Friends & Fiends Playlist
a fresh february refresh of our fave new music from friends & fiends ~ listen on Spotify
+ you can support the artists on Bandcamp via our list on Buy Music Club
February 17, 2020
NEWS
new releases and new finds from rvng, bis, and fts
for warehouse weds, we went through our vaults and found the v last vestiges of:
Michele Mercure’s Beside Herself
The Body’s I Shall Die Here
Lucrecia Dalt’s Anticlines
The Rimarimba Collection
Harald Grosskopf’s Synthesist
snag while you still can ⤍ igetrvng.com
February 13, 2020
Sign Libra – Sea of Nectar
Drifting between the cerebral and celestial Sign Libra (the sound and sight sigil of Agata Melnikova) offers “Sea of Nectar,” the second single from her sophomore album Sea to Sea. Available in vinyl and digital formats February 14, 2020.
Learn more here.
February 6, 2020
RIYL-ty Bytes: Helado Negro
Each month, we invite an artist from the cast of characters that color the RVNG, Beats In Space, and Freedom To Spend universe to compile a playlist of tracks that are resonating with them.
From Helado Negro, to you ~
I’ve put together a playlist of music from friends and folks whose music has traveled with me over the years. It’s a long list and the order can be shuffled. Music from close friends like Xenia Rubinos, Ela Minus, Lori Scacco and collaborators L’Rain, Zenizen, Buscabulla. All folks who mean so much to me as friends but also whose work I deeply admire. Also humans I don’t know but whose work I adore like Luiza Brina, Maria Marquez, Eduardo Mateo. Strong Latin America representation here : )
Listen and let these tunes lay in your brain.
- “Laugh Clown” – Xenia Rubinos
- “Canto del Pilon” – Frank Harris, Maria Marquez
- “A.R.P.” – Ela Minus
- “Bat” – L’Rain
- “Quiero” – Divino Niño
- “Ciudad Desnuda” – Maria Usbeck
- “Costi” – Luiza Brina
- “Cuerpo y Alma” – Eduardo Mateo
- “Alright” – Tasha
- “Titán” – Buscabulla
- “Follow the Leader” – Zenizen
- “This Love” – Bobby Oroza
- “Enchanted Mirror” – Luiz Bonfá
- “A La Nit” – Savath & Savalas
- “Green” – KAINA
- “Cuatro Crazy” – Y La Bamba
- “Folia” – Luisa Maita
- “Guaracha U.F.O – No Estamos Solos…” – Meridian Brothers
- “So I Don’t Feel Useless” – Dianna Lopez
- “Como Será Que a Música Começa” – Luiza Brina
- “Uiuí” – EVHA
- “Dr. Tom” – IGBO, Mono Neon
- “How Beautiful Could A Being Be – Ao Vivo” – Caetano Veloso
- “Ampárame” – Combo Chimbita
- “Barlovento” – Bairoa
- “My Boyfriend’s in the Band” – Devendra Banhart
- “Frío (feat. Helado Negro)” – Buscabulla
- “Back to Electric” – Lori Scacco
- “Echo Arms” – Mr Twin Sister
- “La Neta” – Fatima
- “Todo Homem” – Ao Vivo – Zeca Veloso, Caetano Veloso, Moreno Veloso
- “Nostalgia Del Futuro” – NOIA
- “Reeling Then Again (feat. Tim Delaney)” – Lori Scacco, Tim Delaney
- “Love Like (Knock It Off)” – Gemma
RIYL-ty Bytes is updated by a different artist each month. If you like something, save it to your library.
February 5, 2020
Always Coming Home: A Sonic Journey From Kesh
For this month’s FTSxNTS, Freedom To Spend’s monthly show on NTS, Andrea Zarza Canova reimagines Ursula K. Le Guin’s world of the Kesh by mixing Ursula and Todd Barton’s music, ethnographic recordings of Yurok, Tolowa, and Papago performers, and oral excerpts from Always Coming Home.
In Always Coming Home (1985), Ursula K. Le Guin develops a fictional ethnography of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, the Kesh, survivors of an ecological catastrophe in Northern California. Early editions were published with an accompanying cassette containing ‘field recordings’ and indigenous song, which Freedom To Spend reissued in March 2018.
Listen back to Andrea’s mix and read the full editorial over at NTS.
Andrea Zarza Canova is a sound archivist, curator at the British Library Sound Archive, and co-founder of Mana Records.
January 22, 2020
Andras – River Red
We celebrate “River Red,” the second single from Andras‘ Joyful, with a video by Carla Uriarte.
On behalf of Andras, a portion of proceeds from this release will benefit the Invasive Species Council as part of our ongoing Come! Mend! Initiative.
Joyful is available on LP and digital formats on January 31, 2020 via Beats In Space Records. Learn more here.
January 15, 2020
Julianna Barwick – Circumstance Synthesis
~ Out Now ~
Now playing / streaming / soaring ~ Julianna Barwick’s Circumstance Synthesis, the second release on Commend There, traces a day using generative music technology triggered by activity in the NYC sky.
Available now in digital + cassette formats. Learn more here.
December 20, 2019
RIYL-ty Bytes: Sign Libra
Each month, we invite an artist from the cast of characters that color the RVNG, Beats In Space, and Freedom To Spend universe to compile 15 – 20 tracks that are resonating with them.
From Sign Libra, to you ~
hello Listener,
In this RIYL-TY Bytes playlist, you will meet otherworldly sounds that might evoke surrealistic visions and levitating feeling, reflected in several releases and re-releases of RVNG Intl. Some kind of pointillistic aural voyage from mid ’70s till the latest experiments in contemporary popular music. The playlist includes also my favourite composition of 2019 – a mindblowing intergalactic anthem “New Tribe” by Powder in a combination with its perfectly visualised video by AC-bu !
Enjoy the listen and, maybe, from this compilation you will get to know something more about this weird music world from the inside ~ d(⋆‿⋆)b ~
Sign Libra
- “From A Common Center” – K. Leimer
- “yxo EAR” – Kate NV
- “Music Is Painting In The Air” – Sensations Fix
- “Just a Little Pollution” – Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin
- “Stationary Dance” – Savant
- “Chorus” – Holly Herndon
- “Dreamplay 2” – Michele Mercure
- “Derails Suggest Fidelity To Fact” – Cassel Webb, Craig Leon, Terre Roche
- “Spiritus Operis” – Ka Baird
- “Music Works for Industry” – Marc Barreca
- “Closed Circuit” – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
- “Emphasis” – Harold Grosskopf
- “Frame” – Visible Cloaks
- “New Tribe” – Powder
- “Sunshine” – Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos
RIYL-ty Bytes is updated by a different artist each month. If you like something, save it to your library.
December 16, 2019
Bundle Up – Winter Sale
Friends & Fiends.
We’ve donated over $3,500 in funds to more than 10 different charities in 2019 alone thanks to each and every one of you – your purchases of a RVNG LP or CD directly helps an organization of our artists’ choosing through the Come! Mend! initiative.
As a thank you for your support, we’ve compiled a digital compilation on Bandcamp for free / pay what you want, gathering singles from 2019 and a very special surprise bonus track.
The digital comp is included with purchase of these year-in-review bundles: our best selling LPs and CDs of 2019; Helado Negro’s This Is How You Smile and Live at KCRW (with smiley bumper sticker – last ones left!); a grip of Freedom To Spend classics; and both brand new Commend There tapes at a friendly discount for easy stocking stuffers.
Explore the range of discounted items in our SALE collection here. We’ve added a few more titles and offering goods for as cheap as 50% off. The sale runs through December 18th and is exclusive to the RVNG store.
More thoughts on 2019 to come – for now, enjoy the dive into our year’s catalog.
RVNG Intl.
December 6, 2019
Tashi Wada Group at BAMPFA
Sunday, December 15th Tashi Wada Group featuring Julia Holter, percussionist Corey Fogel, and special guest Ezra Buchla perform music from Nue at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California. Learn more here.
December 2, 2019