Wanted by Lara Jones
Song Athletics:
The Research Centre is our space for research and development, collaborative products and experiments.
We're excited to use this platform to showcase music releases by artists whose music we love. Working with artists helps us stay involved with developments in new and innovative music, and as our community grows we're well placed to present music to an aligned audience, which we know is becoming difficult nowadays. The aim for now is to keep things light and simple, not albums, multiple albums, vinyl and so on. Just single pieces, released digitally, with a pre-formatted artwork to let the music do the talking, that we share with our people.
Our first release is by Lara Jones, a London-based experimental producer, saxophonist, keyboardist and lyricist, who creates high energy pulsating electronics and jazz harmonies that weave into electronic grime and a web of arpeggiated synths, basses and glitchy beats in Ableton Live.
Jones’ work has undergone an organic evolution across her EPs, with her latest set distilling her dizzying mix of accessible and avant-garde sounds with edgy, powerful production. From the haunting poignancy of her darkly ambient debut EP, Ensó, via the crunching industrial grime of Flow, with its flickering gritty textures, to the warm eroticism and enticing dance grooves of Fig, Lara Jones refuses to be boxed in by genres or gender definitions.
As a queer artist, Lara uses her work to explore queer narratives and experiences whilst opening up conversations on gender, stereotypes, queer fashion and queer identity. She also uses her music as a platform to address political issues and social injustices.
This has all garnered her support from established music media outlets such as BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio 3, DJ Mag, Electronic Sound, The Wire and many more. In addition to this she was Jerwood Arts Jazz Encounter Fellow 2020-2022 and recipient of Help Musician’s UK’s Peter Whittingham Jazz Award 2021 and PRSF Women Make Music Awardee 2024.
In addition to her artist work Lara has created an accessible, immersive, cinematic audio visual experience, originally co commissioned by Jerwood Arts and Manchester Jazz Festival. Audiences were invited to step inside a geodesic dome designed to create a relaxation experience, surrounded by visuals, essential oils, soft furnishing and sounds composed by Lara with frequencies, panning techniques and harmonies to create a calming experience, where people can pause and reflect. This was originally presented in both Leeds and Manchester Piccadilly train station with over 1000 people having experienced the dome. She is now working to expand this to more spaces including recently presenting the dome at Sonica festival with Cryptic Glasgow in September 2024, alongside an ambient release on Lo Recordings.
Tracklist
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Credits
Composed by Lara Jones
Recorded by Lara Jones
Mixed by Lara Jones
Mastered by Frederic Stader
