The Benefit Of Humans

by Pravda

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1.	Love Is Calling 04:40	buy track
2.	Let's Travel The World, Girl 03:37	buy track
3.	Number 9 Will Surprise You 04:47	buy track
4.	Many Lifetimes 03:51	buy track
5.	Dancing On My Gravestone 03:30	buy track
6.	Hold On 04:35	buy track
7.	Wannabe 04:23	buy track
8.	Everybody's Doing Gin 03:12	buy track
9.	Restless Day 03:24	buy track

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The Benefit Of Humans is the first full-length album by Cape Town band Pravda. The 9-track collection of independently produced songs presents a wide spectrum of musical styles.

Each song represents a moment in time for the band's songwriter John Bartmann, ranging from 80s pop and leftfield electronica to acoustic ballad and bossa nova. Showing a fiercely experimental approach towards songwriting and production, the album is a triumph of invention for a group of artists that seem unable to settle into the convenience of repetition.

In The Benefit Of Humans, we have a rare glimpse of the intersection between modern DIY creator culture and the primal nature of music as an essentially uncategorizable experience. The album is dedicated to those fellow Capetonians who share in love, travel, mountains, friendship, music and the great, unknowable outdoors.

For more on what Pravda stands for, visit pravdaofficial.com/blog

credits

released December 11, 2020

John Bartmann: vocals, guitar, violin, keyboard
Django Flaherty: drums, percussion, production
Callan Wolff: double bass
Gareth Harvey: saxophones, flute
Muneeb Hermans: trumpet

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Pravda Cape Town, South Africa

Love, travel, friendship, mountains and music. Since 2009, the obscure, outdoorsy outfit Pravda (“The Truth”) has been the creative outlet and meandering passion project of persevering songwriter/producer John Bartmann. Ultimately, Pravda represents something we all feel deeply – a quest to find the people that matter. And to thank them – to thank you – for believing in something that matters. ... more

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