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Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band announce Avoudé, share lead single

Photo Credit: Wilfried Good Eyes Following on from his self-titled 2022 debut, Togolese singer and guitarist Dogo du Togo introduces his new Lomé-based Alagaa Beat Band with the album Avoudé Recorded in less than 48 hours with help from renowned engineer Patrick Jauneaud (Elton John, Kate Bush, Queen), Avoudé represents a new evolution of ...

Annarella and Django announce debut album, Jouer

Annarella and Django’s debut album is a sublime, often dream-like musical tapestry that links West Africa & Scandinavia, featuring Swedish jazz flautist Annarella and ngoni harp master Django, from Mali, cousin of the late and great Toumani Diabate. Referring to the album’s tender production touch (by Annarella), transcendental grooves and jazz improvisations and harmonies, Jouer, meaning ‘play’ in French, was recorded between Dakar and Stockholm.

Rich Aucoin shares new single, ElectroComp

Can machines sing? With his Synthetic album cycle, Rich Aucoin answers that question with a resounding, exuberant “yes.” The four-part project sweeps listeners through a gallery tour of synthesis history, giving voice to a chorus of specimens from the past century of electronic sound. On Season 3, Aucoin deepens his dive into the variegated genealogy of dance music, charting a joyful course through the many flavors of rave euphoria.

Christo Graham returns with Music For Horses

Music For Horses is Christo Graham’s 10th album and third to be released on October 4 by We Are Busy Bodies. The album is a bit of a return to Graham’s 2020 record Turnin’s sensibilities. He had written those songs over a year and recorded them all to tape within a month and took a similar approach with these songs.

Michael Scott Dawson announces The Tinnitus Chorus and shares collaborative single ‘Present Day’ with Jairus Sharif

Michael Scott Dawson’s latest offering, The Tinnitus Chorus, is an album of wide-eyed collaborations. He is joined by an inspired cast of revered friends and kindred strangers including Suso Saiz, M. Sage (Fuubutsushi), Eli Winter, K. Freund, (Trouble Books / Lemon Quartet), Dasom Baek, Lina Langendorf (Langendorf United), Vumbi Dekula, Jairus Sharif, Yutaka Hirasaka, and his bandmates in Peace Flag Ensemble...

Canadian-Algerian Multi-instrumentalist, Singer-songwriter, and Producer Aladean Kheroufi Announces ‘Studies In A Dying Love’

Aladean Kheroufi announces debut album Studies In A Dying Love

Today, Canadian-Algerian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, producer and DJ, Aladean Kheroufi announces Studies In A Dying Love, his debut album out June 7th via Toronto-based label We Are Busy Bodies. A stunning and cathartic portrait of a relationship’s collapse, Aladean looks to classic soul, forgotten Chicano rhythms and dreamy folk-rock for an emotional dive into ...

WABB Releases third As-Shams trilogy with focus on Mike Makhalemele & Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi

We Are Busy Bodies recently reissued its third trilogy of albums with the legendary As-Shams/The Sun label with a focus on the works of Mike Makhalemele and Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi. Following the success of Makhalemele’s debut The Peacemaker and Mankunku’s long-awaited sophomore release Alex Express, which both appeared in 1975, the bar had been set very high. Enamoured by their jazz contemporaries, the session was concocted by members of an exciting new…

Rich Aucoin nominated for Juno Award

Rich Aucoin has been nominated for Electronic Album of the Year at the 2024 Juno Awards for his Synthetic 2 album released by We Are Busy Bodies in October 2023. This is Aucoin’s second nomination in the category in as many years. Synthetic 2 is the second of four albums as part of Aucoin’s quadrilogy – with its four seasonal LPs being staggered in six-month intervals over the next 2 years – the album sees Aucoin exploring the instrumental electronic side of his studio work, with a range of rare and historic synthesizers utilized in its production. The Electronic Album …

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