Back in September, we heard Boxed In‘s hypnotic single ‘Foot of the Hill’. The London based outfit led by Oli Bayston is now offering a visual accompaniment for the track. Steven Spencer directs. Here it is.
Boxed In’s eponymous debut album is out on January 19th 2015 via Nettwerk Records.
Just over a year ago, when Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile came out, Matana Roberts said the project was far from finished and promised to release another 10 chapters. Well, Chapter Three arrives in 2015.
The incredible alto saxophonist, composer, improviser and sound experimentalist had collaborated with several musicians in both of the previous instalments: on Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres Matana collaborated with more than a dozen Montréal musicians part of experimental and avant-rock scenes, and Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile featured a New York jazz sextet. The upcoming Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee, is a solo affair, as the press release explains, “building a hallucinatory and hypnotic soundworld from layered streams of sung and spoken vocals, pure and processed saxophone, drones, noise, sampler/fx pedals and field recordings.”. This solo effort came to life following a lengthy solitary road trip that Matana took through the American South earlier this year, to collect historical and documentary information through interviews, site visits and field recordings.
In celebration of the new album, Matana has moved to a small houseboat in Brooklyn where she’s logging “observations and reflections that further develop themes presented on the record” in a blog.
As with the previous instalments, Matana has again recruited Jerusalem In My Heart’s Radwan Ghazi Moumneh to record the album.
Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee is set to be released on February 3rd via Constellation. Luckily, we can already wrap our ears around an excerpt from the album’s staggering cut ‘always say your name / nema, nema, nema’.
Girl In A Thunderbolt is the alias of Norwich based Maria Uzor, a one-woman multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who uses a looping pedal to craftily layer herself playing and singing. To date, she has released one full-length studio album, Seven Sisters, back in 2010 and a long due follow-up is about to drop next week. Featuring four tracks, the forthcoming Own Your Bones EP channels varied genres, from punk and blues to folk and electronica. The pulsating krautrock-ish opening track ‘Sayonara My Lover’ serves as an intoxicating taster for Own Your Bones. Listen to it below and straight after, check out the EP teaser.
Own Your Bones is out on Monday 24th via Hey Buffalo Records
As the year draws to a close, we picked our favourite Albums of 2014.
After releasing the second album Keep Away the Dead in 2011, Vancouver-based folk rock experimentalists Siskiyou have been on a forced hiatus due to a health-related condition. A follow-up album has been in the works and details of it have now been confirmed. Siskiyou’s third album, Nervous, arrives on January 20th via Constellation.
Nervous sees the ensemble continuing “to push beyond the crisp lo-fi intimacy of its early work”, describes the press release. The album “has forged its most confident and finely-crafted recording to date, moving fully into auteur and chamber-pop territory with a song cycle that brings to mind the meticulousness of mood and sonics found in recent work by PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and Tindersticks.”.
Nervous features guest contributions from Colin Stetson, Owen Pallett, JP Carter, Ryan Driver and the St. James Music Academy Senior Choir, to name but a few.
Siskiyou have shared the first wonderful taste from the album, ‘Deserter’. Take a listen now.
Iberian Passage, the debut EP from New York-by-way-of-Tel-Aviv composer and guitarist Yonatan Gat, of Monotonix fame, is being reissued on CD and white vinyl. The EP, which was first released last May via Joyful Noise Recordings, came to life after Gat played in a festival in Portugal where he met Portuguese drummer Igor Domingues (Throes + the Shine). The pair began to collaborate and Gat moved to Porto temporarily, and ended up recording Iberian Passage at Estúdios Sá da Bandeira. Inspired by Brazilian psychedelic experimentalists Os Mutantes and African ensembles such as Orchestra Baobab, Iberian Passage is a tropical and frenetic improvisational affair.
To celebrate this re-release, Yonatan Gat will embark on a European tour next week, with a stop in London on November 19th at The Shacklewell Arms. Head over here to check all the other live dates.
What’s more, the EP comes with an ace brand new song, ‘East to West’, and you can listen to it now.
