UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA IC-01 HANOI ABOUT THE ALBUM DETAILS While recording Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s latest release, Sex CATALOG NUMBER: JAG330 & Food, Ruban Nielson, his longtime collaborator Jacob Portrait RELEASE DATE: October 26, 2018 and his brother Kody Nielson, found themselves in the Vietnamese FORMAT: CD/LP/Cassette/Digital city of Hanoi playing and recording with local musicians at Phu CD BOX LOT: 30 Sa Studios. The studio, normally used for traditional Vietnamese LP BOX LOT: 50 music, found the band jamming on sessions dubbed IC-01 Hanoi: CASSETTE BOX LOT: 25 exploring the outer edges of the band’s influences in Jazz, Fusion GENRE: Alternative and the avant-garde. The musicians, along with Ruban and Kody’s KEY MARKETS: New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, Boston, San father, a Jazz musician in his own right, helped lay down the Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, unique textures heard throughout Hanoi. At its core Hanoi is a Chicago record of exploration, finding its closest antecedent in Miles Davis’ TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Exclusive to Hostess in Japan experimental On The Corner – itself a record full of nods toward avant-garde composers and Jazz outsiders alike. Hanoi finds Ruban VINYL NOT RETURNABLE amplifying and stretching out on lead guitar, with a blown-out and wandering fuzz tone that slinks throughout the sessions. Kody and Jacob match Ruban’s melodic diversions with aplomb, mining their CD UPC: LP UPC: talents to finding as easy a role in the fusion of funk as they do in the 656605233024 656605233017 more ambient and abstract tangents on Hanoi. 6 56605 23302 4 6 56605 23301 7 CASSETTE UPC: DIGITAL UPC: 656605233055 656605233062 SELLING POINTS 6 56605 23305 5 6 56605 23306 2 · IC-01 Hanoi is a collection of jam sessions from the same period of recording as Sex & Food featuring Ruban Nielson’s father, his band and local Vietnamese musicians in the city TRACKS of Hanoi SIDE A: SIDE B: · Available on LP, CD and cassette 1. Hanoi 1 5. Hanoi 5 2. Hanoi 2 6. Hanoi 6 3. Hanoi 3 7. Hanoi 7 4. Hanoi 4 Exclusively Distributed By Secretly Distribution Phone: (812) 335-1572 US Domestic Sales Contact: [email protected] International Sales Contact: [email protected].