GoGo Penguin announce Deluxe Edition of Mercury Prize-nominated album, share brand new track

07 October 2014

GoGo Penguin - v2.0

Last month, Manchester’s unique and quirky jazz trio GoGo Penguin landed a nomination for the 2014 Mercury Prize with their second album, v2.0, released earlier this year. To celebrate this nomination, GoGo Penguin have announced the release of a Deluxe digital edition of v2.0 featuring three new tracks from the original album sessions. This Deluxe Edition drops on October 20th, and coinciding with it, the outfit are calling fans to remix one of the album’s tracks, ‘Fort’. The stems for the track can be downloaded on soundcloud and there’s goodies to be won too, so head over here for all the info.

GoGo Penguin have also made available to stream one of the three new session tracks, ‘Break’, a glorious giant tune that will make you really wish soundcloud had a loop button.

Three-day Match&Fuse Festival brightens East London this week

30 September 2014

Match&Fuse Festival London 2014

Following the first edition of the Match&Fuse Festival in London in 2012, and after landing in Oslo in 2013 and in Rome last June, the unmissable three-day festival is again descending on London this weekend. Match&Fuse will take place across three venues in East London – The Vortex, Rich Mix and Café Oto – this Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October. Spanning a diverse range of genres, from jazz and hip hop to ambient and electronica, the festival will feature an immensity of groundbreaking artists from Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Scotland and England. Some of the bands setting their sights on Match & Fuse include the likes of Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings, James Allsopp, Rebecca Sneddon & Lunch Money and featuring SynKoke. Pixel, Lazy Habits, The Comet Is Coming, Eirik Tofte M&F Orchestra, Monkey Plot with Frode Gjerstad, Lana Trio with John Butcher, Snorkel, Physics House Band, Wolfram Trio and many more. Head over to the festival’s website for the full line-up and all other info and tickets.
“With an emphasis on local culture and its transmission across borders”, as the press release states, Match&Fuse “facilitates shared platforms for like-minded artists and the creation of new artistic material through international collaboration and works within underground scenes that comprise distinctive audiences built through cutting-edge artistry.”

Wrapping up the festival on Saturday 4th at midnight, The Eirik Tofte Match&Fuse Orchestra will march from Cafe Oto to The Vortex where they’ll play a short set before the closing performance by British band Snorkel.

The good folks behind Match&Fuse put together a fantastic playlist featuring many of the acts on this thrilling line-up. Check it out below and get down to the festival if you’re near London this week.

Orchestra of Spheres share video for ‘2,000,000 Years’

29 September 2014

Orchestra Of Spheres - 2,000,000 Years

At the end of last year, inventive and outlandish outfit Orchestra of Spheres released their extraordinary second album Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music. One of the album’s standout cuts, ‘2,000,000 Years’, has been given a very fitting visual treatment, directed by Simon Ward. Here’s what Orchestra of Spheres said about the video:

“Simon Ward is one of the best music video directors in NZ. It was a total pleasure making this with him. We came up with a plan of making four miniature ‘concept worlds’, and set about gathering objects from people’s flats, the rubbish dump, things found on the streets… we got a stuffed crocodile, a decomposing pig’s head, a box of 30 vibrators and other assorted goodies. The idea is that each world starts getting filled up with the little people until they breed uncontrollably and it ends up with the froth/sperm/snow stuff eventually taking over… relates to the song, which is cryptically apocalyptic. Simon’s turned our crude concept into a really amazing video.”

Here’s the video for ‘2,000,000 Years’.


Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music is out now on Fire Records.