Black Decelerant, the collaboration of Khari Lucas, aka Contour, and Omari Jazz, will bring the sounds from their debut, self-titled album for RVNG’s Reflections series to several stages in May and June. The duo’s live premiere happens as part of a RVNG block at this year’s edition of the incredible 24-hour drone festival in Hudson, NY. Dates (so far) below.
Discovery Zone takes us on a trip through her eyes (and ears) for the April 2024 installment of RVNG’s Friends & Fiends on NTS. Recorded live at the NTS studios in London before a sold out show Peckham Audio, and available to listen from the station archives now and forever.
“Half an hour of communing with an unusual phenomenon.” Czeslaw Romanowski on Wayne Phoenix and ensemble’s recent performance at Klub Żak in Gdansk, Poland.
Photo Krzysztof Olechnowicz. Endless thanks to Lukasz Komla.
“two” is the first single from Black Decelerant, the collaboration of Khari Lucas, aka Contour, and Omari Jazz. In “two,” a calibration of amalgamated timbres arise in a clarion call to the album’s expansive freeform landscapes, the spectral trumpet improvisations of Jawaad Taylor ascending like flares across a tundra of resonant signals and weathers. Suspended in time, these melodic spells cast a warmth through the whirring glimmers of the black decelerant zoetrope.
Neil Nourigat and Omari directed this video for “two,” with capturing Lucas and Jazz in a verdant multi-verse. More from this collaboration to come, all eyes follow.
If you haven’t caught Discovery Zone at any of many shows since the release of Quantum Web last month (including sold out nights at Peckham Audio last night and La Boule Noire), you are depriving yourself of an inner / outer body experience unlike others.
Lucky for those who missed the US west coast shows last month, Discovery Zone will be joining Julia Holter on a stretch of dates from la to Chicago. before then JJ plays a homecoming show, and djs the new Rough Trade EU store, in Berlin. complete dates below.
04/18/24 [DE] Cologne @ Artyfarty Gallery 04/19/24 [DE] Berlin @ Silent Green 04/20/24 [DE] Berlin @ Rough Trade Party at Kreuzwerk (DJ set) 04/30/24 [DE] Munich @ Walpurgisnacht
