Avant-garde musician Bex Burch has delivered their new single “Don’t go back to sleep” today.

The track features an appearance from Dan Bitney of Chicago post rock band Tortoise. An accompanying music video for the track done by Burch can be seen below.

Burch said this about the new single and video:

“‘Don’t go back to sleep’ is simply polymetric exploration of time. With Dan Bitney in the room, I’m falling, phasing, almost. Pushing the boundaries of time. If the beat is a tiny moment within the vastness of space around it, then playing with that space and where to place the note is my joy.

Filmed from the back of a boat or from inside the water at various lakes around Berlin, Gransee, Teglersee, bit further North in Usedom and further south on the coast of Portugal. Water, waves, the rhythm of wave, the energy and shapes of waves are massively important to me. I learnt more about this album swimming in the lake than in the studio.

This video, for ‘Don’t go back to sleep,’ also features the elemental sun, setting along those waves on one horizon, which seems to try to move in and out of sync with the other horizon of swans taking off, even with moments where the swans and the sunlight merge together into shapes of light. Which echoes mine and Danny’s sound waves moving in and out of sync and towards and away, becoming each other and separating: the combination of those waves affecting each other is what you hear.”

Bitney said this about working with Burch:

“I had a wonderful time meeting Bex. We got coffee first, then we hit the studio. Ben showed up a little later. We were really getting into a groove together, it felt natural trying different ideas, we were meshing. Then a tornado rolled through Chicago, the sirens went off and we stopped and looked at the sky. Soon we returned to the studio and made more music. We eased the atmospheric pressure and cleared the skies. This session was joyful and I’m super happy to have been part of it.”

“Don’t go back to sleep” comes from Burch’s forthcoming debut solo album There is only love and fear, which will be released on October 20 via International Anthem. Pre-orders for the release can be made here.

Burch has a handful of performances in Germany the U.K., and Belgium in the following weeks. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now here.

Bex Burch tour dates

October 13 - RIAA, Hamburg, Germany (Listening session w/ Bex Burch)

October 20 - Cafe Oto, London, UK

October 27 - King Georg, Cologne, Germany

October 30 - Rhinoçéros, Berlin, Germany (Listening session w/ Bex Burch)

November 03 - ÜBERJAZZ Festival, Hamburg, Germany

November 17 - Jazz Brugge, Belgium