London-based Hejira will follow up their 12-inch release, Litmus Test, with their full length album, Prayer Before Birth, on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records.
Formed in 2010, Hejira are Sam Beste, Rahel Debebe-Dessalegne, Alexis Nunez and Alex Reeve – a group of Londoners with a diverse collective heritage spanning the entire globe from Chile and Hungary through to Ethiopia and Germany. Borne of many years of experience performing individually in a bewildering amount of styles with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Tom Jones, Nitin Sawhney, Eric Lau and Connan Mockasin, the band has worked towards building this musicianship into an uncompromisingly visceral, passionate yet tender sound.
This will be Hejira‘s debut album and was also produced by electronic music iconoclast, Matthew Herbert, who began co-producing Hejira in 2010. Below is the a sampler for Litmus Test, the first single to be taken from the upcoming album…
Tracklisting
1. Litmus Test
2. Time
3. Know
4. In Our Own Time
5. Fields of Rooftops
6. Echoes
7. Pinter
8. Gypsy of the Soul
9. The Penny
10. Powercut
11. Reprise
