Blake Hazard Goes For Adds

Blake Hazard started playing the subways of New York City in her teens, graduating to playing smaller clubs in the city before making her way to Boston to study at Harvard University and forming The Submarines with then-boyfriend, John Dragonetti. Together, they made three records, toured the US and Europe many times, and made numerious festival and television appearances. Hazard recorded her solo album The Eleanor Islands with Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Yellowbirds) in Brooklyn in 2013.

Now, “Oh Anatolia” is the next in a series of singles and remixes the artist is releasing in 2017; it follows “Before The Ice,” which was remixed by Xander Singh, and “Hey,” which was remixed by Styrofoam. In this servicing, the clearly-sung and Americana-tinged “Oh Anatolia” is paired with an inventive, orchestral inversion of the song created by White Sea (Morgan Kibby of M83). The studio version was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Wild Nothing, Fruit Bats). Hazard wrote the song with nostalgia for Istanbul, a city where she once lived, and says “every time I sing it, I think of the stars over the Agean and the fog over the Bosporous, and I smile.” Of White Sea’s remix, Hazard contends, “I feel like she made a film of the song and then turned the movie back into music. I knew she would bring something beautiful and unexpected to the song, and that she wouldn’t shy away from the darker aspects of it.”

“[‘Before the Ice’ moves] from French café folk to raunchy sax-soul to a kind of late-night smokiness” -FLOOD

RIYL: Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Isobel Campbell, Fiona Apple, The Submarines, Priscilla Ahn, Melody Federer, M83

FCC Clean

Digital Servicing Only

Label: AWAL/Kobalt

Going for Adds 5/1 & 5/2