BONOBO RELEASES ‘DISTANCE IN STATIC’, OUT NOW FEATURING AROOJ AFTAB, JOY CROOKES, NILÜFER YANYA, ICHIKO AOBA, KANAKO YAMAMOTO, NICOLE MIGLIS AND AANYA MARTIN

Simon Green aka Bonobo has today released ‘Distance in Static’, a record that represents the culmination of over 25 years as a recording artist, and one of the leading voices in electronic music. He is also set to embark on a run of dates for his brand new Bonobo Live show across North America – taking place in November and December this year, including stops at Brooklyn Paramount (New York), The Wiltern (Los Angeles), First Avenue (Minneapolis), Emo’s (Austin) and more. The show will deliver another evolution in the Bonobo live experience that has captivated fans across the globe for more than a decade. See below and here for a full list of dates and ticket details.

The album includes all of the standout singles released to date – “Fire on the Water” featuring Arooj Aftab, “Talk To Me” featuring Nicole Miglis, “Always On Your Side”  featuring Joy Crookes, “Me and You” and “Drift” – plus additional collaborations with Nilüfer Yanya, Ichiko Aoba, Kanako Yamamoto and Aanya Martin. Lyrics appear in English, Urdu and Japanese, while historic Iranian samples and guzheng recordings sit alongside Green’s own meticulously processed instrumentation, woven together across recording sessions spanning LA, Tokyo, London and beyond – with elements of the record also completed at Neil Young’s legendary Broken Arrow Ranch in California, where he holed up for several weeks earlier this year.

At the heart of ‘Distance in Static’ is a sense of duality – of Green as both live artist and DJ, introspective composer and club-focussed selector. It’s a record that is full of depth, detail and emotion; both beautiful and banging; quintessentially Bonobo, yet pushing beyond the contours of what a Bonobo album has traditionally been. “I want to reinforce this idea that you can be more than one thing,” Green explains.

The title of the record is perhaps also an appropriate indicator for where Green finds himself now, evoking images of fuzzy transmissions and transient frequencies; fragments of memory and meaning echoing back through more than two decades at the forefront of electronic music. He sees the traces of his own work reflected in a younger generation rediscovering 90s trip-hop, downtempo and leftfield electronic music through a contemporary lens. “I think the front end of what I’ve done has now become something that’s referential to younger people,” he says. “I liked the idea of listening for a distant signal — trying to find something in the noise,” he continues, and there’s a sense throughout the record of searching for transcendence: music suspended somewhere between intimacy and scale, the familiar and the unknown.

The album’s visual world – which runs through all the artwork across the album and tour and also carries many of these themes – is created alongside celebrated designer Trevor Jackson. Moving away from the landscape-inspired aesthetics of earlier Bonobo records, ‘Distance in Static’ instead draws on microscopic photography by renowned photomicrographer John I. Koivula, creating crystalline alien worlds that feel simultaneously natural and otherworldly.

Buried within the ‘Distance in Static’ universe, there is also a sense that this record – and particularly the accompanying live tour – marks something quite monumental, too. It’s a moment of transition, a celebration of Bonobo’s 25 years, but also, perhaps his last record in the traditional sense: complete with expansive guest features and a multi-year full live-band world tour. “It’s probably the last go-around the track in this format,” he admits. And on the future? “I don’t know what that will look like just yet, but It’s really about me redefining how to be a musician from here.”

‘Distance In Static’ Tracklist
1. Dawn
2. Cycles
3. Fire on the Water (feat. Arooj Aftab)
4. Drift
5. Talk to Me (feat. Nicole Miglis)
6. Uncasually
7. Always on Your Side (feat. Joy Crookes)
8. Youth’s Fountain (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
9. Shokoufeh
10. Can’t You See (feat. Aanya Martin)
11. ID700
12. Me and You
13. Equinoctial (feat. Ichiko Aoba)
14. Mercury (feat. Kanako Yamamoto)

BONOBO LIVE TOUR 2026/27

NORTH AMERICA 2026
Thu 05 Nov 2026 – Emo’s – Austin, TX, US
Fri 06 Nov 2026 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX, US
Sat 07 Nov 2026 – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall – Dallas, TX, US
Mon 09 Nov 2026 – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ, US
Wed 11 Nov 2026 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA, US
Thu 12 Nov 2026 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA, US
Sat 14 Nov 2026 – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA, US
Sun 15 Nov 2026 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR, US
Mon 16 Nov 2026 – PNE Forum – Vancouver, BC, CA
Tue 17 Nov 2026 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA, US
Thu 19 Nov 2026 – Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO, US
Fri 20 Nov 2026 – Belly Up Aspen – Aspen, CO, US
Tue 24 Nov 2026 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN, US
Wed 25 Nov 2026 – Radius – Chicago, IL, US
Thu 26 Nov 2026 – HISTORY – Toronto, ON, CA
Fri 27 Nov 2026 – MTELUS – Montreal, QC, CA
Sat 28 Nov 2026 – Citizens House of Blues – Boston, MA, US
Mon 30 Nov 2026 – Higher Ground Ballroom – South Burlington, VT, US
Tue 01 Dec 2026 – State Theatre – Portland, ME, US
Thu 03 Dec 2026 – The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD, US
Fri 04 Dec 2026 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA, US
Sat 05 Dec 2026 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY, US

UK + EU 2027
Wed 03 Feb 2027 – O2 City Hall – Newcastle, UK
Fri 05 Feb 2027 – Aviva Studios – Manchester, UK
Sat 06 Feb 2027 – Brighton Centre – Brighton, UK
Fri 12 Feb 2027 – Barrowland Ballroom – Glasgow, UK
Tue 16 Feb 2027 – The National Stadium – Dublin, IE
Thu 18 Feb 2027 – The Prospect Building – Bristol, UK
Fri 26 Feb 2027 – Alexandra Palace – London, UK
Thu 04 Mar 2027 – Cirque Royal – Brussels, BE
Fri 05 Mar 2027 – Gashouder – Amsterdam, NL
Tue 09 Mar 2027 – Georg Elser Halle – Hamburg, DE
Wed 10 Mar 2027 – COS Torwar – Warsaw, PL
Thu 11 Mar 2027 – Uber Eats Music Hall – Berlin, DE
Sat 13 Mar 2027 – Hala Olivia – Gdańsk, PL
Tue 16 Mar 2027 – Hala Stulecia – Wrocław, PL
Wed 17 Mar 2027 – Forum Karlín – Prague, CZ
Thu 18 Mar 2027 – Gasometer – Vienna, AT
Sun 21 Mar 2027 – TonHalle – Munich, DE
Tue 23 Mar 2027 – X-TRA – Zürich, CH
Wed 24 Mar 2027 – Fabrique – Milan, IT
Fri 26 Mar 2027 – Salle Pleyel – Paris, FR