2/26/2021

NEW NOISE show 35: the most comprehensive music (featuring Juanita Stein, Arab Strap, Lost Horizons, and The Weather Station)



Coming this FRIDAY February 26th / 3pm PST

NEW NOISE w/ Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite) 
ONE HOUR ALL NEW MUSIC SHOW

NEW YEAR NEW MUSIC KEEP YOUR DISTANCE

This coming Friday at 3pm Pacific Time, Alexander Laurence’s cutting edge 1-hour radio show, 
New Noise will broadcast on RadioKAJW on Live365.

February 26th 2021, Friday at 3pm PST. All new music and some old favorites for a great electronic disco party.



Listen to previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infinitealexander/


Featuring Juanita Stein, Arab Strap, Lost Horizons, and The Weather Station

NEW NOISE show 35 playlist
Friday February 26th 2021 3pm
RADIO KAJW

part one
1. JUANITA STEIN "1,2,3,4,5,6"
2. ARAB STRAP "Compersion pt. 1"
3. LOST HORIZONS (feat. Kavi Kwai) "Every Beat That Passed"
4. JPEGMAFIA "Fix Urself"
5. JAKE BELLOWS "I Can't Wait"
6. WALTZER "I Don't Wanna Die"
7. DOT ALLISON "Mo Pop"
8. BOWIE "Scream Like A Baby"

part two
9. THE WEATHER STATION "Parking Lot"
10. SILLY BOY BLUE "The Riddle"
11. KIT GRILL "Ceremony"
12. SZA "Good Days"
13. PIERA "Unraveling"
14. JOSEPH HEIN "Sunbeam"
15. THE RAVEONETTES "Love In A Trashcan"

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LOST HORIZONS (Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde & Dif Juz's Richie Thomas) New Album 'In Quiet Moments' & New Music Video

LOST HORIZONS
(COCTEAU TWINS’ SIMON RAYMONDE & RICHIE THOMAS OF DIF JUZ)
RELEASE SOPHOMORE DOUBLE-ALBUM IN QUIET MOMENTS
 
SHARE VIDEO FOR “THIS IS THE WEATHER” FEATURING KAREN PERIS

Early praise for Lost Horizons:
 
"[On “In Quiet Moments”] Over a jazzy backbeat, a serene bass vamp, methodical piano chords and stealthy guitar curlicues, Thomas sings with otherworldly patience about longings, immensities and unanswered questions." - New York Times
 
"[On “One For Regret”] Lost Horizons’ latest is a great bit of synergy." - Stereogum
 
"a dreamy, psych-tinged sound" - KEXP
 
"lushly orchestrated and beautifully arranged." - Brooklyn Vegan

“Second album from super-duo contains multitudes… With the knowing retro-etherealism of Every Beat That Passed (featuring Swedish vocalist Kavi Kwai) or Cordelia’s new age tides controlled by John Grant, In Quiet Moments opens out its own space to wander, a many-moods piece for complicated times.” - MOJO (****)

“Absolutely breathtaking...This is a masterpiece of concept, design and execution.” -
Narc Magazine (*****)

Today Lost Horizons – the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde & Richie Thomas of Dif Juz – release their already critically acclaimed sophomore album In Quiet Moments via Bella Union. Raymonde and Thomas first met in the 80s, as 4AD labelmates, but both abstained from making music for 20+ years. Finally, in 2017, they both returned to making music and united as Lost Horizons to release their stunning debut album, OjaláL. Now the duo return with a remarkable 16-track double album which features a guest vocalist on every track, including the likes of Porridge RadioMarissa NadlerPenelope IslesTim Smith of MidlakeC DuncanRen Harvieu, and more. Download, stream, or purchase In Quiet Moments in its entirety now HERE
 
To celebrate the release of In Quiet MomentsLost Horizons share a music video for the album’s closing track, “This Is The Weather,” featuring the innocence mission’s Keren Peris. “It is a joy for me to be part of another Lost Horizons album,” Peris says. “There was a beautiful spaciousness in the track of piano that I received from Simon, that allowed for hearing and seeing a melody and a scene, with a melancholy that connected immediately with the feeling of missing someone very dear to me.” Listen / watch HERE.

In further celebration of the album release, Tim Burgess will be hosting one of his legendary Twitter Listening Parties for In Quiet Moments on March 4th and Lost Horizons will participate in a Reddit AMA at /r/indieheads on March 5th1 PM ET. Later this year, Lost Horizons will perform live in London at Scala on October 19th - get your tickets HERE.
(Video still | download)
LISTEN / WATCH:
I Woke Up With An Open Heart” FT. The Hempolics | “Grey Tower” FT. Tim Smith | Cordelia” FT. John Grant | “One For Regret” FT. Porridge Radio | “Every Beat That Passed” FT. Kavi Kwai | “In Quiet Moments” FT. Ural Thomas | “Marie” FT. Marissa Nadler | Heart of a Hummingbird” FT. Lily Wolter  | “This Is The Weather” FT. Karen Peris
More on Lost Horizons:
 
In 2017, Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas had both abstained from making music for 20 years until they united as Lost Horizons and released a stunning debut album, Ojalá - the Spanish word for “hopefully” or “God willing.”
 
“These days, we need hope more than ever, for a better world.” Thomas said at the time. “And this album has given me a lot of hope. To reconnect with music.... And the hope for another Lost Horizons record!”
 
Thomas’ hopes had a mixed response. On the plus side, the new Lost Horizons album In Quiet Moments is an even stronger successor to Ojalá with another distinguished cast of guest singers and a handful of supporting instrumentalists embellishing the core duo’s gorgeously free-flowing and loose-limbed blueprint that one writer astutely labelled, “melancholy-delia.”
 
On the minus side, any hope for a better world, as Earth continues to freefall toward political and social meltdown. Then, to make matters worse, as Raymonde and Thomas buckled down to create the improvised bedrock that Lost Horizons is built on, the former’s mother died. At least Raymonde had a way to channel his grief. “The way improvisation works,” he says, “it’s just what’s going on with your body at the time, to let it out.”
 
Raymonde (bass, guitar, keyboards, production) and Thomas (drums, occasional keys and guitar) forged ahead, creating 16 instrumental tracks to send to prospective guests. When he did, Raymonde suggested a guiding theme for their lyrics: “Death and rebirth. Of loved ones, of ideals, at an age when many artists that have inspired us are also dead, and the planet isn’t far behind. But I also said, ‘The most important part is to just do your own thing, and have fun.”
 
And then Covid-19 hit. Half of In Quiet Moments’ lyrics were written after lockdown, but Raymonde saw a silver lining: people were slowing down and taking stock of their lives. Hearing a lyric written by veteran singer Ural Thomas, known as “Portland's Pillar of Soul", who fronts the title track, Raymonde singled out the phrase “in quiet moments” and made it the album title. “It just made sense,” he says. “This moment of contemplation in life is really beautiful. The title also went with the album cover, a photograph by Jacques-Henri Lartigue from the 1940s of a woman and dog on a beach, captured as if in flight.”
 
Lost Horizons’ melancholy-delia also feels buoyed aloft by airy currents, informed in part by Raymonde and Thomas’ former respective bands: the legendary Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz. Their former bands were labelmates on 4AD in the mid-80s, which is how they first met.
 
In Quiet Moments has its pockets of loss but – aligned to the concept of ‘hope’ - the album is more about rebirth than death. “I think it’s more joyous than Ojalá,
” says Thomas. “But both albums have a great energy about them.”
 
Those energy levels undulate across a dazzling array of moods and voices; as broad as the name Lost Horizons sounds. Take the first three tracks: the melting rapture of “Halcyon” featuring Jack Wolter of Bella Union signings Penelope Isles, the simmering urban-soulful “I Woke Up With An Open Heart” featuring Nubiya Brandon of The Hempolics and the quintessentially melancholy-delic “Grey Tower” featuring a returning Tim Smith.
 
Also returning from Ojalá are Gemma Dunleavy, Karen Peris (the innocence mission), Cameron Neal (Horse Thief) and Marissa Nadler. The last three are all Bella Union family members; likewise, John Grant (the lush, choral “Cordelia”, etched by David Rothon’s pedal steel and Fiona Brice’s elegant strings) and Ren Harvieu (a sultry “Unravelling In Slow Motion”), and new signing Laura Groves (the jazz-tinged “Blue Soul”), all making their Lost Horizons debuts.
 
Dana Margolin of the hugely acclaimed Porridge Radio lends the rampant “One For Regret’’ her trademark bristling energy; at the other end of the spectrum, ‘Flutter’ features Rosie Blair (of former Bella Union signing Ballet School) adding exquisite blue notes to a stark palate of Thomas’ piano and Fiona Brice’s strings. Deploying his A&R acumen, Raymonde called on new Swedish discovery Kavi Kwai for the Cocteaus-evoking “Every Beat That Passed” (“You can’t make music for as long as I have and drop all your influences and habits overnight,” says Raymonde). Also present are Lily Wolter (of Penelope Isles) under her solo pseudonym KookieLou, and C Duncan. A richer and more varied cast list would be very hard to find.
 
“I think In Quiet Moments is more in the direction of where we’re going,” Thomas concludes. “People have retreated into their lives and, in those quiet moments, reflected on the world, how we fit in and who we trust. Maybe the next album will be about rebellion! But the road is long and winding. We just need to express ourselves in how we feel at the time.”
(Richie Thomas & Simon Raymonde | download)

Tracklist
 
Part 1:
1. Halcyon - Lost Horizons feat. Penelope Isles
2. I Woke Up With An Open Heart - Lost Horizons. feat. The Hempolics
3. Grey Tower - Lost Horizons feat. Tim Smith
4. Linger - Lost Horizons feat. Gemma Dunleavy
5. One For Regret - Lost Horizons feat. Porridge Radio
6. Every Beat That Passed - Lost Horizons feat. Kavi Kwai
7. Nobody Knows My Name - Lost Horizons feat. Cameron Neal
8. Cordelia - Lost Horizons feat. John Grant
 
Part 2:
9. In Quiet Moments - Lost Horizons feat. Ural Thomas
10. Circle - Lost Horizons feat. C Duncan
11. Unravelling In Slow Motion - Lost Horizons feat. Ren Harvieu
12. Blue Soul - Lost Horizons feat. Laura Groves
13. Flutter - Lost Horizons feat. Rosie Blair
14. Marie - Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler
15. Heart Of A Hummingbird - Lost Horizons feat. KookieLou
16. This Is The Weather - Lost Horizons feat. Karen Peris

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard releases new album 'L.W.'

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
RELEASES NEW STUDIO ALBUM L.W.

SHARES CLIP SET TO ALBUM CLOSER
"K.G.L.W."

BAND TO DONATE $1 FROM
EVERY BANDCAMP DOWNLOAD OF L.W.

Photo credit: Jamie Wdziekonski
Today, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have released their seventeenth studio album L.W. The album serves as a direct follow-up to last year's full-length K.G., and is the third volume in the band's explorations into microtonal tunings (which began with 2017's Flying Microtonal Banana). Hear the album HERE.

To celebrate the album's release, the band has shared some appropriately hellish footage created by the band's longtime collaborator Jason Galea and set to album closer "K.G.L.W." Watch the clip HERE. "Jase went to Hell and captured some incredible footage," frontman Stu Mackenzie says.

"This download of L.W. comes with tree (that’s right tree)," the band wrote on their Bandcamp page. "$1 from every download will be donated to Greenfleet, who plant native biodiverse forests in Australia and New Zealand.

We’re aiming to make 2000 downloads which is enough to revegetate 1,000m2 at Pearsons Block in Central Victoria. Some of the species endemic to this region include Yellow Box (Eucalyptus melliodora), Varnish Wattle (Acacia verniciflua) and Sweet Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa).

You will be creating habitat for the local wildlife species, playing a vital role in reconnecting parts of the Wychitella Biolink. Some of the species known to the area are Lace monitors, Quolls and the vulnerable Mallee Fowl. Other native and endangered bird species can be found in the area as well, including Shy Heathwrens and Inland Thornbills.

Protected for 100 years, these trees will grow into a thriving and resilient forest restoring the native ecosystem in the area and increasing the overall biodiversity and resilience. Good stuff!"

HEAR L.W. IN FULL

WATCH THE "K.G.L.W." CLIP

WATCH THE "PLEURA" VIDEO

Following the recent releases of "If Not Now, Then When?" and "O.N.E.", both featured on L.W., the band shared new track "Pleura" last week -- hear the track HERE, and watch the video HERE. The video -- which consists of a live performance from the band's studio and was filmed just last night -- was directed by John Angus Stewart, who also helmed the band's 2020 concert film Chunky Shrapnel.

Last year, the band released their sixteenth studio album K.G (the second volume in the band's previous explorations into microtonal tunings), as well as Live In S.F. '16 (ATO Records), a live album recorded during the band's 2016 U.S. tour stop at San Francisco venue The Independent. Stream/purchase K.G. HERE, and stream/purchase Live In S.F. '16 HERE.

Shortly before the album release, the band delighted fans with a full concert film accompanying Live In S.F. '16. Unlike their previous film release with Chunky Shrapnel, fans are able to own the film with a purchase of a stream. Stream/purchase the Live In S.F. '16 film HERE, and watch "Evil Death Roll" from the film HERE.
Freewheeling six-headed freak-rock beast King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with seventeenth album L.W.

Serving as both a companion piece to its 2020 predecessor K.G. and a stand-alone work in its own right, L.W. sees the Melbourne-based innovators produce a truly original work. After a full decade of increasingly frenzied productivity, the inability to tour during 2020 and into 2021 allowed the band to find a window of time in which, as frontman Stu Mackenzie puts it, “reset our brains, and try to figure out how to do a different thing.” 

Where in the past King Gizzard might have recorded fourteen or fifteen songs to make the cut on a ten-track album, thanks to having extra time on their hands, they instead recorded nineteen complete tracks back to back. “For me personally, making a record is always a certain percentage of fun and a small percentage of agonizing over it too,” says Mackenzie. “But there’s always a wild alchemy going into it. Like, you don’t really know what you’re doing, you’re just kind of throwing all of your emotional energy into nothing, which becomes…something?”

The result is a twin-set of records that expands upon the band’s microtonal explorations first heard on 2017’s Flying Microtonal Banana – regarded by many fans, and Stu himself, as one of their favorite Gizzard albums. Then as now, the band embarked upon a search for “the notes between the notes”, via modified instruments and the middle eastern tunings usually found on the bağlama, a Turkish stringed instrument. “We wanted to make new music that was somehow more colorful this time around, and which maybe reflected the many new things that we have learned along the way,” Stu explains. “After recording Flying Microtonal Banana the songs expanded when we played them live, so we felt ready to tackle the microtonal landscape again. Making these two new records was not expected, but because they were recorded in a way that was new to us – not being in the room at the same time – there was a feeling of almost being over-prepared, which is definitely not normal for us. Whatever normal is.”

On L.W. very different - and occasionally wonky - worlds collide. Album opener ‘If Not Now, Then When?’ morphs from mangled eastern rock into taut funk in a manner that somehow makes complete sense, while the amorphous and exotic ‘Pleura’ is a pungent gumbo of heady microtonal strings, tumescent riffs and endless surprises. Then there’s the slinky ‘Ataraxia’ which slithers like a sidewinder through the dusty catacombs of the imagination and the utterly disorientating ‘See Me’, which is nothing less than the national anthem of a scorched planet hitherto undiscovered. Here is an album that pulls, pushes and contorts western music into new shapes. Though some might categorize it as such, this is not ‘world music’ but ‘universal music’.

Only when this new clutch of songs was nearing completion did it become apparent they would form two separate releases. Such creative ambition and bold ideas have been King Gizzard’s stock in trade since day one. Let’s not forget this is a band whose innovative ideas have included – amongst other things – giving away the parts of an entire album for scores of international indie labels to press and sell themselves, have written a suite of songs that clock in at precisely 10 mins and 10 secs each, as well as a sludgy-stoner concept album about a lonely robot. Why record one album when you can record two?

Narratives are woven through the music across both release: L.W. ends, for example, with the same track that K.G. opens with (‘K.G.L.W’, obviously). Fans of the band will already be aware of similar such patterns embedded throughout their oeuvre: the award-winning, hard-riffing 2016 album Nonagon Infinity was a never-ending Möbius strip of music that looped in on itself. It was the type of iridescent collection of interlocking songs that you could imagine playing forever in a black hole as it spins on ever-deeper into the darkest reaches of the cosmos.

“I like to order a record early,” says Stu of these intricate structures and grand thematic concepts, in whose creation piles of maps and diagrams are often required. “That's something that I often do. And usually, the easiest one to slot in is the opener, so listening back to L.W. a theme song of sorts emerged. The outro is like a mirror image of the intro. And as we worked on it, it kept growing, as a lot of our songs do. In this case it just kept getting more and more ridiculous. I’m not sure how he acquired them, but Joe (Walker, guitarist) got all these crazy samples that he put on there. There’s an MRI machine, hammers, power tools, a drawbridge, a chainsaw, an angle-grinder. Cookie played a hammer and an anvil. It’s very metal. Literally.”

As the band enter their second decade – and their frontman still only thirty years old - the creative future of this most 21st century of outfits only promises to be bolder, madder and more imaginative than ever. Their place in the pantheon alongside such disparate predecessors such as Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Frank Zappa, The Doors, Black Sabbath and AC/DC is assured; though rest assured The Gizz prefer to always face the future than the past.

“We're actually probably not as considered as people think that we are,” Stu concludes. “I’m always just trying to be in the band that I want to be in. But I’m also trying to be the band that I wish I could follow as a fan; so we’re both of those things at the same time. And I think that’s where my decision making lies: I’m always asking, what is the most fun thing we can do? If there’s a strategy at all, then it’s that.”

If the rumors emanating out of Melbourne are to be believed, King Gizzard are about to entire another fertile purple patch.  
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
L.W.

1. If Not Now, Then When?
2. O.N.E.
3. Pleura
4. Supreme Ascendancy
5. Static Electricity
6. East West Link
7. Ataraxia
8. See Me
9. K.G.L.W.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are: Stu Mackenzie (vocals/guitar), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (harmonica/vocals/keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar/vocals), Joey Walker (guitar/vocals),
Lucas Harwood (bass) and Michael Cavanagh (drums).
 
Album discography: 12 Bar Bruise (2012), Eyes Like the Sky (2013), Float Along – Fill Your Lungs (2013), Oddments (2014), I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (2014), Quarters! (2015), Paper Mache Dream Balloon (2015), Nonagon Infinity (2016), Flying Microtonal Banana (2017), Murder of the Universe (2017), Sketches of Brunswick East (2017), Polygondwanaland (2017), Gumboot Soup (2017), Fishing for Fishies (2019), Infest The Rats’ Nest (2019), Chunky Shrapnel (live album) (2020), K.G. (2020), L.W. (2021)
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White Denim Debuts "Second Dimension" Video w/ Under The Radar | LP out 12/6 via Bella Union

White Denim Under The Radar  Debuts New Single/Video “ Second Dimension ” Available across platforms  here 12  LP due out Dec. 6 via Bella U...