Gem Trails set to release Dripps EP, shares new cut

04 September 2013

Brooklyn based Trevor Peterson is best known for having founded Fire Talk Records and for being part of psych rock band Woodsman. Under the moniker Gem Trails, his solo project, he released a 7″ last year, Adobada, and its follow-up entitled Dripps is on the way. The EP drops this Monday September 9th via Fire Talk and it will be available on a limited edition cassette and digitally. You can pre-order it now via bandcamp.
Dripps features four tracks of “ambient drones, electronic oozes and some sparse minimalism” as the blurb describes.
Gem Trails has debuted the EP’s first single ‘Cashed Out For Real’ last week and he’s teasing us further with ‘Growing’, another cut off the EP offered in the form of a video. Let yourself get immersed into these balmy soundscapes.

Joshua Idehen’s new band Hugh unveil debut track

04 September 2013

New stuff from Joshua Idehen is always good news. The London based singer and spoken word artist first appeared on our radar with his electro brass trio Benin City, but prior to this project and concurrently, the man has his fingers in many other pies. The latest one comes in the shape of a quartet and goes by the name of Hugh, also comprising producer Andy Highmore, singer Holly Bestic and guitarist Martin Kolarides.

‘Not Fair Too Far’ is the first taste to emerge from Hugh and leaves us highly anticipating a follow-up. Listen to the track below.

The Meets tease upcoming album with first single ‘Even When The Time Comes’

03 September 2013

The Meets, the Johnstown, Pennsylvania based ensemble directed and produced by Brandon Locher, have announced the release of a new full-length album entitled It Happens Outside.
The ensemble comprises over twenty musicians playing and sampling acoustic and electronic instruments over an electronically created sound collage, as the press release explains.
“80% of the sounds on the album are organic, taken from field-recordings that I made”, said Locher. “A drum circle that happened in the streets, recording friends playing orchestral instruments, etc, to build this created ensemble with everyone being credited.”
Mastered by Nick Zammuto, It Happens Outside will see the light of day on October 1st via My Idea of Fun. The effort will be available on vinyl and digitally, and can be pre-ordered now.
Ahead of the release, The Meets are enticing us with the first excellent single “Even When The Time Comes”. Listen to it below.

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

02 September 2013

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

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

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.

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