Martin John Henry releases a new track, ‘Northern Strangers’, accompanied by a video by, filmmaker Kris Boyle. The song is part of a soundtrack curated by Boyle, who has made seven new videos to accompany new musical works by Auld White Label, Babygod, Robert Dallas Gray, Haunted Stars and M. John Henry. The filmmaker gave each musician a title or phrase as a starting point with no other brief, while making the videos separately, not hearing the music until after most of the films were made – resulting in a collection of paired visual-audio works, each of which is open to “the chance encounter ..read more

‘Winter Still’, the debut from Glasgow-based act Surface Cat, is now available to download. The self-released 11 tracks are the work of one J Mark Percival and the first recordings in a couple of decades from the musician, who also works as a music lecturer, although he will also be known to many as the former host of BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Electronica’ radio show. It’s available to stream as well as download via Bandcamp, and a streamed gig is planned. Surface Cat shows have previously taken place in Turku, Plzen, and Manila, and a Glasgow gig will involve locally-based musicians taking on the ..read more