For the past seven years Kornél Kovács has been busy rocking dancefloors
and boomboxes
worldwide as one third of Stockholm’s Studio Barnhus alongside Axel Boman and
Petter
Nordkvist. The label and DJ trio is spearheading a new era of fearless Swedish
off-centre dance music, straddling the line between the cute and the
menacing.
Anticipation for Kovács' debut album has been rocketing following stand out releases like 2014's wistful Szikra, last year’s mad party anthem Pantalón on Glasgow's Numbers imprint and the late night groove of Space Jam on Smallville Records.
On The Bells, Kovács pops open his trunk full of sounds nicked from the lost
and found bins of
nightclubs all over the world. From the distorted organ chords of BB to the
stripped down
trancehall beats of Josey’s Tune and Szív Utca and the title
track's cinematic romanticism, it's all of the bells and all of the
whistles – further positioning Kornél Kovács as one of the most
characteristic producers of modern house music.
The record was completed in an intense two-week session with Kovács' great
friend and great
studio engineer Matt Karmil in the cold winter of 2016. Another close friend,
artist Malin
Gabriella Nordin, has created the album artwork together with her
brother Jonas.