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Dorian Dumont teases upcoming album, to the APhEX, with new single ‘180db_ [130]’

05 February 2024

Dorian Dumont has been cultivating a unique path in the vibrant Belgian jazz scene, both solo and in various projects. In keeping with his fascination with his musical hero, Aphex Twin, the incredibly talented and skilled pianist is gearing up to release to the APhEX, his new LP following 2021’s APHEXionS. Last month Dumont shared the utterly stunning lead single ‘Windowlicker’, and as if we weren’t excited enough for the release of to the APhEX, he has now unveiled an enigmatic and moving new single titled ‘180db_ [130]’. Take a listen below and watch out for the album release on February 23rd through W.E.R.F. Records.

Listen to Sedibus’ third and final single, ‘SETI Pt. 2’, off upcoming album SETI

02 February 2024

Sedibus, the collaborative project of Alex Paterson and Andy Falconer of The Orb, announced the release of their new album, SETI, at the tail end of last year, and shared then the beautiful and creamy lead single ‘Purgatory’. As we near the album’s release date on February 23rd through Orbscure Recordings, Sedibus have unveiled a third and final single from the record called ‘SETI Pt. 2’ and you can listen to it below.

De Beren Gieren announce seventh album, What Eludes Us, and share first single ‘The Houses’

26 January 2024

Photo: Francis Vanhee

2024 has only just started but it is already shaping up to be a fantastic year for music, all the more as Dutch-Belgian acoustic-electronic piano trio De Beren Gieren have today announced a new album. Entitled What Eludes Us, it follows 2021’s Less Is Endless and is set for release on March 29th through Sdban Ultra. Described as “an ode to what escapes us and what we consciously want to look away from”, the upcoming album saw the trio of Fulco Ottervanger (piano, synths & effects), Lieven Van Pée (double bass) and Simon Segers (drums & effects) work together with Norwegian producer Jørgen Træen in his studio in Bergen.

Alongside the announcement, De Beren Gieren also shared today ‘The Houses’, the first intoxicating taste of what to expect from their seventh long player, clearly pointing towards transcendence. “It’s the soundtrack to a wandering tribe traveling through Europe, their minds filled with expectations and nostalgia, marveling at beautiful landscapes and cities gliding past their trailers”, as the press release describes. “What happens behind the facades of all those houses and in those people’s minds?”.
‘The Houses’ comes with an accompanying video, featuring snippets from the 1932 film Le sang d’un poète by Jean Cocteau, and you can watch it now.


Watch Hatis Noit’s animated video for ‘Jomon’

25 January 2024

Originally released in 2022, Hatis Noit‘s striking debut album, Aura, will be physically re-released in the US this Spring through Erased Tapes. The Japanese vocal performer has also announced her first live dates in the US, including stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Knoxville for the 2024 edition of Big Ears Festival.

To celebrate the news, Hatis Noit has shared an animated video for album track ‘Jomon’, directed by Berlin-based Taiwanese-Japanese director NAOWAO. Watch it below.

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble releases second single ‘Return of the Lost Tribe’

24 January 2024

The monumental feat that is Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble‘s 50th anniversary is something worth celebrating and they´re doing that with a special new album titled Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit. The record arrives on March 8th through Spiritmuse Records and they had already teased it with lead single ‘Compared To What’. As if we needed more reasons to be excited, Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble  have shared a second exhilarating single called ‘Return of the Lost Tribe’, composed by El’Zabar in the 90s and originally recorded in the 2000s by a group of Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians leaders, including El’Zabar, Malachi Favors, Joseph Jarman, Kalaparusha Maurice Mcyntyer, and Adegoke Steve Colson. El’Zabar comments:

“The music intends to convey that something powerful and inspired is returning, or coming around again with inspired vigor and wisdom. I feel deep inside me that we are all connected with energies of refined frequency. Each of us possesses the ability to tap into ageless energy which can restore and make us fresh. ‘Return of The Lost Tribe’ speaks to the remembrance of glory that will come again in the present, once we acquire the knowledge to tap into it.”

‘Return of the Lost Tribe’ is offered with a video and you watch it below.

Elena Setién’s new album, Moonlit Reveries, out this Friday

24 January 2024

Photo: Pablo Axpe

This Friday will see the release of Elena Setién‘s new album, Moonlit Reveries, through Thrill Jockey. The upcoming album features drummer / percussionist Glenn Kotche, who she met when he was touring Spain with his band Wilco. The pair went on to join forces, inspiring one another. “Funnily enough, I, being a Spanish artist, sought inspiration in the rhythms of a Chicago drummer to reach something with a Latin feel to it,” Setién explained. “A somehow surrealistic way to get there.”

The album also features guitar more prominently than before, which the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pins down to Steve Gunn introducing her to the music of Bridget St. John. “What fascinated me right from the beginning, was the calmness in her voice and her low register. Her music inspired me to try to write songs with a guitar rather than a keyboard: there’s more space for the voice and the sound qualities of both voice and guitar kind of melt into each other.”

To get us enticed, Setién has shared two gorgeous cuts from the album, the title track and ‘Surfacing’. Listen to both below.