The debut release on Luke Una’s brand new label É Soul Cultura is a quite brilliant album of electronic soul from the Liverpool based duo Transmission Towers. Interstellar atmospherics, deep emotions and bass-charged grooves are allied with post-punk invention and hooks that will attach themselves to the listener for days. On the day of the release of ‘Transmission One’, we asked production wizard Mark Kyriacou and vocalist Eleanor Anorbea Mante a few questions. Read / Listen.
Read MoreNino Gvilia 'Nicole' (Hive Mind Records) - single premiere!
Video and single premiere! We invite you to enter the strange and enchanting world of Nino Gvilia, where nothing is quite what it seems. ‘NICOLE’ is the first track of the eponymous two EP's project (presented on one disc in March 2024 on Hive Mind Records) that will draw you deep into her dreamlike sound-world of hushed late night atmospherics and surreal songwriting. Watch // Listen.
Read MoreFuture Sounds Of Kraut Vol. 1 - Compiled by Fred und Luna (Compost Records) - an interview / review
Fred und Luna are two plastic mannequins who live in Karlsruhe, Germany and are the creative muses for their human Rainer Buchmüller, who has compiled this forthcoming and inspired compilation of international artists who make music inspired by the varied ‘Krautrock’ sounds of the 60s and 70s. Psychedelic, groove heavy tracks that are as fun as they are weird-funky. I asked Rainer a few questions about the release but it was Fred und Luna who replied. Read / Listen.
Read MoreMaxine Funke 'River Said' (Disciples) - a review
Maxine Funke is a wonderful singer/songwriter from New Zealand and here on her fifth album, she has delivered two very different sides to her artistry. One side of the record is made up of intimately recorded lo-fi folk-inspired songs that are reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan or Sybylle Baier at their sparsest, side two contains organic sounding atmospheres that Eno would be proud of. Read / Listen
Read MoreTagua Tagua 'Tanto' (Wonderwheel Recordings) - a review
Tagua Tagua is São Paulo’s Felipe Puperi and his first LP for Nickodemus’ label Wonderwheel Recordings contains ten love songs of sun-drenched, hook-laden gloriousness. “Imagine Marcos Valle, D’Angelo, John Carroll Kirby, Eddie Chacon and Bobby Caldwell in full lush mode, loved up and subsisting on a diet of Philly Soul and the orchestral ambition of SAULT’s Inflo and you’re nearly there.” Read / Listen…
Read MoreEdrix Puzzle 'Deep in Dionne' (On The Corner Records) - Single Premiere!
We present the PREMIERE of Edrix Puzzle’s second single from their forthcoming collision of cosmic jazz and heavyweight dub-funk - ''Coming Of The Moon Dogs” - released on On The Corner Records, the single is a militant yet loose drum and free violin number, a march to the cosmos through burning stars. Read / Listen
Read MoreEdrix Puzzle 'Coming Of The Moon Dogs' (On The Corner Records) - album announcement
A heavyweight collision of ‘Mwandishi-era Herbie Hancock meets space-weight electronics, classical violin & instrumental analogue noir’ is contained in this forthcoming album from the Planet Battagon spin-off Edrix Puzzle. Nathan “Tugg” Curran and his London-based outfit have dropped an interference in the order propelled by cosmic dread and serious improvisational chops. This is heavy post-punk-jazz-dub Juju. Read / Listen / Pre-order