Aquaserge set to release new album Déjà-Vous? in April

09 March 2018

It’s no secret we love Toulouse’s experimental pop band Aquaserge, whose latest album Laisse ça être, made it to our 15 Picks of 2017. Like on the record, they are a wonder to behold live, each and all of its five members effortlessly displaying their outstanding musicianship and improvisational sensibilities. So we’re excited to hear they have a new record arriving this Spring, Déjà-Vous? (‘you, already?’). Featuring live renditions of eight tracks, including four from Laisse ça être, the upcoming Déjà-Vous? is the fruit of recordings the quintet made during several shows in 2016 and 2017, some of which accompanied by a 3-piece horn section.

Preceding the record release on April 27th through Crammed Discs, and serving as a wonderful introduction to Déjà-Vous?, Aquaserge have shared their impromptu version of the 30’s popular jazz standard ‘My Funny Valentine’. We simply can’t stop playing it.

Christina Vantzou announces new album No.4

07 March 2018

Christina Vantzou continues her staggering series of numbered albums, exploring and melding classical, ambient, and minimalism. She has announced a new album, No.4, following 2015’s widely acclaimed No.3.
A number of musical and conceptual collaborators helped bring the album to life, including Steve Hauschildt, John Also Bennett, Angel Deradoorian, Clarice Jensen, Beatrijs De Klerck, and members of Belgium’s Echo Collective. The upcoming No. 4, and as the press release describes, “feels both endless and ephemeral, immersive and immaterial”.

Ahead of the album’s release on April 6th through Kranky, we can already hear ‘ Some Limited and Waning Memory’, an utterly beautiful track, both soothing and compelling.

Mouse On Mars share second single ‘Foul Mouth’ from forthcoming album Dimensional People

04 March 2018

After lifting the curtain on their new album, Dimensional People, and sharing the lead single ‘Dimensional People III‘ featuring Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Mouse On Mars are getting us even more excited. Ahead of the album’s release on April 13th through Thrill Jockey, the duo of Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have dropped a celestial new track, ‘Foul Mouth’, featuring Amanda Blank and Zach Codon (Beirut). Listen to it below.

Cavern Of Anti-Matter drop second single from upcoming album Hormone Lemonade

01 March 2018

We’re getting excitingly close to the release of Hormone Lemonade, the new album from treasured Berlin based trio Cavern Of Anti-Matter. Ahead of its release on March 23rd through Duophonic, and following the explosive and trance-inducing first single ‘Make Out Fade Out’, they have shared a delicious new track from the album, ‘Phase Modulation Shuffle’ and we can’t stop playing it. The trio’s mastermind Tim Gane wrote a few words about it:

 

“100 meter dash on a geiger counter stopwatch.
a bouncy castle in a solar wind.
morse code rock.
dead stringz on a midi banjo.
a dollop of skew-whiff pop.”

Take a listen to ‘Phase Modulation Shuffle’ now.

Debut album from YoshimiO / Susie Ibarra / Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe out now

26 February 2018

Last Friday saw the release of Flower Of Sulphur, the debut album from three extraordinary musicians, multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, SAICOBAB), avant-garde percussionist and composer Susie Ibarra, and multidisciplinary artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens). Their heavenly collaboration took place in December 2016, when the trio performed together in New York and Flower Of Sulphur is a live recording of that improvised performance. Ibarra had this to say about it:

 

“We had all performed in different configurations before but never together as a trio. I think actually I have met each YoshimiO and Robert at different times when collaborating on larger works with Tarek Atoui. But we had not performed together as trio. I was very happy with the prospect to play a trio concert, as I could imagine the sonic palette could be very interesting, being that we each come from different aesthetic backgrounds but enjoy crossing into various sonic territories.”

The trio have hinted at more live performances this year so fingers crossed for European dates to be added. Now listen to the album’s incredible opening track ‘Aaa’.

Flower Of Sulphur is out now on Thrill Jockey.

Emily Hall announces new album Life Cycle

22 February 2018

There’s wonderful news from British composer Emily Hall who is releasing the live recordings of Life Cycle, the song cycle she wrote in 2010 with writer Toby Litt. Reflecting on the theme of motherhood and drawing from collective experiences, including Hall’s own one as a mother, her song cycle narrates the story of a couple who first have a stillborn child but end up conceiving again and becoming parents. Presented trough the eyes of the woman, the story addresses and encompasses the different emotions and stages of a mother’s journey. In Life Cycle, and as the press release describes, “exquisitely simple melodies and hard-edged lyrics bring to life the anxiety and impatience of pregnancy; the shadow of loss; the joy of birth; sleep deprivation and the wonder of watching a baby grow”.

To get you enticed for the release of Life Cycle, listen to the gorgeous and poignant ‘I Am Alone’ below.


To coincide with International Women’s Day, Life Cycle is out on March 8th through Bedroom Community.