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Listen to Sandro Perri’s new single ‘Wrong About The Rain’

27 August 2019

Soft Landing, the new album from the ever so wonderful and inventive Sandro Perri is just around the corner. Perri had already enticed us with an excerpt of the warm and sublime 16-minute opening track ‘Time (You Got Me)‘. Ahead of the album’s release on September 6th through Constellation, he has shared the divine second single ‘Wrong About The Rain’.

Preceding the release of Soft Landing, Sandro Perri is heading to the UK for three special shows, marking his first European solo shows in seven years. Take a look at all his stops below:

1st September – Larmer Tree Gardens @ End Of The Road Festival
4th September – Coventry @ The Tin at The Coal Vaults
5th September – London @ Kings Place

Alev Lenz’s third album 3 out in September

26 August 2019

Photo: Lee Kirby

London based German-Turkish composer and producer Alev Lenz has been making waves owing to her extraordinary creativity, with voice, piano, and experimental electronics taking a central place. She has a third album on the way aptly titled 3 and slated for a September 27th release through SA Recordings. Featuring twelve songs, mostly acapella, 3 is “an exploration of empowerment and recent motherhood, a powerful stripped-down work birthed through creative necessity and the challenges fresh parenthood brings”, describes the press release. “After becoming a first-time mother, Alev filled her notebooks with poems, drawings and music; ‘3’ is the culmination of necessity, limitations and desires of this moment in her life.”

Earlier this month, and following the release of ‘May the Angels’, Lenz released the album’s second single ‘The Chair’, serving as an ode to American writer, feminist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde and her text ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House’. Take a listen to both now.


Listen to a new track from Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith’s upcoming Songs from the Bardo

21 August 2019

Following the immersive and contemplative ‘Lotus Born, No Need to Fear‘, Smithsonian Folkways are offering a new taste from the upcoming Songs from the Bardo, the collaborative long-form composition that brings together pioneering avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson, Tibetan singer and multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and activist and composer Jesse Paris Smith. The new track is called ‘Listen Without Distraction’ and you can listen to it below.

Songs from the Bardo will be released on September 27th through Smithsonian Folkways

Manu Delago teases upcoming album with video for new single ‘Zeitgeber’

09 August 2019

Staggeringly talented Austrian percussionist and composer Manu Delago has a much anticipated new record on the way, Circadian, and last month he enticed us with the bewitching lead single ‘The Silent Flight of the Owl’. As if we needed any more reasons to be excited for the release of Circadian, Delago has unveiled an explosive masterpiece of a song called ‘Zeitgeber’. Circadian is inspired by the concept of the body’s internal clock known as Circadian rhythms, and ‘Zeitgeber’ “represents the morning hours – a sort of ‘musical alarm clock’”, as Delago explained. Picked as the album’s closing track, ‘Zeitgeber’ “starts another precious day.” There’s a terrific video accompanying the track, directed by Jeb Hardwick. Watch it below.

Circadian is out on September 13th through One Little Indian Records