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New music – Red Snapper: Live at the Moth Club (Lo Recordings)

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A new release on Lo Recordings that is well worth your time! In the words of the label’s press release:

“Musical innovators Red Snapper release a new album on Lo Recordings. Live at The Moth Club, the follow up to 2022’s acclaimed Everybody Is Somebody long player, features nine tracks from a vast and impressive back catalogue on Warp Records and Lo Recordings and captures perfectly the energy of their celebrated sold out London show from May 2022 in Hackney.

With an incredible and genre bursting career that spans nearly thirty years, the new album demonstrates the band’s ability to constantly rework classic and new tracks, keeping them impassioned, experimental and relevant. The collection includes a version of Suckerpunch which originally appeared on their 1998 album Making Bones.’ It was released as a single on 15 September.

Have a listen below and see what you think:

Published post no.1,984 – Friday 20 October 2023

New music – Hatis Noit: Thor (Matthew Herbert Rework) (Erased Tapes)

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How reassuring to know that the art of the remix is still in good hands!

Matthew Herbert has been a practiced exponent of the form for at least 25 years now, but this remake of Hatis Noit’s Thor shows that he continues to find new and imaginative ways of presenting other people’s music. The process had an effect on both artists. “When I first listened to the sonic world of Matthew’s Thor rework”, says Hatis, “I felt so nostalgic that I cried. The song evokes in me an interactive energy exchange between forest spirits and people singing and dancing around a fire. It is an even more colourful and playful representation of the landscape that I wanted to portray.”

Herbert, meanwhile, talked about his approach to the task in hand. “I liked the devotional aspect of the original so recorded a few round glass and steel bowls to create a kind of found-gamelan set of sounds. I wanted it to feel like you walked out of a festival and stumbled across some voices and people in the woodland nearby, like an auditory hallucination where more modern techniques merged with ancient-sounding voices.”

Have a listen below and see what you think:

New music – Say She She: Silver (Karma Chief)

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Here is some wonderful weekend music from Brooklyn trio Say She She, with their second album Silver.

Having made a strong impact at Glastonbury with their live set, which included one of the singles of the year in C’est Si Bon, they have given us a long player guaranteed to brighten up any day. A homage to the disco music of the late 1970s, it is more than mere pastiche – a brilliant collection of original compositions, packed with good feelings and funky basslines.

Listen below for some wonderful summery sounds!

New music – The Orb & David Gilmour: Metallic Spheres in Colour

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Described as a ‘remixed collaborative album’, this is an update for the 2010 release made by The Orb and David Gilmour, Metallic Spheres.

You may remember that the original has just two tracks, which sit either side of the vinyl release. Producer Youth recently revealed that “The idea for Metallic Spheres In Colour was that Alex Paterson could have done more on the first version, and he didn’t really have the opportunity because we had a philosophy of making the music like the Blade Runner soundtrack meets Wish You Were Here. So, I asked him why don’t we remix it and make it like an Orb classic? And in doing that, it’s almost like a completely different album.”

Have a listen to an excerpt below and see what you think:

New music – Moritz von Oswald: Infinito (Tresor)

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Berlin label Tresor Records have announced that Moritz von Oswald, one of their longest-serving artists, will be releasing new album Silencio on 10 November.

Its outline is intriguing, with von Oswald looking to explore the differences between human and artificial sound, particularly using the voice. To do this he will be referring to a lineage of works from composers such as Varèse, Ligeti and Xenakis, in the company of Vocalconsort Berlin. Here is a short teaser for the album:

There is also a sizeable excerpt in the form of Infinito, the first single from the album. It is an intriguing and eerie meeting point between synthesizers and voices, music that carries very little weight in the form of bass but a good deal of intensity as it slowly unfolds. The synthesizers carry a short motif of five notes that underpins the hypnotic vocals:

Silencio will be released by Tresor Records on 10 November, while the new single Infinito will be followed by Colpo (6 October) and Opaco (20 October). For buying options and more information, head to the Bandcamp page below: