Ahead of the imminent release of Typewritten, the debut solo album of acoustic compositions from accomplished producer and musician Matt Calvert, there’s very good reasons to be excited for this release. After sharing the immensely beautiful first single ‘12051‘, Calvert has now unveiled another intricately stunning and delicate song called ‘Mute Heart’. Here it is.
Typewritten is out on September 7th through Truant.
Szun Waves share new single ‘Moon Runes’
Szun Waves are nearing the release of their much-awaited second album New Hymn To Freedom, and after enticing us with ‘Constellation’ and ‘Temple’, the trio have let loose another transcendent cut, ‘Moon Runes’. Take a listen below and grab the record when it drops on August 31st through The Leaf Label.
The band have also announced a string of shows in the UK in support of the album, including a special 360 degree A/V show at London’s Space Gallery on Thursday 30th August.
Sam Wilkes announces debut album Wilkes
A prominent name in the Los Angeles’ contemporary jazz scene, bassist Sam Wilkes is gearing up to release his debut album entitled Wilkes. It follows the release earlier this year of Music for Saxofone and Bass, a collaborative record with saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel and is due out on October 5th through Leaving Records. Asked about the record’s inspirations by Leaving’s own Carlos Niño, Wilkes cites an array of innovators including John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, Miles Davis, Milton Nascimento, Alice Coltrane and Brian Eno, amongst others. Wilkes also cites Sam Gendel, Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi, all three featured on his forthcoming album.
The first single Tonight’ is now streaming and it serves as an exhilarating taste of what’s to come. Take a listen.
Pevin Kinel returns with video for first new song in four years ‘Hemmed’
Pevin Kinel hasn’t released an album since 2012’s Syntactic Sugars, which was one of our Album Picks of the year, and his last new material, the two-track EP SEO Your Friends, came out in 2014. Now we can rejoice as there is a follow-up in the works from the talented multi-instrumentalist and one-man-orchestra, and his first new music in four years has finally landed. Pevin has shared ‘Hemmed’, a staggeringly beautiful track, along with an accompanying video. As with previous material, shifting excitingly from release to release, and drawing from a variety of musical influences, here Pevin leans more towards a stripped down acoustic sound. He had this to say:
“You might think it’s about time I focused on recording music instead of filming music videos, well gotcha! because this is actually a brand new song from my upcoming “acousticish” album, which should come out this year, at some point. I’m usually pretty good at coming up with nerve-racking album release dates and album titles that make you go “Gee, gotta get meself one of those!”, but I’ve been kinda busy lately, so this time round you’ll have to make do with a new song “Hemmed” and the music video I made for it with some friends.”
We’ll keep our ears peeled for more details on Pevin’s upcoming album. Now watch the excellent self-directed video for ‘Hemmed’.
Moses Sumney drops video for ‘Call-to-Arms’ from new EP Black in Deep Red, 2014
Moses Sumney‘s debut album, Aromanticism, came out last year and the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist didn’t waste any time working on its follow-up. And good thing too. First, and earlier this year, he released the EP Make Out in My Car: Chameleon Suite, featuring remixes of Aromanticism‘s single ‘Make Out in My Car’. And last Friday saw the release of a three-track EP entitled Black in Deep Red, 2014. The EP takes its name from a 1957 painting by Mark Rothko. Sumney comments on it:
“Black in Deep Red, 2014 was ignited by the first and last time I attended a protest. It was in the fall of 2014, after a grand jury decided not to charge the offending officer in the Mike Brown murder, delivering the verdict just in time for them to get home for Thanksgiving. I felt like a camouflaged outsider at the protest, like an anthropologist performing a study amongst his own kind. I took to the mountains soon after that and wrote these songs, wondering if power was a transferable device that could change hands through the vocalizing of unrest.”
The EP’s wondrous ‘Call-to-Arms’ featuring guest Shabaka Hutchings, has received the visual treatment. The video is by Sam Cannon. Watch it below.
Black in Deep Red, 2014 is out now through Jagjaguwar
Watch the new video for C. Diab’s ‘Butterflies’
Vancouver based bowed guitar player and trumpeter C. Diab has paired the dark, gentle and compelling ‘Butterflies’ with befitting landscapes on the video that accompanies it. The song is taken from his widely acclaimed album Exit Rumination, released earlier this year through Injazero Records. Director Daghan Is made the video. Watch it below.