London based psychedelic funk jazz collective The Heliocentrics have just unveiled a video for ‘Collateral Damage’, created by Plastic Horse. The track is taken from their excellent somophore album 13 Degrees of Reality, out now via Now-Again Records. Watch it below.
Stephan Otten (drums, programming, synthesizers) and Oliver Klemm (guitars, bass, synthesizers), who make up German instrumental electronic duo Sankt Otten, are set to release their seventh full-length album entitled Messias Maschine.
The forthcoming album saw the pair collaborating with a stellar cast of guests, including 75-year old CAN drummer Jaki Liebezeit, Maserati’s Coley Duane Dennis, Ulrich Schnauss, and Harald Grosskopf, amongst others.
Messias Maschine arrives on June 28th via Denovali Records. Ahead of it, Sankt Otten have shared the first taste, ‘Im Himmel angekommen’, featuring Ulrich Schnauss. Listen to it now.
‘Zelda Maria’, one of the cuts from People Get Ready‘s brilliant eponymous debut album, is getting its own EP. Other than the title track, the EP features a demo of album track ‘Orange Grove’, an instrumental B-side, and a remix by Soft Encounters aka Luke Fasano.
Here’s what founding member Steven Reker said of ‘Zelda Maria’:
“Zelda Maria came together right before we recorded it. I had recently finished watching Michaelangelo Antonioni’s film The Passenger for the 2nd or 3rd time. There is this scene in the end that played over and over in my head – Jack asking Maria “What can you see now?” I lifted the dialogue and fit it into a melody that popped up from the keyboard parts I was fiddling with, and a few days later we were tracking the song with Jherek Bischoff. It became the most collaborative song on the record — Luke Fasano had input on how and when the keyboards shifted – Jen Goma wrote the little guitar lick – James Rickman, Jherek and I worked on the funky bass line – it was real fun! Zelda Maria sounds best when you play it super loud – like most things.”
Coinciding with the EP release, People Get Ready have premiered a video to accompany the track. Watch it below.
Earlier this month, Los Angeles and London based electro soul outfit AM & Shawn Lee released La Musique Numerique, a sterling groovy and funky album to keep us dancing throughout the summer.
Hot off the heels of the album’s release, the duo have just unleashed a new fun and sexy single, ‘All The Love’. Listen to it right now.
In other related and thrilling news, George Ben Sun aka AM put together our monthly mixtape, dropping on June 1st. Watch out for it!
At the end of last year, Julia Holter signed to Domino who re-released her somophore album Ekstasis. Its follow up and also her first proper album release on the label, Loud City Song, has just been announced.
According to the press release, Collette’s 1944 novella Gigi, the work of Joni Mitchell and the poetry of Frank O’Hara have inspired her upcoming record.
Loud City Song is described as “both a continuation and a furthering of the fiercely singular and focused vision displayed by its predecessors, taking as it does Holter’s rare gift for merging high concept, compositional prowess and experimentation with pop sensibility and applying it to a set of even more daringly beautiful arrangements and emotionally resonant songs”.
The album is due out on August 19th but ahead of it, she is seducing our ears with the opening track ‘World’ and an accompanying video directed by Rick Bahto.
