Listen back to Tashi Wada’s guest appearance last week on Laurel Halo’s awe on NTS. Keep your ears peeled for music from Mabe Fratti, Black Decelerant (Khari Lucas, Omari Jazz), Julia Holter, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Chris Corsano, and much more.
After an August and September jaunt with Crumb and L’Rain, Discovery Zone heads back to the UK and Europe for a spate of dates in October and November. Scan the scenes below, and we’ll see you in the mix.
10/04/24 [DE] Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg 20 Jahre
10/08/24 [DK] Aarhus @ Voxhall w/ Mary Lattimore
10/28/24 [UK] Glasgow @ The Glad Cafe
10/30/24 [UK] Coventry @ The Tin Music & Art
10/31/24 [UK] Manchester @ YES Basement
11/01/24 [UK] London @ Corsica Studios w/ Freak Heat Waves
11/06/24 [DE] Offenbach @ Kapelle
11/07/24 [BE] Liege @ KulturA
11/08/24 [NL] Utrecht @ Le Guess Who?
11/09/24 [NL] Amsterdam @ Cinetol
11/14/24 [DE] Leipzig @ Transcentury Update Festival
Next up for Freedom To Spend’s uncommon¢ series, Gregory T.S. Walker’s Minstrels & Minimoogs. Self-published in a microscopic, one-sided 12” edition in 1988 to accompany the young, nomadic composer and virtuoso’s immersive multimedia performance at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium.
Created with this outer, and other, world setting in mind, the four tracks find walker stretching toward an ancient-to-future vision where Egyptian myths and Hieronymus Bosch-ian tableaus are rendered in a screaming three dimensional circuitry of electronic drums, synth guitars, and, of course, Minimoog. Given the musical terrains and outmoded topics traversed, Minstrels & Minimoogs is as perplexing and euphoric a document lost-to-time as it is now found.
Check out “Flagellant,” the first piece from the album, below, and pre-order the album ahead of its Friday, August 23 release date.
In Sara Ludy’s video for Dialect’s “Late Fragment,” the first single from the forthcoming album, Atlas of Green, the revered visual artist mined the internet for free webcam footage, and mid 00s Filckr detritus, from around the world to produce a series of images which were then fed into an AI app. Without any accompanying prompts, the software was free to interpret and hallucinate entirely new video sequences from these images, radically (re)contextualizing these everyday fragments into a startling sequence. View Sara’s video just below.
Ever-evolving the mythologies and magic of Dialect’s sonic sphere, Andrew PM Hunt returns with Atlas of Green, the British musician and composer’s fifth full-length album.
The album arrives Friday, September 20, 2024, with limited artist and standard vinyl, Japanese import CD (via Plancha), and digital editions all on pre-order now. We’ve also put together some bundles with past Dialect releases, available at this price for a limited time.
