Atlanta based singer-songwriter Adron has unveiled a gorgeous video to accompany the even more gorgeous track ‘Pyramids’, off her 2011 somophore album Organismo. Film director and video editor Barry Alexander Brown directed the effort, watch it beneath.
The Heliocentrics release somophore album 13 Degrees of Reality
Six years after the highly acclaimed debut album from The Heliocentrics came out, we can finally wrap our ears around their new album 13 Degrees of Reality, which is out today via Now-Again Records.
Led by drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson, with the addition of guitarist Ade Owusu, percussionist Jack Yglesisas and keyboardist Ollie Parfitt, the London based psychedelic funk jazz collective has been playing together for over a decade with an ever-evolving cast of talented musicians.
“Their collective drive is to find an individual voice”, says the record blurb, and they “search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde and “ethnic” music all revolve around “The One.”. The blurb adds that 13 Degrees of Reality continues “to develop this epic vision of psychedelic funk, while exploring the possibilities created by their myriad influences – Latin, African, and more.”.
The Heliocentrics have already teased everyone with two utterly amazing and infectious cuts, ‘Wrecking Ball’, which is free to download here, and more recently ‘Mr. Owusu, I Presume’. Listen to both tracks below and go buy the album, made up of another twenty gems.
Tricky offers new cut from upcoming album
Earlier this year, Tricky announced the release of his 10th studio album entitled False Idols. The album arrives on May 27th via Tricky’s new imprint, which also has the same name as the album, and it’s being released in association with !K7 Records.
False Idols features vocal contributions from Nneka, The Antlers’ Peter Silberman and Fifi Rong.
Calling the album “a stunning return to form”, Tricky said it brought him back to his natural instincts. “I was lost for ages. I was trying to prove something to people, trying to do something to please other people and also myself at the same time, which is never going to work. To be honest with you, I’ve been floating around since Chris Blackwell and Island. My last two albums, I thought they were good, but I realise now they weren’t. This album is about me finding myself again.”
Tricky is offering a new cut from the album, ‘Tribal Drums’, as a free download. The track features vocals from Francesca Belmonte and Tristan Cassell. Stream it below.
Watch Sinkane’s ‘Warm Spell’
Sinkane is offering a beautiful visual accompaniment to the charmingly funky new single ‘Warm Spell’, off last year’s debut album Mars. Here’s how the press release portrays the story behind it:
“A man appears in an alternate reality inhabited by foreign terrain and populated by sirens. He attempts to avoid the sirens’ spell but ultimately fails and he submits to his primal desires and fantasies. Only when he finally submits, is he ultimately able to decode the strange world which surrounds him.”
Philip Di Fiore, who had already directed a video for Sinkane’s previous single ‘Runnin’, holds again direction credits. Here it is.
Matthew Herbert reveals details on forthcoming album The End of Silence
The End of Silence is the new album from British electronic composer Matthew Herbert, set for release on June 24th via his own Accidental Records.
The upcoming effort was composed “entirely from a 10-second sound recording” of an aircraft bombing captured by war photographer Sebastian Meyer in Libya in 2011.
“I wanted to freeze history, press pause, wander around inside the sound—trying to understand its component parts, wondering why it was so scary when I had never actually heard any bomb first hand,” Herbert explains. “In stark contrast to the written reports of the atrocities committed by dictators in the Arab word during the Arab Spring, here was something that rendered it real. It turned the virtual word back in to the visceral. Despite immediate and disparate access to news of world events, it’s rare to find something that punctures the safe veneer of distance that computers create. By hearing this sound, one is compelled to live inside the moment.”
Herbert “fragmented and atomised” the recording into samples, and it was then improvised by his band comprising musicians Tom Skinner, Yann Seznec and Sam Beste.
Recorded last summer in a barn in Wales over three days, The End of Silence is split into three parts. You can get a taster off it now with an excerpt from the original 24-minute ‘Part One’.
Colin Stetson unveils new video for ‘Among the Sef’
With only a week to go for Colin Stetson‘s New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light to drop, the sax magician has unveiled a new video for his latest magnificent single ‘Among the Sef’, directed by Isaac Gale and David Jensen. Here it is.
