Make It Rain (Tom Waits Cover)
Spinifex Gum
Spinifex Gum is a musical collaboration between The Cat Empire’s Felix Riebl and Ollie McGill, and Marliya Choir, an all-female, all-Indigenous group from Cairns conducted by Lyn Williams (AM) and choreographed by Deborah Brown. Part protest, part celebration, Spinifex Gum is a deep and affecting musical experience. From Cairns, Queensland, Australia, Spinifex Gum performed this gorgeous rendition of “Make It Rain”, sung partly in the tradition al Aboriginal Yindjibarndi language. It was registered at the Sydney Opera House in January last year. “Musical snapshots of life in the Pilbara, north Western Australia, performed by the voices of Marliya from Gondwana Choirs, singing in English and Yindjibarndi. Joining the choir are Felix Reibl and Ollie McGill and special guests Briggs, Emma Donovan and Peter Garrett.
Released 27 October 2020
Comida
Elza Soares e Titãs
This must be the funkiest group I have seen in ages! Everybody in Brazil knows Elza da Conceição Soares. With Clara Nunes and Beth Carvalho, she ranks among the best of the country’s samba signer. Here Elza Soares, as she is known professionally, appears in a new video, this time alongside the group Titãs. She sings “Gomido,” by Arnaldo Antunes, Marcelo Fromer and Sérgio Britto, one of the band’s most emblematic songs. In a clip directed by photographer Marcos Hermes, she sings alongside the trio made up of Sérgio Britto, Branco Mello and Tony Bellotto. Stay tuned, and you’ll hear some of the most amazing samba you’ve ever heard. Elza proves again and again that she is a singer for every generation. In 1999, along with Tina Turner she was named “Singer of the Millennium” by the BBC Radio. (sgs)
Odeon, October 2020
Kali Uchis
Telepatia
We’ll staying with the Latin touch: Kali Uchis, born in 1994 in Alexandria (near Washington) as Karly-Marina Loaiza, is an American singer, known as an indie pop singer, songwriter, music producer, video director and designer. Kali has Colombian roots and grew up both in her country of origin and in the States, singing her lyrical songs half English half Spanish. Her musical breakthrough came in 2012, her first EP was released in 2015, followed by her first studio album, Isolation, in April 2018. Her musical visions condense into a streamlined, smooth and crystal-clearly produced sound, somewhere between Gospel and Avantgarde. Whether Hip Hop, Soul or Reggaeton, this woman has it all. (sgs)
Universal, November 2020
Because of a Flower
Ana Roxanne
New York-based musician Ana Roxanne’s second record, Because Of A Flower, germinated gradually across five years. She describes her process as beginning with “a drone element and a mood,” then intuiting melody, syllables, and lyrics incrementally, like sacred shapes materializing from mist. Despite a background studying at the prestigious Mills College in Oakland, Roxanne’s music rarely feels conceptual, instead radiating an immediate and emotive aura, rooted in the present tense of her personal journey. She speaks of the flower in the title as a body, singular and sunlit, as many petals as thorns, an enigma beholden only to itself. Because an artist in the spring of their ascension.
Kranky Records, November 2020
The Sound of DMT – A Sonic Ayahuasca Journey
B. Ashra
“B. Ashra kidnapped us with his new album, The Sound of DMT, into a sonic, shamanic, magical world. Field recordings mixed with shamanic chants, ritual sounds, and traditional instruments meet synthesizer drones and glitches, in this sonic ayahuasca journey. The album is tuned to the DMT molecule according to calculations by the German cosmic sound specialist Hans Cousto. DMT is part of the Ayahuasca brew or tea. Because some players take pauses between the tracks, but it’s actually a 62 minute mix without pauses. Bandcamp offers the entire mix exclusively in a file as a bonus track so that you can enjoy the album without interruptions. The label Klangwirkstoff (Berlin) can be understood as a catalyst in music theory and it deals with the influence of deduced rhythms, resonances and frequencies in nature.
Klangwirkstoff Records, November 2020