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Beatrice Dillon will release a new double-single next month. Seven Reorganisations is the first release on Dillon’s new label, HI. Originally commissioned by artist Mark Fell for Sheffield’s No Bounds Festival in 2022, the entirely acoustic composition is a departure from the distinct electronics of her last album, Workaround. Yet, to the attuned ears of […]
Hiroshi Watanabe is a Japanese DJ-producer best known for his interpretations of ambient, deep house, and trance on German label Kompakt, He comes from a family of musicians: his father was a composer and his mother a jazz pianist, and at the Tokyo College of Music Watanabe learned to play the double bass. After moving […]
Soela—the DJ-production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based pianist and vocalist—will release a new album on Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread. Having released material on such labels including Kompakt, Lawrence‘s Dial, and Shall Not Fade, Shorokhova joins the ranks of the Brooklyn, New York label for this “exquisite album,” we’re told. Across Dark Portrait, […]
Moor Mother (a.k.a Camae Ayewa) has released a deluxe version of The Great Bailout, her latest album. The Great Bailout (Deluxe) features three original compositions which eventually became songs on the album. In 2018, Ayewa was put in touch with the London Contemporary Orchestra and asked what topic she might like to musically explore with […]
DEFTR, the alias of Answer Code Request and Jan Wagner, the Ostgut Ton mixing engineer, pianist, and producer, will present an album on npm. We’re told to expect “a captivating fusion of ambient and techno.” In that way, the collaborative project marks a departure from Answer Code Request’s renowned 4/4 techno framework, venturing into expansive […]
Efterklang will release a new album in September. With Things We Have In Common, the Danish trio—comprising Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, and Rasmus Stolberg—close the circle that began with their 2019 album, Altid Sammen, and continued with 2021’s, Windflowers. These three records represent a “simpler, more inclusive” form of expression, exploring themes of human connection, […]
We’ve got a really beautiful LP to share with you this time. The road to Electronica is often frowned upon: few artists dare to explore beyond the boundaries of the usual four-on-the-floor divisions of Dance music. And so we’re super excited to have found an album that truly ventures toward the complexity of the creative […]
West London-based duo Kessoncoda—the collaboration of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Fil Sowa—will release their debut album on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana Records. It has taken upwards of 12 years for the pair to hone Outerstate. We’re told that it stands “firm” between “acoustic tradition and electronica,” while taking influence from rock, ambient, breakbeat, and soundtracks […]
Kamasi Washington will release a new album on Young. Where Washington’s previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, “an exploration of life on earth.” we’re told. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago. […]
Kelly Moran will release a new album next month on Warp. Moves in the Field moves away from the prepared piano techniques which defined Moran’s earlier works like 2017’s Bloodroot and her 2018 Warp debut, Ultraviolet. Instead, Moran “returns to her roots” using the natural sound of an acoustic piano. We’re told to expect a […]
Nils Frahm will release a new collection of solo piano music. Day is Frahm’s first album since 2022’s three-hour Music For Animals. Recorded in the summer of 2022 in complete solitude, the album contains six tracks, three over the six-minute mark. We’re told that it’s best enjoyed in the manner in which it was recorded: […]
Alex Albrecht will returns to Analogue Attic Recordings for the Australian label’s inaugural release of 2024. Allambie is an immersive exploration spanning house, downtempo, and ambient genres. While it’s characterised Albrecht’s trademark field recordings and enchanting piano motifs, the release integrates new hardware and synth sounds to his palette. Albrecht is perhaps best known for his […]
Laurel Halo will release a new album in September. Atlas is the American DJ-producer’s first album in five years, since 2018’s Raw Silk Uncut Wood. Using both electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Halo has created a “potent” set of sensual ambient jazz collages, comprised of orchestral clouds, shades of modal harmony, hidden sonic details, and hallucinatory […]
Hania Rani, a Polish pianist, will release her third album, Ghost, on Gondwana Records. Ghosts builds on Rani’s her earlier successes Esja and Home with an expanded yet still minimal setup of piano, keyboards, and synths, and it features more of her mysterious, bewitching voice. It features Patrick Watson, Ólafur Arnalds, and Duncan Bellamy of […]
Djs Pareja are Mariano Caloso and Diego Irasusta, an Argentinian duo of queer DJ-producers who are core members of the Cómeme record label run by Matias Aguayo. Since they met in the early ’90s and began releasing music a decade later, they have become integral in defining the new-school of house and techno made in South America, […]
Gigi Masin and jazz pianist Greg Foat have collaborated on a new album for Strut Records. Utilizing an electric piano, sounds Masin’s digital library, grand piano, vibraphone, and lots of vintage synthesizers, on Dolphin Masin’s melancholy melodies meet Foat’s laid back, slo-mo grooves, “which pour out like honey,” we’re told. The record features Moses Boyd […]
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