This week’s show features several notable new and forthcoming releases including music from Tamikrest’s upcoming album ‘Tamotaït’ due out 27 March on Glitterbeat Records. Glitterbeat are calling it their most powerful album since 2013’s wildly acclaimed ‘Chatma’ which finds the band not only turning up the volume but also sharpening their meditative atmospherics and ruminations on the state of the Sahara and the world beyond.
We have Andean party music from the central sierra of Peru from the 1960s courtesy of a compilation album released on Little Axe Records called Puro Tayta Shanti (artwork shown is from the album cover). From similar crate-digger territory, Mississippi Records have released a new Abner Jay album which includes previously unreleased material including his paen to space travel, “Man Walked On The Moon.”
We head into heavy drone territory courtesy of Deep Cabaret with Dronegeese, taken from their first full-length album “Matchless”, recorded at Real World Studios and produced by Justin Adams (Tinariwen/Robert Plant). This is swiftly followed by “Brambles”, taken from indie-folk singer-songwriter Alan Young who performs under the name of Serious Child. It’s from his forthcoming second album “Time in the Trees”, the result of a year he spent in the Sussex woods, which we’ll have more on very soon.
Black Seas is a track by the boundary-bending iyatraQuartet which takes inspiration from the late British Poet Laureate, John Masefield’s poem Sea Fever (we premiered the video here). It features on their new album Break the Dawn, set for release on 24 April which we’ll also have more on soon.
French artist Claire Days is a name you’re not likely to forget after you hear her mesmerising voice, her new album “Lava” is sure to resonate with listeners way beyond her home base of Lyon.
Another new name to many will be Me Auld Flower, a songwriter based in the western Irish wilderness of Connemara. ‘The Vaults of Consciousness’ is his debut release (out now) – marked by nostalgia and the supernatural, intricate melodies lead the listener from sparse landscape to stark dreamscape and back again.
Ben Chasny, now two decades into the journey that is Six Organs of Admittance, has a new album on the way in the form of “Companion Rises” set for release on 21 February via Drag City.
Also back is Riley Baugus with his Clawhammer Banjo from North Carolina. His new album Little Black Train’s a Comin’ is out now.
Music Played
00:00 Majid Bekkas – African Blues
06:45 Tamikrest – Amidinin Tad Adouniya
10:34 Vaca Ratay – Duo Las Perlas De Huancavelica
12:43 The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band – The Adventures of Sinsai
17:31 Jack Sharp – Mild Terror
19:49 Deep Cabaret – Dronegeese
24:29 Serious Child – Brambles
27:59 Xylouris White – Black Sea
32:08 iyatraQuartet – Black Seas
35:46 BURIERS – glory hunter
38:37 Kaja – Irrfärden
42:03 Nina Nastasia & Jim White – Odd Said The Doe
45:04 Claire Days – Oslo
50:00 Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Cursed Sleep
55:24 Me Auld Flower – Get Out of California
59:16 Micah Blue Smaldone – I’m Going Home
01:04:36 Abner Jay – Man Walked On The Moon
01:07:20 Citizen Bravo, Raymond MacDonald and Friends (with Robert Wyatt) – Out Of Decency
01:07:40 Six Organs of Admittance – Black Tea
01:12:08 Kit Hawes and Aaron Catlow – Flame Of Fire
01:17:34 The Deadlians – Hills of Connemara
01:19:58 Riley Baugus – Little Black Train’s a Comin’