Floating Points has today shared a new single, “Del Oro”, which is out now via Ninja Tune. As with ‘Birth4000’, ‘Del Oro”s artwork comes from Tokyo based artist Akiko Nakayama. Nakayama brings her painting to life using vibrant, brilliant liquids that combine and wash away, meant to represent the natural growth, change and life cycle of all things on earth. Nakayama worked alongside long-time Floating Points collaborators Hamill Industries to create the “Alive Painting” to accompany the track.

Sam Shepherd AKA: Floating Points will be playing a number of dates throughout the summer including playing at London’s All Points East, We Out Here Festival, Lost Village Festival and Forwards Festival. Last year at Hollywood Bowl he played Mercury Prize nominated masterpiece Promises for the first and only time alongside an all-star cast of players that included Shabaka Hutchings, Kieran Hebden, Dan Snaith, Kara Lis Coverdale and Hinako Omori with Miguel Atwood Ferguson conducting.

Floating Points recently composed his first ballet for symphony orchestra and electronics, Mere Mortals, which was performed by the San Francisco Ballet in collaboration with artistic director Tamara Tojo and choreographer Aszure Barton and Hamill Industries. The ballet premiered at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House in January, returning for another run in April with all 14 shows so far sold out.

Floating Points 2024 Tour dates:

08 Jun – Stockholm, SE @ Department
09 Jun – Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret
15 Jun – Barcelona, ES @ Sonar By Night
21 Jun – Igar, HU @ DAAD Gathering
30 Jun – Perk, BE @ Paradise City Festival
05 Jul – Turin, IT @ Kappa Futur (B2B w/ Four Tet)
06 Jul – Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Festival
12 Jul – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive
13 Jul – Bilbao, ES @ BBK
20 Jul – Istanbul, TR – Babylon Sound Garden Festival
26 Jul – Niigata, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival
03 Aug – Waterford, IE @ All Together Now
16 Aug – Wimborne @ We Out Here Festival
23 Aug – London @ All Points East
24 Aug – Lincoln @ Lost Village Festival
31 Aug – Bristol @ Forwards Festival
20 Sep – Philadelphia, PA Making Time
21 Sep – Los Angeles, CA @ Boiler Room
29 Sep – San Francisco, CA @ Portola Festival

order “Del Oro” HERE