This past June, Danish Rock band Red Lama released their first new music in nearly four years with the single “Gentleman” and in August, the single and video “Justified” arrived with the band’s announcement of its third album “Memory Terrain.” The record is set to be released on November 4th and today, the album’s third and final single arrives in the shape of the hypnotic “Chaos is the Plan.”
Listen new single “Chaos is the Plan” here: https://orcd.co/chaosistheplan
Lead singer Johannes Havemann Linnet Kissov states on the song:
“Chaos is the Plan is very much about atmosphere. The industrial, smoldering and slightly clubby atmosphere seems almost cinematic to me. The final form of the lyrics depicts a semi-sociopathic character drifting aimlessly quietly in the shadows, in disturbingly calm dialogue with himself.”
Red Lama recently announced a release show at Loppen, Christiania in Copenhagen on November 26th and more shows are coming in early 2023. Tickets for Copenhagen are available HERE. Also, the new album can be pre-ordered as vinyl in two editions (black and lime green) HERE and the album can be digitally pre-saved HERE.
Watch the video for Red Lama‘s single “Justified” through the YouTube player below:
Red Lama was formed by five friends from Svendborg, Denmark after watching the now legendary show with Spids Nøgenhat at Roskilde Festival in 2011. Since then, the sextet has been refining their unique take on psych rock – a music for the inner journey, carried forward by melody, groove and soundscapes exploding in grand crescendos.
Red Lama made their album debut with “Dreams are Free” (2016), followed by “Motions” (2018) and latest the EP “Dogma” (2018) – all releases cementing Red Lama as one of the most essential newer Danish rock bands. Since the debut album, Red Lama have been touring and performing on several festivals in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Finland and most recently in India in 2020, while selling out clubs in Copenhagen.
Much has happened for the band and its members since starting out and with a rising popularity came plans, structures and expectations. After the latest EP and the subsequent tours, the band felt a need to slow down and forget about structure, business and career moves and make a return to the initial values of the band: The music, the friendship and the creative space. And new songs started to arrive.
The new album “Memory Terrain” documents a band that has matured and grown, both personally and musically. The album was recorded live over five days in the Copenhagen studio Black Tornado with producer Nikolaj Nielsen (Mew, Sort Sol a.o.), whose precise registration of the band creates a sharp and vivid representation of the new songs. Besides the band’s base in 60’s Rock, Psych and Post-Rock, traits from Kraut and Electronic music are now also increasingly incorporated conveying a more drony and robotic, but still highly groovy and analogue sound.
The complexity and paradoxes of life has become the lyrical focus of lead singer Johannes Havemann Kissov Linnet. “Memory Terrain” is in essence a record about the passage in life, where the naivety of youth is replaced with an increasing responsibility and removal of ego. It is a record about growing up, taking on responsibility and accepting this new dimension defining one’s life, thoughts and actions – as a musician, as a human and as someone who is now also something for someone else.
Tracklist:
1. Gentleman
2. Airborne
3. Memory Terrain
4. Flammende Sjælland
5. Someone
6. Paint a Picture
7. La Paz
8. Justified
9. Shaking my Bones
10. Chaos is the Plan
Lineup:
Oliver Asbjørn Fick / Guitar & Backing Vocals
Jonas Harboesgaard Rahbek / Guitar
Niklas Sjøbeck Jørgensen / Percussion
Frederik Randrup Bangert / Bass
Johannes Havemann Kissov Linnet / Vocals
Marius Havemann Kissov Linnet / Drums