Sons of Kemet unveil video for new track ahead of debut album

02 September 2013

Sons of Kemet - Burn

Burn, the highly anticipated debut album from London born, Barbados bred Shabaka Hutchings’s project Sons of Kemet arrives in just a week. To help bring his project to life, the prodigious clarinettist, saxophonist and composer enlisted some of London’s most talented musicians – Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford on drums and Oren Marshall on tuba.
Due out on September 9th via Naim Jazz Records, Burn encapsulates Shabaka’s myriad of influences and his own heritage, blending elements of jazz, Caribbean folk music and African Diasporan history.
“I thought none of the music I’m playing had a Caribbean accent, so I wanted to have that influence,” said Hutchings. “I wanted it to be that deeper thing that links into the African Diaspora but isn’t clichéd, where you hear it and think this is that nice happy music from the islands.”

Sons of Kemet have recently premiered a video for the fierce and hypnotic ‘Inner Babylon’, offering a tantalizing glimpse at what might be one of our favourite albums of the year. The video was directed by Czlowiek Kamera, watch it now.


The Octopus Project release third single off latest album Fever Forms

30 August 2013

The Octopus Project - Fever Forms

Hot on the heels of their recently released fifth album, Fever Forms, Austin based experimental pop quartet The Octopus Project have dropped the third single ‘Perhap’.
With Fever Forms, which was recorded by themselves and co-mixed with Erik Wofford (Maserati, Black Angels, M. Ward), the band mirrors their distinct energetic and intense live performances more than in previous albums. As the press release notes, the new album “is most representative of the Octopus Project live experience – dense and euphoric, a concentrated dose of frenetic beats and exuberant melody set in a brilliantly colored sound world”.

Earlier this month, The Octopus Project kicked off a US tour in support of the new album, with several more dates scheduled throughout September. A European tour will follow, starting on October 7th at The Garage in London. Check all their stops and more info here.

To get you enticed, here’s ‘Perhap’. Enjoy.

Fever Forms is out now via Peek-A-Boo Records.

Inga Copeland becomes copeland and drops new single

29 August 2013

copeland

Inga Copeland is probably best known as one half of Hype Williams alongside Dean Blunt. The pair announced recently their dissociation and they might not be making music together anymore, but we’ll be listening to their productions in a solo format. Blunt recently released a mixtape, and now a new single from Copeland called ‘Fit’ has emerged via her youtube channel simply under the moniker copeland. Listen to it now.

Zammuto releases third and final track ahead of new album

23 August 2013

Zammuto

Zammuto‘s second album is in the works and the foursome led by Nick Zammuto launched last month a campaign to help fund the yet-to be-titled album. Over the duration of the campaign, which ends today, Zammuto promised to share three tracks from the upcoming album. We already heard the excellent ‘Sinker‘ and the funky as hell ‘Need More Sun’ and the third and final track is now streaming for our listening pleasure. Listen to ‘Corduroy’ below.