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The eclectic composer performs live with Your Government

In this video, the Berlin based composer performs with her band Your Government in advance of the release of her new album. Containing a mix of styles, from electric cabaret to primitive whoops and drumming and full-on rock freakouts,The West Against The People also sees Ocher collaborate with Felix Kubin and Die Tödliche Doris’s Wolfgang Müller on a politically charged set that is truly international.

Subscribers can read an interview with Mary Ocher by Claire Sawers in Wire 397.

Mary Ocher will be touring the UK and Europe from 10 March 2017.

Adrián de Alfonso: Pleamar

Watch a short film that accompanies three tracks from sound artist and musician Adrián de Alfonso’s new album Viator.

goat (jp): Joy In Fear

Watch a 16 minute concept film of tracks from Joy In Fear, the 2023 album by Japanese rockers goat (jp)

Steph Richards “Power Vibe”

The US trumpeter shares a supernatural LA noir created with the help of generative AI for a track from her latest album Power Vibe

Xhosa Cole All Roads

The saxophonist shares a film in which he dances with his two brothers beneath Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction

ECHOS: L'Ocelle Mare “Objets Chargés”

French label and platform Murailles Music shares the first episode in a new series of music documentaries highlighting the unique methodologies of artists on their roster

Galya Bisengalieva “Chagan”

Directed by artist Nicol Vizoli, the video for composer Galya Bisengalieva's “Chagan” reflects on the haunting nature of a radioactive lake in Kazakhstan