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Møster!’s third album When You Cut Into The Present out now

14 December 2015

Møster! - When You Cut Into The PresentWith so much music being churned out all the time, sadly a lot of good albums end up falling through the cracks. Luckily, that’s not the case with When You Cut Into the Present, the third album from Norwegian quartet Møster!, released last September. We first heard of and saw Kjetil Møster, the man behind the project, rocking the sax and keys in Datarock back in 2007. But he counts memberships and collaborations in many other bands, including The Core, Ultralyd, Röyksopp and King Midas, amongst many others.

Møster! continue to draw influence from prog rock, psychedelia and John Coltrane’s jazz but with When You Cut Into The Present they also “share the honours with everyone from King Crimson in their Red period to Alice Coltrane and the krautrock masters of Can”, as the release blurb describes.

Here’s the epic and wild opening track ‘Nebula and Red Giant’.

When You Cut Into The Present is out now via Hubro Music.

Golden Dawn Arkestra announce debut album Stargazer

11 December 2015

Golden Dawn Arkestra - Stargazer

We can’t wait for some of the albums slated for release next year. One that we’re really excited about will come from the hands of Texas based Golden Dawn Arkestra, a collective of musicians, dancers and visual artists founded in 2013 by saxophonist Topaz McGarrigle aka Zapot Mgwana. Influenced by Sun Ra as the name suggests, their music is a cosmic blend of musical ideas, fun inventiveness and many genres, from Afrobeat and Funk to Jazz and Rock.
Following last year’s eponymous EP, Golden Dawn Arkestra are set to release their debut full-length, Stargazer, on February 26th via Modern Imperial. The monumental and hip-shakin’ title track, offered as the first single, serves as an incredibly enticing introduction to the upcoming Stargazer. Listen to it below.

Tortoise’s new album, The Catastrophist, arrives next month

07 December 2015

Tortoise - The CatastrophistChicago’s legendary quintet Tortoise have a new album on the way, following 2009’s Beacons of Ancestorship. Entitled The Catastrophist, the album’s first came to life in 2010, when the City of Chicago commissioned the group “to compose a suite of music rooted in its ties to the area’s noted jazz and improvised music communities”.  The band’s Jeff Parker explained that they reworked and restructured all of the songs quite heavily.  “We actually had quite a lot of material that we ended up giving up on. Oftentimes, we’ll shelve ideas and come back to them years later.”

‘Gesceap’ serves as the album’s first taste ahead of its release on January 22nd via Thrill Jockey. Here it is.

s t a r g a z e and Greg Saunier’s Deerhoof Chamber Variations EP out today

04 December 2015

s t a r g a z e - Data

Today sees the release of Deerhoof Chamber Variations, the joint EP from Berlin’s instrumental collective s t a r g a z e and Deerhoof’s drummer and composer Greg Saunier. Conceived as a continuous piece of instrumental music, the material was originally written for Deerhoof, and this collaboration saw Saunier arrange and recompose these 9 1/2 song for a classical chamber ensemble. He used “exactly the same notes as in the originals while rearranging the songs structurally, in a kind of miniaturizing and abstracting way”, explains the press release, adding that “s t a r g a z e adapted this new composition to their particular line-up and the musicians’ personal skills”.

Here’s a fantastic taste from the EP, ‘Data’. It comes with a video directed by Robin Coops. Watch it below and grab the EP through Transgressive Records.

Martin Creed drops free AA single ‘Let Them In’ and ‘Border Control’

01 December 2015

Martin Creed - Let Them In Border ControlAddressing the inadequate response to the current refugee crisis, Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed has released a free AA single. Featuring ‘Let Them In’ and ‘Border Control’, both come with accompanying videos and are described as “gloriously succinct yet potent bursts of buoyant, ramshackle pop, albeit underlaid this time around with an urgent call to arms”. Check them out below and download them here.