Re: Albums of 2020
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 4:08 am
Sorry, not sorry; big new music dump incoming in this post.
First up, Brenda Leigh, which is the first album from Kurt Newman's Nashville Minimalism Unit. The Unit have released a bunch of standalone pieces over the last couple years, both studio and live jams, but this is all new material; three longish instrumental space country tunes. Bandcamp:
Sam Shalabi has been quite busy lately, having last year put out a solo release, Min, as well as playing on Matana Roberts latest album and leading his psych-jazz big band Land of Kush on their newest offering. This year, two of his bands, Karkhana and The Dwarfs of East Agouza have put out new albums, and Shalabi just last Friday dumped some new solo material. There's 2001002, a two-part collage composition that was originally recorded in 2014 and which later evolved into the 2016 album Isis and Osiris, "See/Saw," a b-side from a further upcoming album, and Gecko, a new album of electronic pieces (not the one "See/Saw" was cut from).
2001002:
"See/Saw": https://samshalabi1.bandcamp.com/track/see-saw
Gecko:
Deerhoof are back with their first new album since 2017's Mountain Moves. The new one is called Future Teenage Cave Artists, and it's out May 29 on Joyful Noise. Two songs accompanied the album release, the title track and "The Loved One."
"Future Teenage Cave Artists":
"The Loved One":
Third Sandro Perri rework of 2020 is a new mix of a track from his Polmo Polpo project, "Dreaming...Again." As usual, this unveils previously buried layers and foregrounds them while de-accentuating the old details.
Finally, Toronto composer Nick Storring is releasing a new album, My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell, out tomorrow. This features Storring's usual technique of layering literally dozens of instruments in a one-man overdub orchestra, playing in the realm of avant-classical, but straying quite a bit into the territory of early 20th century orchestral pop, and some progressive electronic.
First up, Brenda Leigh, which is the first album from Kurt Newman's Nashville Minimalism Unit. The Unit have released a bunch of standalone pieces over the last couple years, both studio and live jams, but this is all new material; three longish instrumental space country tunes. Bandcamp:
Sam Shalabi has been quite busy lately, having last year put out a solo release, Min, as well as playing on Matana Roberts latest album and leading his psych-jazz big band Land of Kush on their newest offering. This year, two of his bands, Karkhana and The Dwarfs of East Agouza have put out new albums, and Shalabi just last Friday dumped some new solo material. There's 2001002, a two-part collage composition that was originally recorded in 2014 and which later evolved into the 2016 album Isis and Osiris, "See/Saw," a b-side from a further upcoming album, and Gecko, a new album of electronic pieces (not the one "See/Saw" was cut from).
2001002:
"See/Saw": https://samshalabi1.bandcamp.com/track/see-saw
Gecko:
Deerhoof are back with their first new album since 2017's Mountain Moves. The new one is called Future Teenage Cave Artists, and it's out May 29 on Joyful Noise. Two songs accompanied the album release, the title track and "The Loved One."
"Future Teenage Cave Artists":
"The Loved One":
Third Sandro Perri rework of 2020 is a new mix of a track from his Polmo Polpo project, "Dreaming...Again." As usual, this unveils previously buried layers and foregrounds them while de-accentuating the old details.
Finally, Toronto composer Nick Storring is releasing a new album, My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell, out tomorrow. This features Storring's usual technique of layering literally dozens of instruments in a one-man overdub orchestra, playing in the realm of avant-classical, but straying quite a bit into the territory of early 20th century orchestral pop, and some progressive electronic.
