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Over a dozen Toronto-based record labels will come together for a one-day Label Market at The Garrison on December 13, celebrating the city’s vibrant independent music community. The event will feature an eclectic mix of labels selling vinyl, CDs, and other merchandise from their catalogues—offering music lovers a chance to discover new music and connect …

Toronto Record Labels Unite for Holiday Label Market at The GarrisonRead More

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 …

Rich Aucoin Synthetic Season 4: The Final Release In The Quadruple Album ProjectRead More

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 …

Vanity Mirror returns with sophomore album, Super Fluff Forever, share first singles White Butterfly & Mr. WatchmakerRead More

Created by Turkish musician and electronic music composer İlhan Mimaroğlu, Tract is dedicated to fellow countryman Nȃzim Hikmet, whom Mimaroğlu regarded “as the greatest poet of the revolutionary struggles.” Utilizing the voice of Turkish singer Tülay German (identified as Tuly Sand on this recording), Mimaroğlu creates an audio collage of political messages in the propaganda …

We Are Busy Bodies announces the 50th anniversary replica reissue of Tract: A Composition Of Agitprop Music For Electromagnetic Tape by İlhan Mimaroğlu, featuring the singing and speaking voice of Tuly Sand.Read More

We Are Busy Bodies continues its 20th anniversary celebrations by returning to the Reeperbahn Festival for its third annual label showcase. This year, the showcase takes place at Schmidtchen (Spielbudenpl. 21-22) on Thursday, September 18 and features four artists from the label and its Having Fun Records imprint, which was launched earlier this year. Stream …

We Are Busy Bodies Official Reeperbahn Festival Showcase InformationRead More

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 …

Ten-piece Canadian ensemble release an album inspired by North African gnawa music, American minimalism, progressive/post-rock and spiritual jazz. Read More

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 …

Japanese Ambient Pioneer Announces 2LP Retrospective Album Compiles Early 1990s Recordings and is out September 26 via We Are Busy BodiesRead More

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, …

Brighton-based Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is set to release her third studio album on We Are Busy Bodies.Read More

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 …

Allen Kwela Octet – Allen’s Soul BagRead More

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 …

For his 17th full-length, the multi faceted Canadian eccentric Richard Marsella, better known as Friendly Rich, unveils what may indeed be his most imaginative and beautiful work to date.Read More