Flash & Nü Androids Present: George FitzGerald LiVE - Stellar Drifting Tour

Flash & Nü Androids Present: George FitzGerald LiVE - Stellar Drifting Tour
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Doors 10PM
Advance Tickets on sale Friday, July 29th @ noon.
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George FitzGerald is back with his third studio album, Stellar Drifting. Marrying rich electronic pop melodies with club rhythms and the bass weight of UK dance music, Stellar Drifting sees FitzGerald continue to explore new avenues of emotional potential in electronic music. The album features a slew of guest vocalists, with Panda Bear, London Grammar, and SOAK appearing across its ten tracks.

Stellar Drifting is all twinkling melodies and iridescent electronics. FitzGerald’s writing has never been sharper, both on Stellar Drifting’s predominantly instrumental tracks (the lush orchestration of “Setting Sun'', the sunburst energy of “Ultraviolet”) and its vocal ones (the memorable topline that sits atop “Cold”). Panda Bear brings a star turn to “Passed Tense”, with FitzGerald – a longtime fan of Animal Collective and Panda Bear’s solo records – having asked to collaborate during lockdown, when the world was on pause. “Rainbows and Dreams'' sees Northern Irish singer-songwriter SOAK look to the sky, while the album comes back down to Earth with “The Last Transmission”, a reunion with London Grammar following their previous work with FitzGerald on the chart-topping 2021 album Californian Soil.

Following the release of his second album All That Must Be in 2018, FitzGerald noticed that the world seemed to be shrinking. Many around him were struggling with loss, illness, depression, and addiction. He wanted to write music that confronted this growing sense of helplessness and restriction.

And so he thought about escapism and transcendence. Alone in a windowless studio for days at a time, he found himself consumed by thoughts of outer space, and began to search through visual archives from NASA telescopes. He listened to audio from probes floating around the solar system capturing the sound of interstellar space and distant moons. Soon, he realized that these ideas weren’t just inspiring him in an abstract sense – they were literally becoming the building blocks of his next record.

Using wavetable and granular synthesis techniques, Fitzgerald turned telescopic images into synthesizer oscillators. He used audio from space probes to create new textures. He was able to imbue his own personal meaning into these sounds. The result, written over four years and finished in his studio in Bermondsey, is an album of wide-eyed wonder and emotion; of uplift and hope.

Themes of outer space and the future have occupied a central presence in electronic music since its earliest days, and Stellar Drifting taps into the preoccupations of some of FitzGerald’s most treasured influences, from Daft Punk to Neu!, Carl Craig to Wookie, Air to Boards of Canada. The term ‘stellar drift’ refers to the movement of stars – far from being static and eternal, space is constantly in motion, and celestial bodies are changing over time. The album title hints at an otherworldly serenity that might be found within this continual flux.

FitzGerald has been a preeminent figure in electronic music for over a decade, keeping one foot in the underground and one in the mainstream. He was at the cutting edge of the UK scene when he worked at London’s iconic Black Market Records, and remained a key presence in the genre melting pot of the early 2010s, producing club anthems that drew from post-dubstep and UK funky, to house and techno. His ear for discovering new talent could be heard not just in his future-facing DJ sets but in the artists he released as a co-founder of the MakeMusic label.

After a decade in Berlin releasing tracks on revered labels like Aus and Hotflush Recordings, he signed to Domino and made the rare transition from club producer to album artist, establishing a celebrated live show, and working with icons of electronic music like Bonobo and Everything But he Girl’s Tracey Thorn along the way.

Stellar Drifting’s visual language was created with the celebrated designer David Rudnick, who worked alongside web developer Chris Shier to reinterpret trivision billboards of the past into images of the future. His artwork covers the album and accompanying visualizers, and will be incorporated into an aesthetic component of live shows this summer.


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