Attawalpa – True Love Trajectory

Attawalpa (Luis Felber) released his second album ‘Experience’ via Attawalpa Records with the new single ‘True Love Trajectory’, which serves as the perfect season finale closing track for ‘Too Much’, the Netflix series that Luis has co-created and co-written alongside his soulmate in art and life, the writer and filmmaker Lena Dunham.

Attawalpa began life as a de facto solo project. “At first it was me and [producer/bassist/co-conspirator] Matt Allchin”, Felber recalls, but slowly it’s grown into this seven-piece family, in which everyone’s creative, and we all have each other’s backs”. That ‘family’ – drummer Henry Danowski, veteran percussionist Maurizio Ravalico (Jamiroquai), Viola player Freya Hicks, keyboardist/tubular bell player Adam Sopp, Cellist Haydn Winn and multi-instrumentalist Matt Jones, in addition to lynchpins Felber and Allchin – are responsible for the co-construction of ‘Experience’, an album whose vivid, hook-laden sonic vocabulary helps upgrade the shapeshifting baroque pop-rock and mooching groove template of Attawalpa’s debut longplayer, ‘Presence’, which charmed critics back in the autumn of 2022. For Felber, having the luxury of a well-drilled, empathetic ensemble has been revelatory. “I’ve never been in a band where everything felt so positive”, he affirms. “We recorded it all live as soon as we felt we had the right palette for the song”.

While Attawalpa’s own version of the song True Love Trajectory will play over the season finale episode credits, Felber is keen to stress that the album should be appreciated as a standalone work. “In some ways, the show shaped the album but equally, the album shaped the show”, he clarifies. “I’m really proud of the record, and, of course, I want people to hear it. I’m blessed that we’re making a TV show that’s going to showcase some of the album’s songs, which millions of people are potentially going to be exposed to. It’s an amazing privilege. All that said, I’m always happy and anxious about sharing my work”.

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