Oh hell yes! clipping. have released a blistering banger. Back in 2020, the West Coast experimental hip hop trio of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes had covered J-Kwon’s 2004 hit ‘Tipsy’, “one of the greatest party rap songs of all time,” as clipping. puts it. “We could never make a beat as hard as the original, so we took our version in another direction — something like if Skinny Puppy had somehow remixed it in the late 1980s.” Now their take has been officially released on a 7″ split single through Sub Pop Records. It also features Cooling Prongs’s cover of Ice-T’s ‘Midnight’ on the B side.
Listen to ‘Tipsy’ below, you’ll be playing it again the second it ends.
London based singer and multi-instrumentalist Forest Law has shared his first new music in four years in the shape of new single ‘Ooo, I’. The track is also the first release from a special new collaboration between Swiss based label Bongo Joe and London’s Total Refreshment Centre. Forest Law, who wrote the single in a converted fish net factory in Iceland, comments:
“’Ooo, I’ was the first piece of music that came out of me during an artist’s residency at the LungA school in Iceland. I put together a makeshift studio overlooking a fjord which got zero sunlight from November to February. Unavoidable inspiration.”
A perfect slice of what to expect from his yet to be announced new album, the catchy melodies and infectious grooves of ‘Ooo, I’ will make you wanna dance.
Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, announced last month the release of her ninth album, The Great Bailout, out March 8th through ANTI-. With the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act and the 1835 Slavery Abolition Act acting as the backdrop for the album, the composer, poet, vocalist and educator offers an incisive reflection on the brutality of British slavery, including paid reparations to slave owners.
Following the delicate, spectral, and sublime ‘Guilty’, Moor Mother has shared second single ‘All the Money’. Compelling and affecting alike, a sinister tone lurks throughout. Listing British iconic landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Big Ben, The Tower of London, The British Museum or The Palace of Westminster, Ayewa asks, “where’d they get all the money?”. ‘All the Money’ features British-Iraqi dramatic soprano, opera composer and producer Alya Al Sultani and it comes with an accompanying video directed by filmmaker and multimedia artist Cauleen Smith. Watch it below.
We’re only three weeks away from the release of Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, a special new album celebrating the epic feat that is Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble‘s 50th anniversary. Ahead of the album’s release on March 8th through Spiritmuse Records, they have shared a third marvellous single, the closing track ‘Open Me’, only adding further to the excitement. El’Zabar, who wrote the track in honour of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 50-year career, performed most of the instruments. Speaking about the track, he comments:
“‘Open Me’ is a meditation upon the acceptance of abundant possibilities. I wrote this music as an entry into humble beginnings of openness, where we can once again be free and let go of all barriers. Here, I’m asking of the Divine Spirit to guide and inspire within us a passageway to higher forms of expression.”
FYEAR is a Montréal-based supergroup of sorts led by electroacoustic composer Jason Sharp and poet/writer Kaie Kellough, and currently featuring poet, writer, and activist Tawhida Tanya Evanson (director of the Banff Centre Spoken Word program), violinists Josh Zubot and Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Darius Jones, Joshua Hyslop), pedal steel player Joe Grass (Tim Hecker, Patrick Watson), drummers Stefan Schneider (Bell Orchestre) and Tommy Crane (The Mingus Big Band, Aaron Parks). The nine-piece have announced the release of their self-titled debut album, a 45-minute work fusing spoken word, out-jazz, post-classical, drone, ambient metal, avant-rock and modular synthesis.
Thematically the upcoming record was written against the backdrop of our political and social state of affairs and it “interrogates our present and future post-capitalist polycrisis, invoking collective anxieties, emotions, and critiques”, as the press release describes. FYEAR, it adds, express and embody these themes sonically on an album where “contemplative, disquieted, and visceral readings of our struggles, fictions, shackles, desires, neuroses and freedoms unspool through a fervid artistic lens that brims with thought, feeling, and urgency.”
FYEAR arrives on April 5th through Constellation and ahead of it we can hear a first mesmerizing taste in the shape of ‘Pt I: Trajectory’. The single is offered with a video made by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. Watch it below.
French multi-talented chanteuse and multi-instrumentalist Marie Klock has announced the release of a new full-length album, four years on from the release of her self-titled debut album. Entitled Damien est vivant, the upcoming record is named after Klock’s close friend and collaborator Damien Schultz, and was written as an earnest tribute in the aftermath of his recent passing.
Through the album’s ten songs, Klock demonstrates her stylistic versatility and talent for composing intimate and emotive songs leavened with idiosyncratic pop melodies and devastatingly funny lyrics. As the press release desribes, Damien est vivant is a “celebration of the unique bond they shared, in past and present.”
We’ll have to wait until March 29th for the album to be out through Pingipung but we can already hear ‘Se goinfrer de rage’, which serves as a fascinating and intriguing first single. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by Marie Barat and you can watch it below.
Oh hell yes! clipping. have released a blistering banger. Back in 2020, the West Coast experimental hip hop trio of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes had covered J-Kwon’s 2004 hit ‘Tipsy’, “one of the greatest party rap songs of all time,” as clipping. puts it. “We could never make a beat as hard as the original, so we took our version in another direction — something like if Skinny Puppy had somehow remixed it in the late 1980s.” Now their take has been officially released on a 7″ split single through Sub Pop Records. It also features Cooling Prongs’s cover of Ice-T’s ‘Midnight’ on the B side.
