Spiro's album launch at Rise in Bristol
Spiro gave a dazzling performance last night to a delighted crowd as part of their album launch at Rise in Bristol.
The performance was followed by some hard earned celebratory drinks in a neighbouring pub.
Spiro - Kaleidophonica released today
"...the Reichian shimmering pulse is still at the heart of Spiro's finely-machined modernist version of folk music."
The Financial Times
The Guardian
""The mesmeric result is cinematic, breathtaking and beautiful... they evoke a beautiful melancholy that is traditionally English and yet wholly of the now. Folk has never sounded so relevant.""
Portico Quartet : Remix Single Release 28 February
Portico Quartet's second single from their recently released self-titled album, features mixes of two standout tracks, with close associate Will Ward (of Portico Quartet side project Circle Traps) reworking the enigmatic Window Seat and the renowned remixers and Hyperdub recording artists LV (who also remixed the band's breakthrough track Cittagazze back in 2008) bringing their very own brand of dance floor magic to the anthemic City Of Glass.
"Effortlessly minimal…achingly haunting and beautiful… Groundbreaking… Stunning." 19/20 (Crack Magazine)
"...soundscapes run the gamut from ECM-ish ambient to the heavy-duty electronica of Aphex Twin or Flying Lotus" (Uncut)
Kaleidophonica: The new album from Spiro (full track samples + pre order)
Listen to four new tracks from Spiro's new album Kaleidophonica, out on Monday 20th Feb in Europe.
According to Songlines magazine Spiro "… evoke a beautiful melancholy that is traditionally English and yet wholly of the now."
Kaleidophonica has been described by fRoots as "… breathless stuff, genuinely unlike anything else, and exciting, rewarding and gorgeous in equal measure."
Spiro will launch their new album with a special instore performance on 20th Feb at Rise, Bristol, 6pm FREE ADMISSION. Let us know you are attending here.
Spiro are touring the UK in March. See a full list of dates and book tickets here.
Spiro Free Track Giveaway 'The City and the Stars'
Spiro's sound is sweeping, majestic and cinematic - essentially English acoustic music, beautiful and brilliant.
The City and the Stars is taken from Spiro's new album Kaleidophonica. The track is intensely visual and meticulously played, painting a picture of the metropolis at night.
"It's all breathless stuff, genuinely unlike anything else, and exciting, rewarding and gorgeous in equal measure." fRoots
Foxlight
For his third solo album - Foxlight - the acclaimed singer Iarla O Lionaird delivers an impassioned and sublime set of personal songs, combining the twin urges to write more new material and yet also work with an intriguing set of collaborators.
In Trance
If JuJu's chemistry was evident on their acclaimed 2007 debut Soul Science and its equally praised follow up Tell No Lies, it is almost palpable here. In Trance is precisely that: an album that sees Adams' Les Paul goldtop vying and blending with Camara's keening bittersweet vocals and fiery ritti playing, and embracing dub reggae and avant-garde jazz en route.
Addis Through The Looking Glass
"The aim", says Nick Page, the musician and producer best-known as Dubulah, also founding member of Transglobal Underground and Syriana, "is to constantly surprise." The new Dub Colossus album, Addis Through The Looking Glass, does just that. It's a new departure in the band's remarkable history. Dubulah first travelled to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa in 2006 to collaborate with musicians and explore traditional Azmari styles, 60s Ethiopian pop, Ethiojazz and 70s Jamaican Dub Reggae.
Laru Beya
Encouraged by a songwriter mother with a gorgeous voice and by his widely admired local troubadour father, the young Aurelio made his own guitars from cans and fishing line. Music and songs were the only entertainment in a place with no electricity and little contact with the outside world, and it is these songs that shaped him as an artist and inspired the pieces on Laru Beya.
Tande-La
The Creole Choir of Cuba are called 'Desandann' in their home country which means 'descendants' and with the songs on their forthcoming album 'Tande-La' (a title which translates as 'listen') they tell the stories of their Haitian ancestors who were brought to Cuba to work in near slave conditions on the sugar and coffee plantations.
The Road To Damascus
"The Cold War and its iconography had divided East and West," says Page. "We decided to create a project that would bridge them."
Capture
Afro Celt Sound System are back - right now - with Capture, a career-spanning double CD that cherry-picks from the collective's five acclaimed studio albums and divides the glittering proceeds into songs (Verse) and instrumentals (Chorus). Here, then, are the classics that forged the group's reputation
Bought For A Dollar, Sold For A Dime
The musical melting pot of 'Bought For A Dollar, Sold for a Dime' is large, and bubbling. Here are addictive rhythms. Soulful vocals. Pinches of dub and funk, reggae and gospel. Oh-so-subtle samples and innovative electronics. And underpinning it all, McDonald's shimmering blues guitar licks, conjuring a space where the dirt roads of the Deep South meet the shiny lanes of the Information Superhighway.
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