Red Lama releases new album ‘Memory Terrain’

After three singles in advance, Danish rock band RED LAMA released its third album ‘Memory Terrain’ today November 4th. Four years have passed since the band’s latest release, and much has happened in the band and the surrounding world, which can be heard on the album, that conveys a distilled and matured version of RED LAMA. Lead singer Johannes Havemann Linnet Kissov states about the album release:

“It's a wonderful and natural pride that floats in my mind now, that we can finally present our finished record for new ears. I am honored that we have once again gathered the energy to make a new album - that the energy has also been borne out of something as elemental as the premise of free play, for me at least, gives the record a deep personal meaning. I'm proud of the record and that's the most important thing. We present a record where we have grown and, I think, proven, how diverse a sound we can create.”

RED LAMA will play a release show at Loppen, Christiania in Copenhagen on November 26th and more shows are coming in early 2023. Tickets for Copenhagen are available HERE. Also, the new album can be pre-ordered as vinyl in two editions (black and lime green) HERE, and the vinyls are expected to arrive in early 2023.

Also, watch the video for RED LAMA's single ‘Justified’

(27) RED LAMA - Justified (official video) - YouTube

RED LAMA was formed by five friends from Svendborg, Denmark after watching the now legendary show with Spids Nøgenhat at Roskilde Festival in 2011. Since then, the sextet has been refining their unique take on psych rock - a music for the inner journey, carried forward by melody, groove and soundscapes exploding in grand crescendos.

RED LAMA made their album debut with Dreams are Free (2016), followed by ‘Motions’ (2018) and latest the EP ‘Dogma’ (2018) - all releases cementing RED LAMA as one of the most essential newer Danish rock bands. Since the debut album, RED LAMA have been touring and performing on several festivals in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Finland and most recently in India in 2020, while selling out clubs in Copenhagen.

Much has happened for the band and its members since starting out and with a rising popularity came plans, structures and expectations. After the latest EP and the subsequent tours, the band felt a need to slow down and forget about structure, business and career moves and make a return to the initial values of the band: The music, the friendship and the creative space. And new songs started to arrive.

The new album ‘Memory Terrain’ documents a band that has matured and grown, both personally and musically. The album was recorded live over five days in the Copenhagen studio Black Tornado with producer Nikolaj Nielsen (Mew, Sort Sol a.o.), whose precise registration of the band creates a sharp and vivid representation of the new songs. Besides the band’s base in 60’s rock, psych and post rock, traits from kraut and electronic music are now also increasingly incorporated conveying a more drony and robotic, but still highly groovy and analogue sound.

The complexity and paradoxes of life has become the lyrical focus of lead singer Johannes Havemann Kissov Linnet. ‘Memory Terrain’ is in essence a record about the passage in life, where the naivety of youth is replaced with an increasing responsibility and removal of ego. It is a record about growing up, taking on responsibility and accepting this new dimension defining one’s life, thoughts and actions - as a musician, as a human and as someone who is now also something for someone else.