Noura Mint Seymali
Tzenni

Noura Mint Seymali — Tzenni [June 20th, 2014]

 Noura Mint Seymali — Tzenni

 ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! Album Noura Mint Seymali — Tzenni was nominated in 8th Tais Awards/Harvest Prize 2015.
ζ•   Produced and recorded across an appropriately dizzying array of locations and social contexts (New York City, Dakar, Nouakchott) chanteuse Noura Mint Seymali’s album Tzenni is a contemporary articulation of Moorish griot music from Mauritania — an artform that has been evolving and gaining momentum for centuries.  Noura Mint Seymali is an artist profoundly steeped in history and tradition but also rigorously devoted to its global resonance.
Location: Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Album release: June 20th, 2014
Record Label: Glitterbeat
Duration:     41:29
Tracks:
01. Eguetmar      3:23
02. Tzenni      5:15
03. El Barm      6:04
04. El Madi      3:11
05. El Mougelmen      4:00
06. Hebebeb (Zrag)      3:11
07. Soub Hanallah      5:13
08. Tikifite      3:35
09. Char'aa      2:28
10. Emin Emineïna Chouweynë      5:10
Personnel:
ζ•   Noura Mint Seymali (lead vocals, ardine)
ζ•   Jeiche Ould Chighaly (guitar, tidinit)
ζ•   Ousmane Touré (bass)
ζ•   Matthew Tinari (drums)
ζ•   Ayniyana Chighaly (backing vocals, ardine)
ζ•   Mayassa Hemed Vall (backing vocals, percussion)
01 — Eguetmar
ζ•   Eguetmar recites a simple dialogue between two men meeting in a foreign land:
A: I feel like a stranger here, alone and without my family. My longing makes me feel desperation as a baby being weaned from its mother. I fear I must try to forget my family in order to succeed.
B: Have faith; I guarantee you will return to your family. In the name of God, I shall offer you all you need to return.  ― Bismillah.‖
02 — Tzenni
ζ•   Tzenni is a reflection on change and instability. The poet is tormented and troubled, but takes refuge in the fact of impermanence. ― Everything turns, everything changes. Nothing in this life is stable; everything can change at a moment‘s notice. Sometimes life brings happiness and sometimes sadness. What real decisions can be made, what course can be taken in a world that‘s always changing?‖
03 — El Barm
ζ•   A classic of Mauritanian traditional repertoire,  ― El Barm‖ is a love song. Sung in the voice of a restless, unstable man who believes he may never change and is destined to wander forever, he now marvels at how his life has ultimately been altered by a woman, in whom he has at last found stability. Their love has changed his course in a way he thought was impossible; as impossible as combining the East with the West. Various metaphors for the impossible ensue.
04 — El Madi
ζ•   ― El Madi‖ means ― the past.‖ The song is the reflection of a prisoner jailed in the time before Mauritania‘s independence. He addresses a lover on the outside, remembering their past: ― The judge will not free me to see you. I‘m imprisoned unjustly and long to see you again. As I dream of you I‘m blinded by the gold of your headdress, shining so brightly in my memory.‖ In traditional context, ― El Madi‖ is a dance performed by women.
05 — El Mougelmen
ζ•   El Mougelmen is a dish in Mauritania made from a mix of spices and flowers. Similarly, the song‘s lyrics are a mix of different lines of poetry, thematically unrelated and chosen for musicality, mashed up via free association in a way similar to the ingredients of the dish. ― My thoughts are on the women of today,‖ Noura sings — women implicitly being the makers of El Mougelmen. ― God bestows blessings and takes them away,‖ blessings such as food and sustenance.
06 — Hebebeb (Zrag)
ζ•   Composed by Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall. The poet is overtaken by the beauty of a woman, named Mariam, picking dates in a grove of trees. Rather than addressing Mariam directly, he pleads with her friend, Heydana, to sing for Mariam in order to attract her attention. He asks Heydana, ― repeat after me, ‗Hebebeb…‘ Always sing this song for her early in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening‖
07 — Soub Hanallah
ζ•   A sacred song devoted to the prophet Mohammed (p.s.l.) and asking God for forgiveness. May God forgive and protect parents, sisters, brothers, and all loved ones. May God grant mercy upon our sins. Soub Hanallah recites numerous praise names for the prophet.
08 — Tikifite
ζ•   Tikifite is an herb that is believed to heal the liver and stomach. ― Stir the tikite‖ a man asks, he wishes to be healed and together with his soul mate. A song often performed by Dimi Mint Abba, poetry written for her is often included; ― Dimi when you sing for me it heals me.‖
09 — Char‘aa
ζ•   Char‘aa is primarily a dance. The title refers to the dance / rhythm which precedes the singing. The text here is that of an old praise song, sung originally for the prophet Mohammed (p.s.l.) upon his return to Medina after victory in battle.
10 — Emin Emineïna Chouweynë
ζ•   Dedicated to Noura‘s paternal grandmother Mounina, a great singer and musician, the song assembles various lines of poetry written about her. The title, literally — where are you ugly?,‖ originates from a line questioning popular criticism of Mounina by posing a simple question; ― they may say that you are ugly, but where can this ugliness be found?‖ Another line concerns Noura herself, offered to her as a compliment, by a poet who says her voice is as beautiful as Mounina‘s. The text mourns how Mounina‘s absence leaves a void.
In french:
ζ•   "Déterminée à parachever l’œuvre entreprise par son père, célèbre griot mauritanien qui s’est efforcé de faire connaître la musique de son pays, la chanteuse Noura Mint Seymali s’offre avec l’album Tzenni, une carte de visite sonore convaincante et prometteuse."
Description:
ζ•   TZENNI in Hassaniya means to circulate, to spin, to turn. It’s the name for a whirling dance performed to the music of Moorish griots, often under khaima tents thrown up for street gatherings in the sandy quartiers of Nouakchott and out across the wide deserts of Mauritania. Tzenni is an orbit, the movement of the earth around the sun, the daily progression of light and dark, lunar cycles, tides and winds. Tzenni, the dance, comes forth as the cyclical trajectory of a Moorish musical gathering builds to a fervorous pitch. It’s a word whose expansive valence reminds us how only the most basic reality can create such romantic metaphor.
ζ•   Produced and recorded across an appropriately dizzying array of locations and social contexts (New York City, Dakar, Nouakchott) the album Tzenni is a contemporary articulation of Moorish griot music from Mauritania — an artform that has been evolving and gaining momentum for centuries — as voiced by Noura Mint Seymali, an artist profoundly steeped in its history and rigorously devoted to its global resonance.
ζ•   Noura Mint Seymali comes from a long line of visionary musicians. Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, her father, was a scholar-artist instrumental in opening Mauritanian music to the world; devising the first system for Moorish melodic notation, adapting music for the national anthem, and composing works popularized by his wife (Noura’s step-mother), the great Dimi Mint Abba. From her precocious beginnings as a teenaged backing vocalist with Dimi Mint Abba, Noura Mint Seymali now drives the legacy forward, re-calibrating Moorish music for our contemporary moment. Her band’s arrangements, rigor, and experimental spirit may be understood as a continuation of the tradition of Seymali, Dimi, her grandmother Mounina, and countless others.
ζ•   Together with her husband, heroic guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly, who brings the force of yet another powerful branch of Moorish musical lineage, the band on this recording was conceived as a distillation of essential elements, the “azawan” and the backbeat. The ardine & tidinit (or guitar) together are the “azawan,” the leading ensemble of Moorish traditional music, while bass & drums, played here by Ousmane Touré and Matthew Tinari, fortify it with genre transcendent funk and a basic pop urgency. Tzenni re-visits several classics of the Moorish repertoire, but does so within a novel formation, conversant in the pop idiom, and with Noura Mint Seymali’s personal history interwoven throughout. The practice of aligning music to a given socio-historical and personal moment is an essential charge of the iggawen, or griot, and, we believe, of artists everywhere.
ζ•   As we seek to convey another turn in the Mauritanian musical dialectic, Tzenni is ultimately an album about shape shifting, faith, and stability found through instability. It’s about taking the positive with the negative in a world that can only ever keep turning at break neck speed. We invite you to spin with us, to dance with us, through the music on this recording! — Matthew Tinari: producer/drummer for Noura Mint Seymali
Press:
ζ•   Noura Mint Seymali, from Mauritania, comes from an ancient family of griots, and she has a commanding, wide-open voice...the pentatonic melodies of her songs had something in common with the blues. But her fusion was particular and selective...She only meets American music on her own terms. New York Times, January 13th, 2014
ζ•   She cleverly merges her powerful voice with the twangy guitar sound created by her husband...this Mauritanian music is an excellent example of roots rocketed into the 21st century. Songlines, April/May 2014
Bio:
ζ•   Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries.  Born into a prominent line of Moorish griot, Noura began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her step-mother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba.  Trained in instrumental technique by her grandmother, Mounina, Noura mastered the ardine, a 9-string harp reserved only for women.  Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, Noura's father and namesake, sparked her compositional instincts, himself a seminal scholar figure in Mauritanian music; studying Arab classical music in Iraq, devising the first system for Moorish melodic notation, adapting the national anthem, and composing many works popularized by his wife, Dimi.  Reared in this transitive culture where sounds from across the Sahara, the Magreb, and West Africa coalesce, Noura Mint Seymali currently drives the legacy forward as one of Mauritania's most adventurous young artists.
ζ•   Fueled by the exploratory sound of her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly’s emotive psych guitar lines, Noura and Jeiche formed their first "fusion" band in 2004.  Jeiche, a master of the tidinit (aka. ngoni, xalam), brings the force of yet another important line of Moorish griot to bear, translating the tidinit's intricate phrasing to a modified electric guitar with heroic effect.  His unique sound, mirroring vocal lines and then refracting their melodies into the either, was born out of years presiding over wedding ceremonies, directing the dance often as the sole melodic instrument.  In addition to his work with Noura, Jeiche remains one of Nouakchott's most sought after guitarists for traditional ceremonies.
ζ•   After two albums — Tarabe (2006) & El Howl (2010) — released locally in Mauritania and years of experimentation adapting Moorish music to various pop formations, Noura Mint Seymali's current band is a concise return to the roots, a light formation led by the "azawan," a word in Hassaniya that refers to the collective ensemble of traditional instruments; the ardine, tidinit, guitar.  Backed by a declarative, funk-speaking rhythm section, composed of Ousmane Touré (bass) and Matthew Tinari (drums), the band has made a formidable debut on the international stage, releasing two EPs — Azawan (2012) & Azawan II (2013) — and touring widely.  The band's first full-length album for the international market — TZENNI —  is set for release via Gliiterbeat Records on June 20, 2014 and to be followed by an extensive North American tour.
ζ•   Though performances at events like globalFEST (USA), Festival-au-Desert (Mali), Hayy Festival (Egypt), Jeux de Francophonie (France) and Festival Timitar (Morocco) and collaborations with artists like Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyaté, and Baaba Maal, the band is actively exposing Mauritanian roots music to the world.  In a rare merger of cultural authority and experimental prowess, Noura Mint Seymali applies the ancient musical traditions of the griot with a savvy aesthetic engagement in our contemporary moment, emerging as a powerful voice at nexus of a changing Africa.
Website: http://www.nouramintseymali.com/
Label: http://glitterbeat.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nouramintseymali.music
Press:
Contact:
Management & International Booking:
Luxus Live / Matthew C. Tinari

North America Booking:
Fli Artists / Mel Puljic

Record Label:
Glitterbeat / Chris Eckman

REVIEW
Autor: Thomas Divis, August 2014; Glitterbeat/Hoanzl; Score: ****½
ζ•   Mauretanien hat sich schon öfters als vortrefflicher Platz für Roots-Rock erwiesen — und das nicht nur für Männer. Hübsch heftig geht auch Noura Mint Seymali zur Sache.
ζ•   Hört man den Gesang von Frau Noura Mint Seymali ist man zuerst an die Grande Dame der mauretanischen Musik, die 2011 verstorbene Dimi Mint Abba erinnert. Und tatsächlich ist Noura Mint Seymali ihre Schwiegertocher, die Dimi Mint Abba bereits bei Auftritten und Aufnahmen im Chor unterstützt hat. Musikalisch geprägt wurde sie aber auch vom Herrn Papa: Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall studierte arabische Musik im Irak, komponierte Lieder für seine Gattin und arbeitet u. a. das erste Notationssstem für maurische Musik aus. Die traditionelle Ardine-Harfe, die Noura Mint Seymali spielt lernte ihr ihre Großmutter. Das sind also wahrlich nicht die schlechtesten Voraussetzungen für eine musikalische Karriere. Mit ihrem dritten Album “Tzenni” wendet sich Noura Mint Seymali wieder verstärkt traditioneller Musik zu. Diese allerdings wurde elektrifiziert. Tonangebend neben Seymali ist ihr Gatte Jeiche Ould Chighaly an der E-Gitarre und der E-Tidinite (das ist die mauretanischen Ausgabe einer besser als Ngoni bekannten westafrikanischen Laute). Dazu eine Bass und Schlagzeug und der Spaß kann beginnen. Der Sound erinnert stark an Desert-Blues-Gruppen wie Tinariwen oder Tamikrest. Allerdings ist die Musik von Noura Mint Seymali noch stärker in ihrer Tadition verhaftet. ζ•   Der Faszination dieser Mischung von erdiger Griot-Kultur und nicht weniger erdigem Rock erliegt man bereits nach den ersten Takten und sie bleibt ungebrochen bis zum letzten Song. Wir dürfen den geneigten OneWorldMusic-LeserInnen “Tzenni” von Noura Mint Seymali also wirklich wärmstens empfehlen! (http://www.oneworld.at/)
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Noura Mint Seymali
Tzenni

 

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Moses Sumney — græ Part 1 & 2 (May 15, 2020)
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Anthony Gomes — Containment Blues (2020)
Sports Team — Deep Down Happy (5th June, 2020)
Nonlocal Forecast — Bubble Universe! (March 1, 2019)
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Peel Dream Magazine — Agitprop Alterna (3rd April 2020)
Destroyer — Have We Met (Jan. 31, 2020)
John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain — Is That So?
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THE SCHRAMMS — “Omnidirectional” (June 21st, 2019)
David Thomas Broughton — The Complete Guide To Insufficiency /re
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Joan As Police Woman — Cover Two (May 1, 2020)
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Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang — Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes (2020)
Richard Barbieri ‎— Past Imperfect / Future Tense (Mar 2020)
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Paul Weller — On Sunset [Deluxe Edition] (3rd July, 2020)
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Field Music — Making a New World (Jan. 10, 2020)
Gráinne Duffy — Voodoo Blues (Oct. 15, 2020)
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Walter Martin — The World at Night (Jan. 31, 2020)
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Wendy Eisenberg — Auto (Oct. 16, 2020)
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Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Car (2020)
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Coloured Clocks — Flora (May 2, 2020)
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Jonathan Wilson — Rare Birds (March 2nd, 2018)
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Hayden Thorpe — Diviner (24 May 2019)
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Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter (April 10th, 2020)
Wendy Eisenberg — Its Shape Is Your Touch (Oct. 2018)
Baxter Dury — The Night Chancers (20 March 2020)
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Sara Bareilles — What’s Inside Songs From Waitress (11/06, 2015)
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Third Coast Percussion & Devonté Hynes — Fields (Oct. 11, 2019)
White Tail Falls — Age of Entitlement (May 29, 2020)
MUFF — Fatalust (Nov. 1, 2019) cover
Ben Watt — Storm Damage (31st Jan., 2020)
San Fermin — The Cormorant I & II (Oct. 4, 2019/April 3, 2020)
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Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles In Allem (May 29th, 2020)
Torres — Three Futures (29th Sept. 2017)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid (October 6, 2017)
Bison Bone — Find Your Way Out (Sept. 25, 2020)
Oh Wonder — No One Else Can Wear Your Crown [Deluxe Edition]
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Thin Lear — Wooden Cave (24th July, 2020)
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Anoushka Shankar — Love Letters (7 Feb., 2020)
Free To Grow — Imperfection (Aug. 7, 2020)
Dan Croll — Grand Plan (21 Aug., 2020)
Lilien Rosarian ~ A Day in Bel Bruit (June 9, 2019)
Jim Noir — A.M Jazz (Dec. 20, 2019)
Shemekia Copeland — Uncivil War (October 23rd, 2020)
I Like to Sleep — Daymare (April 17, 2020)
Kaki King — Modern Yesterdays (Oct. 23, 2020)
Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn — STIR (Oct. 17, 2019)
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Varga Marián — Solo in Concert (1. feb. 2018)
No~Man — Love You To Bits (Nov. 22, 2019)
Blackbird & Crow — Ailm (17 Jan 2020)
Bruce Springsteen — Letter to You (Oct. 23, 2020)
Amy LaVere — Painting Blue (27 Mar 2020)
100 Gecs — 1000 gecs (May 31, 2019)
Devendra Banhart — Vast Ovoid (July 24, 2020)
Cold Chisel — Blood Moon (6 Dec., 2019)
Cold War Kids — New Age Norms 1 (Nov. 1, 2019)
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The Mountain Goats — Songs for Pierre Chuvin (April 10, 2020)
Hawktail — Formations (Jan. 10, 2020)
Morrissey — I Am Not a Dog On a Chain (March 20th, 2020)
Jack Peñate — After You (29th Nov. 2019)
Villagers — Darling Arithmetic [Deluxe Version] (April 10, 2015)
Ashley Paul — Window Flower (May 13, 2020)
Daniel Bachman — The Morning Star (July 27, 2018)
Roger Eno | Brian Eno — Mixing Colours (20 March, 2020)
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Joe Bonamassa & The Sleep Eazys — Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell
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All Them Witches — Nothing as the Ideal (Sept. 4, 2020)
Queer Jane — Home (Dec. 1, 2016)
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Evergreen — Overseas (15 Jun 2018)
Mr. Alec Bowman — I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot (May 1, 2020)
The Waterboys — Good Luck, Seeker (Deluxe) (Aug. 21, 2020)
Maarja Nuut & Ruum — World Inverted (11th Sept., 2020)
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Daniel Bachman — Green Alum Springs (June 6, 2020)
Midwife — Forever (April 10, 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — The Departure (10 May, 2019)
Kris Delmhorst — Blood Test
Martin Burlas & Musica falsa et ficta — Hexenprozesse
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Songdog — Happy Ending (27th March, 2020)
Zuzana Mikulcová — Slová
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Rory Block — Prove It On Me (March 27, 2020)
Cate Le Bon — Here It Comes Again (2020)
Sean O’Hagan — Radum Calls, Radum Calls (2019)
Nicey Nice World — Obelisks and Asterisks (Sept. 22, 2020)
Robert Plant — Carry Fire (2 LP, 13/10/2017)
Le Butcherettes — DON’T BLEED EP (14 Feb 2020)
Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (July 31, 2020)
First Aid Kit — Stay Gold (2014)
Land of Talk — Indistinct Conversations (July 31, 2020)
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Luke Haines — Beat Poetry For Survivalists (6 Mar. 2020)
Nicole Atkins — Italian Ice (29 May 2020)
Maria Schneider Orchestra — Data Lords (24th July, 2020)
Son Lux — Learning Structures vol. 1~4 (Oct. 11th, 2019)
BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff (24 April 2020)
Delta Spirit — What Is There (Sept. 11th, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — Quickies (May 15, 2020)
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Cold War Kids — New Age Norms 2 (Aug. 21, 2020)
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Thurston Moore — By The Fire (Sept. 25, 2020)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio — Angels Around (May 8, 2020)
Frazey Ford — U kin B the Sun (Feb. 7th, 2020)
Lizzy Farrall — Bruise (March 27, 2020)
Alice Peacock — Minnesota (Sept. 20th, 2019)
Devon Williams — A Tear in the Fabric (May 1, 2020)
LENKA DUSILOVÁ — ŘEKA (Nov. 6th, 2020)
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Sean McMahon ― You Will Know When You’re There (March 1, 2019)
Deradoorian — Find the Sun (Sept. 18, 2020)
The Chats — High Risk Behaviour (March 27, 2020)
Tylor Dory Trio — Unsought Salvation (Dec. 21, 2019)
György Ligeti — Lontano (22. Oct.,1967)
Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind (April 3, 2020)
Cub Sport — LIKE NIRVANA (24 July, 2020)
Guranfoe — Sum of Erda (Dec. 13, 2019)
Susanne Sundfør — Self Portrait (Original Score, 10th Jan. 2020)
Ronnie Godfrey — Shades of Blue (Oct. 25, 2019)
Intocable ― Percepcion (March 15, 2019)
Ytamo — Vacant (June 12, 2020)
Pancrace — The Fluid Hammer (09 Sep 2019/2LP)
Humanist — Humanist (21 Feb., 2020)
White Lies — To Lose My Life… [10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Slow Pulp — Moveys (Oct. 9, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Carnage (2020)
Bright Eyes — Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Aug.
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OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (March 3, 2014)
Siobhan Wilson — There Are No Saints (14 Jul, 2017)
Erlend Apneseth — Fragmentarium (Jan. 31, 2020)
Delta Spirit — Into The Wide (Deluxe Edition, Sept. 9, 2014)