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We proud to announce that Cassandra Jenkins has joined Ba Da Bing to release her new ambient folk LP An Overview on Phenomenal Nature. Today you can listen to the first track, Michelangelo, and pre-order the album via Bandcamp.
Limited edition light blue translucent LP
Roy Montgomery, taken November 5th, 1981 on the way to an Echo and the Bunnymen concert.
To commemorate forty years at the forefront of experimental music , Grapefruit will be releasing four new Montgomery albums in 2021 which can be purchased individually or via subscription. Island of Lost Souls is the first.
listen to the first singe, The Electric Children of Hildegard von Bingen (For Florian Fricke)
Sarah Mary Chadwick’s latest full-length, Me and Ennui Are Friends, Baby, is out February 5. Watch the video for lead single, Every Loser Needs a Mother, below.
With stark piano instrumentation and searing quips, Chadwick hides behind nothing to process immense trauma and deliver her most immediate work to date.
"you can hear its minimal yet theatrical sound on lead single 'Every Loser Needs A Mother.’” - Brooklyn Vegan
“There’s an honesty here you don’t often hear in music” - Closed Captioned
Today, Dana Gavanski debuts a video for her song “Trouble” directed by Laura-Lynn Petrick (Weyes Blood, TOPS, Jessica Pratt). Watch below:
Taken from Dana Gavanski's debut album "Yesterday Is Gone", out now. Head here to buy: https://smarturl.it/yesterdayisgone Director : Laura-Lynn Petrick Cine...
Wendy Eisenberg releases the second single, "Centreville,” today from their new album Auto, out October 16th. Watch below:
Dana Gavanski’s debut album Yesterday Is Gone may have just come out in March, but she’s got a whole new offering in store with EP Wind Songs, out August 14th. Featuring Dana’s versions of classic and somewhat esoteric tunes, Wind Songs has an unrevealed track list beside what she’s given us so far.
Last month we shared her cover of King Crimon’s “I Talk To The Wind,” and today we share Chic’s (notably also performed by Robert Wyatt) “At Last I Am Free,” with a video directed by Nuha Ruby Ra.
Listen or get a copy at lnk.to/DanaGavanski
Noveller’s first LP for Ba Da Bing, Arrow, is out this Friday digitally, and physically on June 26th. Bandcamp, in their Album of the Day feature, writes:
”Sarah Lipstate’s work as Noveller, the vehicle through which she explores the possibilities of instrumental, primarily electric guitar compositions, has resulted in a rich body of work, one that has elevated her to the level of similar innovators like Vini Reilly and Roy Montgomery. Arrow continues that journey, further developing her darkly beautiful work in songs that combine the tranquility of meditation with elements of tension and unease…” READ MORE.
This Thursday, Dana Gavanski will go live as part of Reddit’s Indieheads Festival on their Instagram account. Tune in at 3:30 PM EST to see her set, live from Serbia where she’s sequestered.
Her debut Yesterday Is Gone came out last Friday. Listen below:
photo by Shervin Lainez
Listen to a new song from Katie Von Schleicher’s forthcoming LP Consummation, out May 22.
photo by Tess Roby
This week we lost many hours inside our own homes but gained a new track from Dana Gavanski’s forthcoming LP Yesterday Is Gone, out March 27th.
Listen below:
We’ve been fans of Noveller, the project of the influential and sonically pioneering Sarah Lipstate, for some time. So we’re extremely psyched to work with her on her seventh album Arrow, out June 12th, 2020 on Ba Da Bing.
Lipstate has been touring as a member of Iggy Pop’s band, recently moved to the canyons of Los Angeles, is demoing gear left and right, and today releases the first single from Arrow called Effektology.
Listen to Effektology over at Adult Swim.
Pre-order Arrow now at Bandcamp.
Visit the Noveller artist page and learn more.
We’re so excited to announce that Katie Von Schleicher’s new single, “Caged Sleep” and its accompanying video is out now! Katie’s sophomore album, “Consummation” will be available May 22nd.
Caged Sleep is rightfully listed on Paste Magazine’s 15 Best Songs of February 2020, and you can watch the video below!
In her new music video for single, “Geranium” Aoife Nessa Frances dances with vibrating, resonant shadows in this visually minimalist and ethereal work of art, a rightful nod to Aoife’s background in film making. Hit the link and enjoy!
Dana Gavanski releases second single and first music video for upcoming album Yesterday Is Gone.
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Today Lady Lamb (aka Aly Spaltro) releases "We've Got A Good Thing Going," a rocker that takes the sound of last year's Even In The Tremor and adds a dose of Springsteen rumble, a fitting follow-up to the year she just spent touring the US with her band. The first of two new songs in the coming weeks, "We've Got A Good Thing Going" shows Spaltro at her most confident.
Spaltro says, "We've Got A Good Thing Going was ultimately inspired by seeing a young woman bungee jump off of the side of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas. It was nearly 1am, closing time, and I was pressed against the back wall of the observatory as I watched her suit up alone with a look of total calm. It really made me reflect on my fears - my fear of living, in some cases. This song is my way of confronting my anxiety and deciding I'd like to make more of an effort to be fearless, because life and I have 'a good thing going.'"
Listen to “ We’ve Got a Good Thing Going” here
Lady Lamb heads out on a European tour this February with support from Toth.
And in March, she presents an entirely different experience of her music, performing intimate "evening with" events at City Winery locations around the US accompanied by a string quartet. The arrangements (written by Spaltro herself) are fresh, intimate reimaginations of the songs from Even in the Tremor and previous albums. Dates are below.
Lady Lamb Tour Dates:
Fri. Feb. 7 - Jacksonville, FL @ Root Down Festival
Tues. Feb. 11 - Leeds, UK @ Hyde Park Book Club *
Wed. Feb. 12 - Glasglow, UK @ Broadcast *
Thur. Feb.13 - Dublin, IRL @ The Grand Social *
Fri. Feb. 14 - Manchester, UK @ Gulliver’s *
Fri. Feb. 16 - Antwerpen, BE @ Muziekcentrum Trix *
Tues. Feb. 18 - Amsterdam, NL @ Cinetol *
Wed. Feb. 19 - Hamburg, GE @ Nochtwache *
Fri. Feb. 21 - Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7 i Åre AB *
Sat. Feb. 22 - Kobenhavn, DK @ Lille Vega *
Mon. Feb. 24 - Berlin, GE @ Badehaus Szimpla *
Tues. Feb. 25 - Jena, GE @ Trafo *
Wed. Feb. 26 - Koln, GE @ Jaki *
Thur. Feb. 27 - Zurich, CH @ Bogen F *
Sat. Feb. 29 - Barcelona, EG @ Vol *
Sun. Mar. 1 - Madrid, EG @ Siroco *
Mon. Mar. 2 - Ourense, EG @ Cafe and Pop Torgal *
Wed. Mar. 4 - Paris, FR @ Le Pop-Up Du Label *
Thur. Mar. 5 - London, UK @ Chats Palace *
Fri. Mar. 6 - Brighton, UK @ Latest Music Bar *
Fri. Mar. 13 - Atlanta, GA @ City Winery
Sat. Mar. 14 - Nashville, TN @ City Winery
Tues. Mar. 17 - Chicago, IL @ City Winery
Fri. Mar. 20 - Boston, MA @ City Winery
Mon. Mar. 23 - Washington, DC @ City Winery
Tues. Mar. 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ City Winery
Wed. Mar. 25 - New York, NY @ City Winery
* with Tõth
Photo by Vedrana Vukojević
On March 27th, we will be releasing the debut LP from Dana Gavanski titled ‘Yesterday is Gone’ here in the US. The first single, “Good Instead of Bad” is out now!
Tracklist:
One By One
Catch
What We Had
Good Instead of Bad
Trouble
Yesterday Is Gone
Small Favours
Everything That Bleeds
Other Than
Memories of Winter
Find “Good Instead of Bad” here.
Pre-order ‘Yesterday is Gone’.
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‘I’m learning how to say goodbye / to let you go and face the tide / to wrap my feelings in a song,’ sings Dana Gavanski on the title track of her debut LP, Yesterday Is Gone. To wrap her feelings in a song: this is the task Dana has dedicated herself to with this record. It’s a goal common to many songwriters, but few approach it with such aplomb. By turns break-up album, project of curiosity, and, as Dana puts it, ‘a reckoning with myself’, Yesterday Is Gone is her attempt to ‘learn to say what I feel and feel what I say’: an album of longing and devotion to longing, and of the uncertainty that arises from learning about oneself, of pushing boundaries, falling hard, and getting back up.
Born in Vancouver to a Serbian family, Dana has always harbored a desire to sing. In her final year of university in Montreal, she picked up the guitar left by her ex-partner and decided to re-learn. But with a father in film and a painter mother, other art-forms clamored for her attention. She spent a summer as her producer father’s assistant in the Laurentians, in a derelict hotel-turned-office that looked like something out of The Shining. The long days behind a computer cemented her desire to make music, ‘because it was so impossible to play that I needed to, in order to feel like it was real.’ The income she saved that summer funded a year of writing religiously, leading to EP Spring Demos in September 2017, which Dana describes as ‘whatever was coming out of me. A flood.’
Following Spring Demos, Yesterday Is Gone reflects Dana’s aim ‘to make something bigger, more thought through’. Steeped in determination and uncertainty in equal measure – ‘I just wanted to write a good song’ – the album took shape after she returned from a writing residency in Banff, Alberta. She left the residency resolved not to worry about her songs being ‘too obvious’. She’d begun to learn the art of empty time, of being alone with her emotions, losing herself in a landscape. She thought of Vashti Bunyan, riding for hours and writing, writing, writing. She considered how she might use writing to make sense of her life after the tumults of a break-up and a new city. Adrift in Toronto, Dana struggled to feel at home and connected to people, but the solitude also allowed her to ground herself in writing. She kept office-style hours at her bedroom desk every day until she started to understand the writing process, to see that ‘transforming a burning desire into something clear and tangible is a vulnerable and delicate act. You have to be able to let things happen, to accept losing control.’
The record is a co-production between Dana, Toronto-based musician Sam Gleason, and Mike Lindsay of Tunng and LUMP. While Sam helped Dana bring out the tunes, Mike’s input marked ‘the beginning of developing a sound that was closer to what I had in my head’. Though excited by the other elements of a song introduced during production, Dana and Mike were keen on ‘finding essential things, not overblowing, keeping things bare and letting the elements speak for themselves’. Not that the sheer variety of sounds and instruments didn’t overwhelm. ‘But you have that feeling,’ Dana says, ‘then you just pick up an instrument. At the base, you do know what you want. It’s about how to chip away at what you don’t want.’
The album shapeshifted as it passed through the hands of Dana, Sam, and Mike, taking on different tastes, feelings, and visions. When Dana performed the songs with a band, they found new form again. She was intrigued by performers like David Bowie and Aldous Harding, who inhabit different personalities on stage, physically tuning themselves to their music. ‘Watching these kinds of performances,’ Dana says, ‘I feel my body longing to express myself in exaggerations … to leave behind self-consciousness and become this energy.’
But a three-month trip to Serbia in autumn 2018 really pushed performance to the forefront of Dana’s mind. She took singing lessons to learn how to sing with the resonance that defines traditional Serbian song. Stirred by the bombast of fifties, sixties, and seventies music, including the high-energy kafana, or café music, as rooted in expressive pouts as it is vocal resonance, the trip incited a yearning to completely inhabit herself on stage. ‘I often feel we’re all just these controlled bodies,’ she says. ‘Sometimes I just want to make a snarl with my lip and keep it there.’
While on a crowded train last spring, Dana sang the Macedonian song Jano Mome to a cheering group of commuters. The moment, brief but beautiful, lays bare Dana’s craving for live spontaneity. But it also reflects her injection of stylish drama and vivid emotion into the folk landscape that inspires her, from contemporary singers H Hawkline and Julia Holter, to stalwarts Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Connie Converse, and Judee Sill. Expressive urges run all through Yesterday Is Gone. Moments of beguilement splinter a backdrop of tenderly picked guitar, bass, synth, and poppier elements, which commune to produce her own kind of wall of sound. Each component is meticulously placed, yielding a deeply sincere response to the chaos of human emotion.
‘Often we have to go a little far in one direction to learn something about ourselves,’ Dana says. The months of solitary writing and self-doubt testify to this, but they’ve led to Yesterday Is Gone: an optimistic, steely-eyed gaze into the future.
Photo by Pooneh Ghana
Today we’re announcing the debut album from the Brooklyn-based project of songwriter Nick Llobet, youbet. On January 31st we’ll release Compare & Despair, a kaleidoscopic effort of tape-warped pop gems. You can listen to the first single “Bite” below.
Compare & Despair was produced by Katie Von Schleicher with Julian Fader (Ava Luna), Adam Brisbin and Nick Llobet. Read more about youbet here.
The first single from youbet's debut LP 'Compare & Despair,' out January 31st, 2020. Artwork by Lou Elda. Produced by Katie Von Schleicher with Julian Fader, Nick Llobet and Adam Brisbin.
Photo by Si Moore
Read MoreLady Lamb (Aly Spaltro) has just released a music video for “Little Flaws” that she shot and edited herself, and we hope you love it as much as we do! Aly has also just announced several East Coast headlining tour dates in addition to her upcoming tour with the New Pornographers. Check it out below:
Fri. Sept. 27 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre *
Tues. Oct. 1 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
Wed. Oct. 2 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre *
Thur. Oct. 3 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre *
Fri. Nov. 1 - Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts
Sat. Nov. 2 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre
Mon. Nov. 4 - Boston, MA @ Royale *
Tues. Nov. 5 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club *
Thurs. Nov. 7 - Brooklyn. NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
Fri. Nov. 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Sun. Nov. 10 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom *
Mon. Nov. 11 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
Tues. Nov. 12 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre *
Thur. Nov. 14 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
Fri. Nov. 15 - Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
Sat. Nov. 16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit
Mon. Nov. 18 - Buffalo, NY @ Rec Room
Tues. Nov. 19 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
Wed. Nov. 20 - Kingston, NY @ BSP Kingston
Thur. Nov. 21 - Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace
Fri. Nov. 22 - Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot
* with The New Pornographers
