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S.A.A.R.A’s new single Forest
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-theme of horticulture after Billie Marten, plus William Doyle and Chad VanGaalen in the album section, a fabulously catchy new single by the London multi-instrumentalist who mixes funk, disco and electronica sprinkled liberally with flute and saxophone
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Cover art for Kalambo by Bontan
Song of the Day: A vivid fusion of club beats, electronica and field recording samples of African tribal chanting, with a dash donkey braying by the Liverpool-based artist who among other guises is also known as Melé
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Anushka are Victoria Port and Max Wheeler
Song of the Day: Hypnotic, bleepy funk and soulful vocals pour into this entrancing jazz-electronica fusion by Brighton singer-songwriter Victoria Port and producer Max Wheeler, released on the Tru Thoughts label
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Sofia Kourtesis’s new EP Fresia Magdalena
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s by Nicola Cruz from Ecuador, next is the mesmeric work of Berlin-based Peruvian electronic artist who uses field recordings and beats on which to build her dance tracks, with these two taken from her new EP, Fresia Magdalena, out on Ninja Tune
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Nicola Cruz’s new EP Subtropique
Song of the Day: A mesmeric mix of beats, voices and electronica by the artist and producer from Quito, Ecuador, taken from his latest EP Subtropique
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From the animated illustration from Misc’s latest release, Mad, from the album Partager l'ambulance
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s GoGo Penguin track and remix, another clever fusion of piano-based jazz and electronica in the form of this charming, cross-rhythm experimental release by the Montreal-based trio from their new album Partager l'ambulance
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Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, left, remixes Manchester trio GoGo Penguin
Song of the Day: Intricate, pace-changing and with beautiful narrative arcs, two versions of the recent piece by the Manchester experimental jazz trio of pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner with a new dance remix by American producer Travis Stewart
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The Umlauts
Song of the Day; With a fabulous retro sound of early synth-pop, krautrock, new wave and post-punk, deadpan spoken German lyrics embody a humorous parody of “how artists fetishise Berlin as being the centre of the ‘cool’ art world and the dystopian uniformity”
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SOPHIE: 1986-2021
Songs of the Day: Following inventor Lomond Campbell yesterday, another musical pioneer from Scotland of a different kind – two tracks by the extraordinary genre-pushing electronic trans artist who tragically died last month
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Lomond Campbell’s LŪP incorporates cassette tape
Songs of the Day: Ingenious, mesmerising and strangely beautiful, these two opening tracks from the LŪP album by the Scottish Highlands inventor involve his tape-looper instrument that moves in and out of sync with itself
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Fragmens III by REAL DOGS. It’s not the first …
Song of the Day: This delightful instrumental composed of the retro sounds of old 1980s video games comes from the experimental electronica artist’s latest, and bitty album, Fragments III, all full of wonderfully oddball whimsy
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CARM aka trumpeter and producer CJ Camerieri
Song of the Day: A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album
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The latest album by Stats
Songs of the Day: Gloriously uplifting, clever dance electro-pop by the band led by songwriter Ed Seed, inspired by his childhood in and recorded in Wales, where the natural environment co-exists with the less so, from farming, forestry, tourism, and military activity
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Avalon Emerson’s EP - 040
Song of the Day: Majestic electronica that builds from beats and scratches into shimmering synth waves by the New York artist from her latest EP, 04), out on the AD 93 label
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Nation of Language
Song of the Day: “So now we find ourselves in the waiting room of history … holding hands through this absurdity.” Beautifully poignant lyrics for a world in limbo in this new song by the Brooklyn trio their 80s new wave electro-pop
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Nancy
Songs of the Day: One is highly reminiscent of David Bowie’s Fashion, the other has strains of glam rock-era Marc Bolan, but that’s can only mean praise, and this is vibrant, funky and beepingly brilliant work by the artist Jamie Stephen Hall
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Dark and delicate: Little Dragon & Moses Sumney –The Other Lover
Song of the Day: A deliciously dark and delicate duet between the Swedish electronic band featuring singer Yukimi Nagano and the American who released the album Grae in 2020 – two of the most innovative artists around today
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The cover the new album by Dutch duo I Believe In My Mess
Song of the Day: This very infectiously pleasing fusion of krautrock, funk, psychedelia, philosophy and practical advice comes from the Amsterdam duo’s latest album track, and explores what it means to be a good person, but that doesn’t have to be a nice person
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Stretching the influences: cover of Arp Frique’s latest album
Song of the Day: Electro-pop, Chic-era New York City 70s disco vibes, African, Caribbean and Cape Verdean influences are interwoven in this infectious, eccentric newest single by Amsterdam’s Niels Nieuborg, with guest Americo Brito
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The two Swiss Cyrils: Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
Song of the Day: The people! Wonderfully catchy krautrock-inspired electro-pop that began as a reaction to tourist overcrowding and since Covid has a nostalgic feel by the eccentric duo from Geneva, Cyril Yeterian and Cyril Bondi
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