Xylouris White announce new album, The Forest In Me, and share first single ‘Latin White’

31 January 2023

Photo: Jem Cohen

January brings a very exciting announcement, Xylouris White have a new album on the way. The heavenly duo of Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White, will release The Forest In Me on April 14th through Drag City. Speaking about the record, Xylouris comments:

“While we were recording, I noticed that the music had a certain solitude about it, both from the title and from inside. That led us to find more music from within that we had not yet discovered.”

White also had this to say about it:

“The idea emerged, naturally nourished and nourishing a record with none of our usual angles and themes, no verbal language, no angst nor sudden dynamics, a more subtle structure. And we found The Forest In Me.”

Ahead of the album’s release, Xylouris White have shared the magnificent and jubilant first single ‘Latin White’. The single comes with a video accompaniment directed by Rebecca E. Marshall and you can watch it below.


GoGo Penguin to release new album, Everything Is Going to Be OK, in April

28 January 2023

Photo: Veil Projects, Emily Dennison

New music from GoGo Penguin is always exciting news. The trio, who last year welcomed a new drummer to the fold and released an EP, Between Two Waves, have announced a new full-length album. Entitled Everything Is Going to Be OK, the effort arrives on April 14th through Sony Music/XXIM.

Alongside the announcement, GoGo Penguin have shared the first transcendent single, ‘Glimmerings’, a track inspired by British Professor Anil Seth’s book Being You. Bassist Nick Blacka comments:

“The word glimmerings stood out when I was reading a book by Anil Seth called ‘Being You’. The book is about the science of consciousness and in the Prologue, he talks about how ‘glimmerings of ideas began to emerge’. It felt like the perfect way to describe the process of thought and creativity. Glimmerings — one of the first songs we started on the new album – started from a small kernel on the synth and over time we added more and more layers until it became something a lot more complex. The idea behind the title is the very beginning, where there is only an idea and an intent to start with, but you have an aim and an idea, and you have to trust in the process.”

Listen to ‘Glimmerings’ below.

Sergio Díaz De Rojas shares ‘Holding her is where I learned forgiveness’ featuring Lo-Fang

27 January 2023

As Sergio Díaz De Rojas prepares to release his new LP The Muerte en una tarde de verano, a third single from the Valencia based Peruvian pianist and composer, the gentle and moving ‘Holding her is where I learned forgiveness’, is now streaming. The track is a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter Lo-Fang aka Matthew Jordan nee Hemerlein, who comments:

“Sergio asked me in december of 2021 to write a few lyrics and sing a melody for a song he had written for his new album that was partly inspired by his grandfather going through the process of dying as well as his love for Seraphina. The image of an individual reflecting on the love experienced in this lifetime from the bittersweet comfort of a deathbed was the image I remember drawing from… whether I heard this correctly from Sergio’s lips or not remains to be seen. However it is that the lyrical content ended up being what it is isn’t quite important as being able to imagine this tender poignant time of release and gratitude which is at the essence of “Holding her is where i learned forgiveness”, a very long title, for a very brief and very powerful living melody.”

Speaking about their collaboration, Sergio also had this to say:

“Our paths crossed in Valencia, Spain, a few years ago, when the world was a bit different. I remember with clarity the day I visited his studio to improvise together. It was such a beautiful experience that it only felt natural to consider collaborating at some point. One day, while working on my new album, I wrote a piece that I felt was asking for something different. So, I sent it to him. He wrote the lyrics, sang them, and played violoncello too, taking the song to a whole new dimension.”

‘Holding her is where I learned forgiveness’ comes with an accompanying video directed by Tiago Almança. Watch it below.

Sunroof release second single, ‘November’, from upcoming album

26 January 2023

Back in November, Sunroof announced the release of Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2, and shared the first single ‘January #2’. With release day less than a month away, the duo of Mute founder Daniel Miller and legendary producer, engineer and artist Gareth Jones have shared a second track called ‘November’. They are offering it with a video created by themselves. Watch it now.

Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2 is out on February 17th through the Parallel Series of Mute

ECHT! announce second album Sink-Along, and share first single ‘Vault-A’

25 January 2023

We love Belgian instrumental quartet ECHT! and their thrilling and intoxicating amalgam of disparate influences. So we’re excited to know they are following up the outstanding 2019 Inwane with a second full-length album. Entitled Sink-Along, the album is set for release on May 5th through Sdban Ultra. It seems like a long way away but the outfit of Martin Méreau, Dorian Dumont, Florent Jeunieaux and Federico Pecoraro are already teasing it with the tight and hypnotic first single ‘Vault-A’, a track dedicated to Brussel’s music centre VOLTA, the “most precious place” in the city. ‘Vault-A’ is offered with a visualizer made by DR.ME. Here it is

Night Dreamer to release new Direct-To-Disc album from Islandman ft Okay Temiz and Muhlis Berberoğlu

25 January 2023

The newest instalment from Night Dreamer‘s Direct-To-Disc session series will come from the hands of Turkish electro-acoustic trio Islandman in collaboration with legendary percussionist and drummer Okay Temiz and contemporary saz player Muhlis Berberoğlu. Islandman’s vision for the upcoming album, as the press release explains, “seeks to reconnect cerebral downtempo beat-making with the folkloric and ritual bedrock that their music has always rested on.”

The album will be released on March 10th and ahead of it we can already hear the lead single ‘Fidayda’.