After releasing his new album ‘Good Luck and Do Your Best’ via City Slang, Gold Panda has now shared new visuals for album standout track Chiba Nights.
Speaking about the Chiba Night video, director Dan Tombs offered a little insight into the making of the visuals: “Spending a week in Tokyo and surrounding areas of Chiba and Minowa with Derwin, searching for unusual records, video games, payphones, workwear and LaserDiscs, I captured the rich visual environment of the country and fun moments spending time with friends and family. This is sliced into a grid of sixteen squares in reference to the MPC sampler that Gold Panda creates all his music with, changing with the rhythm of the track colliding the sights, colours and shapes together and breaking out in psychedelic kaleidoscopes.”
‘Good Luck And Do Your Best’ was initially planned to be something else entirely. Early in 2014 the electronic artist most comfortable with the moniker Derwin Panda set out to Japan for the first of a pair of trips – the latest of many visits to a place he holds most dear. This time a photographer, Laura Lewis, accompanied him as Derwins plan was to collect both audio field recordings from his trip across the country as well as accompanying visuals, with Laura tasked to capture what they saw and encountered together. The idea was to be able to put together something other than a traditional record; a sight and sound documentary of his time there, but the expedition ended up being the catalyst for a new record.
‘Good Luck and Do Your Best’ is Gold Panda at his most relaxed & confident. Doused in a chalky Japanese-inspired haze and underpinned with a positivity & strength of conviction founded in being created amongst familiar settings & routines, its a record that is explorative and expansive, yet hearteningly warm & familiar.
‘Good Luck And Do Your Best’ track listing:
- Metal Bird
- In My Car
- Chiba Nights
- Pink And Green
- Song For A Dead Friend
- I Am Real Punk
- Autumn Fall
- Halyards
- Time Eater
- Unthank
- Your Good Times Are Just Beginning
Watch the other videos from the album.
Time Eater: http://youtu.be/mUYfa072n-4
In My Car: http://youtu.be/6YVhAILmqyo
Pink & Green: http://youtu.be/BuINhF5dgV4
Order ‘Good Luck and Do Your Best’ here.
Gold Panda has also announced a North American tour beginning in mid-August – full set of dates is below.
Tour dates:
8/18 – Vancouver – Fortune Sound Club
8/19 – Seattle – Neumos
8/20 – Portland – Holocene
8/24 – Santa Cruz – The Catalyst Atrium
8/25 – San Francisco – The Independent
8/27 – Los Angeles – FYF
9/08 – Cambridge – The Sinclair
9/09 – Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall
9/10 – Philadelphia – Johnny Brendas
9/11 – Montreal – Theatre Fairmount
9/14 – Toronto – The Mod Club
9/15 – Ann Arbor MI – The Blind Pig
9/16 – Chicago IL – Lincoln Hall
9/17 – Minneapolis – Triple Rock Social Club
9/18 – Madison WI – Majestic Theatre
