ALICE IVY

Releases New Single

CHASING STARS,

Debut Album I’M DREAMING Out February 9

+ Supports Added For NATIONAL HEADLINE TOUR

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ALICE IVY

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“All the ingredients are present for Ivy to become the premier hip-hop / RnB producer this generation NEEDS” 

– Pilerats

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 Schmarsel’s infectious beats crackle like milk on Coco Pops…  Ivy evokes the best of The Avalanches and something tells us 2018 is Alice Ivy’s year.”

 The Music

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 “The genre-defying Aussie artist makes dreamy, summer-party style tunes that get in your head so bad, you’d be silly to not chuck them straight into your Sunday sesh mixes.” 

– Pedestrian

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Melbourne based beat-maker and electrifying musical force, Alice Ivy, today reveals her brand-new single ‘Chasing Stars’ which features ARIA-award winning, singer-songwriter, Bertie Blackman. The track is lifted off Alice Ivy’s forthcoming debut album, I’m Dreaming, which is set for release on February 9, 2018 via Dew Process / Universal Music Australia. Some very special guests have just been added as supports for her upcoming national, headline album tour PLUS fans can expect a cavalcade of guest performers from her collaboration-rich album. Accompanying Ivy on all East Coast dates is Melbourne soul artist Nasty Mars, with local opening slots going to Oh BoyKeelan MakFrançoisSophiegrophyStrictface & Skivvybeats, with more acts still to be announced.

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‘Chasing Stars’ which premiered on the airwaves via triple j’s Good Nights, is a shimmering, infectious and dreamy ride of electronic, disco-house-pop, powered by inimitable voice of Bertie Blackman. Ivy met Blackman while supporting Urthboy, and the pair quickly became mutual appreciators. Ivy later reached out with an instrumental, a soaring run of synths and horns that reminded Blackman of flying. Typically, Ivy drives the writing process but she let her take a lead on the lyrics for this one.

’Chasing Stars’ is one of my favourite moments on the album.” Says Ivy, “Being given the opportunity to work with Bertie was a dream come true for me. The dynamics of the instrumentation are the perfect fit to the strong and sometimes fragile moments of Bertie’s vocals on the song, which are SO rich with emotion and meaning. Bertie and I started writing it over email, however the finished song came together in a couple of hours in Joyride’s studio above a pub in suburban Sydney. The vocal tracking only took three hours; however, the instrumentation is what took the longest. I’ve hung onto this song in demo form for about a year and a half now. Lyrically, ‘Chasing Stars’ is about Lincoln Beachey, the first person to do a loop to loop in an airplane. The music has many layers which depict the endless landscape of the sky.”

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Few artists arrive with a debut album as fully formed as Alice Ivy. This is no fluke. I’m Dreaming is the product of a life spent playing and studying music — a life that has turned the 24-year-old, née Annika Schmarsel, into something of an auteur, self-reliant but with a love of collaboration. Raised in Geelong, playing guitar in soul bands, it was only when she moved to Melbourne that she started mastering the editing suite. Now based in Brunswick, she has her own home studio where most of I’m Dreaming was recorded and self-produced. From producing beats, writing music and lyrics and to singing on the record, Alice Ivy pulled all the strings for this album.

In the last 18-months, she has performed more than 100 shows in 4 continents including lead supports for the likes of Foster The People (US), Oh Wonder (UK), Billie Eilish (US), Urthboy, Remi and E^ST. She also completed maiden dates in the USA and Singapore, Canadian Music Week PLUS a stack of stand-out performances at festivals including The Falls Music And Arts FestivalFestival Of The SunThe Plot, Melbourne Music Week, Splendour In The GrassSt Kilda Festival, Listen Out, Strawberry FieldsParadise Music FestivalQueenscliff Music Festival 2016, NYE On The Hill 2016, Pitch Music Festival 2017, Groovin’ The Moo 2017 and VIVID 2017.

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ALICE IVY

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Alice Ivy ‘I’m Dreaming’

National Headline Tour

Special Guests Announced & Tickets On Sale Now

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FRI 16 FEB – HUDSON BALLROOM – SYDNEY, NSW
w/ special guests Nasty Mars & Oh Boy
Tickets

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 FRI 23 FEB – BLACK BEAR LODGE – BRISBANE, QLD
w/ special guests Nasty Mars & Keelan Mak
Tickets

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SAT 24 FEB – HOWLER – MELBOURNE, VIC
w/ special guests Nasty Mars & The Martians, François, Sophiegrophy and more TBA
Tickets

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FRI 2 MAR – ROCKET BAR – ADELAIDE, SA
w/ special guests TBA
Tickets

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SAT 3 MAR – MR LONELY – PERTH, WA
w/ special guests TBA
Tickets

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THU 29 MAR – STAR BAR – BENDIGO, VIC
w/ special guests TBA
Tickets

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ALSO APPEARING AT:

FRI 9 MARCH/SAT 10 MARCH – PANAMA FESTIVAL, TAS
SUN 11 – 18 MARCH – SXSW 2018 – AUSTIN, TEXAS USA
23 – 25 MARCH – THE HILLS ARE ALIVE – VIC
+ MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED

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ALICE IVY

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Alice Ivy

I’m Dreaming

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1.  Touch (feat. Georgia Van Etten)
2. Be Friends (feat. Cazeaux O.S.L.O. & Tim De Cotta)
3. Chasing Stars (feat. Bertie Blackman)
4. St. Germain
5. Charlie
6. Bella
7. Almost Here (feat. RaRa)
8. Get Me A Drink (feat. E^ST & Charlie Threads)
9. St. Germain II
10. I’m Dreaming (feat. Georgia Van Etten)
11. Kaya High

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I’m Dreaming To Be Released February 9, 2018

‘Chasing Stars’ Out Now

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AMNPLIFY – GD

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