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 …
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 …
1969 Canadian folk nugget issued for the first time on We Are Busy BodiesRead More
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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