AMOR/LEMUR finds the Glasgow quartet AMOR in partnership with Norwegian improvising ensemble LEMUR to hopeful and ecstatic effect. Conceived before the onset of Covid 19 but finished during spring lockdown, their eponymous EP is the most loose, alive and elevated recording in AMOR’s catalog. The AMOR/LEMUR collaboration takes the template of throbbing avant disco expanded upon on previous recording, lifting it into new territories, with new tonalities and unexpected turns on the journey.

Following a revelatory concert in Glasgow in January 2020 wherein the two sets of musicians met and performed together for the first time, a recording session was arranged, resulting in the most elevated permutation of AMOR’s art to date.

Richard Youngs, vocals and piano
Luke Fowler, synths and samplers
Michael Duch, bass
Paul Thomson, drums and percussion
Bjørnar Habbestad, flutes
Hild Sofie Tafjord, horn
Lene Grenager, cello

Recorded at Glasgow’s Green Door studios.
Mixed at Chem 19 by Paul Savage
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk
Artwork by Oliver Pitt
Released on Night School, January 29, 2021