The Leaf Lab

Triosk pianist Adrian Klumpes’ debut solo album. Like a Rothko canvas, Be Still is minimal and introspective, yet rich and intense; a rush of colour from a deliberately limited palette. As Klumpes explains: “Minimalism assumes much more involved actions before and after the event”. As a result, the album is vested with a range of emotion: feelings of violence, relief, loneliness, pain and finality are integral to the recordings. Recorded in a single five-hour session in Klumpes’ hometown of Sydney, all the sounds were captured in the same room, with the same mics, using the same piano. Simultaneously premeditated and spontaneous, the recordings strive for an edgy tranquility.

On Montauk Variations, pianist Matthew Bourne has reinvented his approach by stripping away the clutter and quirkiness characteristic of previous work. Fragility and romanticism have now become key focal elements in highly personal performances that still carry the Bourne hallmarks of unpredictability and elliptical intensity.

"In Each And Every One" är Polar Bears femte album och det första nya sedan 2010 års storsäljare "Peepers". Plattan är producerad/mixad av bandledaren Sebastian Rochford och är ett nytt kapitel i Polar Bears framfart som ett av de mest spännande och progressiva banden i sin generation.

Pike Laurence: The Undreamt-Of Centre (Green) [Vinyl LP]

Pike Laurence: The Undreamt-Of Centre [CD]

Finally! The horn-wailing, mic-swinging, percussion-overload, call-and-response explosiveness of the Melt Yourself Down experience is captured on plastic in all its sweat-drenched fury. Recorded at The New Empowering Church in London Fields, in late November 2013, it’s a raw and ragged document of sweet sonic violence in a small room, a strobe-lit snapshot. There is dancing, there is crowd-surfing, there is emancipation. This is Melt Yourself Down laid bare and blowing hard. Warts and all, captured for you. Twisting jazz, punk, funk and Afrobeat into strange and brilliant new shapes, Melt Yourself Down are lead from the front by Kushal Gaya, who delivers here with a finger-jabbing religious fervour usually associated with old time revivalist preachers admonishing their flock of sinful backsliders. “The house band from hell,” live from the house of God.

"Same As You" är uppföljaren till det Mercury Prizenominerade albumet "In Each And Every One". "Same As You", även det på bolaget The Leaf Label, är mer tillgängligt än det mörkare förra men med samma lekfullhet och experimentlusta. Inspelat av Rochford i London och mixat<br/>i Mojave-öknen med Ken Barrientos.