The new single released April 7, 2020. Stream and download here: https://smarturl.it/HIContact
Part of the proceeds going to the NYC Covid-19 Relief Fund: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/fund/initiatives/covid-19-emergency-relief-fund.page
Following the release of their debut self-titled album, Human Impact have kept busy and continued writing and recording more songs they will be releasing over the coming months. The first of those new singles, „Contact“, was written and recorded shortly before the outbreak of Covid-19. An eerie premonition, it predicts the new reality we all currently inhabit. In anticipation of this release, and as an act of connection in this time of isolation, the band put a call out to fans across the globe for video footage to use in the video for „Contact“ showing how the Coronavirus has affected all our daily lives and environment. Asking the question: What does this new reality look like for you?
About the music and video, Human Impact remark: „We’d like to write songs about humankind living in harmony and balance with the world, about governments and corporations being of and for the people. But those songs would be narcotic lullabies spitting in the wind of what’s real. We wish this song were wrong. „Contact“ was written, recorded and mixed just before the global COVID-19 pandemic hit. Originally written as a response to a feeling of international vulnerability to the spread of disease via air travel, the song’s lyrics proved to be an uneasy and uncanny prediction, foreshadowing our current quarantined reality.“
Proceeds from the song will be going to the NYC Covid-19 Relief Fund and Human Impact ask fans to consider donating to this or their local charities as well.
Human Impact is singer/guitarist Chris Spencer (Unsane), keyboardist Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop), bassist Chris Pravdica (Swans, Xiu Xiu) and drummer Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cop, Swans). Human Impact was produced by Coleman and Spencer with recording done at BC Studios by veteran noise rock svengali Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Bootsy Collins). Additional recording was done at Hoboken Recorders with mixing completed by Alan Camlet.
The self-titled album is out now on Ipecac Recordings: https://smarturl.it/humanimpact
Video footage shot by
Julie Hair
João Meiras
Alberto Casu
Aaron Wright
Zebra Zoly
Melanie Honebone
Jason Sikura
Torben Röse
Flavia Ciglia
Elodie Denis
Jay Boland
Matt Kohn
Kevin Maeder
Johnny Arlett
Jason Zobl-Tar
Johann Luna
Pierre Riquart
Michael Pilmer
Austin Howe
Jacob Jurk
Tim Bradlee
Wes Niemandt
Darya Apushkina
Corey Fraser
Diego Ferri
Lisa Elia
Emma Swider
Teho Teardo
Ryan Lewis
Sam Hudson
Miranda Gill
Tru Pray
Rémi Oulion
Christina Stahlke
Rich Hutchins
Tony May
Tim 19
Jake Newton
Russell Wellmon
Jacon Myles
Jana K
