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Shika Shika presents A Guide to the Birdsong of Migration, the fourth volume in its acclaimed A Guide to the Birdsong series.

This unique project brings together the songs of birds with the talent of artists from across the Americas, exploring in this edition stories of migration, birds and musicians who share the same routes.
This release features nine migratory artists from eight countries, including: Mas Aya & Lido Pimienta (CA/CO), Valesuchi (CL), Biomigrant (US), Diana Gameros (MX), Lagartijeando (AR), Terror/Cactus (AR) and more.
It also features some incredible bird species whose journeys mirror those of the artists themselves: the Canada Warbler (Reinita Canadiense), which travels a huge distance from Colombia to Canada, echoing Lido Pimienta’s own path between those two lands; the Rufa Red Knot, or “Moonbird,” which has flown the equivalent distance to the moon, reflected in Valesuchi’s own family history of migration across continents; the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, covering over 30,000 km a year, just as Biomigrant has traced his own musical journey across the Americas; and the Sandhill Crane, whose endurance and grace resonate with Diana Gameros’ story of resilience as a migrant navigating life between Mexico and the U.S.

In the words of The Birdsong project founder Robin Perkins a.k.a. El Buho:
“Music, like the birds featured on this album, knows no boundaries and these nine tracks are a testament to that. A Guide to the Birdsong of Migration weaves together stories of journeys, of hardship, of unimaginable feats, of longing and of belonging, of leaving home, missing home and creating a new home. Music has an incredible power to transmit these stories in ways that sometimes words cannot.”
Since the first volume in 2015, A Guide to the Birdsong has made a tangible impact: raising over $100,000 for bird conservation organisations, surpassing 3 million streams, and selling more than 2,000 vinyl records worldwide.
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releases October 24, 2025

Artwork by Scott Partridge
Design by Clau Smith
Mastering by Yosi Horikawa

Terror/Cactus - Upland Sandpiper

From the album Shrunken Elvis, available September 5, 2025 on Western Vinyl
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Shrunken Elvis - "K-House"

Let Go / Ascent

Let Go

Track 2 from the album TRACES
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“Specular” is one of the most electronic-sounding tracks on Traces, with Sheehan and Liberman weaving immersive synth textures around Arli’s rhythmic guitar ideas. The track’s central five-note Hydrasynth hook became the anchor for its evolving layers of sound. True to the duo’s organic approach, every element was created with outboard gear in the studio - even the kick drum was sculpted with guitar pedals. Additional contributions from Ed Zuccollo (Zuke) on synths and Riki Gooch on percussion added further depth to its spacious, tactile atmosphere.

Specular

Crumb Giver is an empowering dance track for anyone who has been used—romantically or otherwise—who never got to name the dynamic or say what they needed to say. Sonically it blends indie electronic, alternative, and indie dance, with a pulsing ARP synth, sharp lyrics, and empowered alto vocals.

Crumb Giver

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Non Fiction: I.I Sonore

N'Téro

N'Téro (feat. Modou Touré & Andy Platts)

“Krok” means “step” in Belarusian - and for Alex Chumak and his band this word comes with a lot of meaning. It’s the title and theme that run throughout СОЮЗ (SOYUZ)'s fourth album, reflecting the journeys the band has navigated in recent years, having moved to Warsaw due to political unrest in their homeland of Belarus and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Embracing the uncertainty became both the inspiration and main lyrical theme for Alex Chumak, SOYUZ’ composer and arranger, who also decided to go a step further and change the language in which he writes songs from Russian, which is used as lingua franca in many post-Soviet countries, to his native Belarusian. The result is nine songs about dreams and outer space, ordinary miracles, things very close and very distant at the same time. 

In early 2022, Chumak and original members, Mikita Arlou and Anton Nemahai, joined tens of thousands of Belarusians seeking safety abroad. Resettling in Warsaw, the band released Force of the Wind in October 2022, garnering widespread acclaim, a string of major European gigs, and led to Polish musicians Albert Karch and Igor Wiśniewski joining the band.

Deeper and more melancholic than previous works, KROK is quintessentially SOYUZ, laced with hope, dreams and a celebration of life. Given the difficulties with finding rehearsal and recording spaces in Warsaw and the departure of the drummer Anton Nemahai from the band, Chumak explored alternative options. He reached out to friend and fellow musical collaborator, Sessa, about the possibility of recording the new album in his recently finished studio in São Paulo, with Sessa and Biel Basile coming onboard as recording engineers.

At the tail end of 2024, Chumak and SOYUZ’ new drummer, Albert Karch, made the trip to São Paulo to record the first sessions for KROK. Laid down directly to tape, these sessions featured prominent Brazilian musicians Sessa, Biel Basile, and Marcelo Cabral, with a guest vocal feature by Tim Bernardes recorded at a later date. The final touches were then added back in Europe. Lush string and woodwind arrangements written by Chumak and Karch were recorded at the Polish Radio studio in Warsaw, and Rhodes parts were added by Chumak at Sven Wunder’s studio in Stockholm.

Though primarily recorded in Brazil, KROK is not a Brazilian or MPB album. It blends the band’s Eastern European roots with jazz, folk and global influences. The genre of the music is hardly identifiable: there are folk ballads and jazz-driven pop compositions covered in lush and often dissonant string and woodwind arrangements where each note is placed with care and meaning behind it.

The title track was the first song Chumak wrote in Belarusian as an adult, making for a fitting opener and one of the band’s finest tracks. Darker than most of SOYUZ’ songs, the tensions lift and lighten as the track progresses. The cinematic library jazz of 'Voo Livre', with ghostly vocals sung by Ciça Góes and Ina, feels like a modern twist on the Italian library composer Alessandro Alessandroni through its sublime choir and woodwind orchestration. Elsewhere, the heartfelt 'Lingua Do Mundo', composed, written, and sung by Chumak and the incredible Tim Bernardes, features one of the standout string arrangements from Chumak and Karch. 'Cichi Karahod' is an instant SOYUZ classic, almost Pat Metheny-esque as it opens, with the acoustic guitar and bass riff transitioning into jazzy AOR / pop-folk territory. The record closes with 'Smak žyćcia', a gentle, dreamy spoken-word poetry piece in Japanese by singer-songwriter Manami Kakudo. 

Despite immense challenges, SOYUZ have delivered a career-defining album in KROK.


СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) – Lingua Do Mundo (feat. Tim Bernardes)

Everyone Dies But Not Everyone Really Lives

prod. by @beatsbysavon

LYRICS
I was stripped of my childhood,
At the age of 16 I walked naked in manhood
my parents were Rolling Stones
no they were never in a rock band or on the cover of a magazine
it's just that they never hung around enough to gather any moss
trips back and forth to Africa, in search of better life for us
always made me feel like the one we had wasn't good enough
so me and my sisters harvested ourselves
trying to see the fruits of my labour hanging from my family tree
but you see it's hard to grow trees in London City
My the age of 17, I knew that walking a certain way would have consequences
If my pants hang too high around my waist, and my trainers were slyly out of date
I might aswell have been walking with a target painted on my back
You learn to do adult shit real quick
like you learn add base in your voice when asked questions
you learn to hold a man's gaze just long enough to let him know that you ain't a boy
You learn to read maps
coz if you end up in the wrong postcode it could be a wrap
you learn that death doesn't have an age limit
you learn that guns are only cool on playstation or terminator movies
you learn that people can be cruel
You learn what rent is,
and how your parents mood changes when it's due
you learn how the system deliberately chooses to forget about you.
you learn, that you went to school for 18 years thinking you learnt so much but you didn't really learn a thing.
and you stop learning how to be a child.
Because, the adult world isn't designed for us to dream,
not designed for us to only feel love
It's a world where a smile is frowned upon
laughter is suspicious
and honesty is betrayal.
Is Childhood betrayal?
It is naive enough to make you believe, that all that make believe is real?

From time to time, I had conversations with my inner child,
he is always smiling, his row of glistening teeth a bridge to a happiness I sometimes forget
he is always dancing, even though his moves are outdated and his body far from graceful.
he mocked me
"I may be weak, but atleast I was never afraid"
If being a man means being afraid to love
afraid to trust
afraid to continue running, chasing those realities we formed, that you one day decided were better called "dreams"
Look at you, your too afraid to even be yourself
Tell me who is really the immature one?
If you let them take me away from you,
all you have left, is everything they gave to you
to letting them take me away from you
is difference between the profit a man who gains the world at the price of his soul.
But if you so desperately want to be accepted,
if you so desperately want to be an adult, 
go!
I know you will come back
you will come back
I just dn't know if I'll still be here waiting when you do.

The Truth

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