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The penultimate movement of Freedom to Spend’s ongoing Pep Llopis reissue series arrives today with Destiada.

Destiada is the 1984 soundtrack for the dance-theater performance of the same name, marking Llopis’ debut score for iconic avant-garde Valencian company Ananda Dansa, a creative partnership that would continue throughout the ensuing decades. Created in collaboration with Vicent Alonso, a fellow Spanish composer and longtime collaborator, Destiada is an elaborate universe of melody and timbre, uncannily and elegantly composed as any dream.

The dance is structured as a lyrical fable about the struggle between life and death as seen through the crimson-tinted lens of the Spanish bullfighting tradition. Inspired to offer a “different musical approach to the world of bullfighting—as a fact, as a dream, and as a ritual,” the duo crafted a wholly new electro-acoustic grammar, built on a foundation of hypnotic repetition, intricate polyrhythm, and a vibrant, maximalist instrumental palette.

Destiada is available now on all digital platforms for the very first time. and, for the special occasion, we also have a limited inventory of original vinyl stock up on the Freedom to Spend site and Bandcamp, for those seeking to complete their Pep collection .

"Motorcycles and Cherry Wind" and "Under the Canopy" are the latest travelogues from Isik Kural’s new album Motorcycles and Cherry Wind, en route for October 30, 2026.

The title track is a tender stroll through memory, gathering the carefree warmth of an autumn afternoon in Marrakech into floral, fleeting memories. Finger-picked guitar and airy string instrumentation evoke an ephemeral scrapbook of Kural’s travels: the sweet fragrance drifting in the wind, the sunny chatter of passersby, the vibrant fruit delicately piled on market stalls. Soon, the piece’s circular harmonies dissipate, a farewell to this honey-hued recollection.

Next, “Under the Canopy” is a song written in transit. Set against a rain-soaked afternoon in Glasgow, Kural captures the quiet melancholy that surrounds every journey through a waterfall of chiming synths, the vibrations of a departing train, and muffled station announcements bleeding through a crackling speaker. Melodies and field recordings synthesize to highlight the liminal space between arrivals and departures, a poignant reflection on the fleeting connections made between greetings and goodbyes.

Both pieces are available now, and Isik Kural’s Motorcycles and Cherry Wind will be released on October 30, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

“Baths of Caracalla” and “The One Who Takes the Falls” are the next transmissions from Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s trio of late 80s / early 90s album length sound collaborations, re-emerging this October on Freedom to Spend.

on their final album, 1993’s Run Runner, Tanega and Paveltich deepen their pursuit of creative serendipities, embracing the capabilities of a sampling keyboard, a four-track cassette recorder, and their own improvisatory instincts to dizzying effect.

On “Baths of Caracella,” a volleying vocal loop and arcs of synth downstream the listener onto profoundly slippery ground, while “The One Who Takes the Falls” lades on the digital bells and urgently multitracked vocals to bring the proceedings to a noisy crescendo. The contrasting tones are characteristic of Run Runner, an “operetta” whose surface effervescence yields to a dark vision set in an eerily apocalyptic Los Angeles.

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 inventory of original cassettes, on October 9, 2026.

Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1981-1986 documents the scarcely heard recordings of Swiss pianist and composer Lotti Tauber, moving from mystery to mystery this November on Freedom to Spend.

Tauber’s approach to minimalism and unique technique in her piano playing helped translate an inner dialogue of pain and joy. These two extremes shaped her life: at the age of four, she suffered severe hot water burns, and as an adult pianist, her playing was repeatedly hampered by pain from tendonitis.

Selected from various albums privately pressed in the 1980s, the final decade of her life, this first archival volume of Tauber’s work introduces her capacity to inflect the avant-garde with the intimacy of the personal, combining improvisation and intuition with the chance-based structures to which her intellectual and spiritual life was devoted.

Today, we share “Lonely,” originally from Tauber’s first album Roundabout Ways. The piece layers a central melodic phrase - more evocative of fond reflection than mournful solitude - atop a berceuse-like rhythm. Though this phrase is repeated, Tauber’s interest in musical structures of transformation and music as a form of self-analysis is on display in the piece’s central passage. Therein, she dissembles her phrase, questioning both its ability to hold nostalgia and nostalgia’s hold on us, and imbues its second refrain with a conceptual tranquility.

Lotti Tauber’s Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1981-1986 arrives November 13, 2026 in vinyl and digital editions.

7FO's Water Falls Into A Blank dips into a wondrous world of dub and anecdotal, aqueous pop. Resurfacing this November after a decade long slumber.

Hailing from Osaka, Japan, 7FO / N. Kawata introduces each song as a reflective surface, rippling into sonic pools brimming with micro beings. Listening to Water Falls Into A Blank is much like diving into a quiet lake: a rejuvenating wash of life that plummets through murky and more curious depths. From simplicity grows complexity; from the molecular appears fully-formed creatures we know as ourselves, complete with passion and a primordial past.

Water Falls was originally released in 2016 as part of See, a series of collaborations between sound and visual artists commissioned for Commend, 7FO paired with Nick Ozgunay a then Brooklyn-based artist (now LA) who dyes, paints, burns, and produces prints and textiles as Annexe. First issued as an impossibly small artist edition of nine unique LPs and a cassette, this 10 year edition shares this wonderful music in a wider way.

Today, we prime the palette with “Botanical Dub,” a playful excursion welcoming listeners into 7FO's vibrant environments. Water Falls Into A Blank will be available on all digital platforms and as an expanded CD edition via Plancha on November 6, 2026.

“Noon Liquid Ore” is the next interdimensional transmission from Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano.

“Noon Liquid Ore” breaks Cyano to a deconstructed pause, as industrial echoes meet chiming moods and glow breaks into concrete aperture. In sweeping textures and spontaneous gestures, Emily’s sonic architecture melds into a restful mist, wonder emanating as it dissolves. Gently epiphanic, “Noon Liquid Ore” moves in circles, replacing air with vaster air, dispatches from distant planets

The single arrives alongside a visualizer crafted, as always, by Emily’s creative and life partner V. Haddad, and news of another show this November in New York at the Whitney Museum for Durations. Before then, she will share a stage with Grouper at The Town Hall on September 15, and appear at the Making Time festival in Philadelphia, September 18-20

Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano will be released on October 2, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.