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Listen to Daniel Brandt’s ‘Chaparral Mesa’ off forthcoming solo album

21 February 2017

Daniel BrandtLast month we heard ‘Kale Me‘, the first single lifted from Daniel Brandt‘s upcoming debut album Eternal Something. Brandt, who normally dazzles us as one third of Brandt Brauer Frick on drumming duties, is teasing the album again with a new single, ‘Chaparral Mesa’ where he shines playing and building layers of guitars. Named after his time recording in California between Joshua Tree and Malibu, the track builds slowly before turning “into a sea of organized electronic chaos”, as the press release describes. Brandt himself explains:

“I recorded Chaparral Mesa a year ago while I was involved in a recording session for another album in Malibu. We had rented a very beautiful place overlooking hills and the sea and we had a nice basic setup to record in there with a few guitars and a moog synth. I started recording a lot of guitars on top of each other and somehow the song arranged itself. I didn’t really touch it and just went along with naturally had to happen within the song. Later I added the second part, the drum-heavy one. This one was based on a session I once had with my friend Bryan Philips from Chile when I was visiting him in La Serena. I took the basics from that session and added a lot of new drums later on when I was at a proper studio and then added that part to the new song. In the end Chaparral Mesa was the quickest made song on the album but has also become the longest.”

Watch out for the release of Eternal Something on March 24th via Erased Tapes. Now listen to ‘Chaparral Mesa’.

Oiseaux-Tempête share new single ‘I Don’t Know, What Or Why (Mish Aaref Eish W Leish) feat. Tamer Abu Ghazaleh’

17 February 2017
Photo: As Human Pattern

Photo: As Human Pattern

Last week we heard the poignant and compelling ‘Carnaval feat Mondkopf’, the first single lifted from Oiseaux-Tempête‘s upcoming album AL-‘AN ! الآن (And your night is your shadow — a fairy-tale piece of land to make our dreams). The French outfit are enticing us further with another single, the wonderful and ethereal ‘I Don’t Know, What Or Why (Mish Aaref Eish W Leish)’ featuring Palestinian musician Tamer Abu Ghazaleh (Alif). Take a listen below and watch out for the album’s release on March 31st April 14th via Sub Rosa.

Colin Stetson announces new solo album All This I Do For Glory

16 February 2017

Colin Stetson - SpindriftYou’ll know by now that we’re huge fans of sax super-hero Colin Stetson. Last year he released a dream of an album, SORROW: A reimagining of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony, based on the Polish composer’s 1997 classic piece, featuring an incredible cast of musicians including Sarah Neufeld, Rebecca Foon, Greg Fox and Gyda Valtisdottir amongst many more. In 2015, Stetson released a marvellous collaborative album with Sarah Neufeld following his 2013’s outstanding New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, which was one of our Album Picks of the Year, and remains an absolute favourite. So we couldn’t be happier to know that four years on from this solo record, the Montreal based composer and multi-instrumentalist is ready to unveil its follow-up, All This I Do For Glory. Drawing influences from early nineties electronica of artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre, the album’s sounds and imagery are described as being “more tangible and immersive than previous offerings”. As the press release explains, the album “is a reasoning and exploration of the machinations of ambition and legacy, an examination of the concepts of afterlife, and the first half of a doomed love story in the model of the greek tragedies”.
All This I Do For Glory was also engineered and mixed by Stetson and it will see the light of day on April 28th through his own 52Hz label via Kartel Music Group.

The wonderful news comes paired with the album’s first single, the sublime and breathtaking ‘Spindrift’ and an accompanying video shot and edited by Derrick Belcham.

PVT offer title track from forthcoming album New Spirit

15 February 2017
Photo: Mclean Stephenson

Photo: Mclean Stephenson

This Friday will see the release of PVT‘s fifth album New Spirit. The trio had already offered two singles from the album, ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend’ and ‘Another Life’. To get us even more excited ahead of the album’s release, PVT have shared the title track, ‘New Spirit’. “Lyrically, it references all the regressive politicking over the past 5 years”, said the band’s Dave Miller. “The Spirit of Australia. We need to work on a better one”.  Take a listen below.

New Spirit is out on February 17th via their own Felte.

Listen to Gnoomes’ new single ‘Cascais’ off upcoming second album Tschak!

13 February 2017

Gnoomes - TSCHAKRussian electronic psych-rock trio Gnoomes have a second album on the way, Tschak!, following their 2015’s debut Ngan!. Set for release on March 10th through Rocket Recordings, the album came to life amidst turbulent times in their home country. The band explains:

“Our vocalist has been almost taken into the Russian Army, while some of us were caught by the police for being high, and the court sentenced (the members) to five days in prison and one year of visiting a narcologist every month, so we haven’t had an opportunity to use psychedelics during the recording process. It was a challenge for us to find the legal ways to make psych music without it, but we thought that it’s not so bad, we could find the best way in daily life and simple things that surrounded us.”

The propulsive and hypnotic ‘Cascais’ is the latest single to be let loose from Tschak!. Take a listen below.