A couple of months ago, Bibio enticed us with the stunning lead single ‘À tout à l’heure’, taken from his forthcoming album Silver Wilkinson.
Now he’s offering a video to accompany the single, featuring 8mm film footage shot by himself over the last 13 years. The video was also directed by Bibio in collaboration with Russell Weekes. Check it out below and watch out for the album release on May 13th in Europe and May 14th in North America via Warp.
We first heard and loved Winnipeg natives Royal Canoe last year, when they released the EP Purple and Gold.
They dropped another EP last year, Extended Play, which is now being released physically for the first time on 10″ vinyl. Head over to Royal Canoe’s bandcamp where you can grab a free download of the EP’s irresistible lead track ‘Hold on to The Metal’. Slated for a May 13th release, Extended Play will be followed by a full-length album entitled Today We’re Believers. The album will drop on June 25th via Roll Call Records in the US, Nevado Records in Canada and Nettwerk in the UK.
The sextet have just finished a string of North-American dates, and they are heading to Europe in less than two weeks. Check all their stops here.
To whet your appetite, here’s ‘Hold on to The Metal’ off Extensive Play and ‘Today We’re Believers’, the title track from the forthcoming album. Enjoy.
In less than two weeks, the new double album from Portland based ambient composer Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium will see the light of day. Nightmare Ending is the follow-up to his 2010’s album Smiles and drops on May 14th via Temporary Residence.
‘Happiness’, the closing track from the album, sees Eluvium collaborate with Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. Here’s what Cooper said about this joint effort:
“When I wrote ‘Happiness’, I knew that vocals would play an important part, but I wasn’t sure how to express them myself. Being the last song on the album, would it be a grand statement – or a smaller piece focused on minute details? At some point in time the fantasy of having Ira singing just came to me: “That would be amazing,” I thought. I mentioned this off-handedly (and most likely a little jokingly) to Jeremy at Temporary Residence, and he responded by saying something to the effect of “Well…why don’t we look into it? The next thing I knew, Ira was responding with words of affection about the music and then sending me recordings that he and James (McNew, also in Yo La Tengo) had made. I was astounded at how close to home the words felt; somehow Ira had managed to express this feeling of having courage and finding comfort in a way I would have never imagined.”
Listen to ‘Happiness’ beneath.
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Sebastian Plano has recently signed to Denovali Records who will re-release his 2011 debut abum The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts as well as his new full length record Impetus in September.
Born is Argentina and now based in San Francisco, Plano skilfully and magically blends classical and electronic elements in his compositions. In his own words, he is “looking for innovation; variations and mixture of genres, the combination of known sonorities making the new scope within a composition.”
You can hear a couple of cuts from the upcoming Impetus on the label’s website. To entice you further, here’s the magnificent and arresting ‘Emotions (Part III)’ off The Arrhythmical Part of Hearts.
In other related news, Sebastian Plano is currently recording a new EP, entitled Novel, in collaboration with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler from Kronos Quartet.
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.
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.
