“five” is the next offering from Black Decelerant, the collaboration of Khari Lucas, aka Contour, and Omari Jazz. The second signal of sound from the duo’s debut album makes its way to your ears today via the wide spectrum of digital service providers, and to your eyes with a new video directed by Omari and Neil Nourigat.
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05/13/2024
M. Sage Summer 2024 Shows
What gentle echoes there are all around. M. Sage does as one is wont do when the weather turns, and is traveling about for a number of shows in May, June, and July. Come out, come out, wherever your are.
05/15/24 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Atelier Mill — Yardwork presents w/ Prairiewolf, Ben Swisher
05/30/24 – Denver, CO @ Glob — Thundershout Presents w/ Brother Saturn & Sunswept Duo, LOWERS
06/15/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Audubon Society — Living Earth Presents w/ Zander Raymond, Guests TBA
07/19/24 – Chicago, IL @ Elastic Arts — Performing a 16-channel work on the Cleat system
No one is alone in the drone. Next Saturday morning, May 18, we’ll climb aboard metro-north with our sleeping bags and wide open ears for the 24-hour-drone festival at Basilica Hudson.
In addition to an exceptional spread of artists including Nadah Elshazly, Cowboy Sadness (feat. David Moore of Bing & Ruth), Ana Roxanne, and many, many others, RVNG was invited to program a two hour “block” of sound. with great honor, Khari Lucas (aka Contour) and Omari Jazz, will premiere their Black Decelerant collaboration and Rena Anakwe will create A Space for Sound.
Tickets are miraculously still available, and the probability of a life changing experience are high. We hope to see you there amidst the music.
“The pieces of sound accumulated here were determined by the time and the available machinery. There was never an intention to make more of it than it is. the purpose, my purpose, was to do these things instead of doing other things.” — K. Leimer
Released (just about) ten years ago, K. Leimer’s A Period of Review: Original Recordings, 1975–1983.
On a generous tip from Gregory Tyler Davis that Kerry’s archives were rich with unheard, unreal music, we started a correspondence in 2012 that eventually resolved in an overabundance of material compiled by Kerry, Greg, Robert Carlberg, and the label for this collection.
A decade since its release, and several more decades since its inception, the music of A Period of Review remains vital, vibrant, and prescient in its influence across the contemporary music landscape.
“Subaru,” the second single from Tashi Wada’s What Is Not Strange?, looks back to the avant-garde pop that scored Japan’s economic ascent in the 1980s, when famed composers like Yasuaki Shimizu and Haruomi Hosono were writing commercial music for digital watches and probiotic milk beverages.
On this playful piece, which evokes a peaceful glide through the star cluster that slyly gives the song (and the auto company) its name, Wada signals a transformation from transcendent minimalism to a synth-driven sound folding in folk and pop songcraft, like some imaginary jam session between Harmonia and Discover America-era Van Dyke Parks.
As “Grand Trine,” the first single from the forthcoming album, Tashi is accompanied by Julia Holter on “Subaru,” and the piece is complemented by another beautiful video / vision from Dicky Bahto. What Is Not Strange? is out on Friday, June 7, with preorders up now.
05/03/2024
𖤛 𖤛 pick—your—portal 𖤛 𖤛
A view of where we’ve arrived in 2024, and where we’re headed in the not-too-distant future, with releases already from Danielle Boutet, Steve Gunn & David Moore, Horse Lords, Discovery Zone, and Ka Baird, and forthcoming music from Tashi Wada and Black Decelerant.
Maybe we’ll see you wandering through these portals in our collective pursuit of sound, or maybe we’ll each pick a portal that leads us to a private truth. wherever you end up, enjoy the journey ~
