Suuns share new video for ‘Instrument’

08 July 2016

Suuns released their excellent third album, Hold/Still, earlier this year and they dropped three singles, ‘Translate’, ‘Paralyzer’ and ‘Brainwash‘, all paired with a visual accompaniment part of a triptych of videos. Now, the Montreal based quartet has unveiled a new video for ‘Instrument’, also off Hold/Still, directed by Italian photographer Pamela Maddaleno. Watch it below.

Since releasing Hold/Still in April, Suuns have been touring relentlessly in both Europe and North America, and they aren’t looking to slow down just yet. Suuns have a ton of dates lined up throughout the summer in a multitude of European festivals, and several more dates confirmed for Autumn.

Hold/Still is out now via Secret City in Canada and Secretly Canadian in the rest of the world.

Ben Chatwin unveils video for new single ‘Euclidean Plane’

07 July 2016

Heat & Entropy, the new album from Ben Chatwin, is nearing its release date and he has previously enticed us with the magically wonderful opener ‘Inflexion’. Ahead of the album’s release, the experimental Edinburgh based composer shared another marvellous track from the album, ‘Euclidean Plane’. Referring to the track, Chatwin had this to say:

“Heat & Entropy deals with contradictions and opposing forces in a kind of symbiosis. The challenge was seeing how far I could push both the acoustic and electronic elements resulting in simultaenous beauty and chaos. Euclidean Plane is one of the more harmonious tracks on the album.

The Octopus became a visual representation for this as it represents organic life and nature yet hints at something alien and desolate.”

With Nat Urazmetova on direction duties, ‘Euclidean Plane’ has been paired with a stunning visual accompaniment. Urazmetova describes the ideas behind it:

“An unexplainable, visceral fascination with the mysterious otherworldliness of octopuses, the ethereal grace and the complexity of their behavior and temperament that magnetises me the most. This is something I tried to capture in the video for Ben’s ravishing track, “Euclidean Plane”: delicacy and unpredictability, the strong physicality but also a shimmering illusion, the pulsation which might have the extraterrestrial source.”

Watch the video below and watch out for the release of Heat & Entropy on July 29th via Ba Da Bing Records.

Sandro Perri’s collaborative project Off World offer new track from upcoming album

06 July 2016

We usually get excited with all the releases that Constellation puts outs and recent news of Sandro Perri‘s forthcoming collaborative project has got us all the more excited. Under the moniker Off World, Perri brings to life a collection of his collaborative work with other producers, including Lorenz Peter (Corpusse, Processor), Drew Brown (Lower Dens, Blonde Redhead, Beck), Susumu Mukai (Zongamin), M J Silver (Mickey Moonlight) and Craig Dunsmuir (Glissandro 70, Kanada 70), and musicians Eric Chenaux and Jesse Zubot.
Set to be released in three volumes, the first one, Off World 1, drops on September 30th. The label describes it as “alien electronics played humanly, with real-world accents throughout”.
We had already heard the incredible first single ‘Wonder Farm’, and to entice us further, Perri has unveiled another track from Off World 1 called ‘Extraction’.

Jason Sharp shares new track from upcoming debut album A Boat Upon Its Blood

30 June 2016

‘A Boat Upon Its Blood (Pt. 3)’, the tremendous title track from Jason Sharp’s upcoming debut album, emerged last month and we were instantly taken by the immersive beauty of his sounds. We weren’t previously familiar with the Canadian composer, improviser and reedist but he’s no stranger to the Montréal experimental/improv scene and has for long collaborated and played with a slew of talented musicians.
A Boat Upon Its Blood is inspired by Robert Creely’s poem ‘The Heart’, and its song titles are also named after the poem. The album “impels deep listening and demands to be taken in as a whole”, describes the press release. We’ll need to wait until September 30th when it drops via Constellation to embrace it fully. But luckily, we can already hear another staggering track from the album, ‘A Boat Upon Its Blood (Pt. 1)’.

Eluvium announces new album False Readings On and shares first single

29 June 2016

There’s wonderful news from Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium whose last solo offering, the double album Nightmare Ending, came out in 2013. The Portland based ambient composer has announced its follow-up, entitled False Readings On. The album is “inspired by themes of cognitive dissonance in modern society”, as the label describes. “By its conclusion it had become a mirror rather than a magnifying glass, evolving into an hour-long meditation on self-doubt, anxiety, and separation from one’s self.”

Ahead of the album’s release on September 2nd via Temporary Residence, Eluvium is also offering the first taste from it in the form of the magical ‘Fugue State’.

Hackney Colliery Band share opening track from upcoming album Sharpener

24 June 2016

East London’s Hackney Colliery Band are set to release Sharpener, their third full-length album, next month. Slated for a July 15th release, the record “shows the band on fine form and more confident than ever”, explains the press release, “with powerful new electronic elements and a dance floor sensibility adding to the jazz, rock and soul for which they are known”. Sharpener is a collection of original work as well as unusual covers, including Three Trapped Tigers’ ‘Cramm’, Nirvana’s ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ and Kwabs’ ‘Wrong or Right’.
The nine-piece brass band have shared a taste of what’s coming our way in the form of euphoric album opener ‘Jump Then Run’, composed and arranged by Steve Pretty. It will get you dancing for sure.

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