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Matt Evans announces second album, touchless, and shares first single ‘Arcto 2’

06 May 2021

Photo: Gregory Wikstrom

One of our favourite albums released last year, New Topographics, came from the hands of ingenious Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist and composer Matt Evans, so we’re delighted to know he’s ready to follow it up with a new album. Entitled touchless, the forthcoming album was written between 2019 and 2020 after the loss of his partner, sculptor and eco-feminist artist Devra Freelander. A moving creation that reflects and transmutes grief and loss into a work of art, the album came to life as “a way for Evans to externalize his experiences and make them real outside of himself” and “crystallize some sentiment from the last few years” as the press release describes. “Ultimately, it’s his way of reaching through the void to touch something lost, and to remember how real those experiences are.”

touchless will see the light of day on June 25th through Whatever’s Clever Records but we can already wrap our ears around the first single ‘Arcto 2’, a delicate, poignant and beautiful track. It comes with a striking video made by Evans, featuring landscape footage shot by Devra in 2017 in Norway. Through the video, “Evans questions the phenomenology of touch, reaching to transcend the boundaries of the physical to embody touch (of landscape, of those we’ve lost) while being touchless.” Here it is.

Listen to Masayoshi Fujita’s third single ‘Morocco’, new album incoming on May 28th

05 May 2021

Scheduled for release later this month via Erased Tapes, Bird Ambience is the beautiful and beguiling new album from master vibraphonist, multi-percussionist, and composer Masayoshi Fujita. Following two magnificent singles, ‘Thunder‘ and the title track, Fujita is giving us another extraordinary taste from the album with ‘Morocco’, a cinematic track that gently whisk us away on a voyage of wonder and delight. Take a listen now.

Bird Ambience is out on May 28th through Erased Tapes.

Typical Sisters set to release third full-length album Love Beam

03 May 2021

Photo: Alexa Viscius

Living in different parts of the globe, Typical Sisters have cultivated a creative and personal affinity for each other over the last decade. The trio of guitarist Gregory Uhlmann, bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Matt Carroll have announced the release of their third album, Love Beam, set for release on July 9th through Joyful Noise Recordings. The album is described as “a celebration of the nourishment they receive from each other in both collaboration and friendship”, despite the distance that separates them. Love Beam, continues the press release, “presents a kaleidoscope of glitchy acoustic timbres, warbly guitar melodies, and crunchy drum loops merging the worlds of improvised jazz and lo-fi bedroom production.”

Along with the news, Typical Sisters have shared the first single, ‘Well Done’. Take a listen below.

Fly Pan Am share accompanying video for new single ‘Grid / Wall’

30 April 2021

Fly Pan Am are getting ready to unveil Frontera, their new album originally composed as a soundtrack to a contemporary dance piece of the same name. Following the first single ‘Scanner’, the Canadian quartet are enticing us again with the album’s opening track ‘Grid / Wall’, which also opened the dance production. ‘Grid / Wall’ is offered with a video that gives a perfect window into the live multi-media show, with the 10 dancers and Fly Pan Am performing on stage. The video was created by Montréal creative/design duo Huot & Vallentin, and you can watch it below.

Frontera is out on May 21st through Constellation

Booker Stardrum announces third album Crater

28 April 2021

Drumming wizard, improviser and composer Booker Stardrum has been on a roll as of late. Following an exciting collaborative album with Lisel released earlier this month⁠, Stardrum is making a return to his namesake solo project with a much anticipated third album. Entitled Crater, the album arrives on July 2nd through NNA Tapes. As with most of his other works, percussion is at the core of album, yet, as the press release describes, Crater comprises “not just percussive phrases, but melodies, textures, sound, noise, and the cracks and crevices of vacant space between these bodies.”
Along with the announcement, Stardrum has let loose the first single ‘Diorama’. Take a listen below.

STUFF. preview upcoming album with new single ‘Waksi’

26 April 2021

Photo: Alexander Popelier

We first fell in love with STUFF. thanks to their 2017 phenomenal album, Old Dreams, New Planets, and cemented this inclination the following year when they took their irresistible and scorching dance party to Le Guess Who?. And we couldn’t more excited about their upcoming third album, T(h)reats, releasing on May 7th through Sdban Ultra. The Belgian instrumental five-piece had already enticed us with the outlandish and exhilarating ‘Honu’, and there’s a new single now streaming called ‘Waksi’. They commented:

“Waksi was a track edited from a long jam. It was a very spontaneous take. We were listening to one of our musical heroes Betty Davis almost every lunchbreak during our recording sessions. That might have had some influence. And there was a fire-alarm ringing in the studio as the CR2032 9V battery needed to be replaced. If you listen closely you can hear some kids playing outside in the midst of the track.”

Listen to ‘Waksi’ below.