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“Rice Field of the Diorama” is the final swirl from 7FO's Water Falls Into A Blank before the album resurfaces this Friday, November 6.

“Rice Field of the Diorama” materializes in underwater immersion, anchored by a squishy, resounding rhythm. Morphing synths guide the way, punctuated by delightful keyboard motifs and fluid guitars unfolding in majestic harmony. Swishing soundscapes construct phosphorescent architectures around a sweeping melody, conjured by a fuzzy guitar and devoted to the one universal life-source. Light-hearted and gently profound, the mirrored patterns of “Rice Field of the Diorama” spill forth in an expansive, eternal blue.

After a decade, Water Falls Into A Blank will be available on all digital platforms and as an expanded CD edition via Plancha on November 6, 2026.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind flutters into our world today.

Motorcycles and Cherry Wind marks Isik’s third album with RVNG, and his fifth or sixth release with the label. Despite having accumulated this prolific catalog since 2022’s in february, his music may have eluded you. The understatement of Isik’s music is it essence, and elegance.

While understated, Isik’s music is not simple. The arc of Isik’s music – from the minimal, song-centric writing of in february, to the subtle ornamentation of Moon in Gemini, to a synthesis of both in Motorcycles and Cherry Wind - has always been underpinned by exploration, a keen interest in historical and geographical lore, and lyrical allegory.

This interest is firmly rooted in the time-honored pursuit of mystery. From traveling through the ancient cities of his homeland of Turkey, capturing field recordings to synthesize found sound and music as a simple, symbiotic gesture, and simultaneously approaching his songwriting in a more traditional way, Isik ultimately arrived at Motorcycles and Cherry Wind.

Isik notes that his own voice changed on Motorcycles and Cherry Wind - an emotional, rather than technical, transformation. While writing and recording the album, he simply learned to enjoy a sound from within surfacing beyond. That joy is the cornerstone of Motorcycles and Cherry Wind, a resolutely mysterious work, though his most realized album to date.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind is available now in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

“Many Only Manolyas” is the final offering from Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind before the record unfolds this Friday, October 30.

Bright and light-hearted, “Many Only Manolyas” leads with the guileless sweetness of a lullaby. Guitar strings loop alongside warm and expansive quivers of woodwind, carrying the melody ever so gently, the way the wind effortlessly picks up the scent of flowers. Beneath it all, Sappho’s poetry simmers with hints of golden chickpeas from "Fragment 143," the title itself an accidental echo of "Fragment 146," “Mete moi meli mete melissa.” Ancient syllables, stumbled upon and preserved.

The song emerges alongside a video directed by Debora Maité, taking us on a vibrant trip through botanical bliss.

Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind will be released this Friday, October 30, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

“TV” and “Prison” are the final movements from Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s trio of operettas before this extraordinary collection of sound re-emerges this Friday, October 9 on Freedom to Spend.

On their 1989 cassette album Ways Away, Tanega and Pavletich expanded the emotional breadth of their tape-hissed sonic universe with a home-recorded operatic song cycle exploring themes of freedom and confinement, tales of travel by road and sea, and increasingly macabre diagnoses of our societal ills.

A love affair is set in unresolved musical tension with the rapturous pull of a glowing screen; windswept synths wall the listener into an unsettling portrait of captivity and loneliness. Affectionately eerie, “TV” and “Prison” see the duo leverage their sound to new, uncanny heights.

Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s Saturday Dancer, Ways Away, and Run Runner will be released in newly transferred and remastered digital editions, and a small, dwindling inventory of original cassettes this Friday, October 9.

“Be-Stimmung (das Pochen)” is the next transcendent expression from Lotti Tauber’s Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings 1981-1986, unfolding November 13, 2026 on Freedom to Spend.

“Be-Stimmung (das Pochen)” is originally the closing piece from Tauber’s 1982 album Bestimmung. While “das pochen” can be translated from German to English as “the throbbing,” in possible reference to either the pain with which Tauber lived or the drum and gong-backed rhythm of the piece itself, “be-stimmung” can mean “determination,” “destiny,” “purpose.” Here, continuity is not freely given or ambient: rather, it is created and preserved with effort, focus, and contemplative intention.

Lotti Tauber’s Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings 1981-1986 arrives in its entirety on November 13, 2026 on Freedom to Spend.

Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano rises into this world today.

Emily’s experience as singer and songwriter for Florist manifests for the first time in Cyano, an album whose concept began forming many moon ago. At its core, Cyano is an imagined world that exists in a utopian state, yet with a buried dark history. Emily was deeply invested in exploring the outer reaches of our world to inform Cyano, and in December of 2019, embarked on a profound trip to Iceland to conduct this field research with her life and creative partner V Haddad.

Over the next several years that followed, including a couple where we all found ourselves huddled in isolated introspection, the story of Cyano began to center around a character who feels and desires deeper language and nuanced sharing of experience and feeling. this kind of communication is what became the downfall of Cyano in the long past, so it is in many ways forbidden. Thus, Cyano became an album about searching for, and finding, connections through emotions and shared experiences.

In an effort to make those connections, and explore this forbidden language, Emily moved from composing instrumentals to composing with vocals, incorporating her voice into her solo, environmental music making. And while Rmily’s vocals do at times feel transmitted from a remote galaxy, they are distinctly hers, eternally empathetic and human.

So, in many ways, Cyano is a first offering, a symbolic juncture, a new world entirely of Emily’s design. We truly could not be more honored to play a role in helping this sound find its audience.

Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano is available now in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.