This week, Italian label Black Sweat Records released a Vinyl Limited Edition archival recording: an evening Raga in the Dhrupad tradition from 1968 featuring Zia Mohiuddin Dagar on Rudra Veena and vocalist Zia Fariduddin Dagar. It’s a gem.
Taken from their new LP, Jessica Ackerley shares their unconventional and deeply rewarding title track, “All of the Colours are Singing.” The accompanying video was inspired by a Georgia O’keefe 2023 exhibition at MoMA, whose working methods also offered a framework for Ackerley’s own trajectory.
Taken from their forthcoming new album, Are Possible, Nathan Bowles Trio return today with their latest single and video, Our Air. Beautifully crafted and visceral, it’s also our Song of the Day.
Troubadour, the 1976 debut album of American composer and master dulcimerist Dorothy Carter is to be reissued for the first time by Drag City. Listen to the first single, “The King of Glory,” a hypnotic hymn hammered by Dorothy evoking Western medieval music.
Japanese composer, vibraphonist, and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita has announced his new album, Migratory, on Erased Tapes. Listen to the lead single Tower of Cloud, inspired by memories of cumulonimbus clouds and the circling migratory swallows.
In a follow-up to her 2022 debut, Naima Bock has announced her second album, Below a Massive Dark Land, due for worldwide release on September 27th. She has also shared two singles and accompanying videos for ‘Kaley’ and ‘Further Away.’
Bill Callahan announces the release of ‘Resuscitate!’, a live album recorded at Chicago’s Thalia Hall in 2022. Bill will be visiting the UK and Europe later this year, including a 4-night solo residency at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Watch the video for Kevin Fowley’s ‘Aux Marches Du Palais’, taken from his new album, À Feu Doux. The album features French lullabies and traditional folk songs dating back to the 14th century.
A new album of unheard recordings by the Pakistan musical icon Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is to be released 34 years after they were recorded. The ‘lost album’ — named Chain of Light — was discovered in the tape archives of Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records.
Joined by Luke Flowers and Sam Vicary, watch Sam Carter performing ‘Silver Horizon’, his new single and the title track of his forthcoming new album. “It’s that hope for the future and hope in the face of adversity that is the album’s central theme.”
Taken from his forthcoming studio album, ‘Heart Shaped Rock,’ our Song of the Day is Canadian singer-songwriter Devarrow’s new single, Likewise, the perfect summer anthem. Watch the accompanying video.
Hailing from Bristol, Eva May shares her debut single and video ‘Where Does The Time Go’, a fabulous slice of 70’s AM radio folk rock and also our Song of the Day.
