Easy to learn most of the words this week (most of the tracks are instrumentals!) Pick of the week is the remix of Confidence Man's "Does It Make You Feel Good?"... answers on a postcard, please ;)

Feb 07 - Feb 13 2020

Elephant Stone are back with their first new release in 3 years, “Land Of Dead”. Clocking in at just under 2 minutes, “Land Of Dead” begins with the haunting strums of a sitar and then dives headfirst into “Paranoid”-era Black Sabbath riffage with Rishi intoning of a “land of fire”. Ending with a child’s lament of “goodbye blue skies, so long clean air...Do you even care?”, Land Of Dead is a dystopian telling of a world undone by our own doing. PLAY LOUD.

Land Of Dead

The New Zealand collective Flamingo Pier return to Soundway Records with a new EP for 2020.

Indigo EP

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Tripping Up

Ferox 1995. Re-released on Melodies International 2020

Daylight

Shades of You

Whisper Om

Stumbleweed

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Release Date: 11th February 2020

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Electronic trio Cubicolor share their final LP single ahead of the release of their anticipated second album ‘Hardly A Day, Hardly A Night’, out February 21st.

Featuring playful synthesizers and an arrangement of quirky percussion, ‘Melodies’ is the first of four instrumentals to be revealed from their twelve track LP. The single follows well-received vocal cuts such as ‘Points Beyond’, ‘Wake Me Up, and title track ‘Hardly A Day, Hardly A Night’.

Cubicolor’s ‘Hardly A Day, Hardly A Night’ follows ‘Brainsugar’, the trio’s first album which saw over 40M streams and attracted praise from the likes of Mixmag, Spin, and Clash, and a host of heavyweight DJs including Pete Tong, Joris Voorn, and Kölsch.

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Melodies

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New album "Yene Mircha" out now on LP/CD/Tape/Digital https://smarturl.it/yene_mircha

It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the 90s and 2000s when he mainly played keyboard in his taxi while waiting in the airport queue or at home with friends. More recently, with the reissue of his classic works and a re-assessment of his role in Ethiopian music history, Mergia has played to audiences big and small in some of the most cherished venues around the world. With his 2018 critical breakthrough "Lala Belu" Mergia consolidated his legacy, producing the album on his own and connecting with listeners through his vision of modern Ethiopian music. Extensive touring after the record revealed an artist who is in no way stuck in the nostalgia for the “golden age” sound. The press agreed, including the New York Times, BBC and Pitchfork, calling his music “triumphantly in the present” in its Best 200 Albums of the 2010's list. 

Mergia's new album "Yene Mircha" ("My Choice" in Amharic) encapsulates many of the things that make the keyboardist, accordionist and composer-arranger remarkable—elements that have persisted to maintain his vitality all these years, through the ebb and flow of his career. The rock solid trio with whom he has toured the world most recently, DC-based Alemseged Kebede (bass) and Ken Joseph (drums), forms the nucleus around which an expanded band makes a potent response to the contemporary jazz future "Lala Belu" promised. "Yene Mircha" calcifies Mergia's prolific stream of creativity and his philosophy that there is a multitude of Ethiopian musical approaches, not just one sound.

Enlisting the help of master mesenqo (traditional stringed instrument) player Setegn Atenaw, celebrated vocalist Tsehay Kassa and legendary saxophone player Moges Habte from his 70s outfit Walias Band, Mergia enhances his bright, electric band on this recording with an expanded line up on some songs. Mergia produced the album which features several of his original compositions along with songs by Asnakesh Worku and Teddy Afro. An artist still reinventing his sound every night on stage during his marathon live sets, this 74-year-old icon refuses to make the same album twice. His creative process in the studio—starting with the core band, then after listening extensively over weeks and months adding more sounds and instruments—is as urgent and risky as his concerts can be, pushing the band to the outer limits of group improvisation and back with chord extensions during his exploratory solos. "Yene Mircha" captures this live experience and fosters an expansive view of what else could be in store for this tireless practitioner of Ethiopian music.

Yene Mircha

Hailu Mergia - Abichu Nega Nega

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Tim Engelhardt returns to Poker Flat Recordings to build on his already impressive reputation. Engelhardt, one of Cologne’s youngest and brightest electronic music stars on the rise is responsible for numerous dancefloor bombs over the last years. 

Here, he drops two slinky, crafted pieces of melodic house destined for the crates of countless respected DJs and dance music aficionados. 

'First Contact' combines beautiful synth lines with a shuffling, infectious groove and a maturity way beyond his years. In addition to the Original Version, Engelhardt provides another highly sensitive interpretation with the magic ´Beatless Tool´.

'Light The Fire' incorporates magical melodic chimes reminiscent of Four Tet or Floating Points, with a thick sub bass and Detroit style pads that add up to a highly affecting track - a real triumph.

First Contact

Tim Engelhardt - First Contact

Confidence Man - Does It Make You Feel Good? (Greg Wilson & Ché Wilson Remix)

Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

Feb 07 - Feb 13 2020

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