Richard Russell has announced full details of the debut album from his collaborative artist project Everything Is Recorded. The musician, record producer and XL Recordings co-founder (who has previously produced albums for Gil Scott-Heron, Damon Albarn, Bobby Womack and Ibeyi) will release Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell on 16th February 2018 via XL Recordings.
 
Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell features an eclectic international and inter-generational cast of collaborators and musicians who include (in order of appearance on the album) Sampha, Obongjayar, Kamasi Washington, Damon Albarn, Giggs, Ibeyi, Wiki, Syd, Rachel Zeffira, Infinite, Green Gartside, Peter Gabriel and Owen Pallett. The twelve track album features previous singles ‘Close But Not Quite (feat. Sampha)’, ‘Mountains Of Gold (feat. Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki and Kamasi Washington)’ and ‘Show Love (feat. Syd and Sampha)’, which have been described as a “brilliant modernist approach to soul and dub… a masterclass in the art of collaboration” by Q Magazine and  “the embodiment of pure, creative freedom” by Noisey, while The New Yorker stated “Russell’s vision, it seems, is about the power of collaboration… a grand synthesis of XL’s stylistic history"
 
To celebrate news of the album, Russell has released a new song from the record. Accompanied by a video from Nick Walker, ‘Bloodshot Red Eyes (feat. Infinite and Green Gartside)’ is available to watch / hear at the top of this page. 
 
Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell was recorded at Russell’s west London studio, The Copper House. Over the past couple of years, the studio became a creative second home for the revolving cast of both new and established artists who passed through to write, record and share ideas, mixing traditional recording sessions with extended, uninhibited live jams. With Russell at the production helm, a spirit of soundsystem-inspired collaboration and experimentation runs through the heart of an album that is born out of some spontaneous moments of togetherness and periods of intense personal reflection for its creator, and is at once soulful, timeless and modern.