Genevieve Artadi – Another Leaf

LA-based singer, composer, and instrumentalist Genevieve Artadi proudly shares her collaborative album with the famed Norrbotten Big Band, entitled Another Leaf, out now everywhere via Brainfeeder.

In honor of the announcement, Genevieve also releases the music video for opening track “Life Exploder,” which features appearances by the Big Band as well as Genevieve’s steadfast collaborator and KNOWER bandmate, the inimitable Louis Cole. The ensuing weeks will reveal additional videos for the project.

Directed by Genevieve herself, “Life Exploder” teems with the playful, DIY charms that she’s known for. She appears as a disembodied head, floating between all sorts of disparate scenes: floating underwater, passing by the wing of a plane, launching from a cannon. Her noggin tumbles along the same way the song rollicks, whisked forward by flittering clarinet, saxophone and Louis Cole’s own superb percussion skills.

Approached to be Composer-in-Residence for the Norrbotten Big Band in 2019 by their Creative

Director Joakim Milder (saxophonist, composer, and professor of improvisation at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm), Genevieve felt intimidated to the point of almost turning it down. However, the opportunity to work with one of Europe’s most prominent and adventurous ensembles, known for pushing genres and creating unique musical encounters, proved too big to miss. “It ended up being one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done,” she says. The fruits of their labors are recorded on Another Leaf, which comprises live performances with Norrbotten Big Band in Sweden from the premiere in 2019, and later in 2022 with Louis Cole on drums.

“With this project I tried to expand my sound into big orchestration in a way that would be

hopefully interesting for the Norrbotten Big Band,” she explains. “To express personal feelings through and alongside seventeen musicians required me to think deeper about melodies, voicings, instrument colors, and how they can make coherent pictures while interweaving.”

The title – Another Leaf – reflects Genevieve’s feelings about the whole experience: “It shows a different side of me from what people usually get, or maybe perceive,” she says. “I came out of the experience feeling new, which compliments the theme of the song where it gets its name.”

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