Collisions‘ eagerly awaited self-titled debut album will be released on September 9th through Naïve / Believe and they have already enticed us with two singles, ‘II’ and ‘Fourth Motion’. In anticipation of the album release next week, the trio of Tom Hodge, Ciaran Morahan and Ollie Howell have shared a striking new single, ‘III’, that perfectly captures their immersive and cinematic sound world. Reportedly the ‘darkest’ track on the album, ‘III’, as the press release describes, “takes delicate piano lines and understated drums, and mixes them with low octave arpeggiated and detuned synthesisers along with harsh ring modulated guitar melodies”. The single is offered with a visualiser and you can watch it below.
October will see the release of Without Star or Compass, the second album from Kennebec following 2020’s Departure. Speaking about the upcoming album, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Eric Phillips, the man behind the project, comments:
“The first primary influence for this record is that, more so than ‘Departure’, I wanted to write this record for my friends and others rather than for myself. Maybe it’s also a product of maturing, but I wanted the music to communicate more clearly to others, and be less of an exercise of some kind for myself.”
Without Star or Compass features Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring, Sudan Archives and Yazz Ahmed. Ahead of its release on October 7th through Night Times Stories, Kennebec has recently shared the spellbinding ‘The Great Divide’ feat. Yazz Ahmed. The track comes with a video accompaniment made by Kennebec and Mike Denise. Here it is.
With her highly anticipated new album High and Low set for release on October 7th via SofaBurn, this week acclaimed and genre-bending cellist and composer Lori Goldston has shared a second single titled ‘Aloft’. It follows the first riveting single ‘The Waves and What’s Under’ and as the press release describes, the track “is Lori is at her earth-shattering strongest, literally channeling the volume-popping drones of her contemporaries Earth for a treatise unlike any other”. Take a listen now.
There’s a new album on the way from London based, American born and Indian bred percussionist, producer and composer Sarathy Korwar, following 2019’s powerful and politically charged More Arriving. Entitled Kalak, the album is described as “an Indo-futurist manifesto” as Korwar explains:
“The discourse around futurism is often deeply rooted in Eurocentric ideas of the world. Much like Afro-futurism, Indo-futurism is moving the focus to the global south. In South Asia, culturally, we envisage our relationship to the future and the past in ideas of cyclicality. For example, karma as a concept. Time doesn’t have to flow in a line but can be understood to flow in a circle.
In music, there’s an inherent hierarchy when you talk about left to right and top to bottom. I started thinking about a rhythmic notation system that was circular. These patterns started forming over time, and the more I thought about that, and the kind of symbolism that they began to have, I realised that this would be the core of the record.”
Recorded at Real World studios with New York electronic musician, DJ and producer Photay on production duties, Kalak is set for release on November 11th through The Leaf Label. Ahead of it, Korwar has shared the phenomenal and fiery lead single ‘Utopia Is A Colonial Project’. Speaking about the track, Korwar comments:
“Utopia can be seen as a diagram for colonisation,” Korwar says. “Ideas of utopia are intrinsically linked to the mindset of settler colonialism. It comes from seeing the natural world as an inanimate resource rather than a living, sentient being. We need to be anti-utopian, and anti-dystopian. We need to be able to imagine futures drastically different to the kind of ‘utopias’ that are being sold by right-wing populist politicians in South Asia and beyond.”
‘Utopia Is A Colonial Project’ is offered with a video directed, shot and edited by Elliott Gonzo and starring award-winning choreographer/dancer Botis Seva. Watch it below.
Szun Waves‘ eagerly awaited new album Earth Patterns will see the light of day next Friday August 19th through The Leaf Label. This week the trio of Laurence Pike, Luke Abbott and Jack Willie shared ‘In The Moon House’, the third and final preview single from the record. It comes with an accompanying video created by Dom Harwood / Infinite Vibes and you can watch it below.
With their new album, Buy The Dip, set for release in less than a month, Ghent’s pyschedelic jazz collective Compro Oro have shared another exhilarating new song called ‘Bitcoins’. The track is the third single lifted from the bands’s forthcoming fifth album, following ‘Ben Hur’ and ‘The Lower 9th’. Listen to it below and grab the album when it drops on September 2nd through Sdban Ultra.
