Sarah Neufeld previews new album with ‘Where The Light Comes In’

15 February 2016

Photo: Gesi Schilling

Montréal based extraordinary composer and violinist Sarah Neufeld is streaming ‘Where The Light Comes In’, the latest track to emerge from her highly anticipated somophore album The Ridge. We were head-over-heels in love with the magnificent title track, ‘The Ridge’, and the new single makes us even more excited for what’s to come. ‘Where The Light Comes In’, is “…a piece I wrote in a moment of peace”, said Neufeld. “Those glorious seconds where all is quiet and open and green and the thoughts that form are snowflakes instead of lists of details and reminders. Pure deep water that never ends.”
Let yourself get immersed in the delicate and wondrous ‘Where The Light Comes In’.

The Ridge is out on February 26th via Paper Bag Records.

Richard J. Birkin unveils new track from upcoming debut album Vigils

11 February 2016

We’re only a month away from the release of Richard J. Birkin’s debut album, Vigils. The Derbyshire composer and all round musical wonder had previously shared the magnificent album opener, ‘Vigil I’. Another track from the album, the incredibly beautiful, shimmering and delicate ‘Accretions’, emerged last week and it will surely sweep you away. ‘Accretions’ features Iskra String Quartet and it comes with an animated video made by Christopher Boote using chalk. Watch it below and make sure you grab Vigils when it’s out on March 11th through Reveal Records.

To celebrate the release of Vigils, Birkin has lined up a series of live shows around the UK in March, including a show in London at The Good Ship on March 22nd. Take a look at all the dates confirmed so far below:

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The Heliocentrics announce new release Quatermass Sessions: From The Deep

10 February 2016

All hail the return of The Heliocentrics, the London based psychedelic funk jazz collective, who are set to drop a new release next week. Following their 2013 album 13 Degrees of Reality, which was one of our Album Picks of the Year, The Heliocentrics released The Last Transmission in 2014, a heavenly collaboration with Melvin Van Peebles. Now they are ready to release Quatermass Sessions: From The Deep, an effort that sees the band “finish off their trawl through the vaults of tracks recorded at their old digs – Quatermass Studios with psychedelic tinged funk and jazz instrumentals”, as the press release describes. Quatermass Sessions: From The Deep arrives on February 19th via Now-Again.
Along with the release announcement, The Heliocentrics are teasing us with the first taste from record, the groovy, cosmic and entrancing ‘Night And Day’. We’re listening to it on repeat just as you should be.

ZA! drop video for ‘Badulake’, plus UK tour starts this week

08 February 2016

Having just released their new album, Loloismo, and with a UK tour kicking off this week, Spanish experimental punk duo ZA! are offering a video for the album’s phenomenal lead track ‘Badulake’. ‘Badulake’ means cornershop in Spanish, which is the location picked for the video, as the band explains:

“The video is shot on a store near Spazzfrica Ehd’s apartment, owned by Rustem, a very nice neighbour that has a motto in life: “FÁCIL, FÁCIL, FÁCIL” (easy, easy, easy). He’s the main actor in the video. When we were acting as “the robbers” on the end of the video, 6 REAL & armed policemen entered the store to stop us: a neighbour saw the scene from his apartment and called the cops!”.

Watch the video below, directed by Jordi Castells & Aitor Garay.

ZA! are hitting the road this week for a string of UK shows including DIY Space For London on 12th February. Check all their stops below:

11th February – Sticky Mike’s, Brighton
12th February – Matinee show at Folkestone Quarterhouse
12th February – DIY Space For London, London
13th February – The Harp Restrung, Folkestone
17th February – Secret show TBA
18th February – MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
19th February – Delius Arts and Cultural Centre, Bradford
20th February – Picture House Social, Sheffield

Loloismo is out now via Sheffield DIY collective The Audacious Art Experiment and Hot Salvation Records.

Diminished Men share new track ‘Kudzu Mine’

06 February 2016

Photo: Frank Schmitt

Following the stunning and enigmatic ‘Oistros Dolorous’, Seattle’s Diminished Men have shared ‘Kudzu Mine’, a new cut from their forthcoming third album Vision In Crime. Featuring guest saxophonists Skerik Welch (Critters Buggin, Wayne Horvitz) and Neil Welch (Bad Luck, King Tears Bat Trip), ‘Kudzu Mine’ is even more tenebrous, mysterious and fierce, and “highly symptomatic of their sinister avant jazz correlations”, as the press release describes, naming it as a “highlight on an album that takes the listener on a frantic midnight ride on the wrong side of the tracks…”. Take a listen to ‘Kudzu Mine’ now.

Vision In Crime is out on March 4th via Abduction Records.

Porto’s NOS Primavera Sound unleashes full line-up

05 February 2016

NOS Primavera Sound, the offshoot of Barcelona’s revered festival, is back in Porto for its fifth edition from 9th to 11th June 2016. The full line-up has been unveiled this week and the festival just keeps getting better, with the likes of Battles, Tortoise, PJ Harvey, BEAK>, Floating Points and Julia Holter amongst those gracing this year’s edition.

The three-day event takes place in Porto’s Parque da Cidade, a stunning urban park located next to a beautiful beach making it a privileged and idyllic location to soak up music and sun.

Take a look at the full line-up below, and if you didn’t already know, Porto is a treat of a city.

The full festival ticket is on sale at the price of 90€. Head over here for tickets and more information.

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