We Are Busy Bodies

This double LP set is a compilation of 8 tracks from my 6 CD albums released in 1990 and 1991, selected, edited, and reconstructed by myself, including songs that I cherish and that many listeners love, except for the 4 tracks that I re-recorded in 2024.

‘Last Night I Heard the Dogstar Bark’ is a line from Grant Morrison’s ‘The Invisibles’, spoken by Tom O’Bedlam; a half-mad hobo occultist who sees holy words reflected in the wet cement of the city. My last album was recorded and released mid-lockdown dur

This third volume of Universal Synthesizer Interface delves further into early MIDI sequencing software for personal computers, focusing on Intelligent Music Software founded by Joel Chadabe in 1984. In a short period of time (1986-1990) Intelligent Music

Electric Taal Band was a project that came out of the Covid pandemic, a necessity to work alone and some happenstance. I had stumbled on a box of Punjabi records for sale at Bollywood Music Center on Gerrard St. East in Little India -- a store where I had

Aladean Kheroufi Canadian by way of Algeria is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger, producer and DJ based in Edmonton, Alberta. He writes songs that are idiosyncratic, soulful and devastating with a glass half full optimism that turns heartbreak

How To Unravel is about how we might fall apart, and how we find the ways to come back together again. The first half follows all of the paths that lead in circles, the tangled yarn that never finds the end. But it holds on. It’s stronger than you think.

Peace Flag Ensemble are a free jazz collective from Saskatchewan, Canada. Their second LP, Astral Plains, arrives on July 14th via We Are Busy Bodies. While the group’s 2021 debut Noteland was described as “akin to getting stuck in a sensory deprivation t

Oiro Pena is a Finnish jazz collective helmed by prolific composer Antti Vauhkonen. Their forthcoming album, Puna, recorded in bedrooms, studios and other salubrious locations around Helsinki during 2022, is a mix of lo-fi spiritual jazz, experimental, an

Vijana Wa Kazi is a Kenyan benga rarity by one of the country's leading 70's groups that compiles several of their singles into a standalone album.Led by the late John Otonde, the group issued nearly two dozen 7” singles between 1976 and the early 1980s.T