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08/22/2024

Dialect presents a mix of influences

“Music has opened up so many avenues of thought for me – to politics and literature – so in that sense the most important thing it can do is to give listeners access to the different ways that the world can be. that’s the gift of any imaginative art.” Andrew PM Hunt, aka Dialect, speaking with Abi Bliss for The Wire Magazine.

Andrew created a mix of influences, which is streaming now on The Wire’s site, including selections from Nasta Stepanović, Candace Natvig, Paul Dresher, David Behrman, and many more.

Photograph by Emma Case

08/21/2024

“A New Medallion for Egypt” from Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs

Ahead of Friday’s release on Freedom To Spend, we offer “A New Medallion for Egypt,” the closing track from the reissue of Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs, a cosmic-futuristic foray into oblique pop and baroque subversion conceived for a domed simulacrum and memorialized on a micro LP pressing in 1988.
Minstrels & Minimoogs is the fourth entry in Freedom To Spend’s uncommon¢ (uncommon sense) series, an open-ended endeavor that provides new meaning for rarefied recordings from music’s outermost fringe. We’re moving right through this small, hand assembled edition, so pre-order a copy before it’s gone.
08/15/2024

Discovery Zone on Audiotree Live

A few months back, Discovery Zone stopped by Audiotree to record a six song set highlighting some tracks from their latest record Quantum Web. Joined by Dave Biddle on sax, the duo explore DZ’s outer pop sounds and muse on the influence behind it. Check out the session on all platforms or in video form on Audiotree Live.

08/13/2024

Dialect Shares New Single + Video for "Born Through"

“Born Through” is the luminous second single emerging from Atlas of Green, the new album from Dialect, aka Andrew PM Hunt, and a spirited encircling of the album’s new mythic forms, imagined from the fragments of allegorical ruin. Saturated with the light of folk-like elation and a capsule of mechanical warmth, “Born Through” emanates the chimes and winds leading towards a possible new world. As Hunt notes about the album, “This is an alternative future to the one of endless growth but one which still holds space for hopes and dreams.”

“Born Through” is accompanied by a video directed by T Isom and Dialect. “I’ve always liked the idea of cartoons as a carrier signal for the ideas of the day, and perhaps also as a way of squeezing old stories into a more contemporary shape,” says Hunt. “For this video we dug through old archive documentaries about the origins of mankind to find imagery which spoke to our need to understand the world at an empirical level and then superimposed animation from a 1964 film about the World Fair to reflect our desire to dream and reimagine our past.”

08/09/2024

RVNG ✹ summer ✹ sale

Our annual one weekend only summer sale starts today, Friday, August 9, and lasts through Sunday, August 11. There’s no finer time to catch up on any RVNG, Freedom To Spend, and Beats In Space releases, and no better way to support our label and artists than to place an order, big or small, straight from the source.

Take a whopping 20% discount on all titles for the next 72 hours (excluding those titles on pre-order; discount automatically applied at check out), and help us bring more fringe sounds to the forefront. Your order directly effects this effort, while bringing these special sounds to your turntable, CD player, cassette deck, and other preferred media devices.

Thank you x 1,000,000 ~ RVNG Intl.

08/08/2024

Tashi Wada Announces Fall 2024 Tour Dates: US, UK, and Europe

Following the release of What Is Not Strange?, Tashi Wada takes to the road for dates in the US, UK, and Europe this fall. Joined by a rotating cast of musicians that helped shape the album, including Wada’s creative and life partner Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, Devra Hoff, and Corey Fogel, the tour begins with east and west cost dates in September and October, and continues through Europe and the UK in November. The ensemble will be joined by Dicky Bahto on the east and west coast dates, who will provide live visuals.

Written and recorded over a period that encompassed the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, What Is Not Strange? sees Wada reflecting inward to explore broad narratives—being alive, mortality, finding one’s place in the world—through new modes of ecstatic, song-based expression. While the denser forms, stark contrasts, and overt surreality may carry a different weight than Wada’s earlier work, which elicited perceptual effects with minimal means, the heart of What Is Not Strange? is still in experimentation and unforeseen outcomes.

US
09/13/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Roulette
09/14/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ars Nova at Solar Myth
10/05/24 – San Francisco, CA @ The Lab
10/10/24 – Stanford, CA @ Cantor Arts Center

EU/UK
11/08/24 -Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who?
11/11/24 – Bristol UK @ Bristol Beacon at Lantern Hall
11/12/24 – Barrow-in-Furness UK @ Piel View House
11/13/24 – Edinburgh UK @ Summerhall at Old Lab
11/15/24 – London UK @ EFG London Jazz Festival at ICA