The next chapter from M. Sage’s forthcoming album Tender / Wading arrives today with “Wading the Plain”
Like the album it hails from, “Wading the Plain” drifts in with a distinct sound: contemplative electro-acoustic barn jazz for the front range, brimming with pale puddle blues and rusted oil drum reds.
Dashes of clarinet and piano cut through the high grass, creating what sage describes as a “sort of domestic pastoral anthem for a post-internet dweller.”
Chase the wind, and listen / look now,
Lucrecia Dalt heads out on select live dates this fall in support of A Danger to Ourselves, her new album arriving Friday, September 5. Complete info below.
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* w/ Public Erotic
** w/ Vorhees
Emily A. Sprague’s Cloud Time traces an audio-spiritual journey through time and place, recorded across a long-awaited debut tour of Japan in the fall of 2024.
Compiled from environmental improvisations captured in and for the moment, material at once welcoming, responsive, and inimitable, the album distills a voyage guided by psychic wayfaring, unbound presence, and activating performance for a reciprocal exchange with space, listener, and each fully engaged instant.
Today we share “Tokyo 1,” the first transmission from Cloud Time, accompanied by a video from V Haddad, channeling the spirit of an inaugural tour stop, and in its peaks and valleys, cycles and drifts.
“My vision and hope is that this album can be released as a gift back to anyone who either was or wasn’t there. a cloud time of life passing by.”
Cloud Time arrives October 10, and is available for preorder now in limited Cloudy White and Black vinyl, Japanese import CD (via Plancha), and digital editions.
Daniel Lentz passed away in Santa Barbara, California this past Friday at the age of 83. He had relocated near his hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania last year and more recently suffered a catastrophic heart event followed by a metastatic cancer diagnosis. Though weak, he was able to make it back by train to the West Coast, where his daughter and son-in-law live, to spend his final days in hospice.
Daniel’s list of accomplishments and innovations in the contemporary classical, new music, and electronic composition fields dates back to the mid-1960s, when he was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship in Electronic Music and Musicology. He was touring choral and keyboard works that incorporated live electronics as early as 1974. Some of this work was documented by Unseen Worlds on Lips, an essential anthological collection released last year.
Daniel eventually linked with fellow West Coast composer Jim Fox for his first release on the latter’s Cold Blue imprint. That 10″, included in an incredible series of young composers, and his debut album on Cold Blue, Point Conception, alongside his two other albums of that era—On the Leopard Altar (released on Yale Evelev’s Icon label, well before he started Luaka Bop) and Miss Umbrarum—represent a high and wildly prolific mark in the postminimalist canon.
Daniel would later collaborate with Harold Budd and Ruben Garcia (of Repetition Repetition). Several decades later, I had the idea to pair Daniel with Ian William Craig for the sixteenth volume of FRKWYS. Daniel’s ease early on in our conversations signaled a love for life, and an indication of the adventurous spirit that compelled so much of his work—the very quality I was so infatuated with. The results of Daniel and Ian’s collaboration are some of the most aching and elegant in the series, if not the label’s entire catalog.
Communication following the FRKWYS collaboration was infrequent but always so friendly. I often had to pinch myself that I even had a line to a musical hero like Daniel. He will always hold that place, and his music will eternally resonate ~
Photo credit: Betty Freeman
A date(s) with danger. We’re hosting listening events this month and next for Lucrecia Dalt’s forthcoming album A Danger to Ourselves in NYC, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe.
Open to the public with RSVP (and while space lasts), this is a chance to hear the album before its release, and to learn more about the album from Lucrecia, who will be on hand for a Q&A at each event. Complete details below.
All RSVPs go to danger@igetrvng.com. Include the city + date in the subject line.
Thurs, 7/31 – Listening party + Q&A w/ Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of Hearing Things at Public Records (Brooklyn, NY)
Thurs, 8/28 – Listening party + Q&A at In Sheep’s Clothing Hifi (Los Angeles, CA)
Fri, 9/5 – Listening party + Q&A at ICA Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM)
Promo photo by Louie Perea
Cover and promo photos by Yuka Fujii
The latest offering from Lucrecia Dalt’s new album A Danger to Ourselves falls from afar today in the form of “caes (feat. Camille Mandoki)”
Cn “caes,” Lucrecia’s commanding vocals confront listeners with a raw immediacy, over a “slowed-down and diluted dembow” rhythm. mexico city based singer and sound artist Camille Mandoki contributes lead chorus vocals that cut through the sonic landscape with resolute clarity, and percussionist Alex Lazaro, Lucrecia’s steadfast collaborator since 2023’s ¡Ay!, doesn’t merely keep time; he fractures the groove, creating pockets of tension where harmonic expectations dissolve.
The single comes accompanied with a video filmed between the southwestern US and Mexico City. Vertigo trigger warning implied.
