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Black Flower share first single, ‘Diagonal Walk’, from upcoming new EP Motions

28 January 2026

A year on from the release of Kinetic, which was one of our Album Picks of 2025, there’s no stopping Black Flower. The Belgian quintet are gearing up to release Motions, a new 3-track EP. Shaped by a long run of shows across Europe, the new EP sees Black Flower return with fresh ideas and renewed focus, pushing further into trance-like rhythms and a more cinematic and adventurous sound.

The hypnotic and groovy ‘Diagonal Walk’ serves as the first glimpse of what’s coming. Part of their live shows for a long time, ‘Diagonal Walk’ was finally brought to life in a repurposed barn turned makeshift studio, a creative hideout where ideas could roam freely. Take a listen now.

Motions EP lands on March 6th through Sdban Ultra

Black Flower preview forthcoming album, Kinetic, with second single ‘Synesthetic’

11 January 2025

2025 is gearing up to be a wildly exciting year in music with album drops from artists and bands we love like Black Flower. At the tail end of last year, the Belgian quintet had already announced the release of new album Kinetic, and shared then the brilliant and boisterous lead single ‘Monkey System’. They have now unveiled a treat of a new single called ‘Synesthetic’. Saxophonist, flutist and composer Nathan Daems, who helms the band, describes the inspiration behind the track:

“One morning around 5am, I was lying in bed, my eyes still closed but no longer fully asleep. I heard two birds improvising rapid melodies that became vividly visual. Lines, shapes, and colors appeared instantly, representing the sounds with astonishing detail and complexity.”

Black Flower then explored that imagery channelling it into the vibrant, joyous, and energized ‘Synesthetic’. The single is offered with an accompanying video made by visual artist and video director Philippe Werkers. Watch it below and watch out for the release of Kinetic on January 31st through Sdban Ultra.

Black Flower tease upcoming album with lead single ‘Monkey System’ ft. Meskerem Mees

01 November 2024

There’s exciting new from Belgian quintet Black Flower, who are gearing up to release a new album in the new year. Entitled Kinetic, it follows their 2022 Magma, and arrives on January 31st through Sdban Ultra. There’s still a long wait ahead but the collective are teasing the album now with a brilliant and boisterous lead single called ‘Monkey System’ featuring singer-songwriter Meskerem Mees. The title takes its inspiration from the parable of the monkey whereby the monkey is lured by bait inside a hole, it reaches for it with a clenched fist and can’t get the food out without letting go of it. When danger approches, the monkey chooses to hold on to the food rather than letting go of it and gets trapped. The track “is a reflection on this state of mind, and by extension, a poignant metaphor for the human condition”, as the press release explains, and it “mirrors a deeper truth: our tendency to cling to desires that ultimately hold us back.”

Here’s ‘Monkey System’, give it a listen now.

Mixtape #148

01 June 2023


June is here and what better way to set the mood than with our monthly mixtape, this time round kindly curated by Belgian quartet Echoes of Zoo, who released last month an electrifying and exhilarating second album, Speech of Species. Founded by multi-instrumentalist and composer Nathan Daems, and also comprising Bart Vervaeck, Lieven Van Pée and Falk Schrauwen, the band experiments with a dense jungle of sounds and influences as diverse as psychedelic jazz, Eastern and Balkan sounds, West African grooves, dub and rock, with a punk attitude underpinning their approach to music. We’re ecstatic they put together this amazing genre-spanning mix, giving nods to the impressive diversity of influences at play in their music.

  1. Danyel Waro – Aneil [Cobalt]
  2. Ramiro Musotto – Majno Ma Bi [Los Años Luz Discos / Hélico]
  3. Black Flower – Deep Dive Down [Sdban Ultra]
  4. Orchestra Gold – Mako Diyara
  5. Echoes of Zoo – Different Frequencies [W.E.R.F.]
  6. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Lamb Ji (feat. Mbene Diatta Seck) [Ndagga]
  7. Echoes of Zoo – Bee Jive [W.E.R.F.]
  8. Trance Plantations – Itinerary for a Blood Cell [W.E.R.F.]
  9. The Comet Is Coming – Birth of Creation [Impulse!]
  10. STUFF. – Slug [Sdban Ultra]
  11. Black Flower – Worshipper (Origami 3) [Zephyrus]
  12. Trance Plantations – It’s Alive
  13. Antonis Diamantidis Dalgas – Tis Xenitias O Ponos

Black Flower preview upcoming album with title track ‘Magma’

27 November 2021

After sharing ‘O Fogo’, Black Flower are giving us another excellent reason to be excited for their upcoming album, Magma, with its title track unveiled as the second single. They comment:

“We present this latest single as a metaphor for what is to come – moments in time when music comes to the surface taking a concrete form, shared and used to amplify the beauty of life. Being the title track of the upcoming album it reflects a boiling, churning, silent energy. It is the core, the source. It is a state between solid and liquid and represents ancient energy and new potential. The track. An arching melody from the cornet gives way to an eruptive solo on baritone sax.”

Listen to ‘Magma’ below and grab the album when it’s out on January 28th through Sdban Ultra.