Ahead of this Friday’s release, Black Decelerant share a final single, “three,” from their eponymous debut album, and second volume of RVNG’s Reflections series.
Today, Tuesday June 18, at 4 pm EDT Khari, aka Contour, and Omari will host an album listening party on Bandcamp. Make some time to decelerate / celebrate, and rsvp at the link here. 🗝️🚪🌫
Just in time for Horse Lords upcoming us tour dates, As It Happened: Horse Lords Live is back for a second vinyl edition. Featuring updated artwork from Will Work For Good and the same rock solid (live) sounds, grip a copy from the band on one of the tour dates below or directly from RVNG.
06/26/24 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge ← Ticket Link / Event Page
06/28/24 – North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound Festival
06/30/24 – Vancouver, CA @ Vancouver International Jazz Festival
07/01/24 – Tacoma, WA @ Elks Temple
07/02/24 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Project
07/03/24 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
07/05/24 – San Francisco, CA @ The Lab
07/06/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ 2220 Arts + Archives
What Is Not Strange? marks a cosmic shift in musical maturation for tashi. Where Tashi’s past oeuvre is inspired by, if not indebted to or literally entwined with, the minimalism found in his father Yoshi Wada’s music and other pioneering composers in the field, What Is Not Strange? veers the nearest Tashi has ventured toward traditional song-based composition.
Within this shift, Tashi’s sense of detail was not lost — it only sharpened; from the unique tempering of the synthesizers employed on this recording to the selection of Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, Dev Hoff, and Corey Fogel as his backing ensemble, to the sonic partnerships with Chris Cohen and Stephan Mathieu, and the great care and consideration invested in the artwork and collaboration with Dicky Bahto.
If you’re in Los Angeles tomorrow, June 8, come celebrate the release of What Is Not Strange? at 2220 Arts + Archives. Tashi will be joined by the ensemble behind the album, with an opening set from Charles Curtis, live visuals by Dicky, and sounds in between sets from Matt McDermott and Matt W.
Ahead of this Friday’s (!) release date for Tashi Wada’s What Is Not Strange?, another offering from the album via “Flame of Perfect Form.” Once again, featuring the ensemble of Wada, Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, Dev Hoff, and Corey Fogel.
“I like taking the character of this chaotic magician of sorts, battling the elements. My body and the world; my body against the world. The theatricality is this sort of persona I took on for this record, as the performer actively struggling to maintain my balance in this intense, but also playful, comic, way.”
Travis Hood and Ross Mayfield’s documentary on Ka Baird and their recently released album, Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, is available to view / stream now via Nowness.
“I’ve always been mindful of my place in this universe and music has always been the way that I can connect with those feelings. it’s kind of devotional for me at this point – the way I make music is a practice that turns my brain off and lets me feel and express what is truly inside.”
We feel so lucky to have been a part of offering these albums that Emily originally self-released in new shapes and forms, and we are excited for what’s to come in our collaboration.
Photo by Carly Solether
