Here’s the extremely uplifting and heartfelt new single from Tendai Baba Maraire (that kalimba may... Read more »

Clorinde was founded by brothers Andrea and Simone Salvatici after moving to the UK from Italy in 2005. Drawing inspiration from late medieval Europe, they play in minimalist, cyclic oblongs with room for improvisation inside the ellipses, wielding an array of plucked acoustic instruments, mandolin, bouzouki and banjo, kalimba, zither and ukulele, as well as [...] Clorinde – The Creative Listener (Etruscan Records) is a post from: Cyclic Defrost Magazine .

UK producer/Musician SBTRKT's lead track from last year's self-titled release was an album highlight. The track is an icy pairing of clumsy kalimba lines, spats of glockenspiel, a heartbeat pulse, and vocal collaborator Sampha's soulful pleas to "turn the leaf". The song now has a stark video accompaniment that echoes the story at hand in the song perfectly.

UK producer/Musician SBTRKT's lead track from last year's self-titled release was an album highlight. The track is an icy pairing of clumsy kalimba lines, spats of glockenspiel, a heartbeat pulse, and vocal collaborator Sampha's soulful pleas to "turn the leaf". The song now has a stark video accompaniment that echoes the story at hand in the song perfectly.

Such is the ubiquity of Aaron Jerome's multi-faceted and indeed many-masked SBTRKT  project that he and his faithful accomplice Sampha Sisay are dubbed 'Dubstep Dudes' even in the British Airways mags tucked snugly into the back of every chair as we commit to something of a pilgrimage in Jerome's honour. And while his role as an energetic and masterful, enigmatic 2step producer may have fallen somewhat he continues to gleam like the Génie de la Liberté stood triumphantly atop the Colonne de Juillet on the brightest of jours. Jerome's forceful drumming capabilities have irrefutably become something of ...

Shigeto is an alter ego for Zach Saginaw. He is signed to Ghostly International. He is set to release his new album 'Lineage' through said label on January 30th. That's about as simple as it gets. 'Lineage' - for all its languid tempos and soft tones - is a complex work that draws on Saginaw's own family history as well as a mosaic of different electronic influences. A wonderful release that seems to slow down the outside world to unfold at its own pace, ClashMusic recently asked Shigeto to introduce the new album. He agreed. This is what he had ...

While Sarah Palin first coined the term Mama Grizzlies in reference to her hope for a sloth of right-wing maternal units to protect the future wellbeing of their cubs (and indeed the future itself), UK bass producer Alfie MacGibbon (aka Graphics ) could quite feasibly rewrite the definition beneath one of the English language's finer terms sure to remain ostracised from the OED with his track of the same name. It dropped today on Made To Play , and impressively juggles the low-end pulsations of early SBTRKT with way-out-warped vocal samples, distant glitters, and a menacing sense of rapture. Faint plinks ...

Kuhn from Astro Nautico has signed to London’s Civil Music and just released Slime Beach EP. The album is his self described “slinky angry rasta crunk explosion”, featuring manically ascending kalimba arpeggios, 808 footwork rhythms, and uptempo, distorted waves of bass. You can purchase the EP here while listening to his due praise from Mary Anne Hobbs.

TRAVELIN’ MAN DEPARTURE #1 Stanley Cowell Musa: Ancestral Streams Strata East : 1974 SC, piano, electric piano, kalimba (African thumb piano). We’re not sure why it’s taken us so long to devote a post to the wonderful pianist and composer Stanley Cowell. Like many fans and critics, we’re probably guilty of overlooking and underrating his [...]

Gold Panda is streaming two unheard cuts fresh from his instalment in the DJ Kicks series. Real name Derwin Panda, Gold Panda was never quite prepared for the success that came his way. Releasing his debut album 'Lucky Shiner' last year, the producer was flung into a hectic world of touring and press engagements. With his health becoming suspect, the arduous schedule finally took its toll this Autumn. Releasing a new mix under the DJ Kicks banner, Gold Panda included a previously unreleased track. 'An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds' boasted some gorgeous textures, and the track is now due ...

Getting high on Ben Fleury-Steiner, Alex Cobb & Aquarelle’s heady deliveries on Low Point , LMYE label of 2010 , the former with The Places That Find You , download here and white vinyl LP released tomorrow, the latter with a Split EP , download here , also with LP to follow. Previously on LMYE, heads were upped to Ben’s Infraction gem, Keep a Weather Eye Open . Now, ‘drawing upon his deep love of minimalism and influenced by the work of Mirror, Jonathan Coleclough and Tim Hecker,’ with ‘a mixture of instrumentation, including the use of the kalimba and the various sounds produced when played in the manner of a prepared guitar, coupled with more modern electronic instruments including effects pedals and synths,’ we find The Places That Find You : The Places That Find You (Album Preview) by Low Point Celer ’s Will Long words the blurb: “First impressions pull closer, strings and fizzles fall, carrying you, reaching further and ending up in an all-new place. Time is simple and less than a moment, with the lasting habit of a worn-out keepsake but nonetheless you are still immediately there again, inside those open arms and a world you have always dreamed of. In homage to minimalism and imagination, 'The Places That Find You' by Ben Fleury-Steiner embodies an ultimate trance, the ability to connect directly with the listener and the truth behind the feeling of music from the heart. Far away but incredibly close, the five tracks forming this album never return to the ordinary but move, invert and grow, through time-lapse expressions and faded visions. Some listeners want to be transported to other places through music, whilst others hear the technical artistry and find inspiration to delve deeper into the creative process. Without any direction and by simply following your own natural instincts, 'The Places That Find You' is a guide that places you instantly, allowing each listener to find more, not only through the music but from inside themselves.” MDME#40 - Memory from Marco Douma on Vimeo . The collusion of Alex Cobb & Aquarelle on Split LP is not their first association, with Students of Decay boss Cobb releasing the latter’s last waxing (see your LMYE scribe’s scribblings here , and, while you’re at it, there’s previous here ). Aquarelle is sound artist and curator of Rest + Noise , Ryan Potts, originally from Wisconsin and currently a resident of Toronto, Canada. Alex Cobb, previously recording as Taiga Remains , under which alias he gave us Ribbons of Dust one of the finest ever minimal guitar drone albums (clips here , and here ), originally separate 3”s on his own Students of Decay , then later collected as a full-length on Root Strata . Split LP (Album Preview) by Low Point Sam Landry, aka LMYE mucker Le Berger , with blurb verbiage: “Artists sharing a split record are akin to being roommates, with their share of common spaces yet separate headquarters. Such an undertaking tends to bring about elements of juxtaposition, contrast and union. This Low Point release from Alex Cobb & Aquarelle encompasses these and many more in a seamless fashion, breathing an ease of cohabitation throughout. One side of the vinyl LP picks up where the other left off and there is a manifest impression of torch-bearing with a common decisiveness within these pieces. Their work may be seen not in opposition, but rather as an alternative to the otherwise microwaved and unimaginative drones steadily filling up the modern musical landscape. Gracing upon themes of immanence, embodiment and metamorphosis, it embarks the listener into deeply immersive sonic territory. The shades and nuances are undeniably subtle but also rich and vast, which makes entering the dwelling of these artists both a mystifying, yet coherent experience all at once.” The Body is the Mirror by Alex Cobb & Aquarelle Coming soon to a Low Point near you: another split LP, this from Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ( previously ) with another friend of LMYE, P Jørgensen ; there’s also the promise of further Pointed Lowings from Kyle Bobby Dunn, Nickolas Mohanna. and Ex-Easter Island Head. Hear some here: Low Point 2011 Preview by Low Point And for good measure here’s some more Aquarelle from the SoD release: With Verticals by Students of Decay Important: LMYE only makes music available that artists/labels have chosen to share freely. Let us know if something here shouldn't be.

While many in the UK were anxiously rubbing palms together throughout July in desperate anticipation of somewhat more typically seasonal weather, musical polymath and pioneer Damon Albarn set sail for the Democratic Republic of Congo, or to be precise Kinshasa. On the western fringes of the country and located on the banks of the immense Congo River, the capital has a greater population than London and is commonly regarded as one of Africa's most perilous cities. While Albarn may have voyaged during the month in which the city's climes tend to be coolest (perspiration seemed to shower many ...

Do you like covers? Of course you do. If you a music fan, it's enjoyable to hear a band paying tribute to their influences (or even just to songs they're enjoying at that moment), and if you're a band you get to play around with other people's ideas. Even if the cover sucks, it's still fun to see how other people perceive songs. Anyway, the LCBO recognizes this, and that's why they've launched the Whisky Rocks campaign. They had Ian Thornley record a song , and they're asking musicians to submit their own ...

Melbourne-based percussionist and found sound artist Nat Grant explains one of her latest ensemble projects, Sung duo, with Californian bassist Steve Uccello. The pair have collaborated via email to produce their new recording, Melbourne, Monterey. Nat performs two pieces of her own - new toy, for kalimba with live looping and digital delay, and 1+2=7, for bowed glockenspiel, ocean drum, and bells with live looping. Video Features:

New signings to Full Time Hobby, Copenhagen's Pinkunoizu cite Akron/Family and Jim O'Rourke as influences, and it's in that core of experimentally freeform psych-folk they dwell. If the recording of the vocals will lead to knee-jerk Foxes">Fleet Foxes comparisons (oh, it will, it will) the music around it - crosshatched rhythms, bits of kalimba, a wailing guitar solo, nods to Collective">Animal Collective's campfire oddness - is far from being able to tastefully restrain itself. Swirling and uncoiling and endlessly fascinating. Time Is Like A Melody by fulltimehobby Time Is Like A Melody from Pinkunoizu on ...