“I can just make up my own identity, for myself, and making music, sampling, using libraries, or using sounds…it’s a way for you to create yourself, really, through your music.”
– Léa Sen
Release: January 20th, 2023
Each one of these tracks will be available to buy on a pay what you want basis via the LABS Bandcamp page and the artist’s own Bandcamp page, with all proceeds going towards a charity or organization of the artist’s choosing.
LÉA SEN – GAME OVER
For the inaugural release, rising star Léa Sen will share her new track, ‘Game Over’ in which she has used LABS instruments Lap Steel, Tape Piano, Glass Piano, Astral Forms, and Organic Textures.
Watch the video for ‘Game Over’ and download the track on Bandcamp HERE.
Léa is a 23-year-old singer, producer, and artist, born and raised in Paris and now residing in London. Within three years of moving over to London, she has released one EP and worked with the likes of Joy Orbison, Vegyn, and Warp Records’ Wu-Lu with plenty more in store for 2023.
A LABS user since 17 years old, Léa perfectly demonstrates how she uses the instruments with her own distinctly haunting voice, production, and guitar playing.
The new track, ‘Game Over’ is available to buy on a pay-what-you-want basis with the money raised being donated to Léa’s chosen charity, Artists In Transit – a collaborative arts community delivering creative workshops to communities and people in times of need.
Download / Watch Léa Sen – ‘Game Over’: http://labscommunity.bandcamp.com/
Downloads LABS instruments for free: labs.spitfireaudio.com
Support Artists in Transit: www.artistsintransit.org
About Léa Sen (https://www.instagram.com/_leasen/)
Open-eared and open-hearted: these are the watchwords of Léa Sen’s music. At just 23 years old, the London-based singer, songwriter, and producer has established herself as one of the capital’s most in-demand talents, meandering between gossamer vocal features for Joy Orbison to solo work that references everything from Bon Iver’s electronic timbre and folk guitars to Sampha’s impressionistic lyricism.
Singing from a young age as a natural means of self-expression, at 15 Sen learned the guitar and began to craft songs with an experimental, intuitive sensibility. Production and mixing skills soon followed out of a DIY necessity and in 2019 she moved to London from her home in Paris and caught the ears of drummer Kwake Bass and singer-songwriter Wu-Lu. A session with DJ and producer Joy Orbison produced the stand-out track “Better” from his 2021 mixtape, Still Slipping, Vol. 1, while Sen’s tender version of David Bowie’s 1976 track “Golden Years” is a highlight of the Modern Love compilation album, featuring the likes of Helado Negro, Khruangbin and Meshell Ndegeocello.
The foundation of this creative community inspired new music, resulting in her self-released debut single “Locked In” in April 2020. The song exemplifies Sen’s work – self-recorded, produced, and mixed, it delivers an ineffable, earworming melody. July 2020, meanwhile, brought the double single “Sand Radio/Brother” and in November, the stand-out “I Feel Like I’m Blue”.
These singles are preludes to Sen’s most comprehensive statement to date – her debut EP, You of Now Pt. 1. The five-track collection presents the self-assured maturity of an artist twice her age, with all tracks written, produced, and mixed by Sen – still a rarity in a male-dominated industry. “People assume that if you’re a woman, you’re just a singer, whereas I do so much more,” she says. “I’m not going to make myself feel insecure though – I’m going to be comfortable expressing myself however I want.”
Here is the radical self-acceptance Sen also conveys in her songs – healing and hope contained in vulnerable self-expression. With You of Now Pt. 1 being released by Partisan Records, it is hard not to feel like Sen is on the cusp of a colossal breakthrough. She is an artist stepping into the full force of her creativity while letting us know that there is much more to come.
About Artists in Transit (www.artistsintransit.org)
Artists in Transit is a collaborative arts community delivering creative workshops to communities and people in times of need.
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About Spitfire Audio (www.spitfireaudio.com)
Spitfire Audio is a British music technology company that specializes in sounds — sample libraries, virtual instruments, and other useful software devices. It collaborates with the best composers, artists, and engineers in the world to build musical tools that sound great and are exciting to use.
Spitfire Audio was founded by two award-winning composers: Christian Henson and Paul Thomson. Born out of their shared dissatisfaction with string sample libraries, they pooled their resources and decided to record their own string samples at the legendary Air Studios in London. Initially, they invited a limited number of friends and associates to own copies of their samples, but whispers of this private sample club soon started to echo across the Atlantic Ocean throughout the composer community. Within a year, some of the most renowned composers in film and television signed up, so Paul and Christian decided to take their samples public.
To date, Spitfire Audio has recorded and released over 100 sample libraries, collaborating with some of the biggest names in media composition, including Hans Zimmer, Eric Whitacre, Ólafur Arnalds & the London Contemporary Orchestra. Spitfire Audio’s sounds are heard in everything, from major Hollywood film scores to recordings by Radiohead and U2. Paul and Christian’s initial side project is now a thriving international music technology enterprise, with a uniquely experienced and diverse workforce, all focused on a shared mission: to inspire a generation of composers. The composer team remains at the center of the business, drawing on their own experience as obsessive music makers to explore the needs and wants of their fellow composers.