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Emily A. Sprague heads to Japan for a slate of dates in September and October. Emily will be accompanied by the wonderful Cool Maritime at all shows. Sparkles (pictured below) is sitting this one out.

Thanks to Plancha for engineering this expedition.

9/27 – Hokkaido @ Precious Hall
9/28 – Tokyo @ Soup
9/29 – Tokyo @ Soup
9/30 – Osaka @ Club Circus
10/1 – Nagoya @ KD Japon
10/2 – Tokyo @ 7th Floor (Florist solo)
10/4 – Matsumoto @ Give me a little more
10/5 &10/6 – Nagano @ Each Story

Throb, shiver, arrow of time is the new album from Oliver Coates, arriving Friday, October 18. A portal into somatic chiaroscuro, aglow with the embers of imperfect memories and smudged with the plumes of internal echoes, which augment in vast, mercurial dimensions. Pre-order black and color vinyl, jp cd via Plancha, and digital editions now.

“Stems of Water” provides another panoramic view of Isik Kural’s forthcoming album Moon in Gemini. The single arrives complete with a video by Öykü Dikmen, filmed in the mysterious, magnificent Ballica Cave in Tokat, Turkey.

Listen back to Tashi Wada’s guest appearance last week on Laurel Halo’s awe on NTS. Keep your ears peeled for music from Mabe Fratti, Black Decelerant (Khari Lucas, Omari Jazz), Julia Holter, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Chris Corsano, and much more.

Next up for Freedom To Spend’s uncommon¢ series, Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs. Self-published in a microscopic, one-sided 12” edition in 1988 to accompany the young, nomadic composer and virtuoso’s immersive multimedia performance at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium.

Created with this outer, and other, world setting in mind, the four tracks find walker stretching toward an ancient-to-future vision where Egyptian myths and Hieronymus Bosch-ian tableaus are rendered in a screaming three dimensional circuitry of electronic drums, synth guitars, and, of course, Minimoog. Given the musical terrains and outmoded topics traversed, Minstrels & Minimoogs is as perplexing and euphoric a document lost-to-time as it is now found.

Check out “Flagellant,” the first piece from the album, below, and pre-order the album ahead of its Friday, August 23 release date.