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Nubya Garcia’s upcoming album, Odyssey
Song of the Day: A gorgeously rich, emotive new blended jazz piece featuring orchestral strings, piano and more by the award-winning London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer heralding her forthcoming new album, Odyssey out on 20 September via Concord Jazz
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Stevie Toddler’s forthcoming 8-track EP release, Last Time Forever
Song of the Day: From the forthcoming sophomore release, Last Time Forever, a gorgeous experimental mix of pop, jazz and classical by the Bristol artist, here with rolling piano sounds, orchestral instruments and a wonderful wooziness that captures that moment of falling awake in a dream-like state
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Jim Perkins: Winter
Song of the Day: A delicate, beautiful, seasonally evocative orchestral instrumental new single by the London pianist and composer out on Bigo and Twigetti
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The new Irrepressibles EP, Self Love and Acceptance
Song of the Day: A beautiful, tender, moving exploration of self-acceptance accompanied by piano and strings from the British singer-songwriter Jamie McDermott and friends, taken from their new six-track EP
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Oneohtrix Point Never’s new album, titled Again
Song of the Day: A mesmeric, cinematic, dramatically building fusion of electronica and orchestral strings by the American producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, the final taken from his forthcoming new album Again, on on 29 September via Ridge Valley Digital / Warp Records
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Public Service Broadcasting - This New Noise
Song of the Day: The London band who specialise in songs sampling archive footage return with a stirring, nostalgic number about the early days of radio broadcasting, in a version played with the BBC Symphony Orchestra – and the title track of their forthcoming new live album
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So Much Wine covered by Phoebe Bridgers
Songs of the Day: It’s the season where music market is flooded with Christmas songs seeking to cash in with the cheesy, sentimental and traditional. Here, there’s still no shortage of sleigh bells, but from covers to originals this small selection might be worth a listen at any time …
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Hatis Noit’s new album: Aura
Songs of the Day: Two sample tracks from the extraordinary voice of the Japanese singer taken from her most recent album, Aura, out on Erased Tapes, featuring rich vocal harmonies, often unaccompanied, and layered by loop pedals
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Erland Cooper – Music For Growing Flowers
A beautiful four-part piece by the Scottish musician and composer blending the sounds of piano, harp, cello, violin and vocals with electronics as part of the summer 2022 Superbloom project played at site of wildflowers grown around the moat of The Tower of London
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Stromae’s third album, Multitude
Song of the Day: An extraordinary song of harpsichord, chanson, and hip hop, as well as its video, from the recent third album, Multitude, by the innovative Belgian artist of Rwandan Tutsi descent, Paul Van Haver, about a fictional tribute to a sex worker and maternal heroic figure who has passed away, here playing the part of a leader delivering a speech from a podium
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Arooj Aftab
Song of the Day: An exquisite new song about sudden memory of an absent friend, by the Grammy Award-winning US-base sublime Pakistani singer and composer, best known for the song Mohabbat, joined here by the famous British-Indian-American Indian sitar player
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C Duncan
Song of the Day: Serenely beautiful new number with an entrancing melody by the Scottish composer expressing a certain fragility - the lyrics are about uncertainty, companionship and finding comfort in that uncertainty. It comes from his forthcoming album Alluvium, out in May on Bella Union
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Caroline Polacheck
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s experimental piece by composer Jon Opstad, further unusual use of classical elements and staccato strings by the American pop singer and songwriter’s B-side to the hit Billions, here covering the innovative 2020 song by electronica’s Oneohtrix Point Never, and also giving it a big Enya-style echo
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Jon Opstad’s album Extensions
Song of the Day: From yesterday’s electronica to today’s acoustic piano, but with a difference - wonderfully innovative, dynamic work by the British experimental composer’s use of the Yamaha U3 Disklavier, played via computer MIDI programming and other analogue techniques
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Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra album The Unfolding
Song of the Day: A wondrously enthralling instrumental piece with choral additions by the Northern Irish composer and the Bristol orchestral ensemble taken from the forthcoming album The Unfolding, out on Real World
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Grandiose irony: Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Song of the Day: Taken from his forthcoming album Chloë and The Next 20th Century, the erudite Josh Tillman returns with a grandiose, lushly orchestral with harpsichord number, tuneful, lively, but as ever ironic, here about an author falling into obscurity amid the pressures of commerciality
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Hilotrons’ Theme from Lonely Cinema
Song of the Day: Following yesterdays’ Cinétique, inspired by films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, horror, science fiction, and westerns, Canadian Mike Dubue’s exciting, evocative instrumental is about disconnection from reality while watching the world through a screen, and comes from trilogy of records titled Lonely Cinema
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The cover of Naoko Sakata’s second album Dancing Spirits
Song of the Day: Beginning with discordant, angry, violent, stormy chaos and moving gradually into lilting, gentle graduations of beauty, this free-flowing piece by the Japanese jazz pianist captures a huge spectrum of passionate emotions
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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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CARM aka trumpeter and producer CJ Camerieri
Song of the Day: A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album
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