We Are Busy Bodies recently reissued its third trilogy of albums with the legendary As-Shams/The Sun label with a focus on the works of Mike Makhalemele and Winston ‘Mankunku’ Ngozi. Following the success of Makhalemele’s debut The Peacemaker and Mankunku’s long-awaited sophomore release Alex Express, which both appeared in 1975, the bar had been set very high. Enamoured by their jazz contemporaries, the session was concocted by members of an exciting new…
Rich Aucoin has been nominated for Electronic Album of the Year at the 2024 Juno Awards for his Synthetic 2 album released by We Are Busy Bodies in October 2023. This is Aucoin’s second nomination in the category in as many years. Synthetic 2 is the second of four albums as part of Aucoin’s quadrilogy – with its four seasonal LPs being staggered in six-month intervals over the next 2 years – the album sees Aucoin exploring the instrumental electronic side of his studio work, with a range of rare and historic synthesizers utilized in its production. The Electronic Album …
On July 6th, up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Joe McLeod, will release the dynamic new single “What A Pity” from his upcoming album “The Dancer & The Bear” (out via We Are Busy Bodies October 13) – listen to the new music HERE. A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Joe McLeod brings his stories to life in vivid detail, using his evocative voice to explore […]
Puna, recorded in bedrooms, studios and other salubrious locations around Helsinki during 2022, is a mix of lo-fi spiritual jazz, experimental, and avant-garde music forms. It includes four vocal tracks recorded with Merikukka Kiviharju, which feature both original lyrics and those sourced from traditional Finnish folk songs. With a background in electronic music, Vauhkonen explains […]
Composer Kristen Roos came across Laurie Speigel’s Music Mouse program for Macintosh on eBay in 2019. After purchasing the floppy disc, Roos experimented with the program, emailing its creator along the way. This track, take from Roos’s album Universal Synthesizer Interface Vol II, is “defined by using Music Mouse as a MIDI sequencer on a Macintosh Plus,” he explains over […]
On his third solo LP, Find Yourself Lost, Dawson veers toward the fringes of country and western. Although ‘cosmic’ has become catchall descriptor in both country and ambient music, Dawson reaches for something more earthly. Something more grounded. Ribboning miles of pedal steel nestle into hushed tones and gossamer textures. Reflecting on the process he states, “It took some time to […]