We Are Busy Bodies Celebrates 20th Anniversary with 5-Day Festival and Milestone 200th Release
We Are Busy Bodies Celebrates 20th Anniversary with 5-Day Festival and Milestone 200th Release

We Are Busy Bodies is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a five-day festival. This celebration coincides with the label’s 200th release: the third album by Saskatchewan ambient jazz group, Peace Flag Ensemble, set to be released in March 2025. The album, titled Everything Is Possible, is a fitting reflection of the label’s journey and achievements.

“We Are Busy Bodies has always been a labor of love,” says founder Eric Warner. “I’ve always believed that I could find an audience—whether a few hundred, a thousand, or more—that shares my passion for discovering new music."

1969 Canadian folk nugget issued for the first time on We Are Busy Bodies
1969 Canadian folk nugget issued for the first time on We Are Busy Bodies

Stefan Gnyś (pronounced G'neesh) recorded what would have been his first album Horizoning, at Heidebrecht Recording Services in St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada on April 21st 1969. Ten tracks were cut in a day-long session that Stefan had perfected over the previous 12 months, with the songs Horizoning and English Oaks having been inspired by a trip to the UK and Europe during the eventful summer of 1968.

We Are Busy Bodies to reissue Broken Shoes by Soweto 
We Are Busy Bodies to reissue Broken Shoes by Soweto 

Recorded less than a year after Funky Africa, South African guitar wizard Almon Memela returned under the release name Soweto to issue Broken Shoes. The album features two fifteen-minute songs that saw Memela backed by none other than Soweto's Pelican Club house band.

Having released “two of the most beguiling electronic albums of recent years,” (The Wire), the Canadian artist returns with the third volume of his homage to early algorithmic music software
Having released “two of the most beguiling electronic albums of recent years,” (The Wire), the Canadian artist returns with the third volume of his homage to early algorithmic music software

Lauded by The Wire as having made “two of the most beguiling electronic albums of recent years,” and described by The Guardian as “something of a virtual one-man Radiophonic Workshop from Vancouver”, Kristen Roos returns with a third volume of his Universal Synthesizer Interface series, to be released November 22nd.

Pioneering animator Norman McLaren’s soundtrack works from 1940s to 1970s to be released in a new career retrospective for the first time
Pioneering animator Norman McLaren’s soundtrack works from 1940s to 1970s to be released in a new career retrospective for the first time

Pioneering Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren (1914-1987) – creator of seminal short films Dots, Neighbours, Synchromy and many more – as founder of the animation studio at the National Film Board of Canada is remembered in first ever release of soundtrack works, self-composed from the 1940’s to 1970’s and forecasting the following half-century of electronic music.

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

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Upcoming Releases


Rich Aucoin – Synthetic: Season 3
 
  
Annarella and Django – Jouer
 
 
  
Christo Graham – Music For Horses
 
  
The Electric Taal Band – S/T
 
 
Michael Scott Dawson – The Tinnitus Chorus
 
  
Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band- Avoudé
 

Recent Releases


Aladean Kheroufi – Studies In A Dying Love
 
  
New Age Doom – There Is No End
 
  
Mount Maxwell – Littlefolk
 
 
  
The Bug Club – Rare Birds: Hour of Song
 
TENGGER – S/T
 
 
 
  
Kilometre Club – How To Unravel
 
 
  
Mike Makhalemele – The Peacemaker
 
 
  
The Cliffs featuring Winston Mankunku Ngozi – Alex Express