Featuring all newly released music from Dave Graney & Clare Moore, Johann Kloos, The Blue Yellows, Jacqui Hunt and Dave McClymont, Austin Oting Har, Blokeacola, Moff Skellington, Occult Character, Bandwidth, The Creedless Preacher, Hippies vs Ghosts, House of All, Michael Plater, Julien Tassin and Nico Chkifi, Wardruna, Robert Carl, The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland, Owen Broder, and 2 Lost Souls.
- Dave Graney and Clare Moore “Already Missing The Lockdown” from (strangely) (emotional)
- Johann Kloos “Down To The River” from Trik Trak
- The Blue Yellows “Recently Deleted” from Recently Deleted
- Jacqui Hunt and David McClymont “The Anniversary” from The Anniversary
- Austin Oting Har “The World Between Worlds” from The World Between Worlds/Ataraxia
- Blokeacola “Antique Country” from Quasars and Fluff
- Moff Skellington “Walkie Boot Episode 3” from Walkie Boot
- Occult Character “Propaganda” from Propaganda
- Bandwidth “Where Songs Go At Night” from Where Songs Go At Night
- The Creedless Preacher “Dark Horse” from Bad Worshipful Company
- Hippies vs Ghosts “Tiger Town” from Tiger Town
- House of All “Cuckoo In The Nest” from Continuum
- Johann Kloos “Trik Trak” from Trik Trak
- Julien Tassin and Nico Chkifi “Searcher” from Song Offerings
- Wardruna “Hertan (Heart)” from Hertan
- Occult Character “Sexuallly Yours” from Propaganda
- Robert Carl “Night Garden” from Infinity Avenue
- The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland “Red Ball” from Muzak From The Korova Milkbar
- Michael Plater “We Fold the Light (Home Demo)” from The Dreamers’ Dream
- Occult Character “Health Risk” from Propaganda
- Johann Kloos “Tigger Fun” from Trik Trak
- Owen Broder “Used To Be Duke” from Hodges Front and Center Vol 2.
- 2 Lost Souls “Space Junk” from Charity
NOTES
DAVE GRANEY AND CLARE MOORE
Another track from the latest release
JOHANN KLOOS
Salford based Johann with another in a long run of self released albums. Check him out on Bandcamp. You can also find him playing with The Sandells, he was a member of Weimar also and appeared on their first album.
THE BLUE YELLOWS
The Blue Yellows, who describe themselves as “grunge-folk” are dedicating this track to “everyone who has lost someone close to them”. The track is inspired both by the deep sense of loss experienced in bereavement, while also placing these emotions and memories in the context of a disjointed-feeling world where previous foundations are crumbling and disparate voices inhabit the social realm.
Lead singer and lyricist Jonathan Tarplee said “I lost 2 people during the pandemic, one a family member and another who was in my circle of friends. It feels like some things have changed forever since that time and it’s in this atmosphere of division where this song kind of comes from”.
JACQUI HUNT AND DAVID MCCLYMONT
A collaboration between Jacqui Hunt (founding member of Australian band Single Gun Theory) and David McClymont (founding member of Scottish band Orange Juice).
AUSTIN OTING HAR
Har is a composer, writer, and academic with a background in music technology and ancient philosophy . His work employs ancient languages, concepts, and instruments, digital sound design and creative coding, bridging the experimental electronic and contemporary classical music worlds. Born in Australia, he played violin in orchestras then studied composition, music technology, and philosophy, creating a variety of music before moving to Hollywood to work as a project coordinator and audio engineer. His journey has taken him from Sydney to Edinburgh, the Virgin Islands where he is currently a professor, and next Berkeley as a visiting scholar-composer, yet his musical concerns cover even wider territory.
In The World Between Worlds (the first of the opera extracts) the traditional characteristics of Japanese music converse with the language of European spectralism. Joji Yuasa’s fusion of Zen and electronics; Gérard Grisey’s ecological approach to interval and timbre; and Daoist and Zen poetry and landscape painting depicting humankind as but “a wave of the ocean” served as key reference points.
In the dramatic context of the opera, the male tragic hero walks alone through a deserted town in the rain and comes to a tunnel. Accompanied by a chorus of ghosts, the soprano reveals a latent power to shape the landscape. Through this expansion and contraction of time comes recognition of the vast extensions of everything: the individual and the cosmos regain intimacy.
BLOKEACOLA
Another track from the latest album which I am featuring in its’ entirety
MOFF SKELLINGTON
The third in a four part series – the complete series will be released as a digital album in May.
OCCULT CHARACTER
The first of a series of singles from Texas based Occult Character who has been releasing on Metal Postcard records for over 5 years now. He started more in the Dylan meets Daniel Johnston vein but over time his modern folk styles have brought in lo-fi electronic stylings that to us sounds like nothing much else out there in music land these days.
BANDWIDTH
During the Covid doldrums of 2020, the wind faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, like so many of us, experienced acute loneliness and isolation. As musicians accustomed to the musical and social connections that come from the intimate art of chamber music, they longed to channel their creative loss into something meaningful.
Bandwidth – a mission as much as a group – emerged to champion chamber repertoire for wind instruments, foster connections between faculty, and provide a model of music-making and musical citizenship to university students. Central to this concept is an embrace of heterogeneity, between instruments and composer styles.
The five works on this album, Where Songs Go at Night, cover a range of themes; from wry observations on late-stage capitalism to St. Francis feeding the birds, throbbing science-fiction machinery, and song fragments that mingle, chat, argue, and finally come together.
Likewise the five diverse, ground-breaking composers hail from far and wide (South Africa to Colorado) and together reinforce the perspective that this album is taking the wind ensemble to new territories. This piece for for flute, oboe, clarinet, tenor saxophone, horn, and bassoon was written by Anna Weesner.
THE CREEDLESS PREACHER
The Creedless Preacher (aka Andy Butlin) wears many hats.
He blends a nostalgic lyrical melancholy with a lofi punk musical ethic, creating his own
style of troubadour ballad.
A very personal style with touches of Country, Blues and Americana.
For his second album “Bad Worshipful Company” , he recorded almost entirely in his home studio in the southern Spanish province of Almeria, and mixed and mastered at the Diente de Leon studio with engineer and guitarist Mario Cobo (Nu Niles, Los Mambo Jambo, Loquillo) . Cobo also collaborates to play pedal steel and baritone guitar. Other contributors include the vocals of singer Javier Arnal and cello of famous English producer George Shilling.
HIPPIES VS GHOSTS
Over a year since their last release – no detail provided – but we know it is a side project from We Are Animal guitarist & vocalist, Owain Ginsberg.
HOUSE OF ALL
From the forthcoming second album from Bramah, the Hanleys, Wolstencroft, and Greenway.
MICHAEL PLATER
From the forthcoming compilation album “Of Lost Things: A Collection of Oddities and Outcasts.”
JULIEN TASSIN AND NIKE CHKIFI
the new release from the prolific avant-garde guitarist Julien Tassin who joins forces with the versatile drummer Nico Chkifi to explore new territories in improvised music. Musical dialogues traverse textures, colours and chaos that covers jazz, free improv rock, experimental, soundscape and noise. Their debut album IT was recorded during a residency at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels in December 2022. Released on limited edition CD and digital DL via Ramble Records,
WARDRUNA
A taster from the new album from the Norwegian Group
ROBERT CARL
Carl’s early compositions ranged far and wide through musical history, the “ultramoderns,” and beyond. Recently, however, his works have forged a new direction: a personal take on the ever-expanding spiral structures of the overtone series. A piece for five contrabasses –
Robert Black with Large Furniture: Greg Chudzik, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Ken Rescsanksi, Evan Runyon
THE GALAXY ELECTRIC AND DROOG MULHOLLAND
This collaboration is full of synchronicities that go all the way back to 2020, when The Galaxy Electric (Jacqueline & Joshua Mikszan) started conjuring the melodies and arrangements for this project – without knowing what it would be for. Their obsession with Retro SciFi films & TV shows was thoroughly indulged during the COVID lockdown. This inspired a mix of electronica, psych pop and retro-futurism blending together to form music fit for the Korova Milkbar. As they emerged from this cocoon of sci-fi isolation, Jacqueline & Joshua began reaching out, connecting online with other obsessives: “Through our shared love of BBC Radiophonic Workshop Sound FX Records, we connected instantly and deeply with Drew Mulholland. Across time zones and land masses, our connection sparked creative collaboration like we’ve never known, and this new project was re-born. We knew in an instant that those forgotten ideas were meant for this moment. And thus began the files flying back and forth – until the synchronicities became fully manifest into what is now Muzak for the Korova Milkbar.. Drew may tell it differently, but the sense of nostalgia, deja vu & mystical connection remains the same. A project we could have never set out to produce on our own, and that was always meant to be created with Drew. A dream fulfilled.”
OWEN BRODER
For his second volume of his tribute to alto great Johnny Hodges, saxophonist Owen Broder explores Hodges work with Duke Ellington and beyond. Joining Broder on Hodges: Front and Center, Vol. 2 is a quintet featuring trumpeter Riley Mulherkar, pianist Carmen Staaf, bassist Barry Stephenson and drummer Bryan Carter.
Different Noises 