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Scoop
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Richard Russell's - Everything Is Recorded Release New Album
Richard Russell's collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded today announce and release Solstice Equinox - a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell's West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary. Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. Across these four days, a revolving cast of musicians, peers, and longtime collaborators gathered for fully improvised sessions. Words about the seasons were written on the studio walls; otherwise Russell gave the players no instructions. After the sessions, he edited and mixed the recordings into the four distinct selections of ten tracks each that collectively form Solstice Equinox. The lineup blends longtime collaborators with fresh voices, including Alabaster DePlume, Jah Wobble, Ibeyi, Samantha Morton, Laura Groves, Jack Peñate, Roses Gabor, Mary In The Junkyard, Georgia,, Sampha, Florence Welch, Yazz Ahmed, CASISDEAD and more. Each session was uploaded to Bandcamp and SoundCloud as soon as it was completed. The Solstice Equinox album further edits and compiles the four groups of ten tracks into one coherent album consisting of the forty songs, at a running time of one hour forty minutes. Solstice Equinox will be released digitally, and on limited edition vinyl. Each LP comes in a bespoke, screen-printed sleeve, hand-crafted at XL Recordings' west London headquarters. They are available to buy straight away via Everything Is Recorded's Bandcamp and the XL Recordings store. The Solstice Equinox sessions came towards the end of a prolific five-year period for Russell, capped by the release of Everything Is Recorded's critically acclaimed third album Temporary in February 2025. The album features an extraordinary roster of collaborators including Sampha, Florence Welch, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, and many of the artists involved in Solstice Equinox.
The Guardian
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Add to playlist: Jake Muir's church bell soundscapes, plus the week's best new tracks
From Berlin via Los AngelesRecommended if you like Philip Jeck, Félicia Atkinson, Sarah DavachiUp next New album Campana Sonans has just been released Some of the loveliest ambient music – in that term's truest sense – available to us is the sound of church bells. The cascading notes heralding a wedding are the aural equivalent of the scent of freshly cut grass, in how they evoke British summer time. But played on a large, sombre bell, the monophonic tolling that announces the time seems almost nihilist: a reminder of the ticking clock of our own lives. All this splendid drama has been heightened by found-sound artist Jake Muir, an American living in Berlin. He has long been an inventive manipulator of sound – 2020's The Hum of Your Veiled Voice pricked its ears up at night-time Berlin, while 2023's Bathhouse Blues blended gay porn soundtracks into rudderless soundscapes – and his latest album, Campana Sonans (available on Bandcamp) is a deeply immersive pair of 20-minute works, built from recordings he made of church bells around Europe. He then applies effects to those recordings, chiefly a shedload of reverb. This article includes content provided by Bandcamp. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. The first piece, Erzklang, focuses on the rather stern, even malevolent sound of church bells in Berlin, drawn out into long drones. The city's club scene seems to throb like a memory of Saturday night on Sunday morning: there's no pulse here, but Erzklang shudders with the reverberation of dub and the metallic beat of techno. For the second piece, Changes, Muir travelled to the UK and recorded at three churches: St Oswald's in Oswestry, St Bartholomew's in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare is buried. English bells are often performed through 'change ringing': bells of different notes attached to a giant wheels, which are hauled around by rope-tugging players. This epic instrumentation allows for far more melody than the Berlin piece and, in the way Muir presents the bells, they're almost like Steve Reich-style overlapping phases. In both pieces, the reverb makes the bells sound otherworldly, and yet Muir tempers this by including the chatter of tourists or the sound of footsteps. To listen to Muir's work is to be lifted into a bardo, a between-space, looking back at our lives through soot-coated stained glass. BXKS – Zagga DatA subtle yet insinuating digidub bassline powers this sensual club cut from the UK rapper, as she gives dance instructions with the imperious calm of a long-reigning ballroom announcer. Margo Price – Don't Let the Bastards Get You DownWhat an absolute delight: at a perky trotting tempo, the country singer rails at the stiffs, suits and stuffed shirts in her industry: 'Those tone deaf sons-a-bitches / don't know your rags to riches!' Drain – Nights Like TheseNinety-odd seconds of funky, pit-shaking hardcore punk from the returning Santa Cruz band, flexing on the balls of their feet until an almighty head-banging breakdown in the final seconds. Salute – Gbesoke (ft Peter Xan)The speed garage revival continues to rev its engines and hare off down a dual carriageway in a hot hatch, and Salute's latest has a beat like a funkily stuttering exhaust. Skream and Benga – Good Things Come to Those Who WaitThe dubstep legends serve up early-10s nostalgia on a heavily vibrating silver platter: a Pariah-like note of penetrating digital bass gives way to a gleefully corny trance breakdown. Nuovo Testamento – Picture PerfectEarly 90s piano house-pop done so faithfully you can feel the coloured disco lights warming your face. The verses are like enormous choruses, making the actual enormous chorus positively gargantuan. The New Eves – Cow SongOver a glam-rock beat done in folk instrumentation, the Brighton quartet's latest single is inspired by female cow herders in Sweden who use loud calls to communicate across the hills. Subscribe to the Guardian's rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.
Hypebeast
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Y-3 Just Dropped a Limited-Run Vinyl of Its FW25 Presentation Score
Y-3is bringing its FW25 Presentation Score to physical format with a limited-run pressing of the Solitary Dancer-produced soundtrackY-3002on vinyl. On Monday morning,adidasandYohji Yamamoto's joint project was released in a hand-stamped and numbered batch of 333 copies via Bandcamp. Though the vinyl sold out almost immediately, the digital album remains available for purchase for $12 USD. Theoriginal presentationoccurred at Pavillon Cambon in Paris last January, showcasing Yamamoto's tech-infused tailoring and elegant performance gear against a strobing LED-lit screen. Solitary Dancer, who previously collaborated with Y-3 for its return to the runway in SS25, described the music as 'an exploration of contrasts; light and dark, analog and digital, real and surreal.' The electronic music duo began collaborating in 2016, launching their first album with Midland's Graded Records. Along with independent musical projects, the artists also collaborated withStone Islandfor itsMATERIAL RESEARCH '984 – '024'exhibition last year. The act's tie-up not only with Y-3, but also with Stone Island, emerges within the wave of sound-focused projects coming from fashion labels. Other recent initiatives likeKith's Limited EditionBose 901 Speaker,Valentino'sL'Atelier Sonorelistening room in New York City, andBalenciaga'sBritney Spears curated playlistillustrate just how much sonic branding is evolving in new forms. The digital album of Y-3 and Solitary Dancer'sY-3002is available at the officialBandcamp webpagenow.
Engadget
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Lumines Arise combines that addictive puzzling flow with a killer soundtrack
After a symphony, online multiplayer and a remaster, the well-regarded (and often handheld) puzzler Lumines is getting Enhance's full synesthetic, Tetris-flowing, treatment. Lumines Arise is almost here. If you haven't played the game before, Lumines' premise centers on rotating and dropping four-square blocks made of one or two colors, building up larger squares of a single color. The game's timeline sweeps across the playfield – to the beat of the soundtrack – erasing completed squares in its path, while also giving you the brief opportunity to quickly drop more squares, add multiplier combos and score even more points. To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so. Lumines Arise adds a new mechanic to the addictive yet simple puzzle. 'Burst' is a refillable bar that you can trigger with L2/R2, which locks a square on the playing field, allowing you to pile on subsequent blocks. You can initiate Burst once the counter has rolled above 50, although it maxes out at 100. As you might expect for a synesthesia-tickling game like Arise , Burst mode has its own low-key musical accompaniment. Lumines has never looked better. But that's not just due to 2025 hardware power, but also design choices for Lumines' skins – the unhinged wallpaper design and block themes that bubble up as you advance through puzzle stages. They're delightfully mad and, at times, distracting. (As you play, the view of your Lumines blocks will occasionally 'zoom' closer – this is intentional. Game Director Takashi Ishihara said this was to both add some dynamism to what are typically static blocks, but also to pull the players' attention back to the game at hand. Lumines Arise wants you to focus on the now, not the score, your Burst meter, or your customizable avatar.) My favorite part of the demo was the final stage, which featured two chameleons simply raving along to the dance music. The soundtrack is, naturally, a banger, too. Lumines Arise features new music from Hydelic, also responsible for the award-winning soundtrack of Tetris Effect: Connected . (The band has already launched one track, "Only Human," on Bandcamp – it's coming to other streaming services, too.) On another stage, two skeletal hands, seemingly strung up like puppets, twitch and wriggle as you shift and rotate your blocks. If anything, I think Enhance missed a trick not mapping the finger movements to a DualSense controller. I said that in front of Ishihara because I have zero sense of decorum — apparently, he'd had the same idea. I now consider myself a game designer. I got to briefly see Lumines Arise running on a Steam Deck, too. The time of the handheld console and PC is now, so it's nice to see a typically made-for-consoles game ready for this new gaming PC form factor. Ishihara teased that there's more to reveal ahead of Arise 's launch. The game will launch on both PS5 and Steam, and it will also feature VR compatibility on both platforms. While Enhance wasn't yet willing to reveal the details, there will also be some form of multiplayer, but it seems like it'll be in a different form compared to the more adversarial nature of Tetris Effect's multiplayer modes. Additionally, Ishihara wanted to highlight that the avatars, which dance and emote in sync with your in-game actions, now feature legs. That is important, apparently. Enhance is promising more answers in due time. Lumines Arise is set to launch in fall 2025.
Extra.ie
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Posthumous debut album from Dublin singer-songwriter Graham Mitchell announced
Following the tragic news of the death of Graham 'Milky' Mitchell back in February, friends of the Irish singer-songwriter have announced that his posthumous debut album is on the way. Loveable Mess will be released on July 25, and is available to pre-order now on Bandcamp, on 12″ 'milk white' vinyl and as a digital album. All proceeds from the album will be shared between several charities closely connected to Graham. 'Three months ago, the world lost a beautiful soul far too soon, Graham Mitchell from Raheny,' the Bandcamp page reads. 'Graham was not only a gifted singer-songwriter, but a radiant light to all who knew him. Graham has released several singles over the last few years, but this his first and only album, stands as a powerful testament to his dedication, talent, and deep love for music. 'Over the years, Graham poured his heart into every lyric and chord, carving out a space for himself in Dublin's vibrant music scene. From countless open mic nights in cosy pubs to late-night writing sessions, his journey was built on perseverance, humility, and authenticity. He touched many with his soulful voice and thoughtful lyrics, often drawing from life's joys and sorrows to create something truly moving.' Loveable Mess has been in the making for several years, and includes the previously released singles 'Who Came Up With Love?' and 'A Beating Soul'. The album is described as 'not only a celebration of his work, but a tribute to all his fans, friends and family whom he loved very much'. Graham, who passed away unexpectedly at home on February 20, had previously played on the Hot Press Y&E Series in 2020. Back in March, Damien Dempsey dedicated his performance of 'Chris & Stevie' to the late musician during his Windmill Live show, presented by Hot Press.
