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Special Artwork designed by Jake Greenway
Dead Nature (ex-Spring King, Tarek Musa) joins forces with Chalkpit Cassette Club in the releases of a brand new deluxe album brought exclusively to Cassette Tape.
Producer and songwriter - and former Spring King singer - Tarek Musa has for a long time placed himself at the centre of other artists’ worlds, helping to hone sounds and build scenes through his production work for artists such as The Big Moon, Genghar, and Dream Nails, Calva Louise, Police Car Collective - as well as providing remixes for the likes of Circa Waves. As BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders noted recently on-air, "we owe a lot to him out here... he's putting the passion from [Spring King] into the future of the alternative music that we love." With Dead Nature, Musa allows himself to step back from his role as architect for others and set about pursuing his own creative impulses.
Over the course of key singles, an EP and the release of his debut Album - Musa’s targeted manifesto for an album of heavyweight pop songwriting, that is as honest and sentimental as is it is fizzing with energy, has been realised beautifully.
This significant release between Dead Nature and Chalkpit Cassette Club is the combination of all current discography music featuring both Musa’s explosive Debut 2021 Album “Watch Me Break Apart” and 2019 EP “Taking My Shadow”. The release is a true talisman to the work of a man who’s given so much to both indie fans and new emerging artists developing their careers and unique sounds in the industry.
“As featured by BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Clash, DIY, Dork, Gig Wise, The i Paper, The Independent, The Line of Best Fit, NME and more.”
Dead Nature - Watch Me Break Apart / Taking My Shadow Delexe album track listing
1. Watch Me Break Apart
2. Hurricane
3. 50 Foot Wall
4. Borrowed Heart
5. Falling Down
6. Red Clouds
7. Rivers
8. Nothing Is Gonna Change
9. Ladlands
10.Fire In Your Soul
11. In My Heart
12. Pride (Wake Them Up)
13. Rockwood
Credits
huge thank you to all the friends that helped make this release possible. Orla Lawn, Joe Wills, Nigel Templeman, Jamie Osman, Guro Gikling, Jess Allanic, Jake Greenway, Mike Cave, Marieke Macklon, Basia Krasowksa, Bec Duggan, Khalil Musa, Amin Musa, Jon Hucks, Lee Isserow, Callum Scott-Dyson, Paul Spraggon, Mark McQuillan, the team at Republic of Music and Silas Gregory at Chalkpit Cassette Club.
Written, Produced and Mixed by Tarek Musa
Additional Production by Joe Wills
Lead Vocals, Drums, Rhythm Guitars, Bass & Synths by Tarek Musa
Backing Vocals, Lead Guitars & Synths by Joe Wills
Backing Vocals by Guro Gikling (Excluding track 2,10,11,12 & 13)
Backing Vocals by Jess Allanic (Track 2 only)
Backing Vocals by Bec Duggan (Track 10 & 11 only)
Engineered by Tarek Musa & Joe Wills
Mastered by Mike Cave at Loft Mastering, Liverpool
Artwork, Illustration and Graphic Design by Jake Greenway
Artwork photography by Marieke Macklon
Artist Management - Nigel Templeman & Jamie Osman
DEAD NATURE RECORDS 2021 (C) / TAREK MUSA 2021 (P) / LICENSED TO CHALKPIT FOR CASSETTE ONLY
