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Itasca Shares New Video and Single “Lily” with November Tour Dates.

Itasca has shared “Lily,” the opening track to her forthcoming album Spring, today, alongside a music video shot on Super 8. In an essay for The Talkhouse, Cohen writes about the song’s origins, inspired by the ghostly hallucinations of a water lily she experienced on the long drive from LA to New Mexico, where she composed the songs on Spring. The video depicts a dance of domesticity between mythological figures Ceres (played by Cohen), Pan, and Bes.

Red River Dialect Share “Red River.”

Ahead of the release of Abundance Welcoming Ghosts on September 27, hear the album’s third and final single “Red River,” which narrates the history of the language—a creole of Cree, Scots, Gaelic, and Ojibwa spoken in Manitoba—from which the band take their name, and the colonial dynamic replicated in the process: the “narrowing Throat of the World.” Uncut writes the band’s “most sunny and easygoing record to date… exudes enlightenment.”

Red River Dialect Share Solo “Blue Sparks” Performance Video.

Red River Dialect has shared a solo performance video of “Blue Sparks,” the first song on forthcoming album Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, on which it appears in a radically different full-band form. Songwriter David Morris sent this transmission from Gampo Abbey, the Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia where he resided after recording the album.

Red River Dialect Announce Abundance Welcoming Ghosts + Share “Snowdon” (Feat. Joan Shelley) via Clash Magazine.

Recorded in rural Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, Red River Dialect’s fifth album captures the band finding fresh joy in their music, relaxing more deeply into a natural, playful confidence: tangling with the thickets, wading in the river, digging the peat, and disappearing into the mountains.

Red River Dialect: Abundance Welcoming Ghosts (PoB-046)

Recorded in rural Southwest Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, Red River Dialect’s fifth album captures the British folk-rock band finding fresh joy in their music, relaxing more deeply into a natural, playful confidence: tangling with the thickets, wading in the river, digging the peat, and disappearing into the mountains. Featuring Joan Shelley and Tara Jane O’Neil.

Run Red River: Abundance Welcoming Ghosts.

The ‘Red River Dialect’ became the English name / For the lilting Mantitoba Métis speech / Heard around the Saulteaux plain. / Like the Michif language, Cree don’t say he or she,’ / But I know that white man’s hunger ate / The speech of the Métis.

Mega Bog Release Dolphine and Announce North American and EU Tours.

Mega Bog’s otherworldly new album Dolphine—lauded and laureled by the likes of NPR Music, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and The WIRE (who call it “one of 2019’s left field pop gems… a shimmering chiaroscuro [of] fully fledged delicious pop”—is now in stores and streaming worldwide. The band, who bloom and thrive in the live context, have announced North American and European tours.

Terry Allen’s Cowboy and the Stranger: Early Demos & Work Tapes

Cowboy and the Stranger celebrates the occasion of Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West on display at L.A. Louver this summer. Featuring previously unreleased Allen demos and songwriting work tapes spanning half a century (1968/2018), this cassette-only release is limited to an edition of 500 copies total.