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 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 …

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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 …

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Record Record Label, a Canadian vinyl reissue label operated by We Are Busy Bodies has announced four first-time vinyl releases by The Pursuit of Happiness, Shallow North Dakota, Sinclaire, and The Killjoys available in stores July 26. RRL-006: Originally released in 1996, The Wonderful World of the Pursuit of Happiness by The Pursuit of Happiness …

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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 the ebbs …

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We Are Busy Bodies recently reissued its third trilogy of albums with the legendary As-Shams/The Sun label with a focus on the works of Mike Makhalemele and Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi. Following the success of Makhalemele’s debut The Peacemaker and Mankunku’s long-awaited sophomore release Alex Express, which both appeared in 1975, the bar had been set …

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Rich Aucoin has been nominated for Electronic Album of the Year at the 2024 Juno Awards for his Synthetic 2 album released by We Are Busy Bodies in October 2023. This is Aucoin’s second nomination in the category in as many years. Synthetic 2 is the second of four albums as part of Aucoin’s quadrilogy …

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On July 6th, up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Joe McLeod, will release the dynamic new single “What A Pity” from his upcoming album “The Dancer & The Bear” (out via We Are Busy Bodies October 13) – listen to the new music HERE. A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Joe McLeod brings his stories to life in vivid detail, using his evocative voice to explore …

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Puna, recorded in bedrooms, studios and other salubrious locations around Helsinki during 2022, is a mix of lo-fi spiritual jazz, experimental, and avant-garde music forms. It includes four vocal tracks recorded with Merikukka Kiviharju, which feature both original lyrics and those sourced from traditional Finnish folk songs. With a background in electronic music, Vauhkonen explains …

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