Friends In Noise, a new album of collaborations between Black Market Karma and friends: The Underground Youth, Les Big Byrd/Joakim Ahlund, Tess Parks, The Confederate Dead & Ruari Meehan. Here's a bit about the album and it's inception from Stan
 
"Friends In Noise is a record of collaborations that came to life in a pretty hands-off way, at least for the most part. I never set out to make this album, as in it wasn't something pre-meditated but through my travels with BMK, meeting and becoming friends with many great musicians, it was always inevitable.
 
It can be traced back as early as 2011, making up music on the fly in the studio with a close and old friend, Ruari Meehan. This groove came together and we recorded a VERY rough take of it with one mic in the middle of the room. Two guitar lines and no vocal melody or lyrics. I always felt there was really something there with that track but it ended up being shelved for years. 
 
Jump to 2013 when I met Joakim Ahlund at a show his band mate Frans Johansson had organised for us in Stockholm. A few months later we toured around Ireland with their group Les Big Byrd, becoming good friends. Upon the release of our 5th album Jocke got in touch with me about the idea of remixing it's opening track 'Heady Ideas' 
I loved what he did and decided to do my own remix of their song 'War In The Streets' in return. 
 
The next stage of this thing happened when Tess Parks reached out about our music and told us she was coming to play in the UK. We organised a tour together and became friends (there's a theme here) 
We often went to the studio to hang out in our down time between shows and ended up writing and recording some songs together, 'Sky Was All Diseased' being the track that made it onto Friends In Noise. 
 
By this point I had 3 finished collaborations and decided to try and turn it into a full record, starting with the task of finishing that first song with Ruari. A melody and lyrics finally came to me and we got together to do a proper studio recording of 'Aping Flair' 
 
The last piece came via two friends I'd known for a long time. Craig Dyer of The Underground Youth and Butchy Davy of The Confederate Dead. Craig and I had briefly mentioned the idea of making some music together in the past but it never came to be. He lives in Berlin so I contacted him and we made managed to make 'Wonky' happen over the web. Lastly Butchy came to the BMK studio with an unfinished, instrumental demo and we worked on it together. The result was Ageing Boy. 
 
So in summary, Friends In Noise has technically been 9 years in the making and it feels pretty special to finally have it here"