One of the two principal songwriters of The Wrens releasing his six Wrens songs for long delayed follow-up to revered cult status album, following ugly dispute with other songwriter and backed by the other members of the band.
The multi-talented Shay Hazan fuses rubbery North African Gnawa grooves, with haunting jazz horns and hip hop inflected beats on ‘Reclusive Rituals’. His first project for international groove artisans, Batov Records.
Ziemba - Unsubtle Magic
Unsubtle Magic , the new project from El Paso journalist and musician René Kladzyk, aka Ziemba, is an elegiac Christmas album about her father’s death in 2020. Kladzyk centers herself here, in the vacuum of holiday season grief, using piano ballads and dream-pop vocals to navigate through transmissions of what emotions endure after a tempest of loss.
Various Artists (Osare Editions 012) - Donne Che Corrono Coi Lupi
Sprawling compilation of female experimental artists including Cucina Povera and Lucrecia Dalt.
This is so good. It was a Bandcamp exclusive last week and has now made it to streaming. I like it much more than the original Penelope Three (which I liked anyway).
There’s an accompanying surreal gothic art film to accompany this album, with a free online screening event making the film available for 48 hours starting from 6pm today.
While I have registered for that, I don’t think I’ll be bidding for any of her NFTs