Live in Leipzig: four songs from Horse Lords’ performance at the UT Connewitz theater a week deep into their 2022 European tour.
“I was in my final year of university when I started work on awa. my daily life was a repetition of classes and a part time job during the daytime, and biological experiments in the university labs at night. I didn’t feel connected with a society outside of this cycle. I created the songs of Awa as fantastical response to the introspection and associated feelings playing out in my real life. It was also only a few months after a huge earthquake hit Tokyo in 2011 when I started recording. the instabilities, in many ways, might be reflected on this album”
Satomimagae on Awa, her 2012 self-published debut album reissued by on cassette by RVNG and CD by Plancha.
“I was primarily inspired by artists typically called Minimalists – Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Philip Glass – but also African percussion, marimba, gamelan, folk music from different regions. and improvisational jazz, like Keith Jarrett’s Köln concert, and other ecm artists such as Terje Rypdal. I also just listened to the instrument, tried to hear what it wanted to do. Being present with the sound, rather than bending it to my will, and trying to have a perspective similar to anapanasati in Zen meditation”
Neil S. Kvern on Doctor Dancing Mask: Pianoisms, his 1983 self-published cassette reissued by Freedom To Spend as part of our Uncommon¢ series on January 27, 2023. While it was kind of quiet year for FT$, we have a stacked year ahead.
When has there ever been a bad year for new music? We assembled a small selection from an overwhelming amount of new music that (appreciatively) came across our speakers this year for our most recent edition of Friends & Fiends on NTS. It arrives with tons of adoration and respect for our fellow independent record labels and self-publishing musicians.
Thanks to all of the musicians and labels with whom we’ve established trades with this year, and years before (we love the barter economy). Lastly, thank you to all of the artists that have sent demos, especially those to our P.O. Box. We’ve tried as best as possible to keep up with responses, but feel free to nudge us if you sent something and haven’t heard back.
Listen here!
Arriving March 8, 2024, in partnership with Mansions and Millions and Plancha. Pre-order the limited hologram or standard LP editions, JP import cd, and digital album here.
