Past and future intertwine in Alex Emslie's powerful prismatic video for Jack Cheshire's "Let Go Lightly". Haunting revolving landscapes, cityscapes, elemental forces and apocalyptic future visions blend and blur amid perpetual change and transformation. Straddling darkness and light, this piece is an impressionistic meditation on change, technology, life 'out of balance' and the mysterious power of nature.
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The latest video linked to Gagarin‘s epic Great North Wood album, released on Geo Records in 2020, of arboreal wonder and wanderings comes from USRNM, AKA Stuart Bowditch. The video, shot by Stuart, takes the viewer on a glide on a path through the trees as the music unwinds in pumping dancefloor-friendly fashion
The next step for Invictus Hi-Fi after the release of their Market Deities album earlier in 2021 is a video for the bonus track “Delete”.
New York City-based artist Wolff Parkinson White has collaborated with Hayden Chisholm on a new self-released album, Off World, out from 14 May 2021. Of the record, they say: Close to a decade in the making, this highly anticipated collaboration between multi-instrumentalist, singer and poet Hayden Chisholm from New Zealand and German -born electronic artist Wolff Parkinson White from NYC finally sees the light of day.
Gagarin‘s The Great North Wood, released on Geo Records in late 2020, reflects on the ancient south London woodland of the same name. The track “Eskil” is premiered here in its “Green Shoots” remix, part of a series of what Graham Dowdall dubs “virtual 12″s”.
Off World, the studio project of Sandro Perri and Lorenz Peter (Corpusse, Processor) has so far released Volumes 1 and 2 of three planned LPs for Constellation, “rich in deconstructed melody, aleatory composition techniques, and interplay between acoustic and synthetic-electronic instrumentation”. Sandro says of their new video, premiered here today, in the label’s Corona Borealis series
Timeless Editions are publishing The Universe Is A Haunted House: COIL through their art and archives, a new 400-page full colour hardback book compiled from the personal archives of John Balance and Peter Christopherson. Conceived not only as a showcase of Coil’s much-admired album artwork, but also to offer a rare glimpse into their world
Inspired by Luis Sepulveda, Noise of Trouble‘s album title Mis Sueños Son Irrenunciables, Obstinados, Testarudos y Resistentes acts as their statement for a record made under lockdown. Rethinking the many facets of the world outside my home, it came natural to put together the sound of my instruments, the rhythms I’m carrying inside and a compositional organization which found a comparison and stimulating lymph in between distanced interventions […]
“This is what love sounds like when it isn’t working and yet we keep fighting and we keep looking until the end” — so says Adam Brody, lead singer of Stage Door Guy, whose album Wroclaw is out on 30 October.
Marionette I listened to this this morning and the rabbits came. Bear with me. I was listening on headphones, which seems the most appropriate way to access this and the rabbits started to emerge from the hedgerows as I walked through the field to work. They couldn’t hear, unless they were the psychic rabbits we’ve heard so much about in these parts, but they understood their role in […]
Berlin sound explorer and futurologist André Uhl‘s second album is due out next month, and the hypnotic video for its third single release “Amnesia” premiers below. Relax And Implode is described elliptically
In advance of the album of the same name due out in physical formats on 16 October 2020, Art Terry releases his new video today, the first of a series of tracks to be published every Friday for the remainder of 2020.
“Deepblue”, in its “Slowmix” incarnation, is the lead track on the 12″ vinyl release april.#02 Live from Kashiwa Daisuke via Subcontinental records. The video for the track was directed by Sharath U Holla and is premiered below.
Taken from the Lunarum EP (Trees & Cyborgs), Dreaming Of Ghosts‘ “You” video premiers today to mark the release of the 12″ vinyl which follows on from their Shallow Water EP from earlier in the year:
Swedish dreampopster Gus Ring releases the title track from his forthcoming For Us Lonely Souls album on 23 August, featuring Jolanda Moletta of She Owl on keyboards and Fredrik Ottosson on drums. An exclusive premier of the single can be heard
To accompany their release of Ariel Kalma‘s An Evolutionary Music, RVNG Intl. have put Matthew McGuigan‘s documentary about a day in the life of Kalma online
Cadiz Music Although Julien Temple’s film about pub-rock heroes Dr Feelgood dates from 2009, it is only now receiving a DVD release (through Cadiz Music) in the US, and it’s this new edition that is reviewed here, although I’m not aware of any difference between this and the original release. Nevertheless, the fact that this is intended for an American market immediately invites focus on an intriguing aspect […]
Seventh Five DVDs into Magma‘s series of live sessions at Le Triton,we find the pioneers of Zeuhl way out there beyond the Theusz Hamtaahk trilogy and exploring some of the stranger byways of their œuvre along with some dazzling new material. The entire programme runs to about two hours. There are a few interludes during which audience members, including Steve Davis, are interviewed about their relationship to the […]