RA Sessions: Micachu & The Shapes - Unity / Looking Up At The Sun | Resident Advisor

Subscribe to RA’s YouTube channel: Last year, Mica Levi recorded an hour of drone and experimental beats for Demdike Stare’s DDS label. This year, she collaborated on two tracks with the Shangaan electro pioneer Nozinja, the instrumental grime artist Mumdance and the vocalist Tirzah, with whom she has written three infectious house records for Greco-Roman. For the 2013 film Under The Skin, which was directed by Jonathan Glazer and starred Scarlett Johansson, Levi composed the soundtrack, an unnerving affair that was written mainly on a viola. She was recommended for the job following Chopped And Screwed, a collaboration with the London Sinfonietta that was inspired by the style of Southern hip-hop of the same name. The Shapes—drummer Marc Pell and keyboardist Raisa Khan—were also involved in the project, as they were with Jewellery, Levi’s 2009 debut album, which was produced by Matthew Herbert. A third Micachu & The Shapes album, Good Sad Happy Bad, is released th