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Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1981-1986 documents the scarcely heard recordings of Swiss pianist and composer Lotti Tauber, moving from mystery to mystery this November on Freedom to Spend.

Living with musculoskeletal disability since childhood, and surviving a critical injury in her late 20s, the singular minimalism and innovative playing of Tauber’s piano(s) testifies to music’s ability to provide a dialogue between pain and joy. Selected from various albums privately pressed in the 1980s, the final decade of her life, this first archival volume of Tauber’s work introduces her capacity to inflect the avant-garde with the intimacy of the personal, combining improvisation and intuition with the chance-based structures to which her intellectual and spiritual life was devoted.

Today, we share “Lonely,” originally from Tauber’s first album Roundabout Ways. The piece layers a central melodic phrase - more evocative of fond reflection than mournful solitude - atop a berceuse-like rhythm. Though this phrase is repeated, Tauber’s interest in musical structures of transformation and music as a form of self-analysis is on display in the piece’s central passage. Therein, she dissembles her phrase, questioning both its ability to hold nostalgia and nostalgia’s hold on us, and imbues its second refrain with a conceptual tranquility.

Lotti Tauber’s Concern and Simplicity Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1981-1986 arrives November 13, 2026 in vinyl and digital editions.

7FO's Water Falls Into A Blank dips into a wondrous world of dub and anecdotal, aqueous pop. Resurfacing this November after a decade long slumber.

Hailing from Osaka, Japan, 7FO / N. Kawata introduces each song as a reflective surface, rippling into sonic pools brimming with micro beings. Listening to Water Falls Into A Blank is much like diving into a quiet lake: a rejuvenating wash of life that plummets through murky and more curious depths. From simplicity grows complexity; from the molecular appears fully-formed creatures we know as ourselves, complete with passion and a primordial past.

Water Falls was originally released in 2016 as part of See, a series of collaborations between sound and visual artists commissioned for Commend, 7FO paired with Nick Ozgunay a then Brooklyn-based artist (now LA) who dyes, paints, burns, and produces prints and textiles as Annexe. First issued as an impossibly small artist edition of nine unique LPs and a cassette, this 10 year edition shares this wonderful music in a wider way.

Today, we prime the palette with “Botanical Dub,” a playful excursion welcoming listeners into 7FO's vibrant environments. Water Falls Into A Blank will be available on all digital platforms and as an expanded CD edition via Plancha on November 6, 2026.

“Noon Liquid Ore” is the next interdimensional transmission from Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano.

“Noon Liquid Ore” breaks Cyano to a deconstructed pause, as industrial echoes meet chiming moods and glow breaks into concrete aperture. In sweeping textures and spontaneous gestures, Emily’s sonic architecture melds into a restful mist, wonder emanating as it dissolves. Gently epiphanic, “Noon Liquid Ore” moves in circles, replacing air with vaster air, dispatches from distant planets

The single arrives alongside a visualizer crafted, as always, by Emily’s creative and life partner V. Haddad, and news of another show this November in New York at the Whitney Museum for Durations. Before then, she will share a stage with Grouper at The Town Hall on September 15, and appear at the Making Time festival in Philadelphia, September 18-20

Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano will be released on October 2, 2026 in vinyl, CD, Japanese CD import via Plancha, and digital editions.

Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession materializes in our world today.

Our journey with Frances began in February of 2023, when she sent a physical demo of her second album Psychedelic Anxiety to the RVNG PO box. The record quickly established itself among our favorites, Frances’ wildly inventive deconstruction of pop music being both deeply challenging and viscerally moving, each new listen a ritual bringing one closer to the intimate, inimitable core of her creative psyche.

By the time we began our correspondence, Psychedelic Anxiety was already shooting forward toward a release, which by Frances’ astrological accounts, was the intended alignment. Hailing from a punk / post hardcore background, Frances spent a majority of 2024 touring the record in DIY and community spaces, an experience that led her to begin work on a new album, one grounded in the present moment and place, a true life experience of the now, journalistic and imperfect

been thinking bout confession was, as Frances notes, “born out of an extended period of personal avoidance. It’s about exploring shame, unearthing forgotten skeletons from the closet.” Retuning to the piano, her primary instrument, and converting her writing desk into a shrine to the muses (poets and mystics alike), Frances made contact again with her deeper reason for making music. She abandoned a sense of self-betrayal that arose by living away from herself, and found comfort in keeping some things to herself.

What Frances did decide to share is magical, both sacred and sentimental. It’s music that tugs at your heart and expands your mind. Music that is truly, and wholly, its own.

Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession is available now on translucent purple and classic black vinyl, CD (via Plancha) and digital editions.

“Bad zen” is the final offering from Frances Chang’s been thinking bout confession before her third album materializes in our world this Friday, August 21.

The first song written for been thinking bout confession, “Bad zen” is a restless undead evocation of the void and life after death, emblematic of what Chang describes as “vampire music.” The restrained synth-strings that guide the song’s first half eventually give way to formlessness, as Chang’s floating vocals unearth a death drive. a fully apocalyptic piece, “Bad zen” is a cipher for the album’s themes: death and rebirth, mystery and unknowing, fantasy and desire, the murky line between the Self and the Other.

Frances will join the chat for a special Bandcamp listening party this Thursday, August 20 at 1pm before heading out on a clutch of tour dates with Bill Callahan, winding through the West and landing back home in New York City for an album release show on Thursday, September 17 at Night Club 101. 

Frances Chang’s been thinking about confession is shipping now from RVNG HQ, and will be released wide this Friday on translucent purple and classic black vinyl, CD (via Plancha) and digital editions.

Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s Saturday Dancer, Ways Away, and Run Runner are a series of extraordinary homespun albums and sound collaborations, resurfacing this October on Freedom to Spend.

Using a Roland W-30, a smattering of drum machines, and a four-track cassette recorder, Tanega and Pavletich spent their weekends in the late 1980s creating a trio of operettas, song cycles which they released as short-run tapes. Now, nearly four decades later, these utterly distinctive, effortlessly experimental albums re-work their charm for intrepid listeners.

Norma Tanega, the musician, painter, and vibrant spirit whose 1966 international pop hit “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog” is only the best-known of countless creative achievements, spent her career’s second act cultivating an unassumingly non-commercial, wildly prolific community-based art practice in her home of Claremont, California. She was already longtime friends with Aida Pavletich, the author of the books Rock-A-Bye, Baby and Sirens of Song, when the pair decided to make combined use of Tanega’s richly diverse home studio on Mount Baldy.

Today, we share “Danse Macabre,” two pieces for their Tanega and Pavletich's first album, epitomizing the incorrigible irreverence and fluent experimentalism of their creators’ collaboration. Twin exercises in mood, tension, and avant-garde sonic contrasts, the tracks provide a dizzying introduction to the world Tanega and Pavletich conjured.

Norma Tanega and Aida Pavletich’s Saturday Dancer, Ways Away, and Run Runner will be released in newly transferred and remastered digital editions, and a small inventory of original cassettes, on October 9, 2026.