Moor Mother unveils new single & video ‘All the Money’

20 February 2024

Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, announced last month the release of her ninth album, The Great Bailout, out March 8th through ANTI-. With the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act and the 1835 Slavery Abolition Act acting as the backdrop for the album, the composer, poet, vocalist and educator offers an incisive reflection on the brutality of British slavery, including paid reparations to slave owners.

Following the delicate, spectral, and sublime ‘Guilty’, Moor Mother has shared second single ‘All the Money’. Compelling and affecting alike, a sinister tone lurks throughout. Listing British iconic landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Big Ben, The Tower of London, The British Museum or The Palace of Westminster, Ayewa asks, “where’d they get all the money?”. ‘All the Money’ features British-Iraqi dramatic soprano, opera composer and producer Alya Al Sultani and it comes with an accompanying video directed by filmmaker and multimedia artist Cauleen Smith. Watch it below.

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble preview upcoming album,Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, with third single ‘Open Me’

15 February 2024

Photo: Christopher Andrew

We’re only three weeks away from the release of Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, a special new album celebrating the epic feat that is Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble‘s 50th anniversary. Ahead of the album’s release on March 8th through Spiritmuse Records, they have shared a third marvellous single, the closing track ‘Open Me’, only adding further to the excitement. El’Zabar, who wrote the track in honour of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 50-year career, performed most of the instruments. Speaking about the track, he comments:

“‘Open Me’ is a meditation upon the acceptance of abundant possibilities. I wrote this music as an entry into humble beginnings of openness, where we can once again be free and let go of all barriers. Here, I’m asking of the Divine Spirit to guide and inspire within us a passageway to higher forms of expression.”

Listen to ‘Open Me’ below.

FYEAR’s eponymous debut album out in April

07 February 2024

Photo: Frank Schemmann

FYEAR is a Montréal-based supergroup of sorts led by electroacoustic composer Jason Sharp and poet/writer Kaie Kellough, and currently featuring poet, writer, and activist Tawhida Tanya Evanson (director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word program), violinists Josh Zubot and Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Darius Jones, Joshua Hyslop), pedal steel player Joe Grass (Tim Hecker, Patrick Watson), drummers Stefan Schneider (Bell Orchestre) and Tommy Crane (The Mingus Big Band, Aaron Parks). The nine-piece have announced the release of their self-titled debut album, a 45-minute work fusing spoken word, out-jazz, post-classical, drone, ambient metal, avant-rock and modular synthesis.

Thematically the upcoming record was written against the backdrop of our political and social state of affairs and it “interrogates our present and future post-capitalist polycrisis, invoking collective anxieties, emotions, and critiques”, as the press release describes. FYEAR, it adds, express and embody these themes sonically on an album where “contemplative, disquieted, and visceral readings of our struggles, fictions, shackles, desires, neuroses and freedoms unspool through a fervid artistic lens that brims with thought, feeling, and urgency.”

FYEAR arrives on April 5th through Constellation and ahead of it we can hear a first mesmerizing taste in the shape of ‘Pt I: Trajectory’. The single is offered with a video made by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. Watch it below.

Marie Klock set to release new album, Damien est vivant, in March

06 February 2024

French multi-talented chanteuse and multi-instrumentalist Marie Klock has announced the release of a new full-length album, four years on from the release of her self-titled debut album. Entitled Damien est vivant, the upcoming record is named after Klock’s close friend and collaborator Damien Schultz, and was written as an earnest tribute in the aftermath of his recent passing.
Through the album’s ten songs, Klock demonstrates her stylistic versatility and talent for composing intimate and emotive songs leavened with idiosyncratic pop melodies and devastatingly funny lyrics. As the press release desribes, Damien est vivant is a “celebration of the unique bond they shared, in past and present.”

We’ll have to wait until March 29th for the album to be out through Pingipung but we can already hear ‘Se goinfrer de rage’, which serves as a fascinating and intriguing first single. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by Marie Barat and you can watch it below.


Dorian Dumont teases upcoming album, to the APhEX, with new single ‘180db_ [130]’

05 February 2024

Dorian Dumont has been cultivating a unique path in the vibrant Belgian jazz scene, both solo and in various projects. In keeping with his fascination with his musical hero, Aphex Twin, the incredibly talented and skilled pianist is gearing up to release to the APhEX, his new LP following 2021’s APHEXionS. Last month Dumont shared the utterly stunning lead single ‘Windowlicker’, and as if we weren’t excited enough for the release of to the APhEX, he has now unveiled an enigmatic and moving new single titled ‘180db_ [130]’. Take a listen below and watch out for the album release on February 23rd through W.E.R.F. Records.

Listen to Sedibus’ third and final single, ‘SETI Pt. 2’, off upcoming album SETI

02 February 2024

Sedibus, the collaborative project of Alex Paterson and Andy Falconer of The Orb, announced the release of their new album, SETI, at the tail end of last year, and shared then the beautiful and creamy lead single ‘Purgatory’. As we near the album’s release date on February 23rd through Orbscure Recordings, Sedibus have unveiled a third and final single from the record called ‘SETI Pt. 2’ and you can listen to it below.