Psychedelic travellers sign to Soundway.

Malcolm Catto’s heavy funk collective The Heliocentrics have announced their first album for Soundway, A World Of Masks.

Having collaborated on genre-bending albums with heavyweights like Nigerian saxophonist Orlando Julius, Eastern jazz luminary Lloyd Miller and Ethiopian vibes king Mulatu Astatke, and alongside hip-hop royalty DJ Shadow and Gaslamp Killer, The Heliocentrics’ have teamed up here with vocalist Barbara Patkova for their first vocal LP.

Released on 26th May, you can pre-order the album on standard and gold vinyl here and stream lead single ‘Made of the Sun’.

Look out for our forthcoming film inside Malcolm Catto and The Heliocentrics’ incredible analogue studio.