Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. A big bang, yes, but also an atom cleaved. On her latest album, this celebrated new champion of the finger-picked guitar looks upwards, outwards, somewhere beyond. Now the landscape is mapped – its knotted woodlands, its aurora-crowned mountains, its tangled undergrowth – Gwenifer Raymond hears the stars call.
One of our last scheduled reissues exploring South African jazz (until 2027 most likely), and years in the making. The album has been remastered from a vinyl-to-vinyl transfer as the original masters are unfortunately no longer available. We’re proud to share this limited run release of 300 copies with you for pre-order starting today. The album Allen’s Soul Bag by the Allen Kwela Octet was originally released in 1972 on the Atlantic City...
Since the mid 1990’s, Marsella has produced a varied and playful catalogue spanning punkish vaudeville songs laced with off-colour jokes to a complete (and utterly wayward) rendition of Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition. Along the way, he composed music for three seasons of the Tom Green Show, toured North America and Europe, and founded the Brampton Indie Arts Festival, an annual event that during his curatorial tenure featured legendary artists such as....
In 1855, there was a clown riot or two in Toronto, actually. While Christo Graham wasn’t there, he and album collaborator Tyrone Savage have immortalised the horrifying and hilarious mayhem that inspires Clown Riot, the 10th album by the Toronto musician, actor, and graphic designer. Overture, the actual overture from the play and album is out today, May 7. The full soundtrack will be released digitally through We Are Busy Bodies on May 30.
Toronto psych-rock experimentalists LAMMPING return with “Never Never,” a full-tilt collaboration with Montreal rockabilly legend Bloodshot Bill, out May 6 via We Are Busy Bodies. The track supports their upcoming album Never Never, set for release on June 27, which marks the first installment of an ambitious four-album journey that will span genres, collaborations, and sonic time-travel over the next year.
Orbital Ensemble is the new group from the thriving Toronto jazz fusion scene, bringing an immersive fusion of psychedelic grooves and jazz melodies influenced by MPB (Música Popular Brasileira). Inspired by road trips playing 70s MPB and Afro-Brazilian drumming – the psychedelic jazz debut, Orbital is the debut album from Orbital Ensemble. The project is headed up by multi-instrumentalist Felipe Sena, a Brazilian-Canadian...
We Are Busy Bodies and Black Sweat Records (Europe) announce the release of Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf, the collaborative album by James Yorkston, David A Jaycock, and Lina Langendorf. The album’s atmospheric soundscapes. Yorkston’s evocative nyckelharpa, Jaycock’s intricate instrumentation, and Langendorf’s expressive saxophone lines create a richly textured journey—both intimate and expansive. The album will be released on May 23, 2025.
Acclaimed Toronto-based composer Nick Storring today announces his ninth full-length recording Mirante, and releases the first track taken from it, Roxa I, a lush mass of percolating melodic and percussive figures. Mirante, which will be released on March 21st 2025 on We Are Busy Bodies, can be regarded as an homage to Brazil, albeit an oblique one, especially given that two of the tracks were composed well before Storring even visited the country for the first time.
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