Jerusalem In My Heart set to release debut album in March

10 January 2013

Jerusalem In My Heart is the Montreal based performance collective formed in 2005 by Lebanese artist Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, currently also comprising French musician and producer Jérémie Regnier and Chilean visual artist and filmmaker Malena Szlam Salazarof.
The result of their two-year collaboration exploring a relationship between music, visuals, projections and audience comes in the shape of a full-length album entitled Mo7it Al-Mo7it, which means “Ocean of the Ocean” according to the outfit’s own poetic interpretation. The press release explains that “the numeral 7 is pronounced like an h; all titles on the album are rendered in contemporary colloquial “mobile” Arabic (the transliterative characters used in Arabic phone texting)”. Mo7it Al-Mo7it is described as “a unique and profoundly emotive album of contemporary Arabic music” where Jerusalem In My Heart “forges a modern experimental Arabic music by wedding melismatic singing in classic Arabic styles and electronic compositions with contemporary electronic production”.
The album is slated for a March 19th release via Constellation Records and pre-order is now available.
‘Yudaghdegh el-ra3ey walal-ghanam’ is the first thrilling taste to emerge from Mo7it Al-Mo7it, listen to it below.

Flamingods preview new single from forthcoming debut LP

10 January 2013

Sun, the much anticipated debut album from London-via-Bahrain five-piece Flamingods, arrives in a couple of weeks and we couldn’t be more excited about it, having heard some of their amazing recordings over the last year and a half. The album drops on January 21st via Art is Hard Records and it will be available on 12″, CD, and digitally.

Back in October, the self-proclaimed ‘ethno-poppers’ offered the lead single ‘Quesso’ featuring guest guitarist Dustin Wong. They are following it with another mind-blowing track called ‘Taishōgoto’, named after a Japanese musical instrument, also known as the Nagoya harp. “The melody itself we thought sounded quite Arabic and since we all grew up in the middle east, we thought it would be a good idea to explore that,” said the quintet. ‘Taishōgoto’ will get you dancing. Here it is.

Mystical Weapons stream new cut ahead of debut album release

09 January 2013

Mystical Weapons‘ eponymous debut album is only a few days away from being released and they have already enticed us with two stunning tracks from it, ‘Mechanical Mammoth’ and ‘Whispers The Blue Tongue’.

To keep up the tension, the improvisational project of Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier have just unveiled a new cut from the forthcoming album, ‘Colony Collapse Disorder’. Check it out below and watch out for the album release this Tuesday January 15th via Chimera Music.

Spiral Ganglion offers new album Above Genus, Below Order

09 January 2013

Spiral Ganglion, the project of Calgary born multi-instrumentalist Ivan Reese, released a new album entitled Above Genus, Below Order last Monday.

Armed with piano, guitars, bass, drums, cello, glockenspiel, granite blocks, tuning pipes, double flute, bass clarinet and an array of others instruments, Spiral Ganglion created a weird, warm and tantalizing seven-track affair. Head over to his bandcamp to stream or download Above Genus, Below Order.
To whet your appetite, here’s a couple of cuts from the album, ‘Tanama’ and ‘Aargh Aargh Aargh’.


Atoms For Peace release new single from upcoming debut album

07 January 2013

Amok, the debut album from Thom Yorke’s super project Atoms For Peace with Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco and Flea, is set to be released on February 25th in Europe and a day later in North America via XL Recordings.

They have just unleashed a new track from the album, ‘Judge Jury and Executioner’, and audiovisual artist Tarik Barri did a video for it. Watch it below.

Shugo Tokumaru unveils second single from new album In Focus?

07 January 2013

Back in November, we mentioned Japanese pop wizard Shugo Tokumaro would release a new album this month. In Focus? is out already in Japan through P-Vine Records, and January 22nd will see the album’s worldwide release via Polyvinyl Records.

‘Decorate’ was the first taste to emerge from the album, and Shugo Tokumaro has offered a second cut from In Focus?, the wondrous ‘Katachi’. Here it is.