El Ten Eleven celebrate debut album anniversary with special reissue and box set

11 September 2019

Los Angeles based instrumental outfit El Ten Eleven are celebrating the 15 year anniversary of their self-titled debut album, and to mark the occasion, the duo of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty are reissuing the record and releasing a special limited edition box set featuring their first five albums. “When we first put it out there was very little reaction”, said Dunn speaking about their debut record. “But the reaction we did get was very passionate, which was exciting for us because we felt like we were on to something.” He added:

“When we first started and we made that first record, I was really worried that people would only be interested in the novelty of us looping and playing everything by ourselves as just two people. I was worried that they wouldn’t be moved by the music. But as it turned out, although people were impressed that it was just the two of us, they love the music.“

Predeceding both releases, El Ten Eleven have shared ‘Fanshawe (Live from Asheville)’, a bonus track lifted from the forthcoming reissue. Take a listen now.

El Ten Eleven: 15th anniversary edition will be out on September 27th through Joyful Noise Recordings.

Oiseaux-Tempête share new single ‘He Is Afraid And So Am I’ as fourth album nears release

09 September 2019

Oiseaux-Tempête‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Somewhere From Invisible, is nearing its release date on October 18th through Sub Rosa and following the intense and compelling ‘Weird Dancing In All-Night II’, they have shared another powerful, gripping and somber track, ‘He Is Afraid And So Am I’, featuring G.W Sok (The Ex). Other than G.W Sok, the duo of multi-instrumentalists Frédéric D. Oberland and Stéphane Pigneul enlisted the help of longtime collaborators Jean-Michel Pirès (Bruit Noir) and Mondkopf to bring the album to life, and there´s also contributions from Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) and Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion).

Their music “unfolds as a twilight and prophetic orchestra around G.W.Sok’s punctuated voice”, describes the press release. “The poems of Mahmoud Darwish, Ghayath Almadhoun and Yu Jian question the modern man and his double, the strange and foreign, the fragmented real, the violence, society and its mirror.”

‘He Is Afraid And So Am I’ is being offered with a video directed by As Human Pattern (Grégoire Orio & Grégoire Couvert). Watch it below.

Oiseaux-Tempête will present Somewhere From Invisible at Le Guess Who? festival on November 8th. Their special performance called ‘Oiseaux-Tempête & Friends’ will feature the guests who have collaborated on the new album, including Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Jessica Moss, G.W. Sok and Mondkopf.

Yazz Ahmed shares first single from upcoming album Polyhymnia

03 September 2019

British-Bahraini trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed had our full attention back in June when she teased her upcoming third album Polyhymnia. Releasing next month through Ropeadope Records, Polyhymnia is a suite of music inspired and celebrating the life of six female role-models, from Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to civil rights activist Rosa Parks. The good news is that Ahmed has now shared the album’s first spellbinding single, ‘Lahan al​-​Mansour’, dedicated to Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia’s first female film director. Take a listen below.

Kneebody announce new album Chapters

01 September 2019

Adventurous American collective Kneebody are set to release their new album Chapters on October 18th through Edition Records. The album, which was mixed and mastered by the band´s drummer Nate Wood at his New York Kerseboom Studio, features 10 tracks and includes guest appearances from Becca Stevens, Gretchen Parlato, Michael Mayo and Josh Dion. With a new line-up marking a new chapter, the band continue to defy pigeonholing and charge through 2019. The brilliant and blistering lead single ‘Spectra’ is proof of that.