Finding our way back

Teenage Birdsong

SW030 - Sinead O'Brien - Taking On  Time

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In 2017, Lagartijeando (Mati Zundel), released his second full length album ‘El Gran Poder,’ via Wonderwheel and subsequently hypnotized the masses with the way he laced the traditional Charango playing that he picked up traveling the Andes with the pulsing, digital-cumbia electronica that’d been popularized in the region by the likes of Chancha Via Circuito, Nicola Cruz, and beyond. El Gran Poder plucked Zundel from his small town of Dolores in Argentina and catapulted his sound onto a global stage. He was revered by the likes of The Fader and Bandcamp, who referred to him as an electro-folk alchemist - and that he is. 

On June 7, Lagartijeando casts a new spell with Jallalla, an ambitious new full length being released on Wonderwheel Recordings. Jallalla is a word used in Bolivia to celebrate something- and it’s a word that strengthens in meaning when more people say it together. Jallalla is an entire life in an album - beginning with what would be the sonic representation of pulling back reeds to discover a new path with the song Villazon-Potosi and its sparse electronic percussion gradually filled in with curiosity-giving winds. Following is joyful charango riff that becomes the base for the track La Frontera, which features the sweet, wispy voice of Minük, the Colombian artist Alejandra Ortiz, known as half of the duo Lulacruza. As the album progresses, it becomes more experimental with electronic elements, sneaking in bits of deep house and dub. The fourth track is called Caña, and is a collaboration with none other than Chancha Via Circuito. It’s minimal and haunting, playing with repetitive bass, chimes, and what sounds like owl sounds. Zundel’s beloved charango sneaks back in via the next track, Adios Potosi, continuing the trek with a sweet melodic mid-album break. On the track A Todo Pai, one that celebrates Latin American identity (a todo pai, un solo maiz, repeats the song), Zundel collaborates with Javier Arce - lead singer of the Costa Rican indie-funk band Cocofunka, whose peculiar and infectious voice adds new layers onto the album. The last few songs are a mix of meditative electronic tracks and life-giving dance-floor ready numbers, all lending to Jallalla being a celebration of life and the various adventures it contains. 

Jallalla is out on June 7 via Wonderwheel Recordings.

Jallalla

Lagartijeando - Caña (feat. Chancha Via Circuito)

Depressedelica

Can You Hear My Guitar Rotting?

Mikkel

Boats

I Want More / Break My Baby

Break My Baby

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

Peel Dream Magazine - Emotional Devotion Creator

"Help Me Understand" is from Zoon's new album Bleached Wavves out later this year on Paper Bag Records.

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Zoon - Help Me Understand

En Las Noches

2020 © The Hideaways
Produced by Matt Glasbey
Written by The Hideaways

Performed by The Hideaways
Recorded at Monnow Valley Studio, UK

Mixed by Tom Manning

Mastered by John Davies at Metropolis Studios
Made in UK. Licenced to THUK
All Rights Reserved.

Luminescence

All My Life

Somebody Else

Ivy Honey

No Heaven

Clwb Fuzz - No Heaven

Concrete Things pays tribute to a great visionary author & activist named Lorraine Hansberry; her voice & ideas are at the core of the track. Released in defiance of these dark times Concrete Things highlights the importance of using our cognitive gifts to move forward – to steer ourselves towards the proverbial light.

The world radio premiere of Concrete Things was broadcasted by Huey Morgan on BBC 6 Music, March 21, 2020 (who made it Beat of the Week). Gideon Coe has also played it a few times on BBC 6 Music. Featured on both Indie Shuffle and Amazing Radio too.

“The perfect tonic for a discordant mind.”
— Shell Zenner (BBC Leeds, Amazing Radio)

Words and speech by Lorraine Hansberry
Written, arranged, mixed & mastered by Seth Mowshowitz
Performed by Fold along with the following:
Horn Arrangements – Emma Johnson
Saxophones – Emma Johnson
Simon Dennis - Trumpet
Rosie Nicholl - Trombone
Violins – Kieran O’Malley

Concrete Things

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any way you want me
(however far gone)
that is how i’ll stay
(you’re not like this)
never blinked
let it happen
i just want to sleep all day
with you

its taking its toll on my body
my hands shake
when im lost
a fever dream
with a eulogy 
the dust sits on a rose petal and sleeps

im so far gone
make it up when i want
because im not sad anymore
drinking all alone
while you’re all
sleeping while its dark
when everything is different
but who blames you?

its taking its toll on my body
my hands shake
when im lost
a fever dream
with a eulogy 
the dust sits on a rose petal and sleeps

my body

Abandoned City

Elizabeth Bay

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Populous, aka Andrea Mangia, is a DJ and producer hailing from Lecce, in Southern Italy, known for his global approach to music-making. “Flores No Mar,” the first single from the upcoming ‘W’ album, features vocals from Brazilian singer (now based in Milan) Emmanuelle, and is an homage to the goddess Lemanja, of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. Lemanja is the goddess protecting seafarers and fishermen, as well as femininity and womanhood. This plays into the album’s theme as a tribute to a free and diverse feminine musical imagery.

With a background in musicology, Populous has always been interested in disparate genres and styles of music, which is reflected in the output from the Populous project and its focus on Latin American sounds as refracted through a European lens. In 2003, Mangia made his first jaunt into the music world with the album ‘Quipo’ (via Morr Music), followed by ‘Queue For Love’ in 2005. Influenced by his reggae/hip-hop-infused surroundings (Lecce is known as Italy’s Jamaica, as reggae and dancehall are extremely popular there) he released ‘Drawn in Basic’ in 2008, which was well received by international critics, earning him a spot on the global dance music map. The 2010s have seen Mangia refine the Populous sound with albums like ‘Night Safari’ (Bad Panda Records) and ‘Azulejos’ (Wonderwheel Recordings), while also expanding his role as a sound designer for fashion houses such as Gucci, Vivienne Westwood, Isabel Marant, and Elie Saab, among others.

‘W’ releases on Wonderwheel Recordings May 22nd.

Flores No Mar (SINGLE)

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Populous & Emmanuelle - Flores No Mar (Radio Edit)

Unloved - Why Not

Finding our way back

Osip