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.
After an August and September jaunt with Crumb and L’Rain, Discovery Zone heads back to the UK and Europe for a spate of dates in October and November. Scan the scenes below, and we’ll see you in the mix.
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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.
In Sara Ludy’s video for Dialect’s “Late Fragment,” the first single from the forthcoming album, Atlas of Green, the revered visual artist mined the internet for free webcam footage, and mid 00s Filckr detritus, from around the world to produce a series of images which were then fed into an AI app. Without any accompanying prompts, the software was free to interpret and hallucinate entirely new video sequences from these images, radically (re)contextualizing these everyday fragments into a startling sequence. View Sara’s video just below.
