Phall Fatale have unveiled a new video for ‘Crocodile’, a beast of track plucked from their somophore full length album Moonlit Bang Bang, released earlier this year. Watch the video below.
Moonlit Bang Bang is out now via Slowfoot/Qilin Records.
Rayon’s new album A Beat of Silence arrives next month
Markus Acher is no stranger to the spotlight, with bands like Notwist and Lali Puna under his belt. His catalogue includes many other projects, including founding his own label and composing film scores, and his solo project Rayon, initially created to release film soundtracks. Under this moniker, Acher is ready to release his new album A Beat of Silence. In the album, the spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves, and “treated with as much gravity”, describes press release.
A Beat of Silence will see the light of day on November 11th via Morr Music. Ahead of it, Rayon has shared the eerie and gentle title track. Take a listen now.
Blood Sport set for Moog Sound Lab residency, share video for ‘Reflective Orange’
Sheffield’s Blood Sport are currently touring the UK and Europe off the back of their latest album, Axe Laid To Root, released earlier this year. The tour includes a one-week residency at the Moog Sound Lab in Guilford in November, set to be recorded and released on Moog Recordings Library Label. The fruit of this residence, which will see them use a variety of Moog’s equipment including the recently reborn System 55, will be brought to life at Corsica Studios in London on December 1st in a performance alongside Chicago’s Hieroglyphic Being.
Prior to kicking off their tour, Blood Sport unveiled a video for ‘Reflective Orange’, lifted from Axe Laid to Root. The effort, filmed by Ed Crisp and Phoebe Plomerew, features several members of the Sheffield’s DIY music scene, and as the press releases puts it, “together, they form a sonic mega-structure performing a technoid sucker-punch”. Here it is.
Axe Laid to the Root is out now via Blast First Petite / Hybrid Vigour.
Efterklang/Fundal share new single ‘Stillborn’ from forthcoming opera album
Efterklang are back with Leaves – The Colour of Falling, a collaborative album with Karsten Fundal set for release next month. Initially an explorative opera commissioned by the Copenhagen Opera Festival, it was performed live last year in the 1000 m2 nuclear basement of the former Copenhagen Municipal Hospital.
Following the sublime ‘The Colour Not of Love’, Efterklang/Fundal are enticing us further with another single off Leaves – The Colour of Falling, the staggering and sombre ‘Stillborn’, featuring the glorious vocals of soprano Katinka Fogh Vindelev. Katinka, who had previously worked with both Efterklang and Fundal, described her involvement in the song:
“I sang “Stillborn” in the highest of platform heels while being 5-month pregnant with a 20 meter-long veil of shrinkwrap flapping behind me. It was in all ways a macabre moment and also my absolute highlight in the opera. My otherwise pretty restrained character wedged herself slowly through an audience captured in a narrow corridor bathed in cold blue lighting.”
‘Stillborn’ is being offered with an accompanying video, also featuring Katinka. Lend your eyes and ears to it now.
Leaves – The Colour of Falling is out on November 4th via Tambourhinoceros.
Matt Chamberlain & Brian Haas’ second collaborative album Prometheus Risen out now
Last Friday saw the release of Prometheus Risen, the second collaborative album from drummer Matt Chamberlain and keyboardist Brian Haas, following their 2013’s debut duo record Frames. The pair recorded the album over the course of three days in a studio in the desert in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Done entirely live, Prometheus Risen is an improvised effort described as “a free-flowing, no-holds-barred, in-the-moment encounter based on daredevil instincts, a shared arranger’s aesthetic and mutual trust”.
‘Orange Purple Sunshine’ is one of the phenomenal tracks off the album. Listen to it below and grab the record now from The Royal Potato Family.
Carolina Eyck and American Contemporary Music Ensemble unveil video for ‘Leyohmi’
We’re only a couple of days away from the release of Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet, the new album from German prodigious thereminist and composer Carolina Eyck and American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME). They have unleashed an arresting video to accompany the equally beautiful and ethereal ‘Leyohmi’. The effort was directed by Sona Malfa and features choreographer/dancer Genard Ptah Blaircomes. Feast your eyes and ears on the video for ‘Leyohmi’ below.
Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet is out on October 14th via Butterscotch Records.
