy-Wild blog post: sounds, visuals and/or news –-