Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

Ashkan Shafiei – Hunter EP (L)
Bridge Dog – Auto Fictions (L)
Civic – Chrome Dipped (AU)
Meteor Infant – Pilliga Circumstance (L)
Rebeccah Vasmant – Who we are becoming (OS)
The Budos Band – VII (OS)
The Electorate – By Design (L)
Voom – Good things are happening (NZ)

SINGLES:

Ela Stiles – I Like You (AU)
G2G – Vixen (L)
Lady Lyon – Like it is (L)
Natalie Slade – Telephone (L)
Platonic Sex – Easy (AU)
Wet Leg – CPR (OS)

As always, we’re blessed with incredible local music this week, including a real gem from guitarist and songwriter Liam Keenan aka Meteor Infant. His latest is a beautifully composed record of watery guitar melodies and intimate, undulating folk music. Inspired by the landscape of the Pilliga Nature Reserve in Central Northern NSW, this one will appeal to fans of the more surrealist and impressionistic side of folk recordings, such as DC Cross and North Arm. Out now on Ramble Records.

Moving further afield, the second album from Glasgow-based producer, DJ, radio presenter and vocalist Rebecca Vasmant has just landed via the New Soil label. Born in Paris before relocating as a child to Scotland, Vasmant began her career as a club DJ before feeling the call of the Jazz music which was an inspiration growing up. Her productions have increasingly turned to collaborations with live musicians, and Who we are, becoming features a wide range of fellow travellers from across the Scottish Jazz scene, including Amanda Whiting (harp), vocalist Emilie Boyd and bassist Joe Rattray. It’s a stunning record that touches onto the deeper and more cinematic edges of spiritual jazz.

A gem of a record, the latest release from Sydney-based musician Ashkan Shafiei is out today. The Hunter EP is a fusion of both contemporary trends in funk and jazz music, as well as an exploration of  Shafiei’s musical heritage:

“I feel like this EP represents my own story. I grew up listening to Iranian pop and classical music of pre-revolution Iran. Then I got heavily interested in jazz, funk, rock and their subgenres. Then I immigrated to Australia and jammed with local musicians and I feel like you could hear all that in my music and in this EP.”

Hunter is out now on the excellent Music In Exile label, and Ashkan Shafiei is launching the record this Sunday evening at the Vanguard, Newtown.