New York City-based improviser and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg signs to Joyful Noise and shares new single “I Don’t Miss You”. Eisenberg has an exciting lineup of performances on the horizon, starting with a residency at The Stone (NYC).
This week, Lonnie Holly released his new single ‘That’s Not Art, That’s Not Music’, a reflection on his early experiences in the art world and larger institutions’ apprehension in accepting Black self-taught fine art.
Inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, Iona Zajac has shared a music video for ‘Summer’, her first release since 2023 – it begins with a “morning penny-drop realisation that we need more than love to be good for someone.”
Frog’s Daniel Bateman is (still) one of the world’s finest, most singularly gifted songwriters. 1000 Variations on the Same Song might dip liberally into America’s grimy gutters or get its sustenance from heartbreak, but I still can’t listen without a giant lunatic grin.
Luke Sital-Singh’s ‘Fool’s Spring’ documents moments of seeking a new life, a period of high highs and lower lows – although the songs here now ring out in a new light.
With April is Passing, Virginia-based violinist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Gangloff has once again presented us with beautiful, complex, original pieces of music, another excellent example of the unique ability of this fascinating musician.
Philadelphia-based quartet Friendship, share the video for their latest single “Free Association,” taken from their new album Caveman Wakes Up, out May 16 on Merge Records.
Following last year’s release of her debut album Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado, Lisbon-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Ana Lua Caiano will make her first-ever UK performance at La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival on May 1st.
Jim Ghedi’s ‘Wasteland’, for all its anger and anguish, provides us with many moments of beauty. It is a timely reminder of the potency of art in a world that seems to be turning uglier by the day, and it might just be Ghedi’s masterpiece.
Park Jiha is a master of creating conceptual soundscapes, and ‘All Living Things’ is humbling, enchanting and sometimes quietly alarming in the starkness of its structure. It is a beautiful, inimitable creation.
Will Johnson has announced his 10th solo album, Diamond City, due for release on April 4, 2025, via Keeled Scales. His opening track and lead single, Floodway Fall, is out today.
BIG|BRAVE announce their most naked and austere record to date. OST is set for release around their European and UK Tour Dates in April. Listen to their first single, “innominate Nº ii”, which brings the ensemble’s exploration into minimalism and textural composition into stunning focus.
