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BARN 092LP
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DreamySpaceyBlue is a new Bella Boo album, written and produced early 2023 when dark times demanded love, healing, and forgiveness. Cozed-up, self-therapeutic winter-spring studio sessions resulted in Bella's most virtuoso work yet -- a collection of dazzling, emotive recordings full of bright notes, deep vibrations and that signature "Boo mood." The album marks a distinctive step forward in Bella's sound: An amalgamation of the etheric sounds on her 2019 debut album Once Upon A Passion (BARN 067LP, 2023) and the ruff and rugged dance tracks on her recent Looney Talks EP (BARN 086EP, 2023). DreamySpaceyBlue features appearances by a number of Bella's closest confidants in life and music. The album artwork, designed by good friend Lowe Steiner, portrays her daughter Bozi, who in her turn shot Bella's last album cover -- a fitting full-circle arrangement for an album rooted in collaboration, intimacy and love.
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BARN 086EP
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Bella Boo is back on Studio Barnhus with her most direct and club-focused material yet. A veteran of the Stockholm underground, named "one of the most promising new artists not only on Studio Barnhus, but in house music in general" by Resident Advisor, Bella has channeled the energy of her recent DJ dates at Berlin's Panorama Bar and London's Phonox into this Looney Talks EP, a collection of four intoxicating dance trax full of intense rhythmic themes and inventive new takes on classic rave sounds.
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BARN 067LP
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Once Upon A Passion is the debut album from Bella Boo, arriving on Studio Barnhus shortly after a sprinkling of releases through the label that have quickly established the currently LA-based producer (and longtime Stockholm DJ hero) as one of dance music's most distinctive new voices. Throughout its nine tracks, you are treated to a fascinating, wider-than-ever view of Bella's uniquely intimate and personal world of sound. The album features vocal contributors Gnučči and Def Sound as well as Nils Janson on trumpet and Axel Boman on acid bassline. Cover photo by Bozi Borbély Espinosa, artwork by Alexandra Karpilovski.
Bella Boo on the album: "I made the album this spring during an intense creative period back home in Stockholm. I was obsessed with my studio, I wanted to spend all my time awake there. I found out I was getting evicted from it, this sudden chock turned into a decision to do this album. It made sense, like an 'end of an era' thing. I was pretty isolated back then, spending almost all my time outside of the studio with my daughter Bozi. She snapped the cover photo while I was picking out records for a gig. I never wanted to leave the studio during these months, but I realize now how the breaks with Bozi worked for the process -- they gave me space to reflect on the music I was making. That dynamic was exactly what I needed to finish this album."
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BARN 063EP
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The story of Bella Boo is not one of overnight success, though of course it might appear as such. It wasn't until her Studio Barnhus debut, the Fire EP (BARN 049EP, 2018), that the world finally started talking about Bella's extraordinary production skills. This was followed quickly by "boyboy," a universally-beloved track on Studio Barnhus Volym 1 (BARNVOL 001CD, 2018). Supervillain is Bella's first solo release of 2019, a perfect three-track thing that sees the currently London-based artist continue to expertly straddle the fence between enigmatic dreamlands and groove-locked dance floors. Artwork by Stockholm long-time Bella colla-Boo-rator Alexandra Karpilovski.
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BARN 049EP
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In the making of her first Studio Barnhus record, veteran DJ and world-travelling introvert Bella Boo divided time between bedroom studios in Ladbroke Grove and Hornstull, where she would hook up a dusty old Tanzbär, press record, and sing straight into the laptop microphone over fuzzy r&b harmonics and snappy analog drums. The result is a collection of fascinating and fascinatingly groovy tracks, shuffling about with grace and vigor in the secret place where warm club music and introspective audio diaries meet to mingle.
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