We Are Busy Bodies announces the signing of Japanese sound collage artist Oowets and the release of a brand-new album. The new album Uchuu (Space) is the most abstract work in Oowets’ career to date—a gentle collection of songs expressing inner sensations and a connection to the universe. Across these nine tracks, Oowet’s intention is that you will feel as if you are walking through a forest or drifting among the clouds. Minimal rhythms, created by editing the sounds of tapping on cloth boxes, wood, and stones, are layered with piano, synthesizer, and the warm, nostalgic sound of a reed organ. During the …
Nearly 50 years on from its initial release, the Scottish jazz/rock outfit Head’s knotty, dexterous 1977 album Blackpool Cool is getting the reissue treatment, courtesy of Toronto’s ever-eclectic label We Are Busy Bodies. Initially released in a small run on the band’s own boutique record label and long out of print, the new pressing is freshly remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel and is ready to introduce Head’s expansive fusion compositions to a contemporary audience.
Today, Critically-acclaimed experimental band New Age Doom announces Angels Against Angels, its collaboration with H.R. (Human Rights), lead vocalist of the legendary Bad Brains, and releases the track ‘Amaseganalo pt.2’. The full album will be released on March 6, 2026 through Toronto label We Are Busy Bodies. The two-part album closer “Amaseganalo” (translating to “thank you” in Amharic) is nostalgic, uplifting, and emotionally charged, drawing on New Age Doom’s melodic post-rock influences and guided by the band’s profound respect for H.R. and the force of his voice...
Today, the singularly original, creative and musical mastermind, Rich Aucoin announces the final release in his quadruple album project Synthetic with its fourth Season announced to be released on October 30. This Season boasts the highest number of synthesizers of any of the previously released Seasons with its sounds being comprised of 103 unique synths. These 103 synths bring the total count for the four Seasons releases to 162 – a feat (arguably) never before achieved, and making it one of the most unique releases in music history.
For those just tuning into their programme, Vanity Mirror is the name under which the transnational musical duo of Canadian singer-songwriter-producer Brent Randall and Los Angeles-based drummer Johnny Toomey release music. Their debut record, Puff (2023), was a masterclass in lo-fidelity rock and roll, weaving together various strands of twentieth-century pop into a variegated sonic tapestry that is both rich in melancholic longing and radiant with technicolor exuberance...
Dun-Dun Band is a ten-member ensemble based in Toronto led by guitarist Craig Dunsmuir, inspired by North African gnawa music, American minimalism, progressive/post-rock and spiritual jazz. It features members of cross-genre jazz-informed groups The Weather Station, Eucalyptus, Badge Epoque Ensemble, GUH, and The Brodie West Quintet. Dunsmuir has long been drawn to the trance-like states that repetitive music and irregular rhythmic patterns...
We Are Busy Bodies announces a double LP compilation of Japanese ambient composer Ken-ichiro Isoda out on September 26. The double LP set is a compilation of 8 tracks from Isoda’s 6 CD albums released in 1990 and 1991, selected, edited, and reconstructed by himself. The album compiles two songs each from the albums “Beach of the Pliocene”, “Meditation of Clammbon”, “Majel’s Star”, and “Sparkle of Space Time.”...
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....
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