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The next flame of Sister Irene O’Connor’s Fire of God’s Love ignites today with “Messe du Saint Esprit”.

A deeply devotional hymn channeled through a prism of modern psychedelic pop, “Messe du Saint Esprit” shimmers with gentle acoustic guitar strums and layers of sister Irene’s ethereal voice. Translating to “Mass of the Holy Spirit”, the song finds her singing in Latin and inviting all spiritual seekers to find the divine truth, regardless of race, religion, or creed.

A holy grail seeing renewed life with its first authorized reissue in 50 years, Fire of God’s Love is now available for pre-order in limited fire marbled LP, black LP, CD, and digital editions. Arriving November 14 on Freedom to Spend.

“Each Story” is the final transmission from Emily A. Sprague’s Cloud Time, arriving just before the album unfolds this Friday, October 10.

As the concluding track of Cloud Time, “Each Story” gently winds down the album’s deeply felt voyage in harmony with memory. Gathering the record’s full abundance into one final echo, it is flush with musing tones of reflection and acceptance, suspended in disbelief, and tinged a drop bittersweet.

Named after the Each Story festival in Nagano, Japan where Emily performed the final show of her Fall 2024 tour, the title “Each Story” also gracefully gestures back to the six long-form ambient expressions sequenced before it, each a specific tale in tender dialogue with time, city, space, and place of mind.

The final single emerges alongside another hypnotic visual by V. Haddad, and news of a Bandcamp listening party tomorrow, Wednesday, October 8 at 2 p.m. EDT. Visit the Cloud Time page on Bandcamp for more details, and to RSVP.

Cloud Time is available for preorder now in limited Cloudy Blue and Black LP, Japanese import CD, and digital editions.

Today, we welcome David Moore back to the RVNG family with “Pointe Nimbus,” his first widely shared piece of solo piano music in a score.

Known and revered for his atmospheric works with Bing & Ruth, and his collaborations with Steve Gunn and Cowboy Sadness, Moore’s live ensemble compositions helped reshape America’s musical landscape from the early aughts with their sublime spaciousness. Now, his new solo piano offering marks a full circle moment, a coming home to the radiant core of his artistry.

Moore describes “Pointe Nimbus” as a “simple song that gets stretched and pulled apart and put back together a few times – like a plastic Satie someone left melting and spinning in the microwave.” Its mythic title, alluding to both the graceful tip-toe practices of classical ballet and the divine halos of light seen in religious icons, captures the work’s serenely buoyant atmosphere, a space in which one can always take refuge.

Keep your head in the clouds of “Pointe Nimbus” now, and keep an eye out for more from Moore on the horizon. We’re so happy to have you home, David.

M. Sage’s Tender / Wading shimmers across landscapes today, a stroll through rediscovered terrain.

Tender / Wading sprouted from Matt’s return to Colorado after nearly a decade in Chicago, where he now nurtures a couple acres of neglected, overgrown space with his family thirty miles outside his hometown. Operating out of a DIY studio fashioned from a pole barn and nestled among deeply familiar foothills and pastures, Matt began tracing the footsteps of his former selves through the dirt-smeared lens of his present.

As a friend, Matt rarely fails to cross the RVNG mind each day, yet his presence as an artist continues to surprise us. Tender / Wading was not the album we were anticipating from Matt, but is the album we needed. Listening to Tender / Wading feels like a lingering walk across an open field, sometimes familiar and embedded with memories, sometimes entirely new. Each listen offers a different perceptual experience, revealing new layers of intimacy and abstraction.

So happy you’re home, Matt, and honored we can provide a second home, in tangible and intangible ways.

“I enjoy making mixes because they become statements of a moment—something I’m obsessed with and continue to be obsessed with.”

Lucrecia Dalt shares a rare mix for Resident Advisor, assembling an eclectic collage of inspirations residing outside the boundaries of era / mood / geography. From psychedelic jazz and somber downtempo to Korean pop and experimental rock, her selections offer a map of Lucrecia’s sonic world.

Conceived at LAX and realized in Lucrecia’s home studio, the mix also features work from A Danger to Ourselves collaborators David Sylvian and Juana Molina.

Listen to the mix and read Lucrecia’s interview at the Resident Advisor site.

Extended Field, the long-anticipated eighteenth entry in RVNG’s intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, unites avant-rock quartet Horse Lords and veteran minimalist composer and psychoacoustic pioneer Arnold Dreyblatt.

Together, the group creates a vibrant harmonic environment fueled by a shared devotion to rhythm, achieving a marriage of discreet but related aesthetics for the ages. This intersection of adventurous musicians drawn to the sonically radiant world of just intonation—an ancient tuning system in which scale intervals are derived from whole-number ratios—is a perfect manifestation of the FRKWYS spirit.

We share “Advance”, the tone-setting album opener and sonic map of the hypnotic rhythms that contour the album. Layers of Dreyblatt’s bowed metallic double bass mingle with a cascading pulse of excited strings, echoing the staccato thump of Max Eilbacher’s bass. The tom-patterns of guest drummer Andrea Belfi rumble in the distance, sending battle signs to warn listeners of the off-kilter churn to come.

Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt’s FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field arrives in full November 21, 2025 in vinyl and digital editions. Available for pre-order now, direct from the RVNG webstore and Bandcamp.