Kid Koala's "Music To Draw To: Satellite" is an uncharted musical 72- minutes journey for the legendary scratch DJ, producer, and composer. Kid Koala's fifth studio album is filled with vast ambient soundscapes and chilling ballads sung by Icelandic artist Emil?ana Torrini and is his first longplayer for the Canadian label Arts & Crafts following four previous ones for UK's Ninja Tune. Kid Koala's "Music To Draw To: Satellite" is an uncharted musical journey for the legendary scratch DJ, producer, and composer. Kid Koala's fifth studio album is filled with vast ambient soundscapes and chilling ballads sung by Icelandic artist mil?ana Torrini. Set in the gelid Montreal winter, its eighteen movements tell a tale of discovery and loss through the lens of lovers separated by a one-way journey to settle Mars. An album of many firsts for Eric San, this inaugural volume in the "Music To Draw To" series features Kid Koala collaborating with a vocalist, writing lyrical poetry, and producing and performing all instruments. "Satellite" is the renowned audio-collagist's first non-sample-based record, instead using an array of synthesizers, keys, guitars, strings, turntables, noisemakers and San's inventive recording techniques to lay out a heartrending musical story. The output is in stark, beautiful comparison an ambient masterpiece: over 72 atmospheric minutes of stardust settling over Kid Koala's trove of turntablesand sentiment.
