Watch the short film The Lion’s Teeth featuring Tanya Tagaq’s music

04 April 2015

Emilio Rojas - The Lion's Teeth

We’ve had our ears on Tanya Tagaq for a while now. The tantalizing Canadian Inuit throat singer released recently her third album, Animism, a groundbreaking effort that won the prestigious Polaris Music Prize last year and the award for Aboriginal Album of the Year at the 2015 Juno Awards.
So we’re delighted to know that Tanya’s music is gracing a gorgeous stop motion short film, The Lion’s Teeth, directed by her friend Emilio Rojas. Here’s what he had to say about it:

“Last summer I collected 10,000 dandelion flowers, approximately 300,000 seeds. Since then I’ve been working them in my artistic practice, and ‘The Lion´s Teeth’ is one of the results from these explorations.

I was introduced to Tanya by a childhood friend of hers at her performance of Nanook of the North, in 2014. I was deeply moved by her show, it really struck a chord, and I spent most of the concert in tears. I started listening to her music as a source of creativity, and during the collection of the dandelions, I would listen to her work while gathering the seeds. Her voice was one of the sources of inspiration for this yearlong project and it kept me going through this extremely laborious and strenuous process.

I finished the video last week and showed it to Tanya. She was really excited about it and asked me if she could share it, which is a total honour.”

Watch ‘The Lion’s Teeth’ below.

In other related good news, Tanya Tagaq is performing a special show in London on May 19th at Village Underground.

Animism is out now via Six Shooter Records.

Hauschka unveils video for ‘Who Lived Here?’

03 April 2015

Hauschka - Who Lived Here?

Abandoned Cities, the outstanding album from German composer, songwriter and experimental musician Hauschka, came out to wide acclaim just over a year ago. He’s now offering a stunning video to accompany ‘ Who Lived Here?’. Like the album, inspired and centred around abandoned places, the video features derelict buildings and deserted places. Eric Epstein directs. Here it is.



Abandoned Cities is out now via Temporary Residence in the US and and City Slang in Europe.

Son Lux announce new album Bones

02 April 2015

Son Lux - Bones

Producer and composer Ryan Lott’s solo project Son Lux has turned into a trio with the addition of guitarist and composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. With the new line-up, comes the announcement of a new album, entitled Bones and due out on June 22nd via Glassnote. “Bones is a call to action, a document of personal and collective uprising”, describes the press release. “Themes of metamorphosis resonate in architectural, vivid sound.”
‘Change Is Everything’ is the first single to emerge from Bones, a triumphant, beautiful and gritty song. Listen to it below.


In support of the upcoming album, Son Lux have announced a series of intimate European pre-release shows including a special event at London’s Edition Hotel on May 5th.

Jaga Jazzist announce release of new album, Starfire

01 April 2015

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Norwegian iconic octet Jaga Jazzist, who celebrated their 20th anniversary last year, are releasing a new album in June. Entitled Starfire, the effort is inspired by life in Los Angeles, where Jaga’s main songwriter, Lars Horntveth, moved to in late 2012. “There, on the other side of the world, inspired by the space around him, the size of the sky above him, the endless light flashing past as he drove round the city at night, he began composing the new suite of works which would become Starfire”, describes the press release. It adds that the album sees the band moving to a more experimental studio-led approach. “The idea was that we thought about the songs as both the original song and a remix in one”.
Starfire is due out on June 1st via Ninja Tune. Luckily, we can already get a taster of what they’ll be throwing at us with the colossal title track, a thrillingly sublime and pulsating affair. Listen to ‘Starfire’ below.

Roots Manuva drops new Four Tet-produced single ‘Facety 2:11’

31 March 2015

Roots Manuva - Facety

British rapper/producer Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is back with brand new material, following the 2013 Stolen Youth EP. In the works for two years, Facety takes its name from patois slang meaning someone is being rude. The single drops on May 4th via Ninja Tune/Big Dada and it will be available on 12″ and digitally. Facety features ‘Facety 2:11’ and it comes backed with B-side ‘Like a Drum’, produced by Machinedrum.
The man is offering a stream of the insanely good ‘Facety 2:11’, with Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet on production duties. Roots Manuva described the single as “a wee Spring warmer in voodoo coptic dialect shape shifting: the remit the same as ever in awakening one’s inner, modern-day Sun Ra, ODB and Kate Bush on an overdrive of “doing because we can’t help ourselves…’. Listen to ‘Facety 2:11’ now. On repeat.