Watch Dirty Projectors‘s new video for the gorgeous track ‘Impregnable Question’, taken from their critically acclaimed album Swing Lo Magellan, which was one of our Albums Picks of 2012. The video was directed by Adam Newport-Berra, and features beautiful landscapes and views shot in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
The Besnard Lakes have unveiled a new video for ‘Colour Yr Lights In’. The track is lifted from their fourth full-length album Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO released earlier this year via Jagjaguwar. Montreal visual artists the Sanchez Brothers directed the video and it stars actor Martin Dubreuil. Watch it below.
As we had previously mentioned, School Daze, a retrospective double LP featuring Patrick Cowley‘s recently found works recorded between 1973 and 1981, was released last week through Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem.
Using clips from the original 1980 gay porn film School Daze, Dark Entries’ Josh Cheon created a video to accompany the track ‘Mockingbird Dream’. Check it out below.
Seattle based outfit New Weather, consisting of Sean Curley, Amber Rossino and Tomory Dodge, are releasing their self-titled debut album today via Butterscotch Records. The effort was mixed by Allen Farmelo (The Cinematic Orchestra, Talk Normal) and mastered by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT).
Drawing influences from an array of genres and creative sonic and visual experiences, the trio blends elements from electronic, krautrock, experimental, ambient, psychedelic and pop. As the press release describes, “we hear the celestial scrapings of Stockhausen, the minimalism of Kraftwerk or Stereolab, the grooves of Air and the ambient drift of Boards of Canada, even the insistent psychedelia of early Pink Floyd”. Dodge explains further:
“Collectively we own a vast library of early electronic pioneering recordings. I had become very interested with the seventies recordings of Philippe Besombes. We were looking back to a brief moment in history when no one really knew what electronic music was, but they were trying to figure it out, using temperamental equipment in experimental ways and making new music.”
Coinciding with the album release, New Weather have aired one of the album’s outstanding and hypnotic tracks, ‘Heat Death’. It comes with an accompanying video, produced by Malaki Stahl. Check it out below.
Bristolian outfit The Fauns, comprising Alison Garner, Lee Woods, Elliot Guise, Michael Savage and Tom Adams, have announced the release of their second full-length album entitled Lights. The follow-up to their 2009 eponymous debut was produced by the quintet’s own Michael Savage and arrives on December 2nd via Invada Records.
The album stand-out track ‘Seven Hours’ is the first taste to emerge and The Fauns have unveiled an accompanying video for it, directed and produced by John Minton. Check it out below.
New Zealand’s Orchestra of Spheres are getting ready to release their second album. The unique and dynamic outfit, who explore and blend sonorities from all over the place, including what they call “the hypnotic beats of Kuduro, repetitive minimalist Bornean sape music, free jazz and improvised music, and the celestial chimes of gamelan”, aptly named the album Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music. Recorded in Montebelluna, Italy last year, the effort is described as “a surreal road-trip through a hyper primal, fuzzed-out, synth laden, garden of Eden.”. The press release adds that Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music is “a futuristic bunga-bunga party band for 22nd century boom-boom cults”
Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music will see the light of day on November 18th via Sound Explorers in New Zealand and via Fire Records in the rest of the world. Orchestra of Spheres will be hitting the road for an extensive European tour in November and December in support of the album. They are playing in London at Corsica Studios on December 12th, you can check all their other stops and info here.
Orchestra of Spheres are teasing the upcoming album with the hypnotic and awesome lead single ‘Journey’. Listen to it now.
