It is already the second song of the two. Will there be more soon?
Musicians and producer Mark Pritchard and the Smile and Radiohead front man Thom Yorke have published a joint single entitled “Back in the Game” via Warp Records.
Thom Yorke performed the track for the first time at the start of his solo tour “Everything” in Christchurch, New Zealand. On further appointments in Australia, Japan and Singapore, the piece was also part of the setlist. The single “Back in the Game” is the second collaboration of the two. In 2016 “Beautiful People” was published on Mark Pritchhard’s Soloalbum Under the Sun (also at Warp Records).
More about the duo
With Tom Middleton, Mark Pritchhard forms the production duo Global Communication. In the 90s he became known in the field of electronic music in Great Britain. Since then he has published remixes, including two of Radiohead’s “Bloom”. So with Thom York’s voice he was familiar when the two of them started to do a common cause. And as for “Beautiful People”, Mark Pritchard for “Back in the Game” Thom Yorkes singing.
This time he used an H910 harmonizer. The video for the song is from Jonathan Zawada. Mark Pritchhard and Thom Yorke have been working together for over ten years.
It is not known whether you can hear more songs as a duo soon.
“Back in the Game” stream here:
How Jonathan Zawada perceives the song
Jonathan Zawada, who was already creative for Coldplay and Flume, says about the song and his video approach via the press release: “When I heard the original demo from ‘Back in the Game’ for the first time, I was immediately off the disturbed Bassline impresses, which reminded me of the final scene of Staying Alive, in which John Travolta struts cum through the New York streets, but I saw her with a dark overlay. Slowly, a version of this picture was created around a figure that carries a kind of huge parade head, with a rigid facial expression of the mania, so that you couldn’t say whether her endless march was an aggression or a celebration. The more I paid attention to the text, the more details filled, and the overall concept began to form: a parade of many figures that pre -tie in a building, from the inner everything from a window into a huge campfire. “