Record the vocals on the airplane toilet? Oh, are you saying I should fire up the Ableton while I’m on a 12-hour flight? Yeah, it’s usually when she had a moment of like, “Wow, I didn’t know that that was…” I was like, “Of course you didn’t,” you know? That’s why that song was written. I think you told me when you were… drunk. This is the person that I’d been with for a while. I had a moment with the person and… I don’t know if they had never been listening to my music. Everybody heard this song and was like, “Whoa!” They could relate to that moment, because I think… It’s like you go through that moment, you just get just fucking ripped in half sometimes. It’s one of those things that’s like… Like you’re in love and love lost. The next song actually says the girl’s name. This October he will tour the US with his big band.That one gets a bit more specific, obviously. Last year Louis embarked on his biggest collaboration to date with the Grammy-winning Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley, for a string of unique shows in the Netherlands, with more to come in 2023. He has also appeared at North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Rock En Seine, Jazz a Vienne, Jazz à la Villette, Wonderfruit, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Maiden Voyage and more.
Touring incessantly, Louis sold out two shows at EartH Hackney (1k cap) in London during his last UK tour. Flying Lotus has also expressed admiration for Louis, calling him “super inspirational” during the writing of his 2019 album “Flamagra”. The pair have frequently written together including on the aptly titled ‘I Love Louis Cole’ from Thundercat’s Grammy-winning album “It Is What It Is”, ‘Bus in the Streets’ and ‘Jameel’s Space Ride’ (from Thundercat’s 2017 opus “Drunk”) and ‘Tunnels in the Air’ for Louis’ 2018 album “Time”. Thundercat describes him as “one of Los Angeles's greatest musicians” and earlier this year invited him to play drums on his recent tour of Japan. Drums, bass, keys… he has a monk-like attitude to practice and perfecting his art. “I had to practice the bass part a lot for this one,” he adds, smiling.Ĭole’s insane musicianship is no secret – he’s been sharing performance videos on YouTube for a decade – growing a dedicated fanbase who appreciate both his craft and off-the-wall style. “It comes from me recording about 100 different cells of funk, choosing my favorite ones and quilting them together into a song,” says Louis. In contrast, ‘I’m Tight’ is a sleek, laser-focused Funk rocket, based on an utterly irresistible bassline.
New single ‘I’m Tight’ arrives hot on the heels of ‘Let it Happen’ – “a timeless modern power ballad classic” released earlier this month. “I was inspired by joy, pain and the constant mission to pull something out of life around me”. “There is no continuous thread of a story on this album, each song expresses its own moment in my life and time,” explains Louis. Accordingly Cole’s touchstones for “Quality Over Opinion” include boundary-pushing composers such as Gustav Mahler and György Ligeti alongside jazz icons like Miles Davis, the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah, Morten Lauridsen (distinguished professor of music and American Choral Master) and Super Mario Kart. His connection to the movement is more conceptual: “The root of jazz is pure freedom… no limits… just what you’re thinking right at that moment… a pure blast of limitlessness”. Louis’s main instrument is the drums and he has a background in jazz although the music he writes bears little resemblance to jazz in any pure or classical sense. “This album is a representation of me trying to make the best, most powerful and listenable music I can. He will release his new album “Quality Over Opinion” on 14th October 2022 on Brainfeeder Records.Ģ0 tracks deep, it was written, performed and produced on his own in his modest home studio, but Louis did invite a handful of close friends to contribute, namely Genevieve Artadi (“my no.1 music collaborator”) saxophonist Sam Gendel – Cole’s friend for 17 years pianist Chris Fishman Nate Wood from the band Kneebody Marlon Mackey (“a pillar of the Bakersfield music scene”) and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. He is on a mission to create deep feelings through music and is the figurehead of an LA jazz-adjacent scene that includes Genevieve Artadi (with whom Cole co-founded the alt pop / electrofunk band KNOWER in 2009), Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes, Jacob Mann, Dennis Hamm, Pedro Martins and more. Louis Cole is a singer-songwriter and sickeningly talented multi-instrumentalist with a strong DIY aesthetic from Los Angeles, California.
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