Watch the animated video for Tanya Tagaq’s single ‘Centre ft. Shad’

22 September 2016

With her highly anticipated new full-length album, Retribution, nearing release date, Tanya Tagaq has shared a brilliant animated video for the second single ‘Centre’, featuring Canadian rapper and hip hop artist Shad. Sometimes a track hits us so hard that we just keep listening to it again and again, and that is the case with the mind-blowing ‘Centre’, a “hip-hop song about molecular biology and menstruation”.
Tagaq teamed up with fellow Canadian artist and musician Chad VanGaalen, who animated the video. Speaking about it, she had this to say:

“I always knew I wanted to work with Chad because I’ve admired his work from afar for years. I wasn’t expecting it to turn out this well, where he was going to exactly exemplify every single facet of what we were trying to express in an otherworldly, fantastically, logical dimension. I’ve never felt my work so accurately visually embodied.”

What the video below.

Retribution is out on October 21st in North America and November 18th in Europe via Six Shooter.

Aquaserge share video for ‘Les Plus Beaux Jours’

21 September 2016

It has taken us a while to come across the music of Toulouse’s experimental pop band Aquaserge, but it’s no wonder we fell for it instantly. Last Friday saw them release Guerre EP, an EP featuring four tracks, each a universe on its own drawing from numerous and varied genres and influences.
The quintet had previously shared a video for the wonderful and exotic EP opener ‘Les Zouzes’. Now they have unveiled a new video for the closing track ‘Les Plus Beaux Jours’, a delightful love song, featuring longtime collaborator Eddy Crampes on vocals. The video was again directed by Olia Eichenbaum. Watch it below and make sure you grab Aquaserge’s Guerre EP.

Guerre EP is out now via Crammed Discs and Almost Musique.

Mica Levi & Oliver Coates announce collaborative album Remain Calm

20 September 2016

Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes, and experimental composer and cellist Oliver Coates are two tremendously talented musicians whose paths have crossed many times in the past. Following an impromptu jam on Mica Levi’s NTS radio show, the pair continued to improvise together in a flat in south London. Remain Calm is the fruit of this collaboration, a full-length album set for release on November 25th via Slip.

Both hailing from a classical background, Mica Levin and Oliver Coates are also “keen to blur its lines into more contemporary styles like grime, techno and drone”, described the press release. “Shades of Iannis Xenakis, Aphex Twin, Burial and Scott Walker’s film music are suggested in certain passages, but the sum of its parts are a very singular soundworld and a stunning piece of work.”

Along with the announcement comes the first staggering single from the album, ‘Barok Main’. Take a listen below.

Brandt Brauer Frick unveil video for new single ‘You Can Buy My Love’

17 September 2016

Berlin’s Brandt Brauer Frick, the outfit of Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer, and Paul Frick, are set to release their fourth album, Joy, next month. The acoustic techno trio had previously incorporated vocals in their recordings, however Joy is “the first one to be truly vocalist-focused and song-centric”, explained a press release. This shift towards a more lyrically-based album is also thanks to Canadian poet-singer Beaver Sheppard, whose collaboration helped bring the album to life.
Joy saw Brandt Brauer Frick navigating through several genres and styles, including krautrock, punk, drum’n’bass, indie rock and new wave. For a taster of the album, have a gander at the excellent opening track, ‘You Can Buy My Love’, in the video below.

Joy is out on October 28th via Because Music.

Listen to Buvette’s new single ‘Smoke Machine Control / SMC’

14 September 2016

Summer may be coming to an end, but French Swiss musician Cédric Streuli is helping us cling onto it a little longer. Under the moniker Buvette, he’s set to release his fourth album, Elasticity, next week. Following ‘Staring At The Lines’ and ‘Room Without A View’, the groovy and infectious ‘Smoke Machine Control / SMC’, is the latest single to emerge.

“Buvette’s songs are doors that open onto the secret and the shared; onto the past and the present”, describes the press release. “They are the subtle, primarily rhythmic constructions of a drummer who deploys startling structures that suggest chromatic geometries in psychedelic forms.”

Elasticity is out on September 23rd via Pan European Recording. Grab it when it drops and now listen to ‘Smoke Machine Control / SMC’. We dare you not to dance!

Adam Betts shares second cut, ‘Aneek’, from forthcoming solo album

13 September 2016

Photo: Jo Bongard

Last month ingenious drummer Adam Betts announced the release of his debut solo album, Colossal Squid. The news came paired with the insane opener ‘Drumbones’, the first taste of that release. As we wait with baited breath for the album to arrive, Betts has unleashed another tremendous single, ‘Aneek’, named after music technologist and producer Aneek Thapar who provided some sampled sounds. The track, co-written by John Calvert (Ghostpoet, NAO), “is demonstrative of the record’s ethos”, says the press release, adding “that, no matter how exciting or odd the texture, each track should be turned into a piece of music with real form and shape.
‘Aneek’ comes accompanied with a video from the live session which ended up being the actual recording. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Colossal Squid on November 25th via Blood & Biscuits.

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