“The music itself becomes a series of instruments or tools, like mechanisms or portals in themselves. I’m always interested in collapsing the digital into the analogue and vice versa. Serendipity reorganises the material.”
Olly Coates on the choices and chances that guide Throb, shiver, arrow of time, released october 18, 2024.
“We need a change of mind. As a planet of people, we have to deal one way or another with our finite existence. We have to deal with loss with hope still in our hearts — our capacity to love can not be contingent on things lasting forever. And so this image of Green is not a vision of dystopia, nor utopia but an expression of trust and an acceptance of limits.”
Dialect, aka Andrew PM Hunt, on some of the themes which informed his new album Atlas of Green, which follows a young musician named Green working in a near future era to interpret signals from technology’s past. Released on September 20, 2024.
“I thought it could be interesting to use field recordings as representations of different natural events. The field recording in ‘Interlude’ is actually the wind around the Wallace Monument in Stirling… it is mimicking the sound of the waves. At the end of ‘Stems of Water,’ recordings sprinklers in the garden in Amasya mimic a waterfall mentioned in the lyrics.”
In making his latest album, Isik Kural attuned to natural world textures, many found around his birthplace of Istanbul, and paired them with more vocal focal songwriting. Moon in Gemini was released on September 9, 2024, marking Isik’s second length record with RVNG.
“The more you’re reaching out and trying new little theories, the more you see out there yet to be attempted. Especially when you get to a certain age, you just want to make sure that you reached as much as you could.”
Gregory T.S. Walker speaking with Claire Biddles for The Wire’s profile on Minstrels & Minimoogs, the Colorado based composer’s 1985 album of medieval moog madness ressiued on August 23, 2024 by Freedom To Spend, RVNG archival imprint.
“What Is Not Strange? is dream music. It’s the music of my dreams. I think that’s what I always strive for.”
Tashi Wada on the inner life of What Is Not Strange?, released on RVNG June 7, 2024.
“Often associated with the period between death and rebirth, the tibetan word bardo is more broadly defined as any ‘gap’ or ‘in-between’ experience, with the ‘life in-between’ being the bardo we are all currently traversing. Bearings proposes ongoing states of displacement and precarity—the suspension of one’s bearings—and the search for a foothold within this constant state of flux. In other words, we are always in a bardo because impermanence never takes a break.”
Ka Baird on their multi-dimensional meeting of streams, Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, released by RVNG on March 22, 2024. Pictured here with Nisa, one of several collaborators featured on Bearings.
