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Bonobo

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media release: Bonobo's new album Fragments (Ninja Tune) is getting career-best raves and high profile interviews including The Fader Interview, Billboard and WNYC, plus coverage from NPR Music, Pitchfork, SPIN, Zane Lowe, Spotifys Best Electronic Songs of 2021 and cover stories with DJ Mag and Electronic Musician. The release also arrives on the heels of two 2022 GRAMMY Nominations that Green earned in the Best Dance/Electronic Recording category last month, making him a five-time GRAMMY nominee. 

A 40+ date, full band international tour will also launch this month, including a date on March 12 at The Sylvee in Madison. Bonobo will be touring with a full live band for this run, and joined by vocalist Nicole Miglis from the band Hundred Waters. 

Fragments is the sound of struggle and isolation, personally and collectively - and of a surging, joyous return. It is a reminder that out of struggle and disillusionment, creativity and hope can emerge at the most unexpected moments. As he set out to make his new album, Green felt a sense of shifting and unraveling of the world around him. Born first out of fragments of ideas and experimentation in his Los Angeles studio in 2020 and 2021, the album ultimately was fused together in a burst of creativity fueled by collaboration, Greens solo adventures into the deserts of California and even his use of modular synths for the first time.

Praise for Fragments

[A] brilliant, wondrous work - Observer, 5 out of 5 stars

"The grooves cut so deep...it has so much life in it, it makes you want to move" - NPR Music

An enveloping excursion through jazz, downtempo, and Detroit techno - The Fader 

"His most engaging [album] in a decade: soothing, energetic and just right for the current moment...richly rewarding" - NME (4/5) 

An organic warmth flows like an ocean through Fragments. Green is undeniably in a league of his own - Loud and Quiet (8/10)

Recalling the powerful, orchestrated cloudbursts of Curtis Mayfield's solo debut... Green's production is expert - Mojo (4/5) 

A work of subtle evolution, its a record that rewards repeated listens, with patience allowing these fresh elements to rise to the surface on an album that underlines Bonobos role as one of UK electronic musics most consistent, and pervasive voices - Clash (8/10)

Rosewood captures the essence of the dance floor, and the morning after the party, too. The beat builds to something that demands you to move...from one of the most celebrated producers of the last two decades - Billboard  

A masterpiece in wistful, cathartic electronica - Skinny (5/5) 

Just the right balance of lush and gritty - AllMusic

This is an album that should be on repeat the rest of the winter and year" - Magnetic Mag