out now ~ greg fox’s contact, a catharsis / collection of connections between human + percussive forms, prod. + mixed by randall dunn.
making / taking digital collisions + blue vinyl pre-orders today. the album features original artwork by emma kohlmann and design by will work for good.
learn more here.
Today Kate NV shares “Plans”, the third offering from her forthcoming album Room for the Moon. The video, directed by Kate and Pavel Kling, is best described as a hallucinatory news report.
In Kate’s own words: “The song is about how everything constantly collapses and changes, that nothing is really clear and that it is impossible to plan everything or anything.” Written before the present world crisis, the song’s surreal dissociation as presented through Kate’s pop proficiency is prescient of this moment if not peculiar: “Who would tell us what it was like before it turned to this. Who would outline the plans.”
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for this month’s episode of friends & fiends on NTS, e ruscha v supplied us w/ a mix “made with the intention of personal or communal lucid dreaming. play just before the extended intersection of wake and sleep.”
perfect for your midday daze / doze ~
Dream w/ your eyes open ~
Watch the video for “Marafon 15,” the second single from Kate NV’s Room for the Moon, directed by Gina Onegina, below
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Aki Tsuyuko’s Room In Commend is an invitation to wander.
Recorded in June 2019, this solo performance by Japanese composer Aki Tsuyuko marks the fifth entry in Commend’s HERE series, a catalog of live performances shared with care from our small space to far beyond Forsyth St.
Aki Tsuyuko treats chords like imaginary companions and scales like maps through winding, wooded paths. Stroll through the countryside of childhood in “Village”; hop over a city park’s puddles with “Moriji”; and lay on a bed of infinite moss with “Solitary Tiger.”
Tsuyuko’s keys emanate vibrant, green reveries and provide a comforting sonic spell for lonely moments and drab mornings.
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Tune out ~ Drop in. Our latest episode of Friends & Fiends w/ Anthony Moore is live in the archive.
ferrous oxide memories fe2O3 – ladbroke grove – gavin bryars – john tilbury – michael parsons – tape recorders – the great learning – hebrides – david larcher – exprmntl 5 Knokke-le-Zoute – salvatore sciarrino – raili viljakainen – uitti 2 bows – peter kowald and sainkho namchylak – monkey’s birthday – dervishes – turkey – saz – dertli divani – peter blegvad and the blue blues – bert jansch – sligo, ireland – yeats country – soundscapes – morning rain – early radio – india monsoon – kensington square – ny rvng frkwys – alexis – cologne -analogue electronics – circuit bending – the greyless woodpecker – those drones – the crazy elsa… (amoore arles 2020)
An extension and evolution of Greg Fox’s rigorous, virtuosic sound-making practices, Contact, his first solo album since 2017’s The Gradual Progression, finds the multidisciplinary artist accessing ever more raw and ruminative states, processing the tumult of sentience into stick-hit-drum.
Today, Greg also launches a crowdfunding initiative to build a public-facing recording studio in his native state of New York. As Greg notes in his Kickstarter mission statement in light of the current global crisis, “I hope that if anything this campaign can be a source of encouragement to others. I believe in the future of music. I believe that we will find a way to get through this.” Complete info here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studiote/help-launch-studio-te
Experience Michael A. Flanagan‘s visual expression of “From the Cessation of What” featuring artwork by Emma Kohlmann below:
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Aki Tsuyuko’s Room In Commend is an invitation to wander.
Minimalist melodies echo dewy, early-morning gardens while the organ and electronic piano provide a transportive yet homely breath of fresh air.
Lay on a bed of infinite moss with “solitary tiger” through the link below:
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On Room for the Moon, Kate NV follows the muse of music from one chamber of illusion to the next, harmonizing lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. Conjured from unlived memories of 70s and 80s Russian and Japanese pop music and film, Room for the Moon is a 20th century fairy tale suspended in time like a moon torn from a paper sky.
Learn more here.
Josey In Space, the second installment in Beats In Space‘s mix series, is out May 15 in LP, CD, and digital formats.
Drawing from a kaleidoscope of deeply felt and understood sounds, Josey’s twenty-track mix maps her personal history onto a collective trajectory in dance music. The 12” lifts four essential tracks from the story for DJ-ready use: brand new works from Fotomachine and Shy One, and stone cold classics from Access 58 and Rogue Unit.
Listen to Fotomachine’s “BBoy,” and learn more about Josey In Space, here.