Moor Mother Announces ‘The Great Bailout’ Deluxe

Moor Mother (a.k.a Camae Ayewa) has released a deluxe version of The Great Bailout, her latest album.

The Great Bailout (Deluxe) features three original compositions which eventually became songs on the album.

In 2018, Ayewa was put in touch with the London Contemporary Orchestra and asked what topic she might like to musically explore with them. “The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 was the topic I picked,” she explained. “I was already researching it, and I knew the premiere would be in England, and I thought it would be impactful.” She knew she wanted to have elements of the orchestral set up—piano, percussion, violin, and viola—but to take it somewhere else, too.

Featuring Galya Bisengalieva (violin and improvisation), Alison D’Souza (viola and improvisation), Katherine Tinker (piano and improvisation), Ric Elsworth (percussion and improvisation), and arranger Uèle Lamore, the deluxe version features new orchestral renditions of “Liverpool Wins,” “God Save the Queen,” and “My Soul’s Been Anchored.”

The Great Bailout’ is Ayewa’s ninth studio album and third with ANTI- Records. It features production contributions from Lonnie Holley, Vijay Ayer, Mary Lattimore, Aaron Dilloway, and more.

Tracklisting

01. Guilty feat. Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, and Raia Was
02. All the Money feat. Alya Al Sultani
03. God Save the Queen feat. Justmadnice
04. Compensated Emancipation feat. Kyle Kidd
05. Death by Longitude
06. My Souls Been Anchored
07. Liverpool Wins feat. Kyle Kidd
08. South Sea feat. Sister of the Nitty Gritty
09. Spem in Alium
10. God Save the Queen (Movement 1)
11. My Soul’s Been Anchored (Movement 2)
12. God Save the Queen (Movement 3)

The Great Bailout (Deluxe) is available now. There’s a full stream below and you can order it here.

Photo: Ebru Yildiz

Trentemøller’s Seventh Album is His Most Psychedelic Yet

Trentemøller will release a new album on In My Room in September.

Featuring 10 tracks, Dreamweaver combines elements of shoegaze, dark wave, rock, and somber, introspective takes on electronic dream pop, but “in a considerably more psychedelic manner” than the Danisn producer’s previous albums, we’re told.

It also represents “an obvious artistic leap,” treading new ground while retaining the overall plot.

It features vocals from Iceland’s Disa, who has been in Trentemøller’s fold since the tour of Memoria, Trentemøller’s last album, released in 2022.

Dig into Anders Trentemøller’s discography, and you’ll find some of the most cherished electronic music of the past two decades. At its foundation lies a non-conformist attitude and an upbringing centred around two contrasting musical landscapes: rock and electronic. For information on him and his work, check out his XLR8R feature here.

Tracklisting

01. A Different Light
02. Nightfall
03. Dreamweavers
04. I Give My Tears
05. Behind My Eyes
06. Hollow
07. Empty Beaches
08. In A Storm
09. Winter’s Ghost
10. Closure

Dreamweaver LP is scheduled for September 13 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “A Different Light,” “Nightfall,” and “Dreamweavers” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Photo: Philippe Mazzoni

Podcast 861: Max Graef

Last month, Max Graef returned to Tartelet Records with his third solo album under his own name. Like the two that have come before it—2018’s Lo Siento Mucho Pero No Hablo Tu Idioma and 2014’s Rivers Of The Red Planet—Natural Element is filled with psychedelic, starry-eyed jams. Amongst these releases, Graef—a resident of Berlin, Germany, who first became known for his hip-hop and jazz-inspired take on house music—has kept himself busy with Tax Free Records, his own label where he releases electronic, dancehall, modern jazz, and synth punk, and an assortment of offbeat collaborations and projects, including Employee, his group 2morph, Running Out Of Time, and Iris for his psyched out guitar experiments. (Check out the new Iris album here.)

Natural Element began as a mixtape concept to gather up recent ideas but it soon evolved as he got deeper into MPC sketches and reconnected with the approach he had when he was in his late teens. “After the sketches I worked a lot with the computer again, which I haven’t done in years,” Graef reveals. Recorded on the fly, in support of the album, Graef’s podcast hones in on a new sonic universe—reggae and dub, which he’s been listening to recently in the Germany countryside—plus some other treasures. He’s filled it with vinyl rips, some edited stuff, loops, old sketches, and some of his all time favorite tracks.

01. What have you been up to recently?
I put out a guitar album as Iris on Tax Free Records towards the end of last year and worked on a live set together with my girlfriend as Profit. I’m working on new material with Funkycan as Running Out of Time and I released my first album under my real name in a long time just last month on Tartelet Records.

02. What have you been listening to?
Mostly Moroccan and Algerian music lately. Plus some reggae, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sun Ra. In between some Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Eric Dolphy.

03. Let’s talk about Natural Element, your new solo album. Tell us more about it.
The album marks 10 years since my debut album and I feel happy to have an album now that represents and combines the different styles and atmospheres of my musical cosmos in recent years. It started out as a mixtape idea, to celebrate the anniversary, but it ended up almost entirely new music in much more of a classic album story style. It’s psychedelic with a lot of heavy bass, loads of nature sounds, some synthetic some real. I’m very happy with it.

04. Where and when did you record this mix, and what setup did you use?
I am working in the countryside at the moment so I have limited options here. I put it together on my computer; no records this time except for a couple of my own vinyl rips, some edited stuff, loops, old sketches, some of my all time favorites, and music I would like to enjoy on a nice sound system right now. The first draft was to focus on more steppers side of reggae tunes but it’s not exclusively that, because found some fun treasures along the way.

05. What’s next on your horizon?
New music coming out on Tax Free Records! Watch out for new a zine as well! Free Palestine!

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No tracklisting was provided for this mix.

Hyperdub to Release Jungle Album from Tim Reaper and Kloke

Kode9’s Hyperdub will release a new album from Tim Reaper and Kloke.

In Full Effect is the British label’s first ever jungle album, though it’s the fourth release that the UK and Australian artists have released together—following the “Foundation” single on Reaper’s own Future Retro London label. In 2021, they released the Tunnelvision EP on Tunnel Vision Records.

On this occasion, they’ve delivered eight “energetic” tracks that bridge the prehistory of jungle with the sounds of its new wave.

Earlier this month, Hyperdub released “slob air,” a new single from Mica Levi.

Tracklisting

01. Continuities
02. Blood Pressure
03. Juice
04. Alienation
05. Roots & Reality
06. Impasse
07. Havoc
08. Wildstyle

In Full Effect LP is scheduled for September 20 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Alienation” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Answer Code Request and Jan Wagner (a.k.a DEFTR) to Collaborate on Ambient Album

DEFTR, the alias of Answer Code Request and Jan Wagner, the Ostgut Ton mixing engineer, pianist, and producer, will present an album on npm.

We’re told to expect “a captivating fusion of ambient and techno.”

In that way, the collaborative project marks a departure from Answer Code Request’s renowned 4/4 techno framework, venturing into expansive auditory realms enriched by Wagner’s classical expertise.

Having previously released three EPs, including Kreuzberg 05, that hinted at this direction, DEFTR solidifies their unique sonic identity with this Run Away.

The interplay between Answer Code Request’s intricate rhythms and Wagner’s ambient sensibilities creates “a dynamic tension, resulting in a listening experience that is both immersive and transformative.”

Spanning eight meticulously crafted tracks, the album explores a spectrum of blissful and resonant soundscapes,” we’re told.

For more information on Answer Code Request, check out his XLR8R podcast here.

Tracklisting

01. The Call
02. Part Two
03. A Farway
04. A Glimpse
05. Shade Off
06. no knock, no doorbell
07. twentysix
08. Run Away

Run Away LP is scheduled for September 20 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “no knock, no doorbell” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Influences 26: Efterklang

This edition of Influences comes from Efterklang, the Danish pop band comprising childhood friends Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen, and Rasmus Stolberg. In September, they’re due to release Things We Have In Common, their seventh album, which was written in collaboration with pianist and composer Rune Mølgaard, who left the band in 2007 after the group’s Parades album. Mølgaard’s inspiration has been scattered over Efterklang’s music in the intervening years—one of his piano motifs became the hit song “Modern Drift” on 2010’s Magic Chairs—but it’s not until now that he’s been fully occupied by making a record. As with their previous two albums, Altid Sammen and Windflowers, Things We Have In Common embraces a “simpler, more inclusive, means of expression,” we’re told. Harmonic tensions are gentler, the tonal language more straightforward. This is music “open to longing souls and aching beings, offering the possibility of both enlightenment and relief,” we’re told. “This is music of arms reaching out and healing hands. The sound of giving, receiving and accepting that everything changes.” 2024 also marks 20 years since Efterklang debuted with the album Tripper, and in the years since they’ve defined themselves by freedom and open-mindedness. In this mix, they reflect on the last two decades with one hour of music that captures that same adventurous spirit.

“Our debut album, Tripper, came out in 2004, 20 years ago. The years leading up to that point were pretty fundamentally inspiring for our band. We were experimenting, figuring our sound, and writing.

“Mads and I were living in the same flat, working at the same phone company hotline for money and spending every possible hour awake in our studio on Amager, Copenhagen, where we were listening to music, while crafting our own simultaneously. The best time was late nights into early mornings, with our faces in the screen, chopping up recordings in Pro Tools, scratching cd-r’s to sample skipping sounds.

“We’re honored to offer you a mellow mix of some of those early sonic heroes of ours—pocket symphonies, glitching landscapes, and bedroom recordings that inspired us. These are a few tracks from The Leaf Label, who put out our Tripper album and other early Efterklang recordings, and also some music that we put out on our own label, Rumraket, plus some early native Danish heroes too.” — Casper Clausen

XLR8R Subscribers can download the podcast below. If you’re not an XLR8R subscriber, you can read more about it and subscribe here.

Tracklisting

01. Colleen “Everyone Alive Wants Answers” (Thrill Jockey)
02. The Matinee Orchestra “Hide & Seek” (Overground Records)
03. Oval “Episodik” (Thrill Jockey / Marcus Popp)
04. Cacoy “Piracle Pa” (Rumraket)
05. Múm “Now There’s That Fear Again” (FatCat Records)
06. Erik Levander “Sekund” (Rumraket)
07. Opiate “Welcome!” (April Records)
08. Taylor Deupree “Temper” (12K)
09. Max de Wardener “Noises From A Small Planet” (Accidental Records)
10. Under Byen “Plantage” (Parlophone Music)
11. Murcof “Memorial” (The Leaf Label)
12. Artemiy Artemiev “Waiting for the Winter” (Creative Media)
13. Mira Calix “Le Jardin de Barbican” (Warp)
14. Lali Puna “Middle Curse” (Morr Music)
15. Asa-Chang & Junray “Hana” (Musicmine)

Podcast 860: Kenneth James Gibson

In May, Kenneth James Gibson released Murals For Immersion, a collaboration with saxophonist Paul Carman who played and recorded with Frank Zappa. It was the latest ambient album that Gibson—a musician based in California—has released under his own name. Active since the early ’90s, after being born in Canada but raised in Texas, he has led several musical lives spanning everything from experimental dub to country and psychedelic rock. But his drive towards the immersive ambient music he shares as Kenneth James Gibson began in late 2021 when he started a new label called Meadows Heavy Recorders. In 2022, he released Groundskeeping and Ssih Mountain, two albums that draw on synths with analog instruments to deliver something cinematic—file them next to Trent Reznor’s soundtrack work—and now comes Murals For Immersion. In late 2022, Gibson and Carman started laying down tons of saxophone sounds—layers of drones, melody lines, and off kilter noises. Gibson proceeded to process, sculpt, and arrange these sounds into full fledged pieces of music. To celebrate the release, Gibson has delivered an XLR8R podcast, filling it with some of his favorite artists: Mica Levi, Miles Davis, and Loscil, plus a handful of his own originals. Expect 80 minutes of contemplative, breathing textures, and slow morphing harmonies.

01. What have you been up to recently?
It has been busy times I must say. I live up in the mountains of Idyllwild, California part time and in Los Angeles part time. Slowly working on a new, for lack of a better word, ambient album based on a few themes. I’m not exactly sure where it’s going yet, but it will be shaping up soon I hope. I run a label called Meadows Heavy Recorders, which is also the name of my studio up in Idyllwild. Outside of my own solo music, I’ve been producing albums for artists such as Head Shoppe, Francesca Brown, and my band Toler Gibson. Head Shoppe’s self-tilted album was just released and I also play in the live band. It has a psychedelic ’70s-Italian-horror-film-score-vibe-meets-sci-fi-meets-western-thing happening! Toler Gibson is slowly chipping away at a new album with a new single just released. I compose a lot of music for television, film, and recently apps. This really takes a big part of my time these days.

02. What have you been listening to?
I’m all over the map! Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Dorothy Ashby. I love the way her records sound. They feel very summer time-y. Herbie Handcock’s Sextant and Death Wish albums have been getting a lot of play! Lots of Chet Baker too. Marine Eyes is one of my favorite current ambient artists that I have been listening to a lot lately. Stunning dreamy vocals on top of beautiful ambient guitar sounds. Mica Levi’s film scores have been at the top of my list as well! Scott Walker, Gabor Szabo, Less Bells, Mothers of Invention, Tangerine Dream, Gene Clark, New Riders of The Purple Sage, and Edan Ahbez have also been getting a lot of Play. I could go on….

03. I understand you have a new album out. What can you tell us about it?
I have a new album out titled Murals For Immersion which is a collaboration with a fellow named Paul Carman. Paul is an incredible saxophone player who spent some time recording and touring with Frank Zappa as well other great folks. Other than some Moog Prodigy bass on a couple tracks this a pure saxophone album. Paul would come by the studio and lay down drones, melody lines, and various noises and sounds and then I would sculpt, process, and arrange them into full fledged pieces of music. You can do so much with the saxophone. This was one of my favorite albums that I’ve worked on in a long time.

04. Where and when did you record this mix?
A few weeks ago up in Idyllwild at my studio.

05. What setup did you use?
I used Ableton with an Allen & Heath mixer for this.

06. How did you choose the tracks you’ve included in it?
Just tracks that I love and that felt good putting next to each other. Good blends. I wanted to take folks on a little journey and not stick with one feel and sound

07. Where do you imagine it being listened to?
In a warm pool at night in the summer under the stars with a we bit of fungi in the system would be the perfect setting.

08. What’s next on your horizon?
Hopefully a follow up album to Murals with Paul. Music… lots of it. We’ll see where it goes!

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Tracklisting

01. Intro words… Chet Baker
02. Kenneth James Gibson & Paul Carman “Finding New Language” (Dismantled Mix) (Cassauna)
03. Marine Eyes “To Belong” (Past Inside The Present)
04. Mica Levi “Love” (Rough Trade)
05. Ffwd (The Orb And Robert Fripp)”Hempire” (Inter-Modo)
06. Tangerine Dream “Movements Of A Visionary” (Virgin Records)
07. Kenneth James Gibson & Paul Carman “Above Suicide Peak” (Cassauna)
08. Miles Davis “Nem Um Talvez” (CBS)
09. Moondog “Witch Of Endor” (Columbia)
10. Head Shoppe “Seance” (Meadows Heavy Recorders)
11. Dorothy Ashby “Soul Vibrations” (Cadet)
12. Popol Vuh “Dream Part 49” (Liberty)
13. Loscil & Lawrence English “Violet” (Kranky)
14. James Bernard “Lull” (Ambient Mountain House)
15. Kenneth James Gibson & Paul Carman “Murals For Immersion” (Cassauna)
16. Less Bells “A Failure Of Horses” (Meadows Heavy Recorders)
17. Brian McBride “The Guilt Of Uncomplicated Thoughts” (Kranky)
18. Kenneth James Gibson “Far From Home” (Kompakt)
19. Pink Floyd “Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun” (Capital)
20. Chet Baker “I Get Along Without You Very Well” (Pacific Jazz)

Kelly Lee Owens Unveils New Album

Kelly Lee Owens will release a new album in October.

Dreamstate is the Welsh artist’s fourth studio album, following 2022’s LP​.​8 and Inner Song. It will land on her new home, dh2, the electronic imprint of Dirty Hit.

There’s an “incredible feeling of freedom and escapism” found throughout Dreamstate, we’re told, born from the experience of inner evolution in the aftermath of a break-up.

It’s the sound of a person “letting loose and letting go while encouraging everyone else to do the same.”

The album is produced by Bicep, Tom Rowlands from The Chemical Brothers, and George Daniel, the drummer of pop band The 1975.

Alongside the announcement, Owens has shared “Love You Got,” an adrenaline-fuelled, dancefloor anthem.

Tracklisting

01. Dark Angel
02. Love You Got
03. Dreamstate
04. Time To
05. Higher
06. Ballad
07. Sunshine
08. Air
09. Rise
10. Trust and Desire

Dreamstate LP is scheduled for October 18 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “Love You Got” in full via the player below and pre-order here.

Photo: Samuel Bradley

Texture Summit Celebrates Five Years with Poten and C.L.A.W.S.

San Francisco event series Texture Summit will celebrate its fifth anniversary this Saturday, July 13.

Texture Summit was launched in 2019 as an avenue to provide “beautiful, immersive experiences of art and music that bring community together.”

With a focus on local US talent, Texture Summit‘s events have hosted Sunset Soundsystem’s Solar and Galen, Carlos Suffront, Eric Cloutier, Liquid Earth, Huerta, Zacky, and Texture Summit founder, Louiv, among others. Recent international headliners have included Move D, Truly Madly, Velasco, Bruno Schmidt, and Dr Banana.

The fifth anniversary will be held at Heron Arts gallery, running from 9pm until 4am.

Staying true to its roots, Denver DJ Poten is set to headline the event alongside San Francisco legend C.L.A.W.S., with support from Louiv, Zacky, Philco, and Combover. The space will feature art installations by Casey Curran and live visuals from Mutek SF alumni Loaf Baker.

You can find more info and purchase tickets to the anniversary party here, with a live mix from Louiv below.

Mica Levi Debuts on Hyperdub

Mica Levi has released a new single on Hyperdub.

slob air is Levi’s first release on the UK label.

Their most recent long-form work comes in the shape of a score for Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” the artist and director’s reunion after “Under the Skin.”

Levi’s last studio albums were the grungy Ruff Dog and Blue Alibi, and last year they teamed up with Alpha Maid for an EP, Spresso.

The single lands alongside a video starring a skateboarding Madi Swain, made with Izzy Moriarty Thompson, Joe Auborn, and Jack Parton.

Tracklisting

01. slob air

slob air is available digitally now with a stream below. Vinyl is coming in September.

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