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Matthew Herbert (aka Doctor Rockit) Café De Flore Official Video
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Video credits:
Bhushitendu, Subodh & Sijya
Track credits:
Written & produced by Sijya, out now li.sten.to/sijya_younghate
Mixed by Dilip Harris & Krishna Jhaveri
Mastered by The Exchange
Distinct textural layers move across each other and interact with each other with only a suggestion of literal meaning to guide the viewer’s mind. Growing from the very ASMR nature of the track’s sounds, the video makes the music’s buzzing pulsating nature even more palpable.
Track credits:
Written and produced by Sijya Gupta
Mixed by Dilip Harris
Additional mixing by Krishna Jhaveri
Mastered by The Exchange
Video credits:
Shot, directed and animated by Annette Jacob
Catching the artist up close at her awkward and out of her comfort, the video is one of the most literal offerings on ‘Young Hate’. Yet, at the same time, it withholds imposing any overt conclusion or reason, instead inviting the audience to project their own experience onto its very relatable narrative around the weight of simple social obligations.
Track credits:
Written and produced by Sijya Gupta
Mixed by Dilip Harris
Additional Mixing by Sid Shirodkar
Mastered by The Exchange
Video credits:
Shot & directed by Bhushitendu
Out now: li.sten.to/sijya_clear
New Delhi's #Sijya is releasing on 2nd December her #debutEP ‘Young Hate’ on #AccidentalRecords.
Across 6 bittersweet, #downtempo tracks, 'Young Hate' reveals the full picture of Sijya as an artist with a strong, self-realised creative stamp.
The third single off the EP, 'Clear' is out now on all streaming platforms.
Track credits:
Written and produced by Sijya Gupta
Mixed by Dilip Harris
Additional Mixing by Jay Panelia
Mastered by The Exchange
Video credits and info:
The music video for ‘Clear’ takes a trip down the past as Sijya stitches together pieces from the trove of home videos shot by her father. As the minimal track builds up gradually, the music video for ‘Clear’ looks back to simpler times, adding the joy of a particularly animated child, as it sees her life – much like the music – pick up its rhythm piece by piece.
Out now: li.sten.to/sijya_anotherthing
New Delhi's #Sijya is releasing on 2nd December her #debutEP ‘Young Hate’ on #AccidentalRecords.
Across 6 bittersweet, #downtempo tracks, 'Young Hate' reveals the full picture of Sijya as an artist with a strong, self-realised creative stamp.
The second single from the EP 'Another Thing' is out now on all streaming platforms.
Track credits:
Written and produced by Sijya Gupta
Mixed by Dilip Harris
Additional mixing by Sid Shirodkar
Mastered by The Exchange
Video credits and info:
Improper.tv, Mehr Chatterjee & Aditya Dutta
For ‘Another Thing’, Mehr Chatterjee and Aditya Dutta of New Delhi’s studio Improper.tv create an animated collage of various instances of being stuck just waiting for things to happen – before it all dissociates into the otherworldly. The music video dials up the anxiousness of the track as it puts the viewer in a state of anticipation and limbo.
Out now: li.sten.to/sijya_stonefruit
Following her debut single 'Have To Make My Bed' on SUCHI SELECTS compilation via boxout.fm, New Delhi's #Sijya is releasing on 2nd December her #debutEP ‘Young Hate’ on #AccidentalRecords.
Across 6 bittersweet, #downtempo tracks, 'Young Hate' naturally follows on from the promise of that early single and reveals the full picture of Sijya as an artist with a strong, self-realised creative stamp.
The first single 'Stonefruit' is out now on all streaming platforms.
Track credits:
Written and produced by Sijya Gupta
Mixed by Matthew Herbert
Additional mixing by Sid Shirodkar
Masted by The Exchange
Video credits: Urvi Vora & Sijya
On ‘Stonefruit’, she works with dancer and artist Urvi Vora. Made during the early stringent lockdowns, the music video for ‘Stonefruit’ was shot with Urvi guiding Sijya over a zoom call as they assigned a movement to each sound of the textural composition. Assembling them all together in an attempt to create an orchestra of motions, the video tries to enhance each lilt, thump and sigh of the music visually to immerse the listener into its conversational mood.
Pre-order now, vinyl + digital: li.sten.to/wishmountain
Video: Original footage of Wishmountain live at Big Chill Festival, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England in 1996
Following the debut album ‘For The Shoe I Left On Canfield Mountain’, on his second LP via Accidental, Dominic fuses ambient, classical, spoken word, and deconstructed dance music into an album of visceral beauty and heady ideas.
Grappling with themes of urban contestation and dispossession, 'Right To The City' celebrates our communal fabric in the face of contemporary capitalism’s social stratification and endemic violence.
The album is co-released with Portland’s Beacon Sound:
li.sten.to/righttothecityLP
#DominicVoz #RightToTheCity #Chicago #Portland
Across seven diverse pieces, Tullis pivots between diaristic field recordings and analogue synth experiments. The practice of one-take recordings both embodies the freedom of improvisation and the fixed boundaries of the end result.
Video in collaboration with @fraurecerquesvisuals
Jonny @shotbyridout for filming
@al_flosso aka Sarian Martell (drummer)
@youngthugsstudio
'A real bravery of spirit runs through EP3, which feels like Ola's most intimate recording to date: underpinned by pulsating processed loops and a lyricism that is viscerally ‘openhearted’. - @daidono
li.sten.to/olaszmidt_ep3
Listen now: li.sten.to/ctactileafferent
Video directed by Johnny Clyde
Written & produced by Ola Szmidt
Lyrics by Ola Szmidt
From ‘Fixed Freedoms’, out May 27th on #AccidentalJnr's Room 2 - a new series dedicated to electronic music outside the main thoroughfare of club tracks.
On Fixed Freedoms, Tullis presents a highly personal work created in response to changing life circumstances as well as the universal upheaval of the pandemic. Across seven diverse pieces the accomplished producer, trombonist and composer pivots between diaristic field recordings and analogue synth experiments.
This video has been made in collaboration with Tim Booth, and reflects aspects of self-sufficiency, solitude, migration, sense of home...as well as the climate crisis we're all living in.
Sailing Song is about the desire to protect from the dangers which lurk by the waters. It draws from folklore, such as the kelpie - shape-changing aquatic spirit.
@coventryukcityofculture2026
The EP is a collection of songs inspired by the waterways of their multimedia residency at the Random String Festival, set on the Coventry Canal as part of Coventry's year as The UK City of Culture.
Armed with their striking combination of found sounds, stringed and DIY electronic instruments, 'Rites For Crossing Water' is a bridge to something new for the duo.
It follows their debut album, BRACE, which was greeted with a BBC Proms performance and an Ivors Composer Award nomination. The title track of the new EP has been featured as Tom Robinson’s Track Of The Week on BBC Radio 6 Music. Direct and catchy, the new songs are filled with folklore, old and new. RFCW is the result of the duo’s artistic residency along the Coventry Canal, commissioned by #LudicRooms in 2021.
Encouraged to consider a 21st Century narrative of the waterway, and imagine the traditions of future folk, Crewdson & Cevanne created an audio-visual installation projected onto the backs of billboards and reflected in the canal. The pair wrote nineteen rituals for crossing water, marking nineteen bridges leading to the terminal Canal Basin.
Just as these water-crossing rituals mark a point of transition for those that practice them, this release marks the beginning of a journey into multimedia and new musical styles for Crewdson & Cevanne, and just in time for May Day.
The EP launch has been held on April 29 at The Coal Vaults, The Tin Music & Arts, Coventry Canal Basin, as part of the Waterways Festival.
Credits:
released April 29, 2022
Writers & Producers: Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Hugh Jones
Mixing: Hugh Jones, Matthew Herbert
Mastering: Simon Davey at The Exchange
Artwork: Jessica Glover
Press Shot Photography: Jodie Cartman
Commissioners: Ludic Rooms, Random String Festival (Rites For Crossing Water; Widdershins) 2021; Tête à Tête for the Cubitt Sessions, Kings Cross, Coal Drops Yard (What’ll We Do) 2020
@coventryukcityofculture2026
With The Swan, Nwando invites the listener to delve into the core of an alternate reality society, bringing to life this ritualistic track, and to glimpse a long-forgotten initiation ride. The song was originally inspired by sister stories from Clarissa Pinkola Estes such as Women who run with the Wolves, and The Mistaken Zygote, and her retelling and interpretation of The Ugly Duckling, the archetype of the Swan.
Here, Nwando sees her swan as a symbol of transformation.
Listen: smarturl.it/NwandoEbizie_TheSwan
The track is written, mixed and produced by Matthew Herbert
All vocals arrangements by Matthew Herbert apart from 'Gold Dust' with additional vocal arrangements by Bianca Rose
Vocals by Bianca Rose
Hi Hats by Leo Taylor
Backing vocals by Ade Omotayo
Big Band arrangement by Pete Wraight
Performed by the Matthew Herbert Big Band
Fixer Russell Swift
Recorded at Abbey Road in 2008
Mastered by Mandy Parnell
smarturl.it/Herbert_GoldDust
The track is written, mixed and produced by Matthew Herbert
All vocals arrangements by Matthew Herbert
Vocals by Verushka
Mastered by Mandy Parnell
Listen / order Antechamber Music at smarturl.it/antechambermusic
Slated for release 22nd October on Accidental Records, Musca is the next in the series of domestic house albums to follow Herbert’s groundbreaking LP classics Around The House (1998), and Bodily Functions (2001) which were recently reissued on triple colored vinyl.
Pre-order Musca now: smarturl.it/Herbert_Musca
Composed and produced by Liam Carey
Performed by Ian Buckle
Engineered by Joseph Coughlin-Allen
Mastered at The Exchange
Released on Accidental Records
Hailing from Rochester in the Medway area of Kent, Hawkins grew up watching local heroes such as Billy Childish and cites the area’s punk and 60’s garage revival as continuing influences alongside artists such as The Fall, Neu, Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop.
This can be heard throughout the new single with its simple, uncompromising, infectious, fuzz-laden power chords, crunching drums and youthful energy underpinning his galvanic vocals: “I really love 8-bit metronomic beats with loose distorted riffs” explains Hawkins. “The synth sounds are processed guitar riffs using Ableton. Big fan of repetition and loops.”
The song’s excited almost naïve energy is no accident. Hawkins built ‘Christine’ from the first guitar chords he learned, and the song has been adapted from one of the earliest he wrote with an old art school band. It captures the thrill of his initial wide-eyed musical experiments. He was careful to retain a live and spontaneous sound, recording the guitar solo in a single take.
‘Christine’ serves as a musical and thematic introduction for the Sonic Hawkins project, in which art, pop culture and music feed into one another, influencing everything from the project’s name (inspired by a life-long fascination with Sonic The Hedgehog) to the track’s lyrics, inspired by Stephen King’s novel of the same name in which a young man’s car is possessed by supernatural forces.
The artwork and the video were produced by Hawkins to match the mood of the song. Utilising collage, which he describes as “an important part of all my creative processes, using different elements and layering to create a finished song or image”, the visuals are bright, vibrant and impactful, akin to his Immaculate Confection exhibition recently featured at the Saatchi Gallery.
‘Christine’ is the first in a string of singles due for release with a debut EP expected in 2021.
Composed and produced by Liam Carey
Performed by Ian Buckle
Engineered by Joseph Coughlin-Allen
Mastered at The Exchange
Released on Accidental Records
These three movements will be released via Accidental on Oct 30th.
Movement and Choreography by Matthew Cichon
Directed and Edited by Dominic Voz
Assistant Cinematography Wolfgang Black
Assistant Director Joel Viles
In a strict Mormon household somewhere in the seam between East London and Essex, a girl is given Dizzee Rascal’s ground-breaking grime album Boy in da Corner by her best friend SS Vyper. Precisely 57 minutes and 21 seconds later, her life begins to change – from feeling muted by dyslexia to spitting the power of her words; from being conflicted about her sexuality to finding the freedom to explore; from feeling alone to being given the greatest gift by her closest friend. In this semi-autobiographical piece, featuring grime MC Jammz as SS Vyper, step into a technicolour world where music, dance and spoken word collide, and discover how grime allowed Debris Stevenson to redefine herself.
Poet In Da Corner the stage show premiered at the Royal Court in 2018 to sell out crowds and critical acclaim. Poet In Da Corner the album will be released Jan 31st on Accidental Records in partnership with Royal Court Theatre. Whilst the album is made up from songs from the stage show it is more than simply a soundtrack release, with the tracks having been re-edited and mastered to produce an album that very much stands in its own right as one of the most compelling grime records of today. The release will be made available as a limited edition USB keychain as well as across all streaming and download stores.
Taken from the forthcoming album 'What Makes Vulnerability Good'
Released September 20th on Accidental Records
Taken from the forthcoming album 'What Makes Vulnerability Good'
Released September 20th on Accidental Records
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ECZEMA! is available on limited edition red heavyweight vinyl including a booklet of the text from Accidental Records:
accidentalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eczema
Writer and Director: Maria Fusco
Performer: Rhodri Meiler
Composer and Organist: John Harris
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
available on CD and streaming: http://smarturl.it/CandCBRACE
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film by www.ja-m-es.com
some video clips filmed by Flagey - 20.01.2018, Brussels Jazz Festival, Studio 4, Flagey
Out now on Accidental Jnr: http://smarturl.it/GRpreventing
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