Episode 47
Featuring tracks by Cécile McLorin Salvant, PJ Harvey, Joan as a Police Woman, Moriah Plaza, Alice Longyu Gao, Nat Birchall, Horace Ferguson, Dave Okumu, H.C. McEntire, Submotion Orchestra, Westerman, Harrison & Kadhja Bonet, and more...
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Episode 47 Highlights
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’ marks her first release in seven years, following UK #1 album ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life’s opposites, and between recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all of these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.
Submotion Orchestra
Submotion Orchestra are one of the most interesting and exciting projects working in the UK today. Drawing upon electronica, soul, ambient electronica, jazz and dub, their unique music is at once delicate and heavy, spacious and dense, highly atmospheric but firmly rooted.
Alice Longyu Gao
Like a toxic oil slick over the currents of popular culture, Alice Longyu Gao’s hard-edged hyperpop reflects a warped and rainbowed image of the influencers, algorithms, instruments of surveillance, and average white guys whose movements subtly shape our perceptions of the world. One of Gao’s baseline ironic poses is pretending to be an already tremendously famous star, a perfectly post-PC Music, creator-brained gag that continues to be a lot of fun on xyr new mini album Let’s Hope Heteros Learn, Fail and Retire, with the infernally catchy, Dylan Brady-produced “Come 2 Brazil” followed by the abrasive rap-rock hybrid “Believe the Hype,” which Gao boldly pitches as “the future of music.” Probably not—but that’s the kind of quasi-sadistic provocation Gao’s work often seeks to enact.
Moriah Plaza
Brazilian soul, psych, bossa and jazz, reimagined from Berlin, via the Dead Sea, on Moriah Plaza’s dreamy first album
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile Salvant, whose parents are French and Haitian, says new album Mélusine is “partly about that feeling of being a hybrid, a mixture of different cultures, which I’ve experienced not only as the American-born child of two first generation immigrants, but as someone raised in a family that is racially mixed, from several different countries, with different languages spoken in the home.”
Tracklist
Domenico Lancelotti - Diga
Masego - What You Wanna Try
Joan as a Police Woman & Tony Allen & Dave Okumu - Reaction
Som Imaginario - Os Cafezais Sem FIm
Moriah Plaza - Estelar
Oscar López Ruiz - Las Venganzas de Beto Sanchez
Boldy James & Rich Gains feat. Ann One & Jonathan Chapman - Wrong Side of Town
Cécile McLorin Salvant - Doudou
Crosslegged - Only in The
PJ Harvey - A Child’s Question, August
Submotion Orchestra - All Yours
Dave Okumu - Streets
SBTRKT - L.F.O.
Westerman - Take
The Circling Sun - Kohan
Nat Birchall - Many Blessings
Horace Ferguson - Ticke Me
Alice Longyu Gao - Come 2 Brazil
Harrison & Kadhja Bonet - Float
Observe Since 98 - Long Nights Alone
Tommy Newport - Sunset For The Dead
H.C. McEntire - New View
