CHXMERAS REVEALS “MAELSTROM” FROM UPCOMING EP

May 6, 2025

**EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC DUO CHXMERAS ANNOUNCES NEW EP, SECOND SIGHT, OUT JUNE 13, 2025**

WATCH / SHARE “MAELSTROM” HERE
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**PRE-SAVE SECOND SIGHT EP HERE**

CANADIAN TOUR DATES COMMENCE MAY 25

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"If a solar storm was a song, it would be 'Maelstrom',” says experimental electronic duo CHXMERAS of their new single, the latest from their upcoming EP, Second Sight. “This one feels electromagnetic and irradiated. It flashes out of some fire-filled core and accelerates the particles around it. When we first started working on the track, it felt like a straight up, ink-black, late night Berlin techno banger. But as we dug in, the track started to glitch, fray, and fall apart -- and we leaned into that direction. ‘Maelstrom’ evolved into its fragmented form and now it feels furious. You can almost hear shards and spikes flying off from it the whole way through, like it could spark a fire everywhere it touches."

WATCH / SHARE “MAELSTROM” HERE
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MORE ABOUT CHXMERAS
CHXMERAS are a transatlantic collaboration between UK/Canadian musician Paul Finlay from the North East of England and Vancouver-based nêhiyaw/Denesuline musician Jarrett Martineau from Treaty 6 territory. Together, they weave immersive soundscape with angular dub, experimental techno, mutating noise, and bit-crushed beats into a genre-blending, otherworldly experience.

Out June 13, their new EP, Second Sight is about “standing face-to-face with the wild, furious, anything goes, free-for-all, freefall present moment that we’re all living through,” says CHXMERAS. “When we set out to make this record, we didn’t know where we would end up, but we knew that we wanted it to sound and feel like the chaos and anxieties that are swirling all around us.”

WATCH / SHARE “SUBLIMATION” HERE
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CHXMERAS released their debut album, Terminal City, in 2024 on Virtua94 Records. Hailed by RANGE Magazine as “a multilayered cinematic masterpiece", the album charts a sonic passage through the echoes and ruins of late-stage capitalism, environmental degradation, and urban decay. Using modular synths, drum machines, live efx, field recordings, film samples and live improvisation, CHXMERAS take listeners into a hallucinatory landscape where fractal paths, lost futures, and the disorienting present collide.

**PRE-SAVE SECOND SIGHT EP HERE**

TOUR DATES
May 25 - Lobe Studio - Vancouver, BC
Jun 17 - Sled Island Festival - Calgary, AB
Jun 25 - Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival - Montreal, QC
Jun 27 - Vancouver International Jazz Festival - Vancouver, BC
Jul 27-28 - Shambhala Music Festival - Salmo, BC

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SECOND SIGHT TRACKLIST
01 Sublimation
02 Armour Up
03 Formline
04 Maelstrom
05 Second Sight

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MOONSHINE’S LONG-AWAITED MIXTAPE DROPS TODAY, NEW FILM OUT NOW

May 2, 2025

**MOONSHINE’S SMS FOR LOCATION, VOL. 6 MIXTAPE OUT TODAY**

**BUY / STREAM SMS FOR LOCATION, VOL. 6 MIXTAPE HERE**

WATCH / SHARE ‘ZAÏRE SPACE PROGRAM ACT II’ HERE

LISTEN / SHARE “LA BOHÈME” FEAT. PIERRE KWENDERS & BRANKO HERE

"A journey through the African continent, with the consummate tastemakers joined by a plethora of guests across the mixtape's 20 tracks. Angolan batida, Congolese rumba, Tanzanian singeli and South African amapiano meet R&B and hip-hop in a collision of sounds designed to cover a dance floor in sweat." CBC Music

“Moonshine [...] celebrates African and Afro-diasporic club sounds, from amapiano to jersey club and batida.” - DJ Mag

“From its bold vision and international rhythms, the collective has all bases covered and is one the premier standard bearers of African and Afro-Diasporic club culture.” - BET

“A bonafide instrumental banger made for dancefloor action.” - Billboard Canada

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Following a period of intense creative exploration across East Africa, JUNO Award nominated collective Moonshine releases SMS for Location, Vol. 6—an album that transcends musical and cultural boundaries. The mixtape is available everywhere today via Moonshine/ADA Warner.

SMS For Location, Vol. 6 is the collective’s most ambitious release to date. The 20-track mixtape weaves together the raw pulse of Batida, Rumba, Singeli, Amapiano, Hip-Hop, and R&B, fusing ancestral rhythms with forward-thinking electronic production. The result is a vibrant and borderless soundscape rooted in the collective's diasporic vision of global club culture.

Collaborators include DJ Lag, Pierre Kwenders, UNIIQU3, Branko, Vanyfox, Black Rave Culture, and many more. More than a mixtape, SMS For Location, Vol. 6 is a multidimensional project that captures the essence of Moonshine's artistic ethos—community-driven, exploratory, and radically inclusive. The long-awaited mixtape weaves together a sonic map that spans from South to East Africa, with each track capturing Moonshine's unique way of blending global sounds into a cohesive energy that connects dance floors around the world.

LISTEN / SHARE “LA BOHÈME” FEAT. PIERRE KWENDERS & BRANKO HERE

Moonshine are also releasing Zaïre Space Program Act II, directed by Hervé “ Coltan” Kalongo and co-directed by Nizar Saleh Mohamed, Pierre Kwenders and Felix Brochier. The film follows Moonshine core members Pierre Kwenders and Hervé Kalongo as they travel to Kinshasa with their collective and encounter Jean-Patrice Keka, an independent Congolese aerospace engineer leading a self-funded space program. What unfolds is a poetic and genre-bending reflection on pan-African creativity, utopia, and the role of science and art in shaping new futures. Set at the crossroads of documentary, road movie, and speculative fiction, Zaïre Space Program Act II features members of the Moonshine collective including San Farafina, Akantu and MC RedBul, and immerses viewers in Kinshasa’s buzzing alternative scene. From the very beginning, Moonshine has built a reputation in the electronic music scene through a bold visual identity that authentically reflects the collective’s story and sonic signature.

WATCH / SHARE ‘ZAÏRE SPACE PROGRAM ACT II’ HERE

MORE ABOUT MOONSHINE
Moonshine — the genre-blending collective nominated for a 2024 JUNO Award for Global Music Album of the Year — has built a global community rooted in inclusivity and fearless exploration of dance culture through their secret full-moon parties. Their monthly events, revealed only by SMS, feature boundary-pushing artists from around the world. Alongside these gatherings, their SMS for Location album series and their latest mixtape released via Noir Fever, Aluna’s vanity label on Empire, and double-nominated at ADISQ Gala 2024, showcase collaborations between core members such as Pierre Kwenders (2022 Polaris Prize winner) and a wide range of talents including Aluna, Sango, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Branko, Vanyfox, Bambii, Kris the $pirit, NegoO, and Nate Husser.

LISTEN / SHARE “LA HAINE” FEAT. NEGOO & YEND HERE

LISTEN / SHARE “SLOW IT DOWN” FEAT UNIIQU3 HERE

**BUY / STREAM SMS FOR LOCATION, VOL. 6 MIXTAPE HERE**

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SMS FOR LOCATION, VOL. 6 TRACKLIST
01 Exode 14:14 feat. NegoO
02 Vamu La feat. NegoO
03 Monkey Effects feat. DJ Lag
04 Aquece Remix feat. NegoO & 3-Digits
05 Aayyyyy feat. Omagoqa
06 Slow It Down feat. UNIIQU3
07 La Bohème feat. Pierre Kwenders & Branko
08 For You feat. Damar Davis
09 La Haine feat. NegoO & Yend
10 Panic At The Disco feat. Adonis Bosso & Vanyfox
11 Moon feat. DJ Satelite, DJ Galio & Kelly Gomez
12 To Ko Lemba Te feat. Love Lokombe
13 Rachel's Wisdom (Ode to Kizimkazi)  
14 Ngoro Ngoro 15 feat. Don Kiwango
15 Black Rave Culture Mixage feat. Black Rave Culture
16 F*** Em feat. Kilobauud
17 Yo! feat. Bianca Oblivion, Lamsi & James Benjamin
18 Slow It Down (Part. 2) feat. Voodoo System
19 Africell Nostalgia  feat. Vanyfox & NegoO
20 Vida Do Yaros  feat. Vanyfox

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ABIGAIL LAPELL’S DELUXE LP OUT TODAY, SHARES “COUNT ON ME” ACOUSTIC VERSION

May 2, 2025

**ABIGAIL LAPELL’S DELUXE ALBUM, ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE, INCLUDING 8 ADDITIONAL SONGS FROM THE 2025 JUNO AWARD NOMINATED ALBUM ANNIVERSARY - OUT TODAY VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC**

**BUY / STREAM ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE HERE**

WATCH / SHARE “COUNT ON ME” (ACOUSTIC) FT. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS
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“achingly beautiful” SOCAN Magazine

“Anniversary celebrates love in all its forms, taking the listener on a journey from ephemeral moments of elation to the power of eternal love, to the tragedy of heartache and loss.” Stir

“Lapell’s masterful skills on finger-style guitar, harmonica, piano once again return to effortlessly complement her eerily beautiful vocals.” - KUTX (NPR)

“Anniversary” emerges boldly and beautifully as an earnest celebration of commitment”
Great Dark Wonder

"The standout track 'Rattlesnake' begins with a slowly ramping up guitar that is sparse and haunting yet upbeat. Lapell lays down vocals that feel rooted and soulful with an element of blues running through her unique style of folk-noir." - Glide Magazine

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Today, Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell releases More Songs About Love, the extended companion to her acclaimed 2025 JUNO Award Nominated album Anniversary. In celebration, Lapell is sharing the acoustic version of “Count On Me”. A love song about love songs, this stripped-down rendition goes back to basics with sparse, haunting acoustic guitar and harmonies from Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker.

**BUY / STREAM ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE HERE**

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MORE ABOUT ABIGAIL LAPELL AND ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE

An evocative collection of original love songs, Anniversary was produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker and recorded at 200-year-old St Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Dekker helped shape the sessions’ spooky, resonant sound and also lent his voice to a couple of spellbinding duets.

Balancing upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads, More Songs About Love adds eight new stripped-down tracks to the collection, including delicate acoustic versions of Anniversary’s standout tracks; a captivating French translation of crowd favourite “Rattlesnake”; and Lapell’s unique take on a handful of beloved classics, including her impassioned version of “Feels Like We Always Go Backwards” by Tame Impala.

WATCH / SHARE “FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO BACKWARDS” (TAME IMPALA) HERE

On Anniversary, Abigail Lapell interrogates the romantic ideal of growing old together. ‘Anniversary’ literally means ‘returning yearly’, and the album’s 11 songs track the revolving days, seasons, and years to celebrate and complicate the notion of eternal love. Across the project, Lapell drew inspiration from a series of personal milestones, including turning 40, along with the fifteenth anniversary of her father’s death – and, more recently, several weddings and births in her family. She offers a 40-something vision of love, haunted by the ghosts of departed loved ones, past relationships or even the spectre of faded youth.

Anniversary was fittingly recorded in a historic 200-year-old church adjoining a cemetery, complementing the project’s resonant and hauntingly intimate theme. Lapell tapped Tony Dekker to co-produce the album, and the two assembled a stellar cast of musicians to round out Lapell’s vocals, piano, harmonica and fingerstyle electric guitar. The ensemble’s sensitive, orchestral country-jazz arrangements reveal the depth of Lapell’s musical palette – making use of the church’s in-house piano, harpsichord and several antique organs.

WATCH / SHARE “FLOWERS IN MY HAIR” FT. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS HERE

WATCH / SHARE “WAIT UP” (ACOUSTIC) FT. GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS HERE

Across the album, Lapell’s deft lyrics jostle with love song tropes, grappling with love’s finitude and the irony of how codependency and longing are revered in popular music. “I wanted to explore some of the contradictions within the pop culture notion of love,” Lapell says. “These dichotomies of light and dark, love and loss, fleeting and eternal – even in the traditional wedding vows, ‘sickness and health, richer or poorer.’” Ultimately, while deconstructing the myths of romantic love, Anniversary emerges as an earnest celebration of commitment – acknowledging its tragedy and hope, and its power to haunt and console at the same time.

Anniversary comes on the heels of Abigail Lapell’s critically acclaimed 2022 album Stolen Time, and Lullabies, released in November of 2023. Over the course of her musical journey, Lapell has now garnered four Canadian Folk Music Awards, hit number one on Canadian folk radio and reached a staggering 40 million+ streams on Spotify alone. Abigail was the most nominated artist at the 2025 Canadian Folk Music Awards with 4 nominations: Contemporary Album of the Year and Solo Artist of the Year for Anniversary, Traditional Singer of the Year - for Lullabies, taking home the award for 2025 Children's Album of the Year for Lullabies

**BUY / STREAM ANNIVERSARY HERE**

**BUY / STREAM ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE HERE**

TOUR DATES
05/11/2025 Birmingham United Kingdom Kitchen Garden Cafe
05/12/2025 Cambridge United Kingdom Cambridge Junction 2
05/13/2025 Bristol United Kingdom Hen & Chicken
05/14/2025 London United Kingdom Jazz Cafe
05/16/2025 Stockholm, SE Sweden Nalen
05/17/2025 Falkenberg, SE Sweden Tryckhallen
05/18/2025 Malmö Sweden Plan B
05/21/2025 Arnhem Netherlands Bovenzaal
05/22/2025 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg
05/23/2025 Venlo Netherlands Joriskerk
05/24/2025 Leuven Belgium Cinema Roxy
05/27/2025 Bremen Germany Radio Bremen concert
05/28/2025 Hamburg, DE Germany Monkeys Music Club
05/30/2025 Berlin Germany Cassiopeia
06/08/2025 Toronto Ontario Hugh's Room
06/11/2025 Portland ME Maine Oxbow
06/12/2025 Saratoga Springs New York Caffe Lena
06/13/2025 Exeter New Hampshire The Word Barn
06/14/2025 Cambridge Massachussetts Club Passim
06/15/2025 New York NY Cafe Wha
07/18/2025 Guelph Ontario Hillside Fest
07/19/2025 Guelph Ontario Hillside Fest
07/20/2025 Guelph Ontario Hillside Fest
07/24/2025 Charlottetown PEI - Trailside
07/25/2025 Canso Nova Scotia - Stanfest
07/26/2025 Canso Nova Scotia - Stanfest
07/27/2025 Canso Nova Scotia - Stanfest

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ANNIVERSARY & MORE SONGS ABOUT LOVE TRACKLIST
01 Anniversary Song
02 Footsteps
03 Count On Me
04 Rattlesnake
05 Blue Blaze
06 Someone Like You
07 3AM
08 Flowers In My Hair
09 Blue Electric Skies
10 Wait Up
11 Stars
12 Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
13 Anniversary Song (Acoustic)
14 Wait Up (Acoustic)
15 Plaisir d'amour
16 Serpent à sonnette
17 Count On My (Acoustic)
18 The End Of The World
19 Stars (Acoustic)

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