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Leenalchi fuse pop with traditional pansori storytelling ,and are on tour as part of the Tiger Is Coming Festival
Songs of the Day: A spirits-lifting Friday special double-entry edition in the form of the south Korean pansori band, who with vivaciously delivered vocals, catchy pop riffs and beats, redefine the traditional storytelling form as shown in a more recent number and biggest hit so far
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Gretel Hänlyn
Song of the Day: The latest in a series of ear-catching indie-pop singles from the London singer-songwriter with a deep, rich, distinctive voice, is about holding back in social situations and becoming aware the only obstacle is yourself
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Horse Meat Disco’s Love & Dancing album
Song of the Day: Wonderfully dance-infectious, catchy retro mix of 70s disco and funk, this new Ray Mang Extended Remix of this title track number from the 2020 album Love & Dancing featuring the NYC band and the London DJ collective
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Desire Marea
Song of the Day: From the Durban artist with an extraordinary soulful voice who is also one half of South African duo FAKA, this single taken from the album Desire fuses club sounds with an operatic falsetto and the Zulu language
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Brittany Fousheé
Song of the Day: A fabulous single about being single after a recent breakup by the impressive soul singer from New Jersey who can jump seemlessly between a high range reminiscent of Minnie Riperton and fast, half-spoken word flow
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Moor Mother and Billy Woods: The Blues Remembers Everything The Country Forgot
Song of the Day: Dark, soulful vocals, field recordings, great hip-hop and trip-hop, jazz and a brilliant title, this powerful and profound racial history number by the American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia, comes from the 2020 album BRASS, with additional instrumentation by Sons of Kemet
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Soothsayers
Song of the Day: With a remix by the British reggae and more legendary producer, aka Mike Pelanconi, this wonderfully positive song by the London Afrobeat and dub band is a new version from the 2020 album We Are Many
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Mammal Hands
Song of the Day: From the tumultuous sound of Don’t Problem’s Whale, to another creatural connection and a great jazz instrumental by the brilliant Norwich trio of Jordan Smart on saxophone, Nick Smart on piano and Jesse Barrett on drums and tabla
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Horsegirl’s latest release
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s angry, pacy Grand National by Liverpool’s Courting, a far gentler, lo-fi but dynamically building number by the young indie female trio from Chicago, with echoes of Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian and keenly observed lyrics
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Kit Sebastian, a rich mix of musical influences including from France and Turkey
Song of the Day: Continuing a mini-French theme, a new number from the London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem, who also move between Turkey and France with refreshing hybrid of French 60s psychedelic pop sound
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Gloria
Song of the Day: Who doesn’t love Paris in springtime? So let’s go there for an upbeat fusion of 60s-style French psychedelic pop and Motown by the bandf Gloria from their LP Sabbat Matters, out on Howlin Banana Records
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Cover art for Nubya Garcia’s album – Source
Song of the Day: With a brilliantly bold melody, added developed rhythm and carefully crafted keyboards, an addictive new arrangement of the original instrumental from 2020 album Source by the Camden-born jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader
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Pa Salieu with Mahalia
Song of the Day: Released at the tail-end of 2020, this beautifully smooth and soulful hip-hop number with a gorgeous bass line, African instruments and melody is by the British rapper from his EP Send Them To Coventry, named after his home town
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Machinedrum, aka Travis Stewart, left, remixes Manchester trio GoGo Penguin
Song of the Day: Intricate, pace-changing and with beautiful narrative arcs, two versions of the recent piece by the Manchester experimental jazz trio of pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka, and drummer Rob Turner with a new dance remix by American producer Travis Stewart
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Juniore
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s 60s French-style pop by Iraina Mancini, even more authentic recent release from French band fronted by singer/songwriter Anna Jean with extra cool and sexy echoes of Françoise Hardy and some surf guitar
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Horns aplenty
Song of the Day: Inspired by sounds of subway preachers, New Orleans-style jazz funerals and hip hop, this single by Brooklyn childhood friends Andrew LeCoche (Ula Ruth) and Evan Heinze (The Shacks) is an uplifting horn-section anthem
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Divide and Dissolve, aka Takiaya Reed (right) and Sylvie Nehill
Songs of the Day: Dynamic volume changes and explosive sounds traverse from classical to dark metal in these extraordinary genre-defying instrumental pieces inspired by the history of colonisation by the Melbourne-based duo from their album Gas Lit
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SOPHIE: 1986-2021
Songs of the Day: Following inventor Lomond Campbell yesterday, another musical pioneer from Scotland of a different kind – two tracks by the extraordinary genre-pushing electronic trans artist who tragically died last month
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Lomond Campbell’s LŪP incorporates cassette tape
Songs of the Day: Ingenious, mesmerising and strangely beautiful, these two opening tracks from the LŪP album by the Scottish Highlands inventor involve his tape-looper instrument that moves in and out of sync with itself
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All Mine
Song of the Day: ‘A song about the overly entitled and underwhelmed’ is how this punchily humorous and caustic postpunk number is described by the band from Brooklyn, and indeed it is
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