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October 4th, 2024
New Album: Dal:um – Coexistence
El Khat’s 3rd album mute belies its title as it careens out of the speakers with a raucous intensity. Formed in the garages and warehouses of Jaffa and now based in Berlin, the group’s ever-expanding vision makes a defiant stand against complacency, conflict and division. Skittering drums and brass, a jagged organ, hypnotic Yemeni melodies and one-of-a-kind DIY percussion and string instruments, all meld together in an infectious, heady soundscape.
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/coexistence
September 13th, 2024
New Album: El Khat – mute
El Khat’s 3rd album mute belies its title as it careens out of the speakers with a raucous intensity. Formed in the garages and warehouses of Jaffa and now based in Berlin, the group’s ever-expanding vision makes a defiant stand against complacency, conflict and division. Skittering drums and brass, a jagged organ, hypnotic Yemeni melodies and one-of-a-kind DIY percussion and string instruments, all meld together in an infectious, heady soundscape.
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/mute
August 30th, 2024
New Album: Buzz’ Ayaz – Buzz’ Ayaz
Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia, and led by Antonis Antoniou, the founder of Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke, Buzz’ Ayaz creates a transfixing Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia. Their self-titled debut album is a fuzzed-out urban soundscape of dubby electronics, 70s-psych organ, growling bass clarinet, amplified folk instruments, ritual beats and Greek and Anatolian melodicism.
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/buzzayaz-album
June 21st, 2024
New Album: Bhutan Balladeers – Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars
Produced by Grammy-winner, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami, The Good Ones [Rwanda], Parchman Prison Prayer), the Bhutan Balladeers perform classical music from Bhutan called Zhungdra, that dates back to the dawn of the 17th century. The music features extended vocal tones that weave complex patterns, and melodies that are supported by minimal instrumental accompaniment. That instrumentation consists of the Drumnyen (a lute with 3 double-strings, also sometimes known as Drangyen), the wooden flute, Lemo (hammered dulcimer), and the Chiwang (a 2-string, bowed fiddle). Derived from Sanskrit, the Choekey language (“dharma language”) used in Zhungdra songs is indecipherable to most Bhutanese apart from Buddhist monks. The Bhutan Balladeers collective’s entire debut album was recorded live in a hilltop forest outside of the capital, Thimphu.
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/yourfaceislikethemoonyoureyesarestars
June 7th, 2024
New Album: Landless – Lúireach
Landless are Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch. The Irish quartet sings centuries old ballads as well as more recently penned folk songs. Sometimes unaccompanied and sometimes with subtle instrumentation, their vocally rich music is dark and patient; spellbinding and gorgeous. Produced by John “Spud” Murphy (Lankum, ØXN) and featuring Cormac MacDiarmada from Lankum (fiddle, viola, banjo).
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/luireach
May 10th, 2024
New Album: Gordan – Gordan
Gordan mirror the mysticism of legends and stories from the Balkan region, creating a music that stretches between expressiveness and abstraction; tradition and the avant-garde. The visceral vocals of Svetlana Spajic are both rooted and deeply interpretive. In turn, drummer Andi Stecher and Guido Möbius on bass and electronics, employ sonic strategies that steer the songs in inspired and unpredictable directions.
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/gordan
April 25th, 2024
New Album: Catherine Graindorge – Songs for the Dead
Following her thrilling 2022 duo EP with Iggy Pop (The Dictator) Belgian composer/musician Catherine Graindorge returns with a luminous ensemble album. Collaborators include Simon Huw Jones (And Also the Trees) and Pascal Humbert (16 Horsepower, Lilium, Détroit). Instrumental and vocal songs of life, love and death. Inspired by mythologies and elegies from the Greeks to the Beats.
Get the album: https://idol-io.ffm.to/songsforthedead

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