Ogoya Nengo & Odd Okoddo team up for collaborative album Palagoma

11 March 2026

 

Kenyan folk icon Ogoya Nengo has joined forces with experimental duo Odd Okoddo for a new collaborative album titled Palagoma. The record arrives on June 5th through From Cool Waters, bringing together artists from different generations and musical backgrounds in one striking project. Now 83, Nengo is one of the most distinctive voices in Kenyan folk music, and Odd Okoddo is the project of drummer and producer Sven Kacirek and singer, songwriter and instrument builder Olith Ratego. Palagoma is the first time all three artists come together for a full project but they are no strangers to one another. Nengo first met Kacirek in 2009 whilst recording The Kenya Sessions, and credits him as influential getting her career started. “That is why I like Sven, because Sven lift me up. I took him like my son, and Sven took me like his mother,” she says. Kacirek had also previously worked with Nengo on her 2014 debut Rang’ala, and he and Ratego launched Odd Okoddo in 2018 and have performed internationally since then, including at Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Festival.

Palagoma blends folk traditions, rhythm experiments, and minimal electronic production. On the album, Kacirek builds atmospheric foundations with percussion, modular synths and marimba textures, and the vocals draw from the Luo community’s dodo singing tradition. Singing in Dholuo, Ratego describes his style as “dodo blues,” a personal interpretation of the tradition he learned from his mother. Alongside him, Nengo’s powerful vocals bring decades of experience and emotional weight. Across the record, the trio explore themes of love, struggle, identity and resilience.

Ahead of the album’s release, Ogoya Nengo & Odd Okoddo have shared the first single from the album, ‘Bara’, an energetic and rhythmic track, driven by call-and-response vocals inspired by dodo music. The single is offered with a live video, offering a first glimpse at the trio performing the new material together. Watch it below.

Danalogue announces debut solo album, Teleportations

10 March 2026

Photo: Dan Medhurst

Dan Leavers, better known as Danalogue, has spent years shaping the UK’s adventurous jazz and electronic underground. Known as one the driving forces behind The Comet Is Coming, as well as one half of Soccer96 and a member of Flock, the trailblazing synthesist, collaborator and producer is a core figure of East London’s Total Refreshment Centre community, and has worked with artists such as Sarathy Korwar, Snapped Ankles, Alabaster DePlume, Momoko Gill and Rozi Plain, amongst many others.

Back in November, Danalogue shared his debut solo single, ‘Sonic Hypnosis’ and hinted at a new album. Now, details of his debut solo album have finally emerged. Entitled Teleportations, the record was entirely performed by him, using mostly vintage analogue gear, including instruments such as the Roland Juno-60, SH-09 and Jupiter-4, alongside Oberheim synths and old samplers. According to the press release, Danalogue embraced the limitations and tactility of older machines as a way of forging a “time bridge” with earlier eras of electronic experimentation, not to recreate the past, but to imagine “travelling back with modern sensibilities and telling the future through old machines”. Science fiction plays a central role in the album, with Danalogue drawing inspiration from ideas around astral travel, theta brainwaves and collective consciousness, as well as from the work of figures like Jean Giraud, Ernst Bloch and Hayao Miyazaki. The mythology extends further through a short story written alongside the record, imagining an advanced lifeform capable of converging brainwaves into a shared stream of consciousness and travelling across space. Danlogue’s idea was to invite listeners to a “teleportation programme”, where sound and motion guide them through shifting emotional states. Teleportations is described as “a warm, playful and immersive album that transforms endings, grief and personal upheaval into a vivid science-fictional voyage of escape, healing and renewal.”

Musically, the upcoming record draws from celestial ambience, kosmische electronics, space disco, jazz-funk and deep Detroit house, and Danalogue cites artists such as Joe Meek, Wendy Carlos, Isao Tomita, Laurie Spiegel, Mort Garson and Terry Riley, and groups like Harmonia and Kluster, as influences.

We’ll have to wait until May 29th for Teleportations to be out through Castles in Space but we can already hear the first single, ‘Far Beyond The Sun’, a sensual and hypnotic space-age ballad about crossing the galaxy to meet a loved one in the afterlife. The single comes with accompanying visuals made by Charles Prest. Watch it now.

Irreversible Entanglements’s fifth album, Future Present Past, out later this month

08 March 2026

Photo: Annemone Take

Free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements are back with their fifth studio album, Future Present Past, due out on March 27th through Impulse! Records. The follow-up to 2023’s Protect Your Light was mostly recorded at the historic Van Gelder Studio in October 2024, where the quintet of Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), Luke Stewart, Aquiles Navarro, Keir Neuringer, and Tcheser Holmes captured their signature blend of free jazz, diasporic liberation music, global rhythms, and spoken word. The record features longtime collaborator MOTHERBOARD, as well as guest appearances from Helado Negro.

In a statement, Irreversible Entanglements described the spirit behind the album:

“The weight of a certain world can feel cruel and unusual. Another world uplifts. We form as five and transform into billions. Billions of us on this planet sharing this journey through existence—futures full of possibility and potential, the present with all its anxieties and uncertainties, pasts as wellsprings of ancestral wisdom and histories’ warnings.

This album is five standing on the shoulders of legions. The healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing, and balancing the frequencies of this planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.

We assume our role in this music as messengers, continuing in the tradition’s long march along the arc of the universe. Freedom fighters telling us not to lose our heads amidst imposed chaos. It is our duty to vibrate higher, beyond the noise, above the hype, away from the novelty, over the walls, across the borders: to keep going.

The spirit moves us to sing these fight songs, to sing fight songs, we overcome. To hold on, to keep going, together we overcome.”

The quintet had previously shared a couple of singles, ‘Don’t Lose Your Head’ and ‘Vibrate Higher’, both featuring MOTHERBOARD, and last week they dropped a third cut from the upcoming Future Present Past titled ‘Juntos Vencemos’, featuring Helado Negro. All three tracks are paired with visualizers. Check them all out below for a taste of what’s coming.

Listen to Dijf Sanders’ new single ‘Mountain On The Hill’

06 March 2026

Last month, Belgian producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Dijf Sanders announced the release of his much anticipated new album Tangkoa II, due out on May 8th through Unday Records. Alongside the announcement, Sanders teased the album with the entrancing and enthralling lead single ‘Mooning‘. Now he’s raising the bar of excitement with the bewitching ‘Mountain On The Hill’, described by Sanders as “a soothing electro acoustic jazz track that meanders through its own existence”. Take a listen below.

Dorian Wood announces new album, Canto de Todes; shares video for lead single “Girasoles”

05 March 2026

Los Angeles-based anti-disciplinary artist Dorian Wood is well known for creating work that pushes against tradition and challenges systems of marginalization. Over the years, moving fluidly between performance, composition, film, and visual art, she has built a reputation for powerful community-centred projects. Today she is announcing one of her most ambitious releases yet, Canto de Todes, which translates to “Song of Everyone”, and is inspired by a lyric from Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra, reflecting the project’s emphasis on community, ancestry, and music as a force for social change. The work also honours Wood’s Costa Rican-Nicaraguan roots and her family’s experience in the United States.

Releasing on May 1st through New Amsterdam Records, the album is a 70-minute distillation of Wood’s sprawling 12-hour composition and installation of the same name. Originally conceived as a three-movement work, and rooted in the idea of music as a shared communal force, the full version includes two hour-long chamber sections and a 10-hour multi-channel piece designed to unfold across different parts of a venue, immersing listeners in sound over time and space. The recorded version gathers music from all three movements, reshaped into a focused and richly layered album experience. Blending chamber classical, folk, torch song, and experimental elements, Canto de Todes centres on Wood’s powerful voice alongside cello quartet, guitar, and exploratory vocal arrangements. The forthcoming album also captures what Wood calls the “fifth mutation” of the project, as the work has been designed to transform with every presentation, incorporating local collaborators and new elements each time. Wood explains:

“I created this project with the freedom to mutate as it went along. Every presentation is custom-modified for each institution, and counts on collaborations with local artists of all mediums, whose respective interactions are permanently incorporated into the body of this evolving piece. By the fifth iteration we had this version that I wanted to commit to recording that takes elements from what Canto De Todes has been evolving into.”

She adds:

“I’m a firm believer in the strength that we can derive communally through celebration. When I say ‘we’ I refer to the People of the Global Majority—those who are not obsessed with being of a privileged class. I would love for us of the Global Majority to remember who we are and imagine the massive street party that we are capable of throwing. Every single protest, street party, rally, and manifestation, is us coming together in anger, frustration, and celebration to keep us going.”

Alongside the album announcement, Wood is also sharing the utterly stunning and moving lead single, “Girasoles”, a song channeling collective strength and resistance. “Girasoles is an accumulation of all this ancestral energy which is coming out into the streets to pick a fight,” says Wood. The single comes paired with a self-directed video built from more than 300 archival family photographs.  About the video, Wood explains:

“The “Girasoles” video is a journey through my family’s generational resilience. Over 300 photos date back to our origins in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, bringing us into the present as proud, fearless babies holding our own in the shitstorm that is the United States. The song is a joyful ‘fuck you’ to fascism, to gentrification, to all forms of age-old governmental oppression. I felt it aligned with the mighty ancestral endurance so many of us have been carved from.”

Watch the video below.

Monolithe Noir releases fourth full-length album, La foi gelée

04 March 2026

Back in 2022, Monolithe Noir, the project of Antoine Pasqualini, released Rin, a cosmically entrancing and groovy record inspired by the landscapes of Brittany that completely drew us in and ended up being one of our Albums Picks of the Year. Four years on, he’s back with a fourth full-length, La foi gelée, which just came out last week. Written and recorded between Brest and Brussels, Monolithe Noir’s new album is his most vocal and most direct to date. More emotional thematically, La foi gelée deals with grief, but it is also feels bright and alive. There is also a shift in the sound on the album. As the press release describes, “synths now intertwine with saturated guitars and bowed strings; the bass takes center stage, while the voice shifts between fragility and striking directness.”

Head over to his bandcamp to grab the album and check out ‘Long Bridge’, the stellar opening track below. A song about a urban chase of a lost animal friend, it is offered with an accompanying video.

La foi gelée is out now through Humpty Dumpty and Les cloches d’Atlantis.