|
Last updates:
2 May, 2022 16:51
|
|
|
|
NEW
RELEASES APRILE 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
|
TANIKA
CHARLES
"Papillon de nuit: the night butterfly"
"Papillon
de Nuit: The Night Butterfly" is the third studio album from
Canadian Soul/R&B powerhouse Tanika Charles and is slated
to be released worldwide on Milan-based Record Kicks label on
April 08th. Composed and recorded while in and out of lockdowns,
Papillon de Nuit is an album anchored in growth and maturity.
The thematic inspiration came from an unlikely source, a creature
that soars after the sun sets, but often goes unnoticed until
the light shines on it. It is the "papillon de nuit"
to some, but drably referred to as a moth by others, revealing
a bias in language alone.
[
file under: nu soul ]
   
|
|
DUSTER
"Together"
Gather your
loved ones, Together is here. Duster’s fourth album is
a 13-song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A
sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and
over-driven rhythm tracks. “I know people say, ‘Oh
Duster music so sad, we've even said it ourselves before,”
Clay Parton said. “But it's a lot more like absurdism
than nihilism.”
[
file under: post-rock ]
|
|
FONTAINES
DC
"Skinty fia"
"2020’s
A Hero’s Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the
UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello
Awards, and sell out London’s iconic Alexandra Palace.
Now the band return with
their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially
as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish
language into English as “the damnation of the deer”;
the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through
generations.
[
file under: irish indie ]
|
|
HELD
BY TREES
"Solace"
Held
By Trees are a group of musicians who worked on many albums
by Talk Talk and the Mark Hollis solo album. Their debut LP
'Solace' is one of post-rock instrumentals. Their music is heavily
influenced by the aforementioned Talk Talk, as well as Ryuichi
Sakamoto and ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’-era Pink Floyd.
The band also includes members of Blur, Dire Straits and blues
guitarist Eric Bibb. Other contributors include Tim Renwick
(guitar – Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton), Mike
Smith (sax – Blur, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz), David Knopfler
(guitar – Dire Straits founding member), Gary Alesbrook
(trumpet – Noel Gallagher, Kasabian, Super Furry Animals).
[
file under: spirit of eden ]
|
|
SALLY
SHAPIRO
"Sad cities"
"Sad Cities
is the best kind of comeback album; one that has just the right
amount of nostalgia baked into the grooves, but also adds in
new sounds and approaches. Shapiro and Agebjörn certainly
do that and the album is a reminder of just how good heartbreak
disco can sound when delivered by people who understand it so
well." AllMusic (4/5)
[
file under: italo disco ]
|
|
BRIX
SMITH/MARTYN WILLSON-PIPER
"Lost angeles"
Legendary musical
pioneer Brix Smith recorded Lost Angeles with Marty Willson-Piper
in 1997 and this long lost gem includes some of her best work
to date. Originally intended to be a follow on from her influential
and much loved project The Adult Net, 'Lost Angeles' was written
in Los Angeles during her break from The Fall (1992-1994) and
recorded in 1997 in Penzance during her second stint in The
Fall.
[
file under: alternative ]
|
|
NIK COLK
VOID
"Bucked up space"
Nik Void is
well established with her work as one half of Factory Floor,
one third of Carter Tutti Void (alongside Chris Carter and Cosey
Fanni Tutti) and with the late Peter Rehberg as NPVR, but perhaps
surprisingly, "Bucked up Space" is her first solo
album release. Bucked Up Space combines Void’s love of
improvisation with the driving force of beat-driven music absorbed
from performing in galleries, residencies and clubs across the
UK and Europe.
[
file under: kompakt techno ]
|
|
WET LEG
"S/t"
After releasing
two of the hottest singles of the year, Wet Leg’s Rhian
Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines
on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues across the UK and packed-out
tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went.
Now, the duo is thrilled to unveil news of their debut album.
The album is called Wet Leg.
[
file under: alt indie ]
|
|
WHATEVER
THE WEATHER
"S/t"
A longtime
fan of ambient-adjacent Ghostly International artists such as
Telefon Tel Aviv (who she’d ask to master the album),
HTRK (whose singer Jonnine Standish features on Nothing), and
Lusine (whom she remixed at the start of 2021), Lorraine James
saw the label as the ideal home for this eponymous album of
airy, transportive tracks as they began to formulate.
[
file under: electronica ]
|
|
EMILY
JANE WHITE
"Alluvion"
Emily Jane
White is a musician, songwriter, and poet from Oakland, CA.
She began performing under her own name in 2003 and released
her first album "Dark Undercoat" in 2007. Rooted in
a moment of catastrophe, Alluvion is an album about personal
and collective grief resulting from the loss of human life and
the continued loss of our natural world. We live in a moment
of merging traumas, of converging environmental, social, and
political crises.
[
file under: chamber pop ]
|
|
NEW
RELEASES MARZO 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
|
APRIL
MARCH
"In cinerama"
April March has quite the resume: an animator on Pee
Wee’s Playhouse and for Madonna’s Who’s That
Girl video, and collaborating with Brian Wilson, Jack White, LL
Cool J, Jonathan Richman, Ronnie Spector and Bertrand Burgalat.
But she also has an acclaimed recording career, heavily influenced
by French pop music, making a name for herself in France with
her self-produced albums as well as albums with Bertand Burgalat
and Aquaserge.
[
file under: tricatel sounds ]
|
|
BLUE
STATES
"World contact day"
World Contact Day arrives six years after the previous
Blue States album, written and recorded partly at Dragazis' Lightwell
Recordings studio in Hackney featuring a combination of instrumental
soundscapes and vocal songs that fall into draw on a wide palette
of influences including Morricone, Vangelis, Beak, Broadcast and
The Carpenters.
[
file under: downtempo ]
|
|
BOO
RADLEYS
"Keep on with falling"
Responding to the warm welcome that greeted news of
their reformation earlier this year, The Boo Radleys release their
first album of all-new music in 24 years, the 11-track Keep On
With Falling on their own Boostr label. Rising from cult-shoegaze
band to the very forefront of British guitar pop inside one, eventful
decade,and formed of original members, Sice, Tim Brown and Rob
Cieka, the 11-songs on Keep On With Falling are the first to be
developed by The Boo Radleys as a three-piece.
[
file under: shoegaze ]
|
|
ELECTRIBE
101
"Electribal soul"
Electribal Soul is the fabled, previously unreleased
second album from UK electronic pioneers Electribe 101. Recorded
in 1991 by the quintet of vocalist Billie Ray Martin and Birmingham-based
electronic musicians Brian Nordhoff, Joe Stevens, Les Fleming
and Roberto Cimarosti, Electribal Soul was conceived as the sequel
to the band’s 1990 debut album, Electribal Memories.
[
file under: ambient electro house ]
|
|
ALDOUS
HARDING
"Warm Chris"
An artist of rare calibre, Aldous Harding does more
than sing; she conjures a singular intensity. The artist has announced
details of Warm Chris new studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s
acclaimed Designer. For Warm Chris, the Aotearoa New Zealand musician
reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional
partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of
work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer).
[
file under: alt folk 4ad ]
|
|
JENNY
HVAL
"Classic objets"
“In 2020, like everyone else, I was just a private
person,” says Hval. As an exercise, Hval wrote straight-forward
stories about life, investigating the stripped-down “just
me” concept. She had been “just me” before too,
when at 24, while living in Australia, she was diagnosed with
celiac disease and could no longer begin her music career in the
way she had foreseen.
[
file under: alternative ]
|
|
IBIBIO
SOUND MACHINE
"Electricity"
Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams,
Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements
inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West African funk,
disco, and modern post-punk and electro. Evocative Nigerian poetic
imagery set against an edgy Afro-Electro soundscape gives the
band a unique space within the wave of modern Afrocentric sounds.
[
file under: nigerian disco ]
|
|
KING
HANNAH
"I'm not sorry, I was just being me"
Hannah Merrick’s recollection of how she and Craig
Whittle first set about turning ambition into reality is typically
down-to-earth. “I remember wanting a band,” she says,
“and that was that. The first thing was to get a guitarist,
and that was Craig. But it was never, ‘Let’s just
jam’. Instead, as soon as we had our songs together, it
was, ‘Let’s build on this. Let’s put a band
around it.’” And ‘this’, as others might
say, is how the magic began.
[
file under: moody americana ]
|
|
WEATHER
STATION
"How is it that I should look at the stars"
One year after the release of Ignorance, The Weather
Station returns with How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars.
The album is intended to be heard as a companion piece to Ignorance;
songs written at the same time that connect thematically and emotionally,
songs that reveal the vulnerability at the heart of the body of
work. Recorded live in just three days, How Is It That I Should
Look At The Stars is achingly intimate; full of breath, silence,
and detail.
[
file under: indie folk ]
|
|
NILUFER
YANYA
"Painless"
Nilüfer Yanya runs head first into the depths of
emotional vulnerability on her anticipated sophomore record PAINLESS.
Recorded between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish
Music in Penzance, the record is a more sonically direct effort,
narrowing her previously broad palette to a handful of robust
ideas. Yanya's debut album Miss Universe (2019) earned a Best
New Music tag from Pitchfork and saw support tours with Sharon
Van Etten, Mitski and The XX.
[
file under: alternative ]
|
|
NEW
RELEASES FEBBRAIO 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
|
BLACK
COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
"Ants from up there"
Black Country, New Road return with their second album,
Ants From Up There out on Ninja Tune. Following on almost exactly
a year to the day from the release of their acclaimed debut “For
the first time”, the band have harnessed the momentum from
that record and run full pelt into their second, with “Ants
From Up There” managing to strike a skilful balance between
feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before, as
well as a natural progression.
[
file under: post-rock ]
|
|
BEACH
HOUSE
"Once twice melody"
Once Twice Melody is the 8th studio album by Beach House.
It is a double album, featuring 18 songs presented in 4 chapters.
Across these songs, many types of style and song structures can
be heard. Songs without drums, songs centered around acoustic
guitar, mostly electronic songs with no guitar, wandering and
repetitive melodies, songs built around the string sections.
[
file under: dream pop ]
|
|
ERIC
CHENAUX
"Say Laura"
The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate
and pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive
interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing
and revelling in throughout the past decade. Say Laura might as
well be a jazz record—certainly as much as his previously
acclaimed albums Slowly Paradise and Skullsplitter tread that
genre-adjacent territory—though it also features moments
and melodies that come as close to pop flirtation as Chenaux is
likely to get.
[
file under: folk improvisations ]
|
|
MAYA
JANE COLES
"Night creature"
OMG the big day has FINALLY come!!! ?? this is my happy
face cause my 3rd MJC album ‘Night Creature’ is officially
out today! It’s been a good 4 years since my last one. A
lot has happened since. I’m so happy to be able to finally
share the full thing from start to finish. It’s one of my
favourite pieces of work yet so I really hope you all enjoy it!
[MJC @facebook]
[
file under: electronica ]
|
|
JAKE
XERXES FUSSELL
"Good and green again"
Jake Xerxes Fussell’s fourth album finds the acclaimed
folksong interpreter, guitarist, and singer navigating fresh sonic
and compositional landscapes on the most conceptually focused,
breathtakingly rendered, and enigmatically poignant record of
his wondrous catalog.
[
file under: acoustic ]
|
|
ROBERT
GLASPER
"Black radio III"
Robert Glasper's highly anticipated third installment
to the Black Radio album series. Black Radio III, much like both
of its predecessors, is a cultural moment that celebrates black
love and resilience, features an eclectic group of talented collaborators,
and is composed by Glasper who the New York Times proclaims is
"probably the most prominent jazz musician of his generation."
An innovative and essential addition to Glasper's seminal Black
Radio series.
[
file under: r.& b. ]
|
|
TIM
HECKER
"North water"
“The score for The North Water was written just
before and during the pandemic in 2020, mostly over arguably one
of the darkest winters of some memory in Montreal,” says
Hecker. Adapted from a novel of the same name – The North
Water by Ian McGuire – it tells the story of a disgraced
doctor who becomes a medic onboard an Arctic whaling ship.
[
file under: original soundtrack ]
|
|
PAN
AMERICAN
"The patience fader"
The glacial distillation of Mark Nelson’s “romantic
minimalism” achieves unique fruition on his latest Kranky
collection, The Patience Fader. A suite of solo guitar instrumentals
accented with lap steel, harmonica, and twilit atmospherics, the
strings smear and sparkle in elegant, windswept swells, a guitar
mode once described by Brian Eno as “Duane Eddy playing
Erik Satie".
[
file under: ambient ]
|
|
SPIRITUALIZED
"Everything was beautiful"
During lockdown last year, J Spaceman would walk through
an empty “Roman London” where the world was “full
of birdsong and strangeness”, trying to make sense of all
the music playing in his head at the time. The mixers and mixes
of his new record weren’t working out yet. Spaceman plays
16 different instruments on Everything Was Beautiful which was
put down at 11 different studios, as well as at his home.
[
file under: indie space rock ]
|
|
ERIK
WOLLO
"Sojourns"
Join veteran Norwegian ambient/electronic artist Erik
Wøllo on a sonorous travelogue through daring, contrasting
places and states of mind. Since the early eighties, Wøllo
has created peerless electronic music, and Sojourns advances with
nine captivating pieces. His 36th release is a sound-trip of bold
and shimmering cycles of enduring, energizing music.
[
file under: modern classical ]
|
|
NEW
RELEASES GENNAIO 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
|
BIOSPHERE
"Shortwave memories"
Iconic Norwegian producer and composer Biosphere follows
up his evocative 'Angel's Flight' release with a new album set
for release early in 2022. Shortwave Memories is an album inspired
by the post-punk electronic music of the late 70's and early 80's,
especially the productions of figures like Martin Hannett and
Daniel Miller.
[
file under: electronica ]
|
|
BURIAL
"Antidawn EP"
Antidawn reduces Burial’s music to just the vapours.
The record explores an interzone between dislocated, patchwork
songwriting and eerie, open-world, game space ambience. Antidawn
seems to tell a story of a wintertime city, and something beckoning
you to follow it into the night. The result is both comforting
and disturbing, producing a quiet and uncanny glow against the
cold. Sometimes, as it enters 'a bad place', it takes your breath
away. And time just stops.
[
file under: dubstep ]
|
|
CAT
POWER
"Covers"
Cat Power returns with Covers, Chan Marshall’s
third album of her celebrated reinterpretations of songs by classic
and contemporary artists.
[
file under: covers album ]
|
|
KREIDLER
"Spells and daubs"
German band Kreidler reach the rather significant milestone
of a fifteenth studio album here with Spells And Daubs. By now
they are masters of their form, which is a mix of electronica
and krautrock but with hints of influence from British pop music.
The rhythms are bendy and dubby, ever evolving and alluring from
the off with well defined lines and lots of little details all
fleshing out the grooves. Dark melodies never grow too foreboding
as clicks, whirrs and hits swing to and fro over the top. It is
a trance including record that demands close listening on a good
system for maximum effect.
[
file under: post-rock ]
|
|
NALA
SINEPHRO
"Space 1.8"
Composer, producer and musician Nala Sinephro showcases
her visionary credentials with her debut album Space 1.8. We’re
hard-pressed to think of a sound world this cohesive and expansive,
a higher realm of composition with ecstatic freedom at every turn.
One where each drone, melody and cacophonous crescendo equates
to a collective feeling of release.
[
file under: experimental jazz ]
|
|
YARD
ACT
"Overload"
In many ways, Yard Act is a project that exists through
the fusion of seemingly opposing entities. Old friends in a new
band, they seek out shades of socio- political grey, imbibing
their stories with sharp, satirical spoken-word humour. Spearheaded
by James Smith (vocals) and Ryan Needham (bass), the now four-piece,
completed by Sam Shjipstone (guitar) and Jay Russell (drums),
have built a sound that speaks inherently to their birthplace
of Leeds, West Yorkshire, and yet ties together observations from
all walks of modern British life – the small-town bloke
in the local pub, the anti-capitalist stuck at a desk job, the
tired activist in all of us torn between easy complicity and the
desire to fight.
[
file under: post-punk ]
|
|
|
2021 |
|
AMANDA
WHITING "After dark"
ARLO PARKS "Collapsed in sunbeams"
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD "For the
first time"
BRANDEE YOUNGER "Somewhere different"
CLAIRE ROUSAY
"A
softer focus"
DAMON ALBARN "The nearer the fountain more
pure the stream flows"
DANIEL AVERY "Love + light"
DRY CLEANING "New long leg"
ERIKA DE CASIER "Sensational"
FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS & THE LSO
"Promises"
FLUXION "Parallel
moves"
JANE AND BARTON "Too"
JANE WEAVER "Flock"
JON HOPKINS "Music for psychedelic
therapy"
LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD "At pioneer
works"
LITTLE SIMZ "Sometimes
I might be introvert'
LESLIE WINER "When I hit you -
you'll feel it"
LONE "Always inside your head"
LOSCIL "Clara"
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN "Deciphering the
message"
MARISSA NADLER "The paths of the
clouds"
MASAYOSHI FUJITA "Bird ambience"
MOOR MOTHER "Black encyclopedia
of the air"
MORITZ VON OSWALD "Dissent"
POPPY ACKROYD "Pause"
RHIANNON GIDDENS "They're calling
me home"
SAINT ETIENNE "I've been trying
to tell you"
SPACE AFRIKA "Honest labour"
THE GRID & ROBERT FRIPP "Leviathan"
TIRZAH "Colourgrade"
TREES SPEAK "Posthuman"
VIVIEN GOLDMAN "Next is now"
WEATHER STATION "Ignorance"
|
[
file under: harping jazz ]
[
file under: alternative r.&b. ]
[
file under: post-rock ]
[
file under: fantastic jazza harp ]
[
file under: musique concrete ]
[
file under: folktronica ]
[
file under: electronica ]
[
file under: post-punk ]
[
file under: alt soul ]
[
file under: a love supreme ]
[
file under: ambient dub ]
[
file under: pillows & prayers ]
[
file under: alternative pop ]
[
file under: electronica ]
[
file under: desert blues ]
[
file under: alt rap & soul ]
[
file under: experimental ]
[
file under: electronica ]
[
file under: ambient ]
[
file under: spiritual jazz ]
[
file under: alt nashville ]
[
file under: avant afro jazz ]
[
file under: avant afro jazz ]
[
file under: electronica ]
[
file under: modern classical ]
[
file under: americana blues ]
[
file under: indie pop ]
[
file under: experimental ]
[ file under: concept album ]
[
file under: hip alternative ]
[
file under: experimental ]
[
file under: dub punk ]
[
file under: indie pop ] |
|
|
NEW
RELEASES DICEMBRE 2021: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
|
NILS
FRAHM
"Old friends new friends"
Nils Frahm’s double album Old Friends New
Friends gathers together 23 solo piano tracks recorded between
2009 and 2021, almost all hitherto unreleased but, for one reason
or another, omitted from previous projects. The album offers “an
anatomy of all my ways of thinking musically and playing,”
Frahm says, adding with a smile, “Maybe I could say it’s
an album I worked on for twelve years, and finally I have enough
material?”
[
file under: modern classical ]
|
|
VIVIEN
GOLDMAN
"Next is now"
Vivien Goldman's eagerly awaited Next Is Now
was recorded in New York and produced by Youth (Killing Joke,
The Orb, Paul McCartney) and features ten brand new tracks, including
lead single ‘Saturday Afternoon’. Says Goldman, "Quite
a turn-up to be making my first album now, specially with my dear
bred'ren Youth at the controls. I found I had lots to sing about
and my voice has improved!"
[
file under: dub punk ]
|
|
MARISSA
NADLER
"The paths of the clouds"
The Path of the Clouds, Marissa Nadler’s
ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically
transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs
in her already rich discography. Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly
housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped
into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about
metamorphosis, love, mysticism and murder.
[
file under: alt nashville ]
|
|
TREES
SPEAK
"Vertigo of flaws: emancipation of the dissonance & temperaments
in irrational waveforms"
Alongside their now trademark German krautrock
motoric-beat rhythms, angular New York post-punk attitude, tripped-
out 60s spy soundtrack, psyche-rock and 70s synthesizers and vocoders,
here you will also hear a new cosmic spacial awareness and a truly
wilful pushing of sonic boundaries as police sirens, static noise,
alarms, radio signals, avant-garde voices and orchestral string
quartets.
[
file under: kraut prog exp ]
|
|
VELS
TRIO
"Celestial greens"
Vels Trio reap their jazz-fusion crop with a stellar
11-track debut album Celestial Greens on Rhythm Section International.
Celestial Greens represents an exploration of a new vision of
modern progressive music, consolidating their influence on the
emerging UK soul and RnB scenes, whilst creating a sound that’s
idiosyncratic yet accessible to any fan of electronic music.
[
file under: fusion/jazz ]
|
|
BEN
WATT
"Storm shelter"
Storm Shelter is a 6-track companion piece to
his acclaimed 2020 studio album Storm Damage. The mini-album,
recorded during rehearsals for the Storm Damage Tour in January
2020, is a stripped-back piano-and-vocals set that was due for
release during Watt’s world tour last year before it was
held up by pandemic-related postponements and the ultimate cancellation
of all his shows.
[
file under: acoustic indie ]
|
|
NEW
RELEASES NOVEMBRE 2021: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
|
POPPY
ACKROYD
"Pause"
Brighton-based
performer and composer Poppy Ackroyd returns this with her fourth
full-length album Pause. Written during the pandemic and shortly
after the birth of her first child, the title refers to the feeling
of normal life being temporarily put on hold. Pause is
a collection of 10 solo piano works.
Poppy tells: "For previous albums, almost as much of the
creative process was spent editing and manipulating recordings
as it was composing at the piano, however after having my son,
I struggled to spend time sat in front of a computer".
[
file under: modern classical ]
|
|
DAMON
ALBARN
"The nearer the fountain more pure the stream flows"
The
view from the living room of Damon Albarn’s home near Reykjavik
is striking. Beyond the black-sand beaches and North Atlantic
water, Esja, a volcanic mountain range, cuts across the skyline.
Toward the end of 2019, Albarn gathered an orchestral ensemble
to sit at his window and chart the landscape, wildlife, and climate
in music. Three sessions were recorded before the pandemic stalled
the project. Relocating to his UK home in Devon, Albarn found
he just couldn’t let those musical improvisations lie dormant
until lockdown loosened.
[
file under: folktronica ]
|
|
ALVA
NOTO
"Hybrid"
The
first instalment of Alva Noto’s new series HYbr:ID aligns
his prolific work in digital culture, performance, visual art
and scientific phenomena with his heterogenous compositional methods.
HYbr:ID Vol. 1 captures the music commissioned for the score of
‘Oval’, a choreographic piece directed by Richard
Siegal and performed by the Staatsballett Berlin at the Berlin
State Opera in 2019.
[
file under: isolationism ]
|
|
BREMER/MCCOY
"Natten"
It's
a weird time in the world, but luckily we have Bremer/McCoy's
really lovely music to listen to. Natten, which is Danish for
“The Night,” takes inspiration from the end of day,
that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives
look different. Let it be your companion on this Earth, under
the stars, as you contemplate this crazy time we’re in.
[
file under: chill jazz ]
|
|
JON
HOPKINS
"Music for psychedelic therapy"
Music
for Psychedelic Therapy is Hopkins’ first full-length since
sister albums, the GRAMMY-nominated Singularity (2018) and Immunity
(2013). For this collection, Hopkins wanted to make something
that faced the opposite direction, something egoless and introspective,
made with total, raw honesty. “It felt like time for a reset,
to wait for music to appear from a different place,” says
Hopkins. That place ended up being Tayos Caves in Ecuador, where
Hopkins went on a life-changing creative expedition in 2018.
[
file under: electronica ]
|
|
LOTIC
"Water"
A
series of well-received mixtapes followed and she soon attracted
the attention of avant-garde iconoclast Björk, who stated,
“Lotic is one of the fiercest performer DJs I have ever
heard.” This led to collaborative work on remixes for the
Icelandic artists’s Vulnicura album and an invitation to
open her 2015 Berlin concert. J’Kerian Morgan, the artist
known as Lotic, says of her second album Water: “This is
the record I always wanted to write. This feels like my arrival
as an artist.”
[
file under: experimental ]
|
|
MAKAYA
MCCRAVEN
"Deciphering the message"
Drummer,
producer & beat scientist Makaya McCraven digs into the Blue
Note vaults with this new remix project that puts a modern bounce
on jazz classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Kenny
Burrell, Kenny Dorham & more. McCraven’s mastery of
the loop is akin to hip-hop’s most celebrated beatmakers
like J Dilla & Madlib, both of whom have also remixed Blue
Note classics, but McCraven’s unique approach also incorporates
newly recorded elements including his own drums, Joel Ross’
vibraphone, Jeff Parker’s guitar, Marquis Hill’s trumpet
& more.
[
file under: spiritual jazz ]
|
|
PARCELS
"Day/Night"
Parcels
have always been a band of extreme light and shade: they're from
surf hotspot Byron Bay in Australia but living in Berlin for years;
their sweet-as-honey vocal harmonies rival the Beach Boys but
their live shows can turn into slamming techno rave-ups. The band
returns with an ambitious third studio album, Day/Night, a double
record huge in scope and sound, whose hopeful messages of perseverance
through difficult times are a balm for these uncertain times.
[
file under: alterantive pop ]
|
|
PORTICO
QUARTET
"Monument"
Portico
Quartet announce Monument, the electronic driven follow-up to
their acclaimed ambient-minimalist suite Terrain, presenting the
band at their most direct. Monument is one of Portico Quartet's
most accessible, direct records to date. If Terrain addressed
the darker side of how Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie made sense
of the pandemic, then Monument resonates as an ode to better times.
[
file under: electro jazz ]
|
|
HANA
VU
"Public storage"
Los
Angeles-based artist Hana Vu makes her Ghostly International debut
with “Maker,” a commanding first glimpse into new
material. The track builds on the sound of the 20-year old’s
previous work: brooding, melodic pop driven by guitar and Vu’s
distinct contralto. For the first time, she welcomes a co-producer,
Jackson Phillips (Day Wave), who helps Vu create an atmosphere
with a deeper sense of luster, sophistication, and urgency.
[
file under: alternative indie ]
|
|
|
RICERCA NEL SITO
|
|
| |
MUSIC TARGET
( OBIETTIVO MUSICA ) |
|
| Listening
Wind |
| Sounds
& Visions |
| |
| Sabato
pomeriggio |
|
| |
| |
ARCHIVIO
(SENTIRE ASCOLTARE) |
| |
| |
| PILLOLE
2022 |
| Marzo/Aprile |
| Gennaio/Febbraio |
| |
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2021 |
| Dicembre |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
| Agosto/Settembre |
| Giugno/Luglio |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
| |
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2020 |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
| Agosto/Settembre |
| Giugno/Luglio |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
| |
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2019 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
| |
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2018 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2017 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2016 |
| Novembre/Dicembre
|
| Settembre/Ottobre
|
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio
|
| Febbraio/Marzo
|
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2015 |
| Ottobre/Novembre
|
| Giugno/Settembre
|
| Aprile/Maggio
|
| Febbraio/Marzo
|
| |
|
| PILLOLE 2014 |
| Novembre/Dicembre
|
| Settembre/Ottobre
|
| Giugno/Agosto
|
| Aprile/Maggio
|
| Febbraio/Marzo
|
| |
|
| PILLOLE 2013 |
| Novembre
|
| Settembre/Ottobre
|
| Giugno/Agosto*
|
| Aprile/Maggio*
|
| Gennaio/Febbraio*
|
| |
|
| PILLOLE 2012 |
| Novembre*/Dicembre
|
| Settembre/Ottobre*
|
| Giugno*/Luglio*
|
| Aprile/Maggio
|
| Febbraio/Marzo |
| |
|
| PILLOLE 2011 |
| Ottobre*/Novembre* |
| Agosto*/Settembre* |
| Maggio/Giugno |
| Marzo*/Aprile |
| Gennaio*/Febbraio
|
| |
MY
PLAYLIST: 2010 |
PILLOLE
2010 |
| Novembre* |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno*/Agosto
|
| Aprile/Maggio
|
| Febbraio/Marzo*
|
| |
|
PILLOLE
2009 |
| Novembre/Dicembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Luglio |
| Aprile/Maggio* |
|
| |
MY
PLAYLIST: 2008 |
PILLOLE
2008 |
| Novembre/Dicembre |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
PILLOLE
2007 |
|
| Agosto/Settembre |
|
|
|
| |
|
PILLOLE
2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
PILLOLE
2005 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| PILLOLE
2003 |
| PILLOLE
2002 |
| PILLOLE
2001 |
|
| |
| |
OLDIES BUT GOODIES |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
MEMORABILIA |
| |
|
| Boxed
Set |
| Canterbury
Classics |
| Celebration |
| Disco
Discharge: |
| Groove
Collection |
| History
never repeats |
|
|
|
| |
| |
DISSONANZE |
| |
|
| Narrativa |
|
| |
| |
MATERIA D'ESAME |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
RETROSPETTIVA |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| New
order: from Manchester |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The
Passage: from Manchester too |
|
|
|
|
|
XTC:
Moulding & Partridge |
| |
| |
|
[ OLDIES BUT GOODIES ] |
| |
ELECTRONIC
"S/t"
Bernard Sumner
and Johnny Marr's debut album as Electronic gets the deluxe
treatment with this expanded 2CD special edition. The release
features the original album (remastered) plus a 2nd disc of
rarities including 8 previously unreleased tracks of alternate
versions, edits & instrumentals.
[
file under: madchester ]
|
CRISPY
AMBULANCE
"The plateau phase"
Factory Benelux
presents a new CD edition of The Plateau Phase, the debut album
by Manchester postpunk group Crispy Ambulance, originally issued
in March 1982. Recorded at Strawberry 2 with producer Chris
Nagle, this acclaimed album captured Crispy Ambulance at the
peak of their creative powers. Bonus tracks include extended
12"single The Presence Concorde Square, produced by the
legendary Martin Hannett, and farewell single Sexus.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
|
THE
NAMES
"Swimming"
Factory Benelux
presents a new CD edition of Swimming, the debut album by Belgian
new wave group The Names, originally issued in June 1982. Swimming
has come to be regarded as a European cold wave classic. Bonus
tracks include the popular singles Calcutta and Nightshift (also
produced by Hannett) and the band's John Peel session from February
1982. This new Factory Benelux CD edition also features original
artwork and poster design by Benoit Hennebert.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
|
RIP
RIG + PANIC
"God"
Named after a
Roland Kirk album, Rip Rig + Panic were one of the most exciting
bandsof the 1980s, fusing funk, jazz, punk and world music influences
into a unique whole. With lead singer Neneh Cherry, the band
recorded three albums for Virgin Records which have never been
legitimately available on Cd. All three LPs are now remastered
from the original master tapes with a raft of bonus tracks taken
from non-album singles. Original band members Gareth Sager (ex-Pop
Group) and Mark Springer are involved with these releases, with
the blessing of Neneh Cherry and (current PiL) drummer Bruce
Smith.
[
file under: white jazz funk ]
|
ANNETTE
PEACOCK
"I'm the one"
In 2010 Annette
Peacock quietly reissued her 1972 album I'm The One on CD via
her own Ironic label. It was only available via her site or
CDBaby, but now I'm The One is being given a full reissue shakedown
by Light In The Attic. Peacock
collaborated with Salvador Dali, bought a Moog direct from Robert
Moog, was confidant to Timothy Leary, and turned down an offer
to tour with David Bowie, telling him to buy his own synthesizer.
[
file under: essential avant-funk ]
|
THE
POP GROUP
"For how much longer do we tolerate
mass murder?"
Reissue of The
Pop Group’s ‘For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate
Mass Murder’ - one of the most challenging records of
the post-punk era. Upon its release in 1980, For How Much Longer
received mixed reviews, with publications at the center of post-punk
discourse (such as the NME) dismissing its agit-prop didacticism
in favor of the fevered mysticism of the group's debut album,
Y.
[
file under: post-punk ]
|
LIZZY
MERCIER DESCLOUX
"One for the soul"
Remastered from
original tapes. Housed in heavyweight, tip on-style gatefold
with essay by Vivian Goldman and download code including 2 bonus
tracks “By the time poet, singer-songwriter, and artist
Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded 1984’s Zulu Rock, she’d
marked herself out as both a globe trotter with more passport
stamps than Tintin and a musical innovator whose loose, arty
spirit could be applied to styles as varied as no wave, Bavarian
oompa and Soweto jive.
[
file under: no wave ]
|
VIVIEN
GOLDMAN
"Resolutionary (Songs 1979-1982)"
Vivien Goldman
went from being a musical participant of the early-'80s London-New
York fusion of dub, post-punk, reggae, hip-hop and African sounds
to a keen, informative critic and professor of those genres
in general. This excellent album is the first collection of
Goldman's brief yet vibrant musical explorations. Included among
the various talents are members of the Slits, PiL, the Raincoats,
Robert Wyatt, Steve Beresford, David Toop, and Adrian Sherwood.
These tracks combine a pop sensibility with the avant-dub deconstructionist
mindset that lends her work that rare and special mix of accessibility
and experimentation.
[
file under: dub post-punk ]
|
SECTION
25
"Always now"
Factory Benelux
presents a deluxe double disc edition of Always Now, the debut
album by cult Factory Records group Section 25, produced by
legendary sonic architect Martin Hannett in 1981. Recorded as
a trio at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London, Always
Now combined austere post-punk rhythms with elements of Can,
Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Key tracks include non-albums
singles Charnel Ground, Je Veux Ton Amour and Girls Don’t
Count. This new Factory Benelux 2xCD edition is housed in a
miniature version of the folding pochette wallet designed by
Peter Saville - famously one of the most expensive sleeves produced
by Factory.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
|
|
