Ninja Tune partner with Spotify for Bonobo track “Break Apart (feat. Rhye)” at top of “New Indie Mix” playlist

Ninja Tune partner with Spotify for Bonobo track “Break Apart (feat. Rhye)” at top of “New Indie Mix” playlist ||| New LP “Migration” out Jan 13th

Simon Green AKA Bonobo presents “Break Apart” featuring Rhye, the second track taken from his sixth album, Migration.

It’s a song which, in its very conception, illustrates the transitory nature of the album and also shows how deftly broad Bonobo’s dynamics are as a composer. The chord sequence to “Break Apart” (premiered in conjunction with Spotify & Vogue) was sketched out by Green on a flight, Michael Milosh (AKA Rhye) then recorded the verses in Berlin, horns were added in London, then Green did the final mix in his own LA studio. Over a harp device, Bonobo builds a shuffling, emotional drumbeat, those aforementioned horns, piano and bass, over which Rhye delivers a stand-out vocal performance—achingly sweet, full of longing, perfectly understated. It’s extremely beautiful and one of the highlights of an album full of highlights.

Rhye has said of the song:
“I’m so happy Simon asked me to work on this song with him. From the moment I heard the instrumental track it spoke to me more than I can express in words. Being able to work with an artist that continuously makes me envious, like Simon, is where I always want to be.”

The recent release of the single “Kerala” has been rapturously received. It was #1 on the Spotify Global Viral Chart with over a million streams in its first week and the official video became the 4th most trending on YouTube. In addition, Bonobo’s forthcoming live band show at Brixton Academy sold out in seconds, so quickly that another date was added and that too immediately sold out, a pattern seen across many of the dates of his world tour.

His 2013 album The North Borders went Top 30 in the UK and was number 1 in the electronic charts in both the US and UK. In support of that record, the 12-piece band Green fronts played 175 shows worldwide to over two million fans, including a sold out show at Alexandra Palace. Bonobo has built a large, loyal and engaged global fanbase: over half a million album sales and over 150 million streams on Spotify point to the levels of success achieved by this quiet, self-effacing man.

The signs are all there: Migration, which also features Nick Murphy (FKA Chet Faker), Nicole Miglis of Hundred Waters and Moroccan band Innov Gnawa, will take Bonobo’s beautiful, emotive, intricate music to an even bigger audience. “My own personal idea of identity has played into this record and the theme of migration,” Green explains. “Is home where you are or where you are from, when you move around?” The personal, it seems, can also be universal.

MIGRATION: FORMATS
DELUXE 2LP / 2LP / CD / DIGITAL

TRACKLISTING
1. Migration
2. Break Apart (feat. Rhye)
3. Outlier
4. Grains
5. Second Sun
6. Surface (feat. Nicole Miglis)
7. Bambro Koyo Ganda (feat. Innov Gnawa)
8. Kerala
9. Ontario
10. No Reason (feat. Nick Murphy)
11. 7th Sevens
12. Figures

2017 MIGRATION LIVE TOUR
Tour tickets

FEBRUARY
15: HAMBURG, DE – Docks
16: BERLIN, DE – Columbiahalle (SOLD OUT)
17: COLOGNE, DE – Live Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
18: FRANKFURT, DE – Batschkapp
20: AMSTERDAM,NL – Paradiso (SOLD OUT)
21: GRONINGEN, NL – Oosterpoort
22: UTRECHT, NL – TivoliVredenburg (SOLD OUT)
25: LONDON, UK – O2 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
26: LONDON, UK – O2 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
27: DUBLIN, IE – Vicar St. (SOLD OUT)

MARCH
01: LEEDS, UK – O2 (SOLD OUT)
02: MANCHESTER, UK – Apollo (SOLD OUT)
03: GATESHEAD, UK – Sage (SOLD OUT)
04: BEXHILL, UK – De La Warr Pavilion (SOLD OUT)
07: BRUSSELS, BE – AB (SOLD OUT)
08: PARIS, FR – Olympia
09: STRASBOURG, FR – La Laiterie
10: LYON, FR – Transbordeur
12: ZURICH, CH – Volkshaus
13: MILAN, IT – Fabrique
15: BARCELONA, ES – Razzmatazz
16: MADRID, ES – La Riviera

APRIL
24: TORONTO, ON – Danforth Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
25: MONTREAL, QC – Metropolis
26: BOSTON, MA – House Of Blues
28: NEW YORK, NY – Terminal 5
29: PHILADELPHIA, PA – Electric Factory

MAY
01: WASHINGTON, DC – 9:30 Club
02: RICHMOND, VA – The National
03: ASHEVILLE, NC – Orange Peel
11: ASPEN, CO – Belly Up
12: DENVER, CO – Red Rocks
13: LAWRENCE, KS – Granada Theater
15: COLUMBIA, MO – Blue Note
16: ST LOUIS, MO – Ready Room
18: CHICAGO, IL – Concord
19: MILWAUKEE, WI – Turner Hall
20: MADISON, WI – Orpheum
21: MINNEAPOLIS, MN – First Avenue
24: VANCOUVER, BC – Commodore (SOLD OUT)
25: VANCOUVER, BC – Commodore (SOLD OUT)