Lucrecia Dalt announces new album, ¡Ay!; shares first single ‘No Tiempo’

22 June 2022

Berlin based, Colombia born civil engineer turned into sound artist, musician and composer Lucrecia Dalt announced today the release of her eighth solo album, ¡Ay!. Known for her fusion of Colombian sounds and experimental minimalism, on the upcoming album Lucrecia “conjures a new realm where the tropical bolero, salsa, and merengue music of her childhood in Colombia meld with her signature experimental sci-fi-inspired storytelling and production”, as the press release describes.

¡Ay! is set for releae on October 14th through RVNG Intl. and ahead of it Lucrecia has let loose the delicate and ethereal ‘No Tiempo’. The single comes with a gorgeous video accompaniment created by Aina Climent and Lucrecia with cinematography by AINA and a script written by Lucrecia. The video was filmed on Galatzó Mountain in Spain and co-stars collaborator Alex Rodriguez Lázaro. Watch it below.

Watch Compro Oro’s live studio recording of new single ‘The Lower 9th’

19 June 2022

Back in April, pyschedelic jazz collective Compro Oro announced the release of their fifth album, Buy The Dip. The news came paired with the radiant and intoxicating first single ‘Ben Hur’. Now they are enticing us again with a new single called ‘The Lower 9th’, offered with a video from the live studio recording. Watch it below and watch out for the album release on September 2nd through Sdban Ultra.

GoGo Penguin share new track ‘The Antidote Is in the Poison’

17 June 2022

Photo: Emily Dennison

As the release of GoGo Penguin’s new EP nears, pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Jon Scott are offering up another taste of Between Two Waves with new track ‘The Antidote Is in the Poison’. Speaking about it, Blacka says:

“The starting point for the track was taken from a sequenced pattern on a synthesiser, but we then switched everything back to the acoustic instruments and never used a synth on it at all”.

Listen to ‘The Antidote Is In the Poison’ now.

Between Two Waves EP out July 1st via XXIM Records/Sony

Danny Mulhern set to release new album, Singing Through Others, in September

16 June 2022

With a catalogue busy with film and tv soundtracks since the early-2000s, British composer and multi-instrumentalist Danny Mulhern is gearing up to release his fifth album titled Singing Through Others. As with recent works, on the new album Mulhern continues to collaborate with the London Contemporary Orchestra. Described as a “meditation on relationships”, Singing Through Others takes its title from the words of poet and philosopher Nora Bateson, who also features on the record.

We’ll have to wait until September 16th for the album to be out through Enate Music/Kontor Media but luckily we can already hear the wonderful single ‘A Different Kind Of Blue’. Mulhern comments:

“I sense that our culture is pretty beset with cynicism. On Singing Through Others I wanted to carry a torch for earnestness, and explore a melodic and tonal side of neoclassical music. The 7/8 time signature of A Different Kind Of Blue seems to straddle convention and weirdness in a pleasing way. It has a more zoomed-out palate of sounds than my previous records. Using electronics, jazz and band instruments alongside the orchestral players. It’s a chilled and playful polyrhythmic piece, and one of my favourites on the album.”

The single is offered with an accompanying video directed, animated and conceived by Antony Barkworth-Knight. Watch it now.

Listen to Hatis Noit’s new single ‘Inori’

14 June 2022

Following the mesmerizing and poignant ‘Angelus Novus’, Hatis Noit has shared new single ‘Inori’ from her upcoming album Aura. Unlike all the other tracks on the album where the London based Japanese vocal performer uses only her vocals, ‘Inori’, which means prayer, features a field recording she took of the ocean one kilometre away from Fukushima’s nuclear power plant. Hatis was invited to perform there as part of a memorial and re-opening ceremony of the area near the nuclear power plant. The track is dedicated to the lives lost in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and to the memories of displaced people who hoped to return home. She explains:

“It was the first day that local people who used to live there were able to come back to their hometown. The next day I went to take a field recording of the ocean, which would become the base for this song as even after a disaster like this, the ocean remains the ocean.”

Listen to ‘Inori’ below and grab the album when it’s out on June 24th through Erased Tapes.

Rusty Santos shares video for first single ‘Dream In Stereo’

08 June 2022

Photo: Atiba Jefferson

Musician and producer Rusty Santos, known for his work with Animal Collective and Panda Bear, has announced the release of a new solo album. Entitled High Reality, it follows his 2006 Eternity Spans and is set for release onf July 22nd through Lo Recordings. On the album, Santos explores themes of “contemplat[ing] one’s place in the universe, mental health struggles and our relationships with others”, as the press release describes. He explains how the album came to life:

“These songs were created from a place of necessity after I had been hospitalized and involuntarily held in a facility due to a psychotic break, which was brought on by tactics I faced by others in the music industry. It took the efforts of some artist friends and label contacts I work with to intervene and get me released. The people in charge at the facility didn’t believe I was a record producer. The album title, High Reality, is the name I’ve given to the state of consciousness I was in while detached from day-to-day reality during my crisis.”

Ahead of the album’s release, Santos has shared the first single ‘Dream In Stereo’, and an accompanying video created by Brett5D. Watch it now.