Hayden

Hayden, the long-heralded king of Canadian slacker folk, will release his ninth studio album, Are We Good, a crowning achievement in his well deep catalogue of heartfelt storytelling – and his much-anticipated first new album since 2015’s Hey Love.

This is the debut solo album from former (unique Kendal foursome) Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe. Written in California, Cornwall and at home in London. The reincarnation of Hayden Thorpe was recorded with Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno/David Byrne) at Hayden’s London home and at Leo’s Cornish studio. Portentous piano announces the Hayden Thorpe album. The easy dulcet tones which are at times cool, calm and collected but can so easily climb to a mercurial falsetto. Emotive and passionate tones are evocative of sadness, time passing and peaceful acceptance.

Written and self-produced by Hayden with additional production work from Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), long-time collaborator Richard Formby and 4AD producer Fabian Prynn, Aerial Songs was originally composed as part of Hayden’s time as artist in residence at Aerial Festival - an arts, music and performance event due to take place in his native Cumbria.

The searching, cyclical aura of double bassist and composer Hayden Prosser’s debut acoustic album "Tether" fascinatingly finds its roots in electronic and process music. Hailing from Somerset, England, and now based in Berlin, Prosser met up with New York pianist Elias Stemeseder - the starting point for this quartet’s sound with tenor saxophonist Philipp Gropper and drummer Max Santner - which set up the piano-and-bass connectivity that informs many of the album’s eleven original tracks.

In contrast to 2019's Diviner, a record that very much favored the inner world, Moondust For My Diamond sees Hayden Thorpe moving into a more natural visual and sonic palette, gazing outward on the world. Produced by Richard Formby and Nathan Jenkins (Bullion), Thorpe has made an album that is galvanising, reassuring, elegant, seductive: it oozes Big Cosmic Energy.

Hayden Pedigo returns with The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored, the West Texas, multi-hyphenate artist's follow up to his acclaimed 2021 album Letting Go. Produced by Trayer Tryon (Hundred Waters), The Happiest Times finds Hayden crashing the New Age guitar of Windham Hill and John Renbourn into the art provocations of Harmony Korine.

«Una storia dura. Un grande racconto che si segue con partecipazione, con ansia, con commozione.» Corrado Augias «In questi bambini c'è di più. C'è il coraggio. Mentre la sera siamo davanti al telegiornale, a sentire di nuove, emozionanti conquiste in qualche terra lontana, perdiamo i veri drammi che si vivono intorno a noi. È un peccato, perché lì c'è più coraggio che da ogni altra parte. Alcuni di quei bambini vivono con tali incubi e tali ossessioni, nella loro testa, che ogni movimento si carica di straordinario terrore. Alcuni vivono a contatto con una violenza e una perversione che le parole non possono descrivere. Ad alcuni non viene nemmeno concessa la dignità che si concede agli animali. Alcuni vivono senza speranza. Eppure resistono. Quasi tutti accettano la loro vita, non conoscendo altro modo di vivere..