As previously mentioned, guitar virtuoso Kaki King will drop her sixth full-length album, Glow, on October 9th via Velour Recordings.
‘Great Round Burn’ is the first taste to emerge from it and you can listen to it below.
Delicate Steve unveils self-directed video for ‘Redeemer’
Steve Marion aka Delicate Steve has just debuted a self-directed video for ‘Redeemer’, a track off his album Positive Force, released in July via Luaka Bop.
The multi-instrumentalist shot the footage used in the video in India where he was travelling earlier in Spring.
Watch it below.
El Ten Eleven premiere animated video for ‘Yellow Bridges’
Los Angeles based instrumental outfit El Ten Eleven are set to release their fifth studio album, Transitions, on November 6th via their own Fake Record Label.
The duo of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty turned to kickstarter to fund Transitions and ended up exceeding their goal by more than four times. Kickstarter backers will be able to get their hands on the new record on September 25th.
Ahead of the album, El Ten Eleven have just dropped ‘Yellow Bridges’, the second single off Transitions. ‘Yellow Bridges’ comes backed by B-side ‘3K’.
‘Yellow Bridges’, titled after the yellow bridges in Fogarty’s hometown of Pittsburgh, has also just received the visual treatment. The pair premiered yesterday a video directed by British animator Cyriak who thanked El Ten Eleven for giving him “the long dreamed-for opportunity to make a video out of 2 twigs and a leaf”.
Check out the video below.
Efterklang give away ‘Apples’ ahead of upcoming album release
With the imminent release of Efterklang‘s fourth full-length album Piramida, the Danish trio are offering a new cut from it, the single ‘Apples’.
The upcoming album takes its name and inspiration from the trio’s nine-day visit to Piramida, an abandoned Russian mining town on Spitsbergen Archipelago in the North Arctic.
Piramida was abandoned overnight in 1998 and became a ghost town but still today it’s full of old objects, including the world northernmost grand piano. Efterklang collected over a 1000 recordings which they later processed and synthesized in their Berlin studio to use in the album.
‘Apples’ draws a lot from these field recordings. Here’s what the trio of Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg said about it:
“Apples was one of the first songs we wrote for the album after our return from the trip to Piramida. Like many of the other songs on the album Apples is inspired by the cycle of human creations – that being creations like an entire city left to decay in the Arctic or the cycles of our interpersonal relationships in life. Apples is mainly a song about letting go of love in the attempt of finding it again.”
Piramida is due out on September 24th via 4AD and Rumraket.
Coinciding with the release, Efterklang will embark on an extensive European tour, where they’ll perform Piramida in its entirety with orchestras. You can check all the dates and other info here.
Now listen to their new dazzling single.
First taste from Philip Glass remix project by Tyondai Braxton
Philip Glass, one of the world’s most celebrated composers, turns 75 this year and to commemorate it, the most impressive group of talented musicians contributed to Rework: Philip Glass Remixed, a collection of Glass’s original compositions that have been reworked and remixed.
According to the press release, the idea first come about after conversations between Glass and Beck, who then “recruited producer Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Björk, Lou Reed) to help assemble a collection of remixes of Glass’ works by a list of critically acclaimed artists.”
Other than Beck, Rework: Philip Glass Remixed features remixes from Tyondai Braxton, Cornelius, Dan Deacon, Amon Tobin, Peter Broderick and more.
The album will be available as a double LP and double CD and is slated for a October 23rd release via Orange Mountain Music / Ernest Jenning Record Co. and The Kora Records. You can pre-order it now.
We have just been graced with the first cut from the forthcoming album, a remix of ‘Rubric’, which comes from the hands of prodigious composer and musician Tyondai Braxton. It is amazing beyond belief and you’ll be hitting play again the second it ends. Here it is.
CatNip Tea give away first single off upcoming somophore album
Bellingham, Washington via Santa Fe, New Mexico self-called “grok rockers” CatNip Tea have a second full-length album in the works entitled Ouroborealis.
The band, who take their name from an herbal sedative tea, describe Ouroborealis as “an attempt to depict and perhaps better understand and maybe then even explain the evolution of a human consciousness from its component parts before conception through its development and on to its culmination.”
CatNip Tea have recently dropped ‘Muldahara’, the first hypnotic and electrifying single from the upcoming album. Listen to it below.
