Son Of Philip’s stunning new seven track E.P. for Running Circle Records is awash with electronic textures and synthetic loops without losing the feeling of human creation. ‘Plastic Borough’s post-club ambience and widescreen ‘Blade Runner’ edges also sees the talented Nottingham born musician, DJ and producer Tom Smith, collaborate with Swedish singer Ylva Grönlund, offering a darkly poetic noir to his beatless stories. Read / Listen.
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Maxine Funke 'River Said' (Disciples) - a review
Maxine Funke is a wonderful singer/songwriter from New Zealand and here on her fifth album, she has delivered two very different sides to her artistry. One side of the record is made up of intimately recorded lo-fi folk-inspired songs that are reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan or Sybylle Baier at their sparsest, side two contains organic sounding atmospheres that Eno would be proud of. Read / Listen
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LILAMORS 'Home' (Hout Records) - Video Premiere!
We are pleased to premiere the video of the lovely debut single ‘Home’ from the Basel-based modern compositional-jazz-not-jazz trio LILAMORS. Haunting yet comforting, the monochromatic video directed by Blaž Rojs is a slow moving waltz into the depths of the sea; a perfectly paced response to the music’s hymn-like beauty. Read / Watch / Listen..
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MD. AFTER HUSSAIN & PAQ 'MATIR GAAN (SONGS OF THE EARTH)' (Hive Mind Records) - a review
Hive Mind Records once again give us something we never knew we needed. A stunning collaboration between Bangladeshi migrant MD After and Italian electronic artist Andrea Rusconi offers a meditative collision of cosmic synths and ancient Baul songs that are as mystical as they are psychedelic - a great release. Read / Listen here
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Photo: Daniel Rodríguez
Isaac Sasson 'Canciones de Isaac' (Olindo Records) - a review
Isaac Sasson has released an album of perfectly poised gentleness containing thirteen evocative folky vignettes of life and family in Venezuela and Barcelona. Field recordings of nature accompany his tender voice, exquisite songwriting and light touch multi-instrumentalism. It’s a stunning record. Read / Listen
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Dave De Rose & Dan Nicholls 'Plants Heal' (DDR) - a review
‘Plants Heal’ is released today and is a short, beautifully weighted album of natural ambience and surprising moments of electro-acoustic tension culled from two days of constant improvisation. Meditative and impressionistic, the record is both relaxing and confrontational in the most calming way from two of the leading lights of the experimental scene. Read / Listen here
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Credit - Nicola Schmid
Howald 'Amnis Alsace' (BlauBlau Records) - a review
A touching and poetic soundtrack to a filmic diary that was made in response to the music from Swiss multi-instrumentalist Dimitri Howald. Touching on Afro-Brazilian, jazz, post-rock and 80s New Wave flavours. Read / Listen / Watch the film here
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Blue Dream 'Trip To LA' (Tangential Music) - a review
Andy Compton and friends have created a woozy, sunshine album of Californian sunset music utilising vintage synths and drum machines, warm guitars and the cool soulful voice of Irantzu Pujadas. The sound of a white isle bar or of falling in love, this is a must for fans of Eddie Chacon, Shuggie Otis or A Man Called Adam. Pure vibes. Read / Listen
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Retusa: Luis Pérez Ixoneztli 'Santuario de Mariposas' (Tokonoma Records) - a review
An extraordinary sonic journey into an imagined Aztec past using archaic instruments and a deep well of ritual and mind-altering experimentation. Sometimes there's a heavy groove, sometimes the jungle is inside you. A brilliant and first time reissue of this little heard collection of magic on Tokonoma Records. Read / Listen…
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Various Artists 'Tokyo Dreaming' (WEWANTSOUNDS) - a review
DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe has curated a superlative compilation of Japanese funk, City Pop, ambient and future house from the 1980’s for WEWANTSOUNDS. Packed full of synths, drum machines, soulful voices and occasional 80’s silliness we invited our man from Rough Trade Nottingham and Japanese music cheerleader, Jono Beard to give us his thoughts and his thoughts are good. Read / listen…
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Music That Speaks To...Three Body (Running Circle)
Three Body are a trio of musicians, producers and cosmic explorers who also guide the Running Circle collective. On the back of their eponymously titled release on the label, we asked them to contribute to our ‘Music That Speaks to..’ series and they’ve given us some suitably healing selections for these inner times….read / listen more…
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