Released 17th February 2017

One of Italy’s brightest new talents, Clap! Clap! (aka Cristiano Crisci) returns with his second album for Black Acre, following on from his colorful breakthrough debut LP ‘Tayi Bebba’. Bringing together disparate inspirations and styles onto the dance-floor of his mind, ‘A Thousand Skies’ sees Clap! Clap! create a high energy and inventive kaleidoscopic fusion of sound – drawing on the traditional global rhythms of the old world, Hip Hop, Footwork, UK Bass and House. The new album follows Clap! Clap!’s debut album, 2014’s 'Tayi Bebba', which sound-tracked the tour of an imaginary island. ‘A Thousand Skies’ is a mix of Crisci’s career to date combining samples and live instrumentation from Clap! Clap! and collaborators such as South African folk singer Bongeziwe Mabandla, John Wizards, and OY. As with his debut, the album is anchored by a story — this time of a young girl’s journey through the stars — which completes the work. Clap! Clap!’s unique blend of global dance and timeless sounds draws from nature, traditional music, field recordings and the electronic savvy of modern centres like Chicago and London. At its core is the inspiration of everyday life, what Crisci calls “the search for new flavours.” The now internationally acclaimed producer and performer started his career age 13 in the mid–1990s as a rapper, before picking up the saxophone and performing both jazz standards and jazz/punk fusion with his band Trio Cane. Now, as Clap! Clap!, he’s taking his energetic live shows across Europe and Japan. Following the release of his debut album in 2013, has found a fan in Paul Simon who told Rolling Stone the LP is “a masterpiece. He makes music sound new and old at the same time”. This led to Crisci to collaborate on the production for this years Number 1 Paul Simon album ‘Stranger to Stranger’. With a passion for history and the sounds that surround us, Clap! Clap! is a unique electronic artist capable of both channeling the energy of the moment and the intricacies of where we come from to create music that can soundtrack where we’re going.

A1 - Clap! Clap! - Discessus
A2 - Clap! Clap! - Nguwe (feat. Bongeziwe Mabandla)
A3 - Clap! Clap! - Oriens. Oriri
A4 - Clap! Clap! - Hope (feat. OY)
B1 - Clap! Clap! - Ar-Raqis
B2 - Clap! Clap! - A Thousand Skies Under Cepheus’ Erudite Eyes (feat. John Wizards)
B3 - Clap! Clap! - Ode to The Pleiades
B4 - Clap! Clap! - Betelgeuse’s Endless Bamboo Oceans
C1 - Clap! Clap! - Witch Interlude
C2 - Clap! Clap! - Rainy Souls, Gloomy Futures
C3 - Clap! Clap! - Flowing Like a Snake in Ophiuchus’ Arms
C4 - Clap! Clap! - Centripetal
D1 - Clap! Clap! - Rainbow Coast
D2 - Clap! Clap! - Elephant Serenade
D3 - Clap! Clap! - Lunar Ensemble
D4 - Clap! Clap! - Ascension Psalm (feat. HDADD)

a1. Clap! Clap! - Ar-Raqis

a2. Clap! Clap! - Elephant Serenade

b1. Clap! Clap! - Betelgeuses Endless Bamboo Oceans

b2. Clap! Clap! - A Dream. Wasn't It?

Limited Orange & Blue vinyl version of the album. No repress. The album comes with full island map and in depth story behind each track. Ltd repress ahead of the forthcoming second album.

9/10 album of the month in future music - 9/10 album of the month in Mixmag - 3rd Best album of 2014 on Bleep.com - Included in the albums of 2014 from Okayafrica & DJ Broadcast

After storming the gates with his warmly received 'Tambacounda EP', Clap! Clap! returns to Black Acre to deliver his debut longplayer. 'Tayi Bebba' is a conceptual work that manages to balance a highly cerebral concept with making some good old-fashioned bangers. 'Tayi Bebba' is an album tour of an imagined island; each song representing a location, event or ritual. Sonically, it’s a fast moving charge across the soundscape, fusing field recordings and found sound with incredibly surgical drum programming. Flavours of House, Footwork and Hip Hop punctuate your migration with a very specific sound palate, giving this amazing work a cohesive feel.

Side A
01) THE HOLY CAVE 2.53
02) ASHIKO 3.24
03) THE RAINSTICK FABLE 3.50 04) KWASI THE SORCERER 2.52
Side B
05) BLACK SMOKES, BAD SIGNS 3.27
06) CONQUEROR ( action / assault / conquest ) 3.44
07) CONQUEROR ( consequences / memories ) 3.34
08) CONQUEROR ( remorse / withdrawn ) 3.20
Side C
09) BURBUKA 2.33
10) SAHKII (Xirhuu) 4.21
11) SAHKII'S ELEVATION feat. DJ KHALAB 3.18
12) KWASI'S STORM (kyanumj) (tape dub) 2.21
Side D
13) UNIVERSAL MODULATOR (kujhmak) 2.07
14) SAHKII'S KNOWLEDGE 2.17
15) UNIVERSAL MODULATOR (ujmubuam) 3.27
16) SAILING IN THE SEAS OF WOOD 2.20
17) KUJ YATO 3.32

The Maghreban returns with essential new house odyssey 'Brooklyn', named after his dead cat. His second outing on Black Acre, 'Brooklyn' is a breathtaking night flight, viewed through a prism both phantasmagorical and seedily terrestrial. Trance inducing Caribbean percussion, possessed chants, Motown bass, sci-fi synths, wayward filter sweeps, analogue free jazz - all get their moment to shine in the weird and wonderful 8-minute microcosm that is 'Brooklyn'. Flip-side 'The Carpenters' strikes a more domesticated tone, with motorik industrial dub eventually giving way to haunted sci-fi bachelor pad lounge.

a1. Brooklyn

b1. The Carpenters

Released 26th August 2016

Following the release of Commodo’s acclaimed debut LP, “How What Time”, and Memotone’s “Chime Hours” album earlier this year, Bristol label hub Black Acre have enlisted new recruits in Wallwork — co- head of burgeoning club collective, Nervous Horizon — and London grime emcee, Nico Lindsay, to deliver their latest record. Two-track single, “Facts” / “Fyah”, taps into the experimental zones that both Nervous Horizon and Lindsay operate. Wallwork and Tsvi’s hard, steadfast drum workouts have been a feature of their work with the label and on “Facts”, the pair turn a stripped-back, minimalist hand to a beat that Lindsay takes on with a relaxed, near-horizontal flow. With neither afraid to deviate from grime’s more familiar 140bpm template, their collision of styles is not only refreshing — it’s fully vindicated. On B-side “Fyah”, Wallwork — assisted by Nan Kolè — leans more toward UK funky, with the beat patterns softer and the percussion less harsh, instead driven by a fierce, chugging groove and twisted, wonky bass notes that Lindsay again navigates. Only featuring across certain sections of the track, his vocals phase in and out almost at will, as the beat’s unrelenting sense of rhythm carries “Fyah” firmly into club banger territory.

a1. Wallwork & Tsvi - Facts (feat. Nico Lindsay)

b1. Wallwork & Nan Kolè - Fyah (feat. Nico Lindsay)

b2. Wallwork & Nan Kolè - Fyah (Instrumental)

Release Date: 22nd July 2016

a1. The Maghreban - Lose It

b1. The Maghreban - Wrong Move

a1. Commodo - Hej

a2. Commodo - Pea Souper

a3. Commodo - Itchin ft. Trim

b1. Commodo - Hadi Hadi Ah

b2. Commodo - My Liege

b3. Commodo - Russian Glass

c1. Commodo - Floods

c2. Commodo - How Dare You

c3. Commodo - Sleepwave

d1. Commodo - HWT

d2. Commodo - Set it Straight ft. Rocks FOE

d3. Commodo - Kofte Cloud

a1. Commodo - Set It Straight ft. Rocks FOE

b1. Commodo - Solid Gold Telephone

a1. Clap! Clap! - (S)erendipity

a2. Clap! Clap! - (I)ngenuousness

a3. Clap! Clap! - (M)odesty

b1. Clap! Clap! - (P)layfulness

b2. Clap! Clap! - (L)iberty

b3. Clap! Clap! - (E)arnest

a1. Clap! Clap! - The Holy Cave

a2. Clap! Clap! - Ashiko

a3. Clap! Clap! - The Rainstick Fable

a4. Clap! Clap! - Kwasi The Sorcerer

b1. Clap! Clap! - Black Smokes, Bad Signs

b2. Clap! Clap! - Conqueror (Action / Assault / Conquest)

b3. Clap! Clap! - Conqueror (Consequences / Memories)

b4. Clap! Clap! - Conqueror (Remorse / Withdrawn)

c1. Clap! Clap! - Burbuka

c2. Clap! Clap! - Sahkii (Xirhuu)

c3. Clap! Clap! - Sahkii's Elevations (Ft. DJ Khalab)

c4. Clap! Clap! - Kwasi's Storm (Kyanumj) (Tape Dub)

d1. Clap! Clap! - Universal Modulator (Kujhmak)

d2. Clap! Clap! - Sahkii's Knowledge

d3. Clap! Clap! - Universal Modulator (Ujmubuam)

d4. Clap! Clap! - Sailing In The Seas Of Wood

d5. Clap! Clap! - Kuj Yato

a1. Fantastic Mr Fox - You-Turn (Visionist Remix)

a1/ Loops Haunt - IIVA (Extended Edit)

a2/ Loops Haunt - TIIYL

a3/ Loops Haunt - IIHX

b1/ Loops Haunt - IIVA (NHK Remix)

b2/ Loops Haunt - IILTN

b3/ Loops Haunt - FIISR

b4/ Loops Haunt - RYIIG