16 July 2021 - 0 Comments

Anthonie Tonnon has released his third album, Leave Love Out Of This. The LP precedes a nationwide album release tour featuring a full band, where Tonnon will play some of Aotearoa’s favourite venues like The Hollywood Avondale, and The Royal Whanganui Opera House.

Just announced, the album's title track Leave Love Out Of This has been chosen as a top 20 contender for the 2021 APRA Silver Scroll Award. The winner will be awarded at a ceremony at Spark Arena on Thursday 14 October.

Leave Love Out Of This is the first release on Slow Time Records (UK/EU/NZ) not by the label’s founder, acclaimed Dunedin-born songwriter and performer Nadia Reid. It is available on vinyl, CD, and as a green vinyl Deluxe Edition LP, with a bonus 7” record. All physical versions of the album come with an extra eight minutes of music.

The album is available now via anthonietonnon.com, slowtimerecords.com, and all good record stores. It is also out on Misra Records (North America) and Flippin Yeah Records (AUS).

Tonnon recorded Leave Love Out Of This with longtime collaborator Jonathan Pearce (The Beths) between 2017 and 2020. Tonnon’s practise evolved heavily over that period, and he began incorporating new technologies into his work, including the Wellington-designed Synthstrom Audible Deluge. He also toured extensively, supporting The Chills, The Veils, and Nadia Reid, and worked on developing an immersive approach to shows that would first surface as A Synthesized Universe.

On Leave Love Out Of This, Tonnon and Pearce move beyond the 1970s technology that powered Tonnon's second album Successor (2015), and into electronically generated percussion and textures that blur the lines between organic and synthesised sound.

Pearce also produced the Taite Music Prize-nominated Successor, and The Beths’ 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards Album of the Year, Jump Rope Gazers.

When announcing the release of Leave Love Out Of This on her Facebook page in April, Reid said: “Having toured extensively both nationally and internationally with Tono, and being a fan since forever, it’s a perfect fit that he let Slow Time release his album. Every live show I see of Anthonie’s, I witness his craft getting sharper. I believe we share the same musical determination and work ethic and I’ve so loved watching his career grow and his star rise.”

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Anthonie Tonnon: Leave Love Out Of This Album Release Tour

After three years of immersive solo live shows, like A Synthesized Universe and his yearly Rail Land journey, in September 2021 Tonnon embarks on an album release tour that expands his onstage line-up to include a full band for the first time since 2018.

The band features Stuart Harwood on hybrid electric/acoustic drums, David Flyger on bass guitar/synthesised bass, Steph Brown (Lips) on synthesisers and samples, and Sam Taylor (Nadia Reid) on electric guitars and percussion.

Tonnon describes the show as, “A celebration and culmination of what we’ve developed through the album process, and through the A Synthesized Universe and Rail Land shows. Like the album, it will be a meeting place between organic and synthesised sound, but it will also be a very physical show. All the electronic drumbeats and sampled parts will have humans playing them on stage, on large surfaces, so we’re often playing with drumsticks and whole hands, rather than just fingers.”

LEAVE LOVE OUT OF THIS TOUR DATES:

Wed, 22 Sep – Sherwood, Queenstown
Thurs, 23 Sep – New New New, Dunedin
Fri, 24 Sep – Cassels Blue Smoke, Christchurch
Fri, 1 Oct – San Fran, Wellington
Sat, 2 Oct – Royal Opera House, Whanganui
Sat, 9 Oct – Hollywood Avondale, Auckland

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW via anthonietonnon.com

Among other stops, the tour visits the grand 122-year-old Royal Opera House in Tonnon’s current base of Whanganui. The Opera House stars in the video for Leave Love Out Of This, directed by Karlya Smith and Jenna Todd, with additional editing by the From The Noise Floor team of Renato Lehr, Bob Frisbee, and Fergus Milner. It follows Tonnon’s videos earlier this year for Entertainment and Two Free Hands.

Look out for the video for Peacetime Orders in August 2021.

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