Little Tybee set to release third full-length album in April

03 March 2013

Atlanta based five-piece Little Tybee will drop their third full-length album, For Distant Viewing, on April 9th via Paper Garden Records.

Taking their name from an island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, Little Tybee’s make music “that amalgamates jazz-like virtuosity, symphonic scope, and hook-laden folk into something focussed and distinctly original”, as the press release explains.

Little Tybee have already teased the album with its glorious title track, for which the quintet’s own mastermind Brock Scott filmed and edited a stunning video, featuring breathtaking footage shot all over the US whilst on tour.

To entice you even further, the band are releasing a one-shot visual accompaniment for every song on For Distant Viewing. All of the videos feature a television showing a live waveform of the song. Keep an eye on these here, where you can already check the visualizer for a couple of tracks from the upcoming album.
Now let yourself go and contemplate the magical world of ‘For Distant Viewing’.

Jerusalem In My Heart share new taste from forthcoming debut album

01 March 2013

With just over a couple of weeks to go for Jerusalem In My Heart to drop their debut full-length album Mo7it Al-Mo7it, the Montreal based performance collective dropped another single from the upcoming album. We had previously heard the thrilling first taste ‘Yudaghdegh el-ra3ey walal-ghanam’, and now the outfit of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Jérémie Regnier and Malena Szlam Salazarof shared the album’s arresting opener ‘Koll lil-mali7ati fi al-khimar al-aswadi’, which translates into “Speak of the Woman in the Black Robe”.
Listen to it below and watch out for the release of Mo7it Al-Mo7it on March 19th via Constellation Records.

Sexmob announce first new album in seven years

27 February 2013

Sexmob have not released an album in 7 long years, but they have become an institution of the experimental jazz scene of New York, impregnating it with fun for the better part of the last 17 years. Lucky for us, Sexmob have revealed a new album is on the way. Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sexmob Plays Fellini: The Music of Nino Rota) is a cinematic tribute that sees Sexmob re-imagining the music of Nino Rota who composed and inspired the surrealist films of celebrated Italian director Federico Fellini.

“Seeing the films was my first exposure to this music. I grew up in Berkeley, and we always had art-movie houses, so we’d go see Fellini films”, explained founding member, bandleader and slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein. “But then what happened is I was 19 years old and I went to my friend’s house, and he said, ‘Check out this record!’ It was Hal Willner’s Nino Rota tribute, and I was like, ‘Wow! Look who’s on it?’ And it’s Carla Bley, Steve Lacy, Jaki Byard. It’s Bill Frisell’s first recording. It’s Wynton Marsalis’ first recording. And then Blondie is on it. Not the full band, but Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. And both of us were just getting our minds blown. We’re like, ‘Wow! What is this? Who is this guy?’ And of course the music was super memorable, and the very idea was just so unbelievable and audacious and cool. It was what we’d all been waiting for.”

Cinema, Circus & Spaghetti (Sexmob Plays Fellini: The Music Of Nino Rota) will see the light of day on March 19 via The Royal Potato Family and can be pre-ordered now.

The first taste to emerge from Sexmob’s upcoming album is the staggering ‘Volpina (Amacord)’. Enjoy!

OOFJ drop debut album Disco To Die

25 February 2013

Disco To Die, the debut album from Los Angeles based duo OOFJ is out ~~today~~ March 26th via their own imprint Clapyouclapme and Fake Diamond. OOFJ, which stands for Orchestra of Jenno, began as the instrumental solo project of Danish multi-instrumentalist, producer and symphony scorer Jenno Bjørnkjær, with the later addition of South African audio-visual artist and singer Katherine Mills Rymer.
Recorded with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Disco To Die is a lush pop noir affair drawing influences and inspirations from “Nico’s hypnotic gloomy 60s folk, techno’s minimalism and subtleties, Twin Peaks, the majestic symphonies of 20th century composers, and rhythms and structures equally indebted to jazz and trip-hop”, as the press release describes.
Listen to ‘Opal Skin’ and ‘Death Teeth’, the two beautiful singles off the album released previously.

AM & Shawn Lee drop first new cut from upcoming album

22 February 2013

Prolific American producers and multi-instrumentalists AM & Shawn Lee, based in Los Angeles and London respectively, released their debut album Celestial Electric to wide acclaim in 2011. The duo are ready to follow it up, and have announced the release of La Musique Numerique, due out on May 7th via Park The Van.

AM and Shawn Lee first met and “bonded over their mutual love of vintage French and Italian Soundtrack music and 80’s digital effects”, as the press release explains. They draw influences from a wide palette of musical genres like funk, pop, soul, disco, jazz, psychedelia and electro, “uniting the past and the future of music.”

‘Two Times’ is the first infectious cut to emerge from La Musique Numerique. One to play again and again.

Woman’s Hour return with new double A-side single

21 February 2013

We were first seduced by Woman’s Hour at the end of 2011, when they released a double A-side single through Dirty Bingo Records.
The London-via-Kendal quartet are back with two new stunning tracks, ‘To The End’ and ‘Our Love Has No Rhythm’, which they’ll release in the form of a 7″ single on April 8th via Parlour Records. The single is limited to 300 copies and you can pre-order yours now here. Enjoy these two gems below.

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