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Singer and composer Blaudzun has put his mark on music during the last decade. Since their debut album 'Seadrift', the band has impressed the masses at live shows and festivals such as Sziget, CMJ, SXSW, Pinkpop, Rock Werchter, and Lowlands. 'Heavy Flowers' was released originally in January 2012 and reached the no.4 position in the Dutch charts.* The album is a 10th-anniversary edition of his best-selling album Heavy Flowers* Disc 1 is the original album, remastered for vinyl* Disc 2 is a collection of live recordings of his best-known songs, recorded in various places, and never released before* One disc is gold, the other one turquoise

For his third album, 'Love You, Drink Water', Awir Leon opens a more direct and personal window on his music. The album is about inner monsters, the search for meaning, failure and hope. The music he proposes plays with the porosity of the lines, because it is at the same time complex, rich, stripped, raw, without compromise, and without pretense. It wants to express in the most vulnerable way what it means to be alive today.

Often compared to renowned explorers such as James Blake, Frank Ocean or Thom Yorke, Awir has spent the last two years travelling the world as the opening act for another great spirit, French artist Woodkid, on an international tour for his latest album S16. During this tour, Awir decided to write this new album, testing and perfecting the songs in front of a large audience that knew nothing about his music.

It is both this audacity and the constant desire to jump into the void that makes Awir an artist apart.

The seemingly simple title, which sounds like a joke, actually hides something much more vital and human.

"One day my three-year-old niece said goodbye to me with the exact words "I love you, drink water". It came out of nowhere, and I thought it was the most thoughtful thing anyone had ever said to me. It was like an epiphany; it was exactly what I wanted to express through my songs.

For Awir Leon, constant research and sincerity are the main drivers of a music that is undeniably singular and powerful. Music that he shapes and dances gracefully over chasms, as if it were necessary to make failures into new points of escape towards vitality.

Love You, Drink Water is silk sewn in pain, a raw and resilient jewel.

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