Elliot Moss has unveiled a stunning video to accompany the beautiful and dreamy ‘Pattern Repeating’. The track is lifted from his debut album Highspeeds, released earlier this year through Grand Jury. HochR directs. Watch it below.
Tortoise’s new album, The Catastrophist, arrives next month
Chicago’s legendary quintet Tortoise have a new album on the way, following 2009’s Beacons of Ancestorship. Entitled The Catastrophist, the album’s first came to life in 2010, when the City of Chicago commissioned the group “to compose a suite of music rooted in its ties to the area’s noted jazz and improvised music communities”. The band’s Jeff Parker explained that they reworked and restructured all of the songs quite heavily. “We actually had quite a lot of material that we ended up giving up on. Oftentimes, we’ll shelve ideas and come back to them years later.”
‘Gesceap’ serves as the album’s first taste ahead of its release on January 22nd via Thrill Jockey. Here it is.
s t a r g a z e and Greg Saunier’s Deerhoof Chamber Variations EP out today
Today sees the release of Deerhoof Chamber Variations, the joint EP from Berlin’s instrumental collective s t a r g a z e and Deerhoof’s drummer and composer Greg Saunier. Conceived as a continuous piece of instrumental music, the material was originally written for Deerhoof, and this collaboration saw Saunier arrange and recompose these 9 1/2 song for a classical chamber ensemble. He used “exactly the same notes as in the originals while rearranging the songs structurally, in a kind of miniaturizing and abstracting way”, explains the press release, adding that “s t a r g a z e adapted this new composition to their particular line-up and the musicians’ personal skills”.
Here’s a fantastic taste from the EP, ‘Data’. It comes with a video directed by Robin Coops. Watch it below and grab the EP through Transgressive Records.
Martin Creed drops free AA single ‘Let Them In’ and ‘Border Control’
Addressing the inadequate response to the current refugee crisis, Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed has released a free AA single. Featuring ‘Let Them In’ and ‘Border Control’, both come with accompanying videos and are described as “gloriously succinct yet potent bursts of buoyant, ramshackle pop, albeit underlaid this time around with an urgent call to arms”. Check them out below and download them here.
Cast the Dice 2015 Album Picks
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Tricky unveils new project Skilled Mechanics, announces debut album
Since relocating to Berlin earlier this year, trip-hop pioneer Tricky has been busy with a new project called Skilled Mechanics. It sees him working with a different cast of contributors from project to project, and on the first one, Tricky joined forces with longtime friend and collaborator DJ Milo and his tour drummer Luke Harris. The fruit of this collaboration arrives early next year in the form of a self-titled full-length album.
The album also features guest contributions from Chinese rapper Ivy 艾菲, London based singer Renata Platon, Danish singer songwriter Oh Land, and his current vocalist Francesca Belmonte.
‘Diving Away’, a cover of ‘Porpoise Head’ by Porno For Pyros, is the first single taken from the album. Here’s what Tricky said about it:
“I toured with them in Australia in 1996. My daughter Mazy, who was about four years of age, was with us and she had frontman Perry Farrell wrapped round her little finger. He took all of us to Sealand in Australia. So there was me and Porno For Pyros all trying to get her pram onto the Australian metro. But how many big artists would do something beautiful like that? I think it speaks volumes about him. So I’ve got a lot of love for Perry Farrell and I’ve always wanted to cover one of his songs.”
Now listen to ‘Diving Away’.
Skilled Mechanics is out on January 22nd via Tricky’s own label False Idols.
