Colin Self returns with lemniscate, a statement of purpose, and a powerful reintroduction to the Berlin and New York based artist, composer, and puppeteer’s music, their first solo offering since the 2018 album Siblings and companion EP, Orphans.
Colin will share a new piece from lemniscate each day for the remainder of the week, culminating in a full ep release this Friday, October 4. Each piece is accompanied by a visualizer featuring documentation of Colin’s creative world plus artwork and new photos by collaborator Bobbi Salvör Menuez.
In the world today, Atlas of Green, the fifth full-length album from musician and composer Andrew PM Hunt, Dialect.
If you’ve followed RVNG or dialect in recent years, you might know the origin story of Under~Between, Andrew’s beloved debut on the label in 2021. Whereas Under~Between was a cumulation after years of dialogue, atlas of green appeared almost from a silence.
This silence wasn’t a “I don’t care what you think, I’ll do as I please” silence. Quite the contrary, as several hundred (thousands?) emails and calls have been exchanged over the years, some cherished time shared when our paths have been fortunate enough to converge, and we’ve simply settled into the comfort and confidence of a well-lived and appreciated collaboration. So, for Andrew to set forth on the creation of Atlas of Green with little more than some encouragement to make something, symbolized an almost ascetic vow to return with music once it had fully formed and matched his expectation.
Suffice it to say, Atlas of Green defied all of expectations when it arrived. There was some clue where Andrew was headed with this work, having seen him perform early versions in the fall of 2023 (almost a year ago to date). But the end presentation of the album, complete with andrew’s backdrop on green, Atlas’s protagonist, was jarring on first experience, both in how different it was from his prior work and how astounding it was in its creative evolution and depth. Whether you’re familiar with andrew’s past work, or just now being acquainted, the immediacy of atlas of green is undeniable in its musical and emotional magnetism.
We couldn’t be more honored to serve Andrew’s vision, and excited for you to experience Atlas of Green. Limited rtist and standard vinyl, Japanese Import CD (via Plancha), and digital editions are shipping now. We’ll see you on the other side.
Impermanence never takes a break, and neither does Ka Baird. Returning to Europe in support of their recent album, Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, Ka will visit Germany, Poland, Czechia, Austria, and Switzerland over the next couple weeks. complete dates below, including a special performance at Unsound Festival on October 5, where Ka will be accompanied by Henry Fraser, Artur Majewski and Paulina Wos.
“Apparition (feat. Malibu)” is the glistening new single from Oliver Coates’ new album Throb, shiver, arrow of time. Stuttering plumes of poetry by Coates’ long-time collaborator Malibu materialize in introspective shades around burnished flickers of string. As the track plunges into its cavernous depths, her crystalline ruminations on “swimming into the sunset” undulate through viscous, stretched-out sound, drowned and suspended in spectral radiance.
“Apparition” arrives accompanied by a video from multimedia artist Charlotte Wells, whose 2022 film Aftersun Coates’ scored. Of the video, Wells says, ““When Olly sent me the track and shared Sarah Sze’s work as the feeling of a video — refracted, chaotic, searching — I thought of an experiment of sorts that friend/artist/collaborator Greg Oke did a while back using personal photographs in rapid succession. Olly shared thousands of photographs from the past eight years or so and I kind of curated them, encouraged them into the timeline while remaining deferential to the serendipity of their chronology and structure; repeated, inverted, whatever. There’s intention, but mostly just life.”
In our orbit today, Isik Kural’s Moon in Gemini. Screen printed artist edition and “standard” LPs and import CDs are available directly from RVNG. The album is streaming everywhere too.
While intimacy and vulnerability feel like hallmarks (touchstones? gestures?) of Isik’s music, it’s almost too easy to attach these feelings to work that is far more nuance. On Moon in Gemini, Isik furthers his relationship with imaginative compositions that combine his academic fostering, an expanding sense of and assimilation with his surroundings, and a growing confidence in the instrument of his voice.
Although we might selfishly want Isik’s music to remain cocooned, soundtracking our private day dreams, his work continues to grow beyond encapsulation, maintaining a sense of wonder but finding new, worldly, and otherworldly, forms to express this. We love working with Isik, and we (ultimately) love being able to share this work with you.
