Manchester based producer salute teams up with Mercury Prize and 6-time BRIT nominated singer songwriter Jessie Ware on new collaborative single “Heaven In Your Arms”. The euphoric single marks salute’s first new music to be shared since the release of their acclaimed debut album ‘TRUE MAGIC’, earlier this year on Ninja Tune.
Speaking more on their collaboration, Jessie commented, “I’ve been a fan of salute for a while and caught their set in Sonar this summer. From that point I was determined to work with them. salute sent me a load of tracks and this beat stood out. I wanted to make something optimistic and romantic. It reminds me of the garage I used to dance to in my teens but of course with salute’s unique and futuristic sound it feels brand new! I love the song and to see how it’s been going down in salutes shows in the states makes me so excited to perform it with them one day, or two!”
salute, Jessie Ware – “Heaven In Your Arms” (Official Visualiser)
salute’s new album ‘TRUE MAGIC’ was received to critical acclaim with DJ Mag making them their cover star earlier this year and Pitchfork noting, “The UK dance producer’s effervescent debut glows from within”. The album takes aesthetic and auditory inspiration from old Japanese car adverts, which salute spent hours trawling through YouTube archives to find. They developed a concept for the album of driving an old JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) car in a race called TRUE MAGIC. The album features Disclosure, Rina Sawayama, piri, Empress Of, Karma Kid, Léa Sen, among others.
salute has continued to build on their impressive live catalogue, including a set at Coachella’s Do Lab stage, Glastonbury’s Arcadia b2b with Joy Anonymous and Boiler Room Melbourne. This year they made their debut in Asia to an incredible reception, selling out shows in Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. The shows were b2b with Yung Singh and the Tokyo show saw Rina Sawayama show up as a surprise guest when salute played their collaborative track “saving flowers” to a crowd for the first time. salute has also recently performed with Disclosure in Colombia and Berlin, Mall Grab in London, Hudson Mohawke in LA and supported Jungle on their US tour. This past summer salute performed at Four Tet & Friends Festival and at the Elsewhere rooftop b2b with DJ Seinfeld in NY before heading on their full European run with stops through Manchester, London, Paris, and Barcelona among many others.
Having just returned from their headline tour across North America with stops in LA (sold out), Vancouver (sold out), San Francisco (sold out), Miami, Montreal and NYC, salute will be heading off on their EU / UK run at the end of November, with special live shows at London’s Electric Brixton and in their hometown Manchester at Warehouse Project, where they will be showcasing their new ‘TRUE VISION’ production and visuals, an extension of the ’TRUE MAGIC’ album creative and sound. All before kicking off the Australian and New Zealand leg next February.
Listen to “Heaven In Your Arms” here:
salute.lnk.to/heaven
