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A wobbly still from the video for Civilians by Clark
Song of the Day: Quirky, oddball, squelchy, strangely addictive electronica with flute-ish sounds, and an eccentric jelly-based seven-dancers video choregraphed by Melanie Lane x Corps Conspirators, heralding British experimental artist Christopher Clark’s upcoming album Steep Stims, out on 7 November via Throttle Records / Decca.
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From the video by Mikel Patrick Avery for Layered Presence by Tortoise
Song of the Day: Instilling a sense of simultaneous calm and yet unease, a mesmeric, cinematic-feel instrumental by the legendary Chicago experimental, eclectic, improvisational jazz-funk-pyschedelic-prog-electronica band, heralding their first album for nine years, TOUCH, out on 24 October via International Anthem / Nonesuch Records
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Kety Fusco featuring Iggy Pop - SHE
Song of the Day: “The harp is not heard as much.” That deep, unmistakable spoken voice of Iggy narrates this beautiful, intricate new instrumental by the Italian-Swiss harpist, heralding her new album BOHÈME out on 19 September via A Tree In A Field Records
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Caolán Austin - We Shall All Be Gone Shortly / Brutes
Song of the Day: Beautiful, tranquil, delicately experimental instrumental electronica with piano by the Irish composer, producer musician from Derry, with additional fiddle by Joshua Burnside, out on Only You Recordings
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Laura Cannell’s twelfth EP Winterlore, from 2024’s monthly themed ‘Lore’ series
Christmas special Song of the Day: A wonderfully haunting and beautiful strings and bells instrumental piece by the British composer from her the twelfth EP, Winterlore in the monthly ‘Year of Lore’ series of 2024
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Unknown To Known
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, eclectic experimental and engaging jazz featuring woodwind, percussion, sitar and bass by the London quartet of Idris Rahman, Jihad Darwish, Tamar Osborn and Yusuf Ahmed from their debut album, Lightship, out on Maps For Getting Lost
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Floating Points: Cascade album is out in September
Song of the Day: Intricate, mesmeric electronica that grows in intensity and complexity from the British artist Sam Shepherd, heralding hiis forthcoming next LP, Cascade, released on 13 September via Ninja Tune
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The second Los Bitchos album, Talkie Talkie, is due out on 30 August
Song of the Day: A stylish, catchy and always irresistably fun fusion of pace-changing instrumental indie, cumbia, surf and psych by the international London-based quartet, taken from their forthcoming second album Talkie Talkie, out on City Slang on 30 August
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Nubya Garcia’s upcoming album, Odyssey
Song of the Day: A gorgeously rich, emotive new blended jazz piece featuring orchestral strings, piano and more by the award-winning London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer heralding her forthcoming new album, Odyssey out on 20 September via Concord Jazz
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Colin Stetson
Song of the Day: Mesmeric, looping, primal and delicately beautiful experimental work by the saxophonist from Montréal, Canada, here on the alto with the title track of his upcoming new album and one described as “a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain”
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Ezra Collective
Song of the Day: After 2022’s Mercury prize-winning album, Where I’m Meant To Be, the jazz and afrobeat quintet of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison return with a vibrant new single
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Group Listening’s Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo). Photo: Huw Evans
Song of the Day: A wonderfully odd and beautiful release featuring field recordings of the titular resonantly relaxing amphibians by the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing duo of Paul Jones and Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo)
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Leonardo Barbadoro’s Musica Automata album features 80 instrument robots
Songs of the Day: Mesmeric, unusual, charming, ingenious instrumental gems released late last year by the Italian composer from an album performed by an orchestra of over 80 robots, and currently the largest robot orchestra in the world
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Jim Perkins: Winter
Song of the Day: A delicate, beautiful, seasonally evocative orchestral instrumental new single by the London pianist and composer out on Bigo and Twigetti
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Dorothy Carter’s recently reissued album Waillee Waillee
Songs of the Day: A couple of beautiful and unusual tracks from a recent reissue of the 1978 experimental folk/psych album, Waillee Waillee, by the American composer and virtuoso of the hammered dulcimer zither, and other psalterium and hammer family instruments
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Yarni’s latest EP, Albers with a design by printmaker John Pedder
Song of the Day: Inventive, intricate, oddball alternative electronica and other sounds with an intriguing build in this title track from the latest EP by Sheffield multi-instrumentalist and composer Benjamin Adam Harris
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Floating Points - Birth4000 (artwork by Akiko Nakayama)
Song of the Day: High-octane, inventive, dynamic dance music by Manchester-raised British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician Sam Shepherd, out on Ninja Tune
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Nathan Fake’s latest EP, Guiro.
Song of the Day: Pulsating, mesmeric electronica and dance music by the Norfolk-raised musician influenced by Aphex Twin and Orbital, and taken from his latest EP, Guiro, released on Cambria Instruments
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Peter Brewis’s latest solo album, Blowdry Colossus
Song of the Day: A mesmerically funky, inventive instrumental composition of electronica, synths, bass, drums and guitars inspired by Yellow Magic Orchestra, by one half of Sunderland’s Field Music brothers, taken from Peter’s brand new solo album, Blowdry Colossus
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Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records
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