The Invisible RELEASE DATE: 10th June 2016 ‘Patience’ Contacts Album PRESS (PRINT + ONLINE) ft. Jessie Ware, Floating Points, Connnan Mockasin, Anna Calvi, Rosie Lowe James Heather: 02078203233 [email protected] (please email for addition to digital promo list) Listen to The Invisible’s new album, Patience, and what you will feel most strongly is the band’s sense of “joy and TRACKLIST gratitude for being alive.” The experiences of Dave Okumu (guitar, vocals), Tom Herbert (bass & RADIO / TV 1. So Well Coolbadge: 02076195115 synthesizer) and Leo Taylor (drums) since the release of their last album, Rispah, both individually and collectively, 2. Save You Russell/ Mig/ Marty @coolbadge.com mean that the group “have gained a deeper understanding of the value of life,” and a mission to communicate that 3. Best Of Me to the listener. On Patience, they achieve these aims with a kind of effortless transcendence. 4. Life’s Dancers 5. Different (feat. Rosie LICENSING Lowe) 02078203232/240 From the opening bars of the wonderful “So Well”, (featuring their friend and collaborator Jessie Ware), the feeling 6. Love Me Again (feat. [email protected] of joy pervades the record. Although the group have worked on this record with Anna Calvi, Rosie Anna Calvi) Lowe, Connan Mockasin and Sam Shepherd (Floating Points) as well as Ware, the sense of collective 7. Memories DIGITAL excitement and pleasure in music-making is what holds sway. It’s an album which hints towards the soul of 8. Believe In Yourself Tom Macdonald: 02078203237 9. K Town Sunset (feat. [email protected] Ware, but combines it with the experimentation of the LA beat scene (where Dave Okumu went to write many of the Connan Mockasin) songs) and the raw funk of D’Angelo. MARKETING

FORMATS Samantha Sissons: 02078203262 Everyone of course knows just what wonderful musicians The Invisible are. They’ve played with just about everyone LP / CD / Digital [email protected] from Adele to St Vincent, Grace Jones, Britten Sinfonia, Jack DeJohnette, Roots Manuva, , Hot Chip, Zongamin, Gramme, Yoko Ono, Beck and many others. In addition, Okumu has produced Jessie INTERNATIONAL Ware, Anna Calvi, Paloma Faith, , Lilly Wood, Eska and Rosie Lowe and was the recent Musical Director Nicky Wain: 02078203231 for the acclaimed Gil Scott-Heron Project: Pieces of a Man project as part of the Convergence Festival at London’s [email protected] . BOOKING AGENT What’s easier to forget in between albums is just what beautiful, life-affirming music they make. Shortly before the Cecilia Chan release of Rispah (itself a hearfelt tribute to Okumu’s dead mother), Okumu was electrocuted while playing with [email protected] the band onstage in Lagos, Nigeria. It’s possible that only the intervention of Herbert, who pulled his guitar off him, saved his life. This personal sense that the band have of deliverance has lead to Patience, not least their sense CAT NOs: ZEN299 / ZENCD299 / that they are “the luckiest men alive.” ZENDNL299

Joyous without losing any of its intelligence or compositional rigour, the record takes its title from an unfashionable but profound idea — that, if we want to solve problems we have to be prepared to work and to wait rather than expecting instant results. It was an idea clarified when Dave found himself playing in only a week after PO Box 4296, London, SE11 4WW the gun attacks which ripped through the city on November 13th 2015. On his way home he read an interview with PR's/Biogs/Pics http://press.ninjatune.net the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield in which he talked about a realisation that could only have come to him in CD recycling: [email protected] space: “What started seeping into me on…seeing all the ancient scars, was the incredible temporal patience of the world.”

The Invisible’s first album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, their second was described as “incredibly uplifting and moving” (Vice), but it’s Patience (as you’d expect, if you understand that good things come to those who wait) that stands—so far!—as the uplifting pinnacle of their remarkable career.