Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s 26th album, Worker, out in October

18 August 2014

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Betamax

In twenty years, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have released 25 full-length albums, including Millions: Live In Denver, which came out earlier this year as a Record Store Day exclusive album. Currently a trio, the Tulsa, Oklahoma based ever-evolving band are set to to follow it up with Worker, which is slated for an October 14th release via Royal Potato Family.

Worker stays “true to the ideal that’s led them to where they stand today; that is to surge forward, fearlessly and freely, guided by their creative impulses,” describes the press release. “Visceral live music, played by sentient beings, Worker probes the nexus of modern and primitive, merging analog and digital with composition and improvisation.”.

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have let the first single loose. It’s called ‘Betamax’ and your ears better grab it fast.

Octave Minds premiere video for new single ‘Symmetry Slice’

16 August 2014

Octave Minds - Symmetry Slice

Last month we learnt about Octave Minds, the new collaborative project that pairs together Chilly Gonzales and Boys Noize. They are releasing an eponymous album, described as “New Age-Electronic-Romance” and combining 88 keys and 808 kicks. We had already heard the beautiful first single ‘In Silence’ and now Octave Minds have unleashed a video to accompany the album’s opening track ‘Symmetry Slice’. The video was written, directed & animated by Rolf Bremer. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Octave Minds on September 15th via Boysnoize Records.


Octave Minds can be pre-ordered now here.

Kindness to release second album this Autumn

14 August 2014

Kindness - Otherness

Following the 2012 debut album World, You Need A Change Of Mind, Kindness is ready to unveil its follow up this Autumn. The new record is called Otherness and it drops on October 13th via Female Energy in the UK and October 14th via Mom+Pop in the U.S. Otherness sees Adam Bainbridge, the man behind the project, going all over the place to engage properly with his collaborators, who include Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, Robyn, R&B singer Kelela and Ghanian rapper M.anifest. “Otherness is Adam’s vision, but it’s a collective vision”, says the press release. “In a world where one can make music, in virtually any style, using software alone, we are losing sight of how special it can be when artists get together to blow some air around a room.”.
Here’s what Bainbridge had to say about the upcoming Otherness:

“I want to give people another choice. There’s a lot of great, direct contemporary-sounding pop music to choose from, but even the most mainstream of mainstream audiences might also want something that sounds different from time to time. I still love and appreciate pop music, but I’m happy to leave the people making it to get on with their thing. My motivation is: ‘What do I feel I can do better than anyone else?’ I hope I’ve made that record.”

Kindness is offering the album’s opening track ‘World Restart’ as a first taste. The track features Kelela & Ade. Listen to it below and check out the album trailer straight after.


The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles’ long-awaited collaborative album out in October

11 August 2014

The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles - The Last Tranmission

Exciting news from The Heliocentrics keep on hitting us. First, and as we recently reported, the London based psychedelic funk jazz collective are set to release a collaborative album with Nigerian saxophone legend Orlando Julius next month. Now, news have emerged of another heavenly collaboration and one that has been in the works for the last six years, with eccentric and prolific filmmaker, playwright and musician Melvin Van Peebles. Their joint effort, The Last Transmission, is being released as a double album on October 7th via Now-Again.
According to the label, the forthcoming album “is an interplanetary space/love odyssey told in twelve chapters”. Whilst disc one is presented as a vocal album, the second one serves a bonus disc featuring expanded instrumentals of some selected tracks. “The band considers it their defining work, the result of more than a decade of playing and recording together”, as the album’s blurb describes. “They’ve found a voice as a band, one that meshes with Van Peebles,’ as he weaves an intergalactic “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.””
An instrumental version of ‘Chapter 05 The Cavern’ taken from the bonus disc is the first taste to be let loose and is being ofered as a free download. If this is any inclination of what’s to come, we just can’t wait to hear more.

Primus return with Willy Wonka-inspired album, share first single ‘Pure Imagination’

09 August 2014

Primus - Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble

Legendary prog-rockers Primus have announced their return with the release of a new album. And what’s more, this come back sees their classic line-up featuring bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander reunited for the first time in nearly two decades. Entitled Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble, the upcoming album pays homage to the 1971 cult film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
“The idea was to combine the Frog Brigade and Primus, and do this record”, said Claypool. “I really wanted to pay homage to a film that was very important to me as a kid and very influential to me musically. So that’s what we did. And as opposed to just going in and recording the songs and playing them the way they are in the film, we twisted them up a bit…twisted them up a lot.”

Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble arrives on October 21st via ATO Records and is currently available for pre-order via their webstore.

Coinciding with the release, and in support of the new album, Primus are set to embark on a US-tour in October. If you’re lucky enough to attend one of their shows, you can get your hands on one of their very own Primus chocolate bars. You can check all their tour dates here.

Seems like a long wait till October, but they have already shared ‘Pure Imagination’, the first taste of what they’ll be throwing at us. Have a listen now.