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. The songs are funky, soulful, and full of swagger. Shimmering keys, soulful …
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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. Paying homage to the first wave of 1980s algorithmic music software, this …
Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren. Out November 29th. “McLaren specialised in radical short animations, feeding off everyone from Mondrian to the surrealists, and encompassed a huge variety of techniques.” – The Guardian “He’s a constant source of invention, wit, exhilaration and delight.” – British Film Institute *** Pioneering Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren (1914-1987) – creator of seminal short films Dots, Neighbours, Synchromy and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Togolese …
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New album “MUSIC FOR HORSES” out October 4, 2024 Today, Canadian songwriter Christo Graham releases the first single, “If I Don’t Leave Now” off of his forthcoming album Music For Horses out October 4 through Toronto-based record label We Are Busy Bodies. “If I Don’t Leave Now” is about pulling yourself away from somewhere or …
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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 …
Multi-instrumental virtuoso Colin Fisher is a singular talent, and easily one of Toronto’s busiest musicians regardless of style. A mainstay of the improvised music world and a frequent collaborator to curious-eared pop artists like Caribou, Junior Boys, over the past decade, Fisher has also produced a varied and unclassifiable catalogue of solo recordings. With Suns of the Heart, his …