New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) New York's stylish and joyous AVAN LAVA announce their sophomore EP Flex Fantasy that shows the band in a more high-energy and dance light in contrast to the shoe-gaze chillwave style of their 2010 debut EP Vapors. The self-released six-song EP, mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling, with the first single "It's Never Over" and highlights "
Slow Motion" and"
Feels Good" will be available on February 21st.
AVAN LAVA is singer TC and producers/musicians Le Chev and Ian Pai. Their live performances are with the help of musicians, vocalists and technicians Andrew Schneider(The Wooster Group), Drew Citron and Jo Lampert.
AVAN LAVA will perform in New York on January 12th to preview their EP and travel down to Austin for their first ever SXSW Festival in March. Last month, their show was described as "a trippy MTV
Europe Music Awards performance" with energetic sing-along pop tracks and slow R&B-Prince swooners, all while the band's moves are choreographed by TC and
Vanessa Walters (Fischerspooner).
AVAN LAVA have worked as producers, composers and mixers for recorded works and live performances with bands such as Cold Cave, Fischerspooner, CSS, Frankie Rose,SSION, Lemonade, Lia Ices and the prestigious The New York Philharmonic, and have created remixes for R.E.M.,
Passion Pit and New Villager among others.
About Vapors, the Village Voice wrote "Avan Lava is lush, sparkling,...textures are more euphoric than headknocking--their relentless grooves also evoke a love of things like Sigur Ros, Sea Change-era Beck, Beach House, and other feel-good blasts." Big
Stereo said "…at times chill, other times experimental and lush. And then there is this pop moment, "The Easy Way", which leans on
Prince a bit, but is also deeply rooted in electronic sounds."
The band began as a conversation between producers/musicians Le Chev and Ian Paiduring an overnight bus ride after performing at the Sao Paulo Bienal with Fischerspooner, a band with which both still work and perform. That night in the fall of 2008, en route to Rio de Janeiro, Le Chev and Ian shared their love of Prince, Daft Punk, electronic beats, R & B, and indie music and contemplated how those things could all be melded into one sound, one band. A few months later, back in New York, while at a reading of "
The Last Goodbye", a musical adaptation of
Romeo &
Juliet set to the music of Jeff Buckley, they discovered vocalist TC. They knew that they had found the perfect vocalist for their new band the moment he sung the first words of "Corpus Christi Carol."
AVAN LAVA - Flex Fantasy EP track listing:
01. Tear it Down
02. It's Never Over
03. Pure As Love
04. Slow Motion
05. Sisters
06. Feels Good
AVAN LAVA live shows:
1/12: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge - w/ New Villager (stage 9:30pm)
March - Austin, TX @ SXSW
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