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Listen to Buvette’s new single ‘Smoke Machine Control / SMC’

14 September 2016

Buvette - ElasticitySummer may be coming to an end, but French Swiss musician Cédric Streuli is helping us cling onto it a little longer. Under the moniker Buvette, he’s set to release his fourth album, Elasticity, next week. Following ‘Staring At The Lines’ and ‘Room Without A View’, the groovy and infectious ‘Smoke Machine Control / SMC’, is the latest single to emerge.

“Buvette’s songs are doors that open onto the secret and the shared; onto the past and the present”, describes the press release. “They are the subtle, primarily rhythmic constructions of a drummer who deploys startling structures that suggest chromatic geometries in psychedelic forms.”

Elasticity is out on September 23rd via Pan European Recording. Grab it when it drops and now listen to ‘Smoke Machine Control / SMC’. We dare you not to dance!

Adam Betts shares second cut, ‘Aneek’, from forthcoming solo album

13 September 2016
Photo: Jo Bongard

Photo: Jo Bongard

Last month ingenious drummer Adam Betts announced the release of his debut solo album, Colossal Squid. The news came paired with the insane opener ‘Drumbones’, the first taste of that release. As we wait with baited breath for the album to arrive, Betts has unleashed another tremendous single, ‘Aneek’, named after music technologist and producer Aneek Thapar who provided some sampled sounds. The track, co-written by John Calvert (Ghostpoet, NAO), “is demonstrative of the record’s ethos”, says the press release,  adding “that, no matter how exciting or odd the texture, each track should be turned into a piece of music with real form and shape.
‘Aneek’ comes accompanied with a video from the live session which ended up being the actual recording. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Colossal Squid on November 25th via Blood & Biscuits.

Tanya Tagaq teases upcoming album with new single ‘Centre’ featuring Shad

09 September 2016

Tanya TagaqEver since we heard ‘Aorta’, the poignant and intense first single from Tanya Tagaq’s upcoming album Retribution, it has been one of our most anticipated records of 2016. As if we weren’t excited enough already, the ground-breaking Inuit artist shared another amazing single called ‘Centre’. On Retribution, Tagaq collaborated with several stellar artists, including Canadian rapper and hip hop artist Shad who shines on this track. Described as being a “hip-hop song about molecular biology and menstruation”, ‘Centre’ also features the sound of ravens recorded in Nunavut, trombones and Tagaq’s very own unique vocals. Everything about this song is great and we can’t take it off of repeat.

Retribution is out on October 21st in North America and November 18th in Europe via Six Shooter.

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie’s original score for Salero out in November

07 September 2016

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie - Salero OSTComposer Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, who’s one half of the marvellous ambient project Stars Of The Lid, also has many great film scores to his name. His latest one accompanies Salero, a feature documentary directed by Mike Plunkett and set in Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni. Speaking about the film soundtrack, Wiltzie had this to say:

“I have always said that composing music is infinitely easier when you have beautiful images to be inspired by. It was a pleasure to write a score over this captivating place of endless, glimmering salt before its impending demise. I was fascinated by this mythical space and its ability to define the identities of the people who live in its vicinity, where this vast salt flat itself would be a central character”

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie’s Salero OST will see the light of day on November 11th via Erased Tapes but we can already hear a first taste from it with the utterly beautiful “Lithium, The New Era”.

Jherek Bischoff premieres video for ‘Cistern’

01 September 2016

Jherek Bischoff - CisternWe have been wonderfully immersed in Cistern‘s majestic beauty and reverie ever since the album came out in July. The magnificent, poignant and contemplative title track was the first single to emerge, and as with every track in the album, Jherek Bischoff complemented it with a video. Over the course of two years, the prodigious multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer and filmmaker Jim Batt collected footage for the album documenting and filming in disparate landscapes all over the world. In Bischoff’s own words, he was subjected “to the harshest of elements in order to assemble the visual counterpoint to Cistern.”.
The video for ‘Cistern’ is a supercut edit of all the videos, featuring footage from eight different locations. Watch it below.


Cistern is out now via The Leaf Label.