Treat your taste buds to these mouthwatering leftovers!
Trying to keep up with the daily deluge of music is like trying to drink from a firehose. While we do our best to share all the good music that comes our way, some gems inevitably slip through the cracks. That’s where The Leftovers features come in; each Friday, we serve up five tasty morsels that we couldn’t let slip away into easily digestible snippets. This week, we’re showcasing new music from Islandman, Langendrof United, Scree and more. Lap up these delectable treats.
Neo-Turkish-psychedelic trio Islandman invite you to explore their unique sound with the release of their fifth album, ‘Island5’. The new single ‘Rüzgar’ reimagines Anatolian culture in the first 30 seconds by blending ambient textures, modal scales, and ceremonial percussion with analog synths, jam sessions, and studio magic.
Great news, folks. Langendrof United is about to release their second album, titled ‘Undercover Beast,’ which will be forthcoming on Sing a Song Fighter. Led by Swedish saxophone player Lina Langendorf, the band consists of Daniel Bingert (keys, guitar), Martin Hederos (keys, viola), Ole Morten Vågan (double bass) and Andreas Werliin (drums). Listen to the title track, which has the significant Ethiopian Anchihoye scale as its guiding star throughout the song. The album is out on 26th September and we think it’s well worth your time.
Scree‘s second album, August, promises to be a wonderful collection of compositions that are more deliberate, more symphonic in some sense, than before – and the sound itself is expanded on with strings, woodwinds, and pedal steel. The first two tracks of the album can be heard below for your listening pleasure.
Kassa Overall’s latest jam is a fresh spin on Digable Planets’ 90s classic, ‘Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)’. Consider it the appetiser for the main course arriving in September. The track is an instant favourite around these parts, and we’re sure the album has lots more to offer. Across 8 instrumentals, the visionary drummer and producer transforms hip-hop classics by The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, OutKast, Digable Planets, and Juvenile into timeless standards that are rhythmically adventurous, witty, and often sublime.
Bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist Blake Mills recently announced That Wasn’t A Dream, a new collaborative album out 22nd August on New Deal / Impulse! Records. Listen to the groovy lead track ‘Taka’ below.
