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Manu Delago and Mad About Lemon share new single, ‘Slow-Mo Moving River’, off forthcoming album

11 January 2024

Photo: reithofer media

A longtime favourite of ours here at CTD, Manu Delago is gearing to release his new album, Snow From Yesterday. A collaborative effort, it saw the staggeringly talented Austrian percussionist and composer teamed up with vocal ensemble Mad About Lemon, the trio of Tyrolean singers Heidi Erler, Mimi Schmid and Anna Widauer, to bring the album life.
With release date just three weeks away, Delago is enticing us again with new single ‘Slow-Mo Moving River’, a song about glaciers with crystalline harps and cracking vocal effects. Speaking about it, Manu comments:

“A lot of people maybe don’t know that they’re actually rivers moving incredibly slowly. So most people think of a glacier as like a steady thing on the mountain that’s fixed or solid, but actually it’s moving but just at an incredibly slow pace. If you look at photos from places or yearly time lapses, they look different every year and they move a few inches. And I tried to do that in the music, the girls from Mad About Lemon were doing a lot of icy vocal sounds using cold sounding words. We also sampled real breaking ice.”

‘Slow-Mo Moving River’ is offered with a visualiser made by Shrey Kathuria. Watch it below and watch out for the album release on February 2nd through One Little Independent Records.

MIZU to release new album, Forest Scenes, in March

10 January 2024

Photo: Dan Silver

Nearly a year on from the release of Distant Intervals, Brooklyn based cellist and composer Issei Herr is back with a new album under her new moniker MIZU. Entitled Forest Scenes, the new album sees MIZU “evok[ing] a sense of depth by interrogating systems and exploring unknown territories both physical and cerebral”. The eight sublime songs comprising MIZU’s second release started germinating immediately after the first album, inspired by Robert Schumann’s Waldszenen, both in name and in concept. The album was conceived and written in São Paulo, Brazil last Summer, and later completed in New York. Forest Scenes “is in no small way an acknowledgement of transcendent experiences and the thrills of self-discovery”, as the press release describes, “whether in the vast urbanity of São Paulo, in community among New York City’s queer spaces and dancefloors, or in the more abstract place of a self in transition”.

We’ll have to wait until March 22nd for the album to be out through NNA Tapes but we can already hear the heavenly lead single ‘Pavane’. The track is offered with a video directed by Dan Silver and you can watch it now.

Hannah Frances announces new album, ‘Keeper of The Shepherd’, shares first single ‘Bronwyn’

09 January 2024

A stunning vocalist with incredible songwriting skills, Hannah Frances has announced the release of a new album. Entitled Keeper of The Shepherd, it will see the light of day on March 1st through Ruination Record Co.. “At times raucous and toiling, and at times hypnotizing in its softness”, as the press release describes, the upcoming record “is a careful excavation through the ruins of Frances’ past as she carves out what’s been lost and buried, praising the possibility of a life more whole”.

Frances is offering a marvelous glimpse into her new album with the first single, ‘Bronwyn’. Upon first listen, we became instantly captivated by the poignant and powerful beauty of this song. ‘Bronwyn’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Quinn Gundersen and you can watch it below.

Watch Sedibus’ video for new single ‘Purgatory’ off upcoming album SETI

29 December 2023

Here we are in 2023, unearthing some 2024 releases that shouldn’t be overlooked like the upcoming second album from Sedibus, the collaborative project of Alex Paterson and Andy Falconer of The Orb.  Entitled SETI, Sedibus’s new album will see the light of day on February 23rd through Orbscure Recordings. Speaking about the new album and their collaboration, Paterson comments:

“The first LP had a great reception and sold so well I couldn’t even get a copy myself. Andy is brilliant at making ambient music, and working with him is always rewarding. We understand each other’s brains – it’s easy and organic – so doing another made total sense.

SETI stands for Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, but it’s also something you sit on, to chill out, which is why the album contains a Three-Piece Suite. This record is musical ambience, which is what we like to make, rather than drone ambience, which there’s a lot of these days.”

Falconer also had this to add:

“The first album ‘The Heavens’ was very much a reflection of our shared roots, and in many ways saw Alex and I simply picking up where we’d left off 30 years ago with Ultraworld. For ‘SETI’, we still wanted to keep a connection to the sound of The Heavens, but to also crack open that musical mould and explore new ground. Part of that aspect was to further expand the use of acoustic instruments in both recognisable and processed form.

We’ve always been very much on the same page creatively and one of the great things with working with Alex is that nothing is out of bounds, and we’ve just continued to build on that solid relationship of trust and shared curiosity.”

Sedibus had previously shared the beautiful and creamy lead single ‘Purgatory’ along with an accompanying video directed by Fast Mouse. Here it is.

Don Melody Club shares a glimpse of forthcoming EP, Zonder Pardon

28 December 2023

Don Melody Club is the solo project of Amsterdam-based Donald ‘Donny’ Madjid, also known as a member of The Mauskovic Dance Band. The project first came to life in 2021 with his debut album, Pure Donzin, followed last year with his 7” single Zontimenteel / Maandag Motto. Madjid has a new release on the way in the shape of a 5-track EP titled Zonder Pardon. On the upcoming EP, and as the press release describes, “the listener is catapulted into a seductive underwater jungle of uptempo drum machine rhythms, pulsating bass lines and funky melodies.”

In tandem with the EP announcement, Madjid is previewing his first taster of the EP with ‘Tederheid’, a playful and sensual delight depicting “a celebration of the beauty and power of mutual affection”. Take a listen below and watch out for the EP release on January 19th through Bongo Joe Records.