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Nine Suns, One Morning’ is the third album from The Silence since their formation in Tokyo in July of 2014. The Silence transpose ecstatic moments from the rock and roll dreamscape into all-new, living music. ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ is one of the most explosive, far-ranging albums you could hope to hear in 2016. The Silence employ a great variety of instruments with tremendous discipline, always in service of the songs, which share a goal of finding new lines of expression, no matter where the starting point. While ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ is a fully-developed album of modern rock and roll that moves fluidly between all styles of music, many listeners are still unaware of The Silence, who have yet to tour outside of Japan but are anxious to do so. Masaki Batoh is the leader of the group, which he formed after dissolving the legendary Ghost in 2014. Forming the sound of The Silence, Batoh draws upon the indigenous and the mysterious aspects of the spiritual world, as exemplified by Western rock, blues and British traditional music. He is supported in his endeavour by keyboardist and Bulgarian Tambula player (and original Ghost member) Kazuo Ogino, jazz saxophonist Ryuichi Yoshida, bassist Jan Stigter and drummer Futoshi Okano (Subvert Blaze, Hijokaidan). These musicians bring together a combined understanding of different values of music, literature, film, culture, psychology, philosophy and the spirit world that informs and expands everything they play together as they work to transcend the illusions of music that have existed until now. Previous album ‘Hark The Silence’ emphasized the solvent quality of open air and the liquidity of free-flowing improvisation from which songs might eventually appear. ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ departs from the brooding gothic skies under which ‘Hark the Silence’s slow-boiling jams unfolded, revisiting the song-based fixation that marked The Silence’s debut album. The difference this time is that the deep space accessed on ‘Hark The Silence’ strikes into the new songs, infusing them with wider reach and greater cosmic power than before. The song orientation of ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ is further expressed by the inclusion of two cover versions. ‘Louie Louie’, the most elemental of rock songs, is shaken violently in best Silence fashion, while ‘No Expectations’ is given a gossamer gospel treatment. From honking sax to jazz time signatures to squalling psychedelic guitars, The Silence celebrate the transformative fusions of rock and roll music with everything that they do. The vinyl format includes these cover versions on a bonus 7” single Record Label: Drag City Style: Rock

‘Motion Set’ is the ninth Major Stars album and their first on Drag City since 2010’s ‘Return To Form’, with ‘Decibels Of Gratitude’ appearing in 2012. Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar have been crossing axes to head-scrambling effect since the halcyon days of Crystallized Movements in the 1980s. In the 1990s came collaboration with Damon & Naomi in Magic Hour and Wayne Rogers solo records before the debut of Major Stars at Terrastock 1997 - the first of several appearances they eventually made at the now-defunct (and legendary) trips fest. As the years have passed the band has evolved necessarily in their own expanding universe; since 2005, the Biggar-Rogers guitar duo has become a guitar trio, with original bassist Tom Leonard contributing to the murder of decibels. Vocally as well, Wayne’s lead vocals have given way to a string of she-singers who have brought new dimensions to the Major Stars’ sound. Every Major Stars record responds in one way or another to the one before and to that end ‘Motion Set’ commenced with a blackout-and-start-again moment: the pulsing energy of ‘Alert’, with a view towards making more super-happy short blues rock songs. Of course, things happen along the assembly line; the title track was played for over two years and thrown away at least once before revisitation, revitalization and recording finally happened. Now, stripped down to a mood and built back to a towering frenzy it’s the kind of song to name an album after. In a band built to achieve moments of six-string nirvana, vocalist Hayley Thompson-King provides a sufficiently versatile presence to span the crunching, ever-spiralling trinity of Biggar, Leonard and Rogers; with sirenesque flights, a reedy, Nico-like introspection and gritty, pugnacious flourishes to match the full complement of riffs being flung about. Major Stars have been capturing and distilling lightning into bottles for a couple of decades, with each record reaching beyond what they know and delighting in what feels good to locate their desire for exploration, obliteration and rock in the present moment. ‘Motion Set’ nullifies the past while standing on its vanishing shoulders, reaching ever beyond. Record Label: Drag City Style: Alternative

Nine Suns, One Morning’ is the third album from The Silence since their formation in Tokyo in July of 2014. The Silence transpose ecstatic moments from the rock and roll dreamscape into all-new, living music. ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ is one of the most explosive, far-ranging albums you could hope to hear in 2016. The Silence employ a great variety of instruments with tremendous discipline, always in service of the songs, which share a goal of finding new lines of expression, no matter where the starting point. While ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ is a fully-developed album of modern rock and roll that moves fluidly between all styles of music, many listeners are still unaware of The Silence, who have yet to tour outside of Japan but are anxious to do so. Masaki Batoh is the leader of the group, which he formed after dissolving the legendary Ghost in 2014. Forming the sound of The Silence, Batoh draws upon the indigenous and the mysterious aspects of the spiritual world, as exemplified by Western rock, blues and British traditional music. He is supported in his endeavour by keyboardist and Bulgarian Tambula player (and original Ghost member) Kazuo Ogino, jazz saxophonist Ryuichi Yoshida, bassist Jan Stigter and drummer Futoshi Okano (Subvert Blaze, Hijokaidan). These musicians bring together a combined understanding of different values of music, literature, film, culture, psychology, philosophy and the spirit world that informs and expands everything they play together as they work to transcend the illusions of music that have existed until now. Previous album ‘Hark The Silence’ emphasized the solvent quality of open air and the liquidity of free-flowing improvisation from which songs might eventually appear. ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ departs from the brooding gothic skies under which ‘Hark the Silence’s slow-boiling jams unfolded, revisiting the song-based fixation that marked The Silence’s debut album. The difference this time is that the deep space accessed on ‘Hark The Silence’ strikes into the new songs, infusing them with wider reach and greater cosmic power than before. The song orientation of ‘Nine Suns, One Morning’ is further expressed by the inclusion of two cover versions. ‘Louie Louie’, the most elemental of rock songs, is shaken violently in best Silence fashion, while ‘No Expectations’ is given a gossamer gospel treatment. From honking sax to jazz time signatures to squalling psychedelic guitars, The Silence celebrate the transformative fusions of rock and roll music with everything that they do. Record Label: Drag City Style: Rock

This is pretty wonderful... Last year, filmmaker Oliva Wyatt invited Bitchin Bajas to add incidental music to the climatic sounds of her feature-length experimental documentary on the nomadic Moken people, ‘Sailing A Sinking Sea’. This new album release packages the soundtrack LP with a DVD of the film, thus opening several windows to the eternal questions posed on both formats and providing two distinct pieces of art coming from the same source. ‘Sailing A Sinking Sea’ is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the culture of the Moken people of Burma and Thailand. The Moken are a seafaring community and one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in Asia, traditionally spending eight months out of the year in thatch-roofed wooden boats. Wholly reliant upon the sea, their entire belief system revolves around water. ‘Sailing A Sinking Sea’ weaves a visual and aural tapestry of Moken mythologies and present-day practices. As a viewer you will swim under the sea past fishes and mermaids, sail boats across turquoise waters, land on 13 different islands, step inside sea shanties on stilts, delve into the minds of shamans, become possessed through the worship of sea gods, dance between lovers and emerge drenched in Moken mythology. Bitchin Bajas were tapped to add to the already-existing raft of water sounds and other field recordings captured in the film. They were shown scenes and with subtle directions from Wyatt, laid down music in the vibe of the environment, making particularly satisfying use of auto-harps in the process. Mark McNeill at Dublab provided a mix compiling film sounds and soundtrack pieces that gave the album an aquatic flow, with waves of water, Moken voices and songs and cascades of autoharp, synth, bells and flute lapping up against each other, producing a sense of time passing in its ultimate way - somehow timelessly; today twined with the epic tale of history and the million forgotten days stretching behind. The sound of the real intermingling with the music of the mind provides a hypnotic, album-length interpolation of the energies of ‘Sinking A Sailing Sea’s incredible images. Executively produced by Will Oldham, ‘Sinking A Sailing Sea’ was premiered at SXSW in the 2015 Visions Catgory and it went on to receive its international premiere at Hot Docs. It has gone on to be shown a number of festivals including Margaret Mead, BFI London and the Singapore International Film Fest, where it recently won the Audience Choice award. Olivia Wyatt is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Sublime Frequencies film and music collective. She has directed, produced, shot and edited three feature-length documentaries, ‘Staring Into The Sun’ (2011), ‘The Pierced Heart & The Machete’ (2013) and ailing A Sinking Sea(2015). She has a series of shorts out alongside a vinyl LP by Bitchin Bajas called Vibraquatic (2012) and was one of the creators of the film ‘Below The Brain’ (2011). Her work has screened at SXSW, Hot Docs, Maysles Cinema, Flaherty NYC at Tribeca 92Y, Anthology Film Archives, BAM, Third Man Records, All Tomorrow’s Parties, The Milano Film Festival, The Barbican Museum and The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Her work has been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BBC, Indie Wire and VICE. Since 2010 Bitchin Bajas have released records on Important, Permanent, Bathetic, Kallestri Editions, Hands In The Dark and Drag City. They have played their music all over the world. Their most recent release is a collaborative album with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties. Record Label: Drag City Style: Ambient

Joanna Newsom has announced her first new album in five years. Entitled Divers, the follow-up to 2010’s Have One on Me is due from Drag City on October 23rd. Spanning 11 tracks, Divers features contributions from Nico Muhly and Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth, along with Steve Albini, who co-produced the LP. The folk musician has teased the record with single “Sapokanikan”. Full of glockenspiel, horns, and flutes, it’s everything that we’ve been missing from the singer in her absence Record Label: Drag City Style: Singer / Songwriter

New Wand aloft! So how to explain....Wand manufacture a little life within an elaborate craftwork of sound amongst the endless social contrivances of popular music - that almost says it? 1000 Days is Wand’s third album in what can only be called the relative blink of an eye, and their best album too. Record Label: Drag City Style: Alternative

New Wand aloft! So how to explain....Wand manufacture a little life within an elaborate craftwork of sound amongst the endless social contrivances of popular music - that almost says it? 1000 Days is Wand’s third album in what can only be called the relative blink of an eye, and their best album too. Record Label: Drag City Style: Alternative

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Record Label: Drag City Style: Alternative

Record Label: Drag City Style: Alternative

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Record Label: Drag City Style: Rock

Record Label: Drag City Style: Folk

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Artist: Neil Michael Hagerty Label: Drag City

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Artist: Ambarchi; Artist: O'Malley; Artist: Dunn Label: Drag City (rough trade)