After sharing lead track ‘Walkie Talkie’, Philadelphia’s four piece Palm are teasing their upcoming EP again with the title track ‘Shadow Expert’. “Emotional yet clinical, wild yet contained,” describes a press release, “the sounds they offer are equally bizarre as they are pleasantly pretty.”
The 6-track EP arrives on June 16th through Carpark Records and it will be available in the usual formats, including a limited edition dark blue vinyl.
Take a listen to ‘Shadow Expert’ and ‘Walkie Takie’ below for a double taste of what you’re in for.
Diagrams, the project of Sam Genders, has just released a new full-length album last Friday through Bookshop Records. Entitled Dorothy, the album is named after Dorothy Trogdon, the 90-year old American poet with whom he collaborated to bring this album to life. With both interested and writing about similar subjects, and after turning one of her poems into a song, Genders asked her to help him write some songs. Dorothy explains how she felt about the project:
“As Sam reached out to me, I quickly felt my work was in respectful hands. We understood each other, were compatible in our means of expression. When we finally met in person here on Orcas Island, so far away from Britain, our friendship only deepened. My poems were out in the world seeking a reader, they met Sam who replied with music and a conversation began. Which is how all creation starts. We make nothing new alone.”
Coinciding with the album’s release, Diagrams has unveiled a video for the beautiful and jubilant third single ‘I Tell Myself’, directed by Ewan Jones-Morris. “The song is partly about accepting all those millions of thoughts and perceptions that move through our consciousness from moment to moment,” explained Genders. “The video is full of colour and light and has that sense of everything constantly changing.”
The latest offering from Erased Tapes comes from the hands of two incredible composers, Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano, who were brought together to compose the score for Everything, a video game created by Irish animator David O’Reilly’s and narrated by the late British philosopher Alan Watts. An interactive experience and simulation game, Everything lets the player explore everything. Whether it’s plants or animals or galaxies, the player can take the role of anything and simply be it.
“Composing something quite modular yet coherent that connects with the idea and fabric of the game was quite a task”, explained Boysen. “We discussed many approaches, from really mathematical and direct, to abstract and philosophical, and we ended up with a mixture of both. Every element depends and builds on another and connects to previous and following songs. May it be on a compositional or on an abstract and conceptual level, the game and the music follow the same path and shares almost the same inspirational DNA”.
Everything will be out physically on July 28th and ahead of it Boysen and Plano have shared a track from it, the magnificent ‘Winding and Unwinding’.
Orchestra Baobab have shared a video for ‘Fayinkounkoew’, the second single taken from their recently released album Tribute To Ndiouga Dieng. ‘Fayinkounko’ is an old Fula song from Guinea which the band arranged in the studio. Featuring live footage of performances old and new, the video coincides with the band’s current European tour, with remaining dates in France and Norway. Watch it now.
Maverick musician Keigo Oyamada, better known as Cornelius, is back with Mellow Waves, his first full-length album in 11 years. The effort comes out in his native Japan on June 28th and July 21st in the rest of the world. The wonderful news comes paired with the album’s opening track, ‘あなたがいるなら[If You’re Here]’, which only heightens our already huge anticipation. Cornelius is offering the track with a befittingly stunning video, directed by Koichiro Tsujikawa. Here it is.
This Friday will see the release of Penguin Cafe‘s new full-length album The Imperfect Sea, a dance record played with acoustic instruments.
The ensemble of Arthur Jeffes had already shared ‘Cantorum’, the first magnificent taste from the record. With only three days to go till the album drops, Penguin Cafe are enticing us again with the marvellous and radiant opening track, ‘Ricercar’. Listen to it now.
The Imperfect Sea is out on May 5th through Erased Tapes.
After sharing lead track ‘Walkie Talkie’, Philadelphia’s four piece Palm are teasing their upcoming EP again with the title track ‘Shadow Expert’. “Emotional yet clinical, wild yet contained,” describes a press release, “the sounds they offer are equally bizarre as they are pleasantly pretty.”
