Naytronix released his debut album, Dirty Glow, last October and it quickly won our hearts here at Cast the Dice, being one of our Album Picks of the Year.
The multi-instrumentalist and producer, who is currently on the last leg of a European tour, has unveiled a video for the excellent track ‘Nightmare’, directed by Christine Hucal. Watch it now.
Helado Negro, the experimental electronic project of talented prolific musician Roberto Carlos Lange, has announced the release of his third full length album entitled Invisible Life. The new effort will drop on March 5th via Asthmatic Kitty.
This year alone, Roberto has been busy working on other projects. He released one of our Album Picks of the Year with ROM, his project with Matt Crum. He also started Ombre, a collaborative outfit with Julianna Barwick, and together they released a gorgeous debut album, among many other collaborations.
Invisible Life features contributions from collaborators including Bear in Heaven’s Jon Philpot, Mouse on Mars’ Jan St. Werner, Devendra Barnhart, Matt Crum and Eduardo Alonso. As the press release explains, “each help multiply the whispered dream of Helado Negro into a full-spectrum technicolor existence”.
The upcoming album “is a wake-and-take-off kind of record, tones whittled out of time and all its impressions, not to mention Roberto’s refined love affairs with synthesis, sampling, and his own strengthening voice (always bilingual, the son of Ecuadorian immigrants)”.
‘Dance Ghost’ is the first enticing taste to emerge from the album, listen to it beneath.
Flying Lotus premiered yesterday a bizarre video for the single ‘Tiny Tortures’, off his latest album Until The Quiet Comes.
The video was directed by David Lewandowski and it stars Elijah Wood. Watch it now.
Superhuman Happiness have announced the release of their debut full-length album, Hands, slated for a March 5th release via The Royal Potato Family.
The New York based 7-piece first started in 2008 “to seek joy and love through shared rhythm and melody, composed and improvised” as they describe in their social media page. “Their mission is to pursue a happiness greater than that experienced by an individual mind” and their infectious songs are the proof of their success.
Stuart Bogie, Luke O’Malley, Ryan Ferreira, Jared Samuel, Eric Biondo, Nikhil Yerawadekar and Miles Arntzen, who make up Superhuman Happiness, have collaborated with several other bands including Antibalas, Phenomenal Handclap Band, TV On The Radio, Iron & Wine and Martha Wainwright among many others.
“The foundation for the songs on Hands were created by playing a series of hand-clapping games at the beginning of each rehearsal.” explains the press release. “It was the spark that initiated a truly collaborative process.”
Speaking about the forthcoming album, bandleader Bogie said it “was cultivated through a shared method of composition in order to make something greater than any one individual. Who are our influences? More than anything, this band has seven main influences: each member.”
To entice us further, Superhuman Happiness have dropped the first single off Hands, ‘See Me On My Way’. Listen to it now.
This Tuesday December 4th, Superhuman Happiness will release the original soundtrack to the critically acclaimed documentary How To Survive A Plague, written and co-produced by Bogie and O’Malley and featuring performances by Kronos Quartet and compositions by Arthur Russell.
Balmorhea‘s outstanding fifth full-length album, Stranger, came out last October via Western Vinyl. The Texan sextet are now offering an accompanying video for the glorious album opener ‘Days’.
Photographer Jack Coleman filmed it in Indonesia and Japan. “I wanted to express the feeling of space and time, that feeling of traveling abroad and hunting for waves. How the world is always moving and the people in it are as well.”
Balmorhea are crossing the Atlantic for an extensive European tour, starting on March 19th in Dresden, Germany. You can check all the other dates here.
Now here’s the video for the epic ‘Days’.
Last month we heard ‘Mechanical Mammoth’, the mind blowing first taste offered by the new improvisational outfit of Sean Lennon and Deerhoof’s drummer Greg Saunier, Mystical Weapons. The pair will release their self-titled debut album on January 15th via Chimera Music.
Mystical Weapons have just unleashed a video to accompany ‘Mechanical Mammoth’, directed by Martha Colburn. Watch it below.
