{"id":27952,"date":"2018-01-23T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27952"},"modified":"2019-06-02T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T23:43:41","slug":"jb-dunckel-shares-second-single-transhumanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27952","title":{"rendered":"JB Dunckel shares second single &#8216;Transhumanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JB Dunckel, one half of the duo Air, will return March 16th with his sophomore solo album, &#8216;H+,&#8217; via SONY Music France, and to coincide with the announcement has shared a video for the second single, <em>Transhumanity<\/em>. \u00a0Watch the video clip via YouTube below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKYJHLKUCUY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Tranhumanity<\/em> follows the album&#8217;s first single, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/f61kr\/z1r5vo\/771n0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hold On<\/a><\/em>, which arrived in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/f61kr\/z1r5vo\/n02n0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Pre-Order <i>H+<\/i> via iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jean-Beno\u00eet\u00a0is back in the\u00a0guise of an augmented man with &#8216;H+,&#8217; an\u00a0exceptionally futuristic, optimistic and contemporary sound odyssey.\u00a0A little over ten years after his first solo album,<i>\u00a0<\/i>&#8216;Darkel&#8217;\u00a0(2006)\u00a0\u2014 and following his 2013 collaboration with\u00a0Lou Hayter, &#8216;Tomorrow&#8217;s\u00a0World&#8217;\u00a0and 2015 album with\u00a0Bar\u00f0i J\u00f3hannsson, &#8216;Starwalker&#8217;\u00a0\u2014 &#8216;H+&#8217;\u00a0sets\u00a0the tone through its album cover created by French design\u00a0studio Akatre,\u00a0depicting the artist in a utopian landscape. \u00a0&#8216;H+&#8217;\u00a0represents\u00a0a positively charged hydrogen ion, known as a proton; it also is\u00a0the\u00a0symbol of transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p>After having alternated solo albums, using his Darkel alias, with Air projects,\u00a0<em>&#8220;in order,&#8221;<\/em> said Jean-Beno\u00eet, <em>&#8220;to avoid being\u00a0soluble in Air &#8211; for Air\u00a0is white and Darkel is&#8230; well, dark,&#8221;<\/em> he set his sights on recapturing the\u00a0entirety of his being. <em>&#8220;I\u00a0use the sound experiences of Air; I just extend my\u00a0Air sound in a solo setting. I don&#8217;t renounce the past, in fact I exploit\u00a0it\u00a0quite openly,&#8221;<\/em> the artist recently explained.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring film soundtracks \u2014 Fabrice Gobert&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;K.O.&#8217; (2017), Olivier\u00a0Babinet&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;Swagger,&#8217; and Alant\u00e9 Kava\u00eft\u00e9&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;Summer&#8217;\u00a0(both from 2015) \u2014\u00a0apparently confirmed Jean-Beno\u00eet&#8217;s exponential taste for loads of violins and\u00a0improvisation in the\u00a0studio. Many of his songs are based on the barest of piano\u00a0melodies and a vocal style that is smoother and freer than\u00a0ever. Years of\u00a0singing on tour with Air strengthened his voice; it now has a deeper range and\u00a0tone, while remaining\u00a0androgynous. The mixture of longevity and a love of\u00a0transformation bring to mind David Bowie; and one could easily\u00a0imagine the cozy\u00a0sound bubbles Dunckel produces \u2014 with the ideals of <em>&#8220;sex &amp; space&#8221;<\/em> never far\u00a0from his mind \u2014 being\u00a0performed three thousand years from now in a cosmic jazz\u00a0version.<\/p>\n<p>With his favorite synthesizers, the MS20 and the\u00a0Arp 2600, Jean-Beno\u00eet\u00a0spent a lot of time honing this album aboard his private spaceship, a way of\u00a0thumbing his nose\u00a0at the wave of dystopias that make mincemeat of all our hopes\u00a0and dreams, by creating a future in which <em>&#8220;romantic\u00a0transhumanism&#8221;<\/em> reigns, <em>&#8220;man\u00a0never ages, and love is eternal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net\/20180122\/1a\/3a\/fe\/10\/82ac2b62fd35cb613317f14a_560x560.jpg?resize=387%2C387\" width=\"387\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;H+&#8217; track listing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01.\u00a0 Hold On<br \/>\n02.\u00a0 Love Machine<br \/>\n03.\u00a0 The Garden<br \/>\n04.\u00a0 Transhumanity<br \/>\n05.\u00a0 Qwartz<br \/>\n06.\u00a0 Slow Down the Wind (Up)<br \/>\n07.\u00a0 Space Age<br \/>\n08.\u00a0 In Between the Two Moons<br \/>\n09.\u00a0 Show Your Love<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Ballad Non Sense<br \/>\n11.\u00a0 Carpet Bombing<br \/>\n12.\u00a0 Kill for You<\/p>\n<p>For more on JB Dunckel, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/f61kr\/z1r5vo\/3s3n0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"e2ma-style\">jbdunckel.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>JB Dunckel, one half of the duo Air, will return March 16th with his sophomore solo album, &#8216;H+,&#8217; via SONY Music France, and to coincide <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27952\" title=\"JB Dunckel shares second single &#8216;Transhumanity&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,28,29,30],"tags":[71,3701,7110,7111],"class_list":["post-27952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-music","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-air","tag-h","tag-jb-dunckel","tag-transhumanity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/jb-12.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-7gQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28490,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=28490","url_meta":{"origin":27952,"position":0},"title":"Air&#8217;s JB Dunckel shares video for &#8216;Love Machine&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"JB Dunckel, one half of the duo Air, will release his sophomore solo album 'H+' on March 16 via SONY Music France\/Jive Epic. 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