“We are just one element in the collective (taba) and yet each individual’s invisible experiences and memories remain somewhere, influencing us, or society, without realizing it.”
Taba is the new album from Satomimagae; her breathtaking follow up to 2021’s Hanazono. The record marks a subtle yet surprising shift for the Japanese musician and producer. whereas Hanazono bloomed from the soil of a kind of insular, private beauty, Taba takes a bird’s eyes view, placing Satomi in a wider, wilder world.
Observing and absorbing the fleeting scenes and sounds of life flowing outside of her home studio, Satomi has turned slightly away from linear songwriting, moving towards a more circuitous sense of storytelling, backed by an expanded palette of tones and textures. Casting her eye towards the perplexing nature of the seemingly everyday, there is a sense of an impulse towards defining our increasingly alienated age.
The first signal of sound from Taba comes today with the hypnotic “Many.” Wrapped in a warped intimacy, the track arrives alongside a video directed by creative collective ON-EI [音映].
Taba is available now for pre-order in a limited edition, hand-screen printed artist edition vinyl (exclusively through RVNG), on black vinyl, Japanese import CD (via Plancha), and wherever music exists digitally.
r∞L4nGc is the result of years of work by Colin to give voice to nameless spirits. Drawing from a well of broad influences, the record find’s self singing in both Latin and Polari, an over 500 year old form of slantwise English used by queer and underworld forces to communicate selectively.
As Self says “people around me might not know what those words mean, but all of these trans or queer ghosts that are listening to the music or watching the performance are having a really good time. I wanted to find a way to breathe life into this act of hiding the explicit in the quotidian-sounding atmosphere of pop music.”
Colin’s soaring, undiluted vocals are highlighted across the record, backed by instrumental experimentations as diverse true, queer dance music, to operatic and orchestral maneuvering. The variety and depth of Colin’s influences and knowledge is a joy to behold, and this record marks a beautiful reflection of that love for knowledge and desire to honor those who have left us.
r∞L4nGc is available in a highly limited artist edition of the LP, including a unique watercolor painting by Colin, black LP, Japanese import cd (via Plancha) through the RVNG webstore, and in digital formats wherever you may turn for them.
“The further you zoom out the more you can see there are shapes and patterns and not just colors covering the eyes of everything.”
JJ Weihl, aka Discovery Zone, returns with Quantum Web EXP. What first arrived as her sophomore solo album and collaboration with the mysterious producer E/T, resurfaces, resequenced with extended cuts, remixes, and additional, unheard sounds. This new expanded edition allows for a wide-eyed wander through the interconnected bliss and bedlam of our whirled wide web.
The first shapes of QWE arrive today in the form of “Qw4nt0hmw3b,” a new collaged odyssey accompanied by a mulch-y synthesis of videos from Quantum Web by James Barry, Pacôme Henry, JJ Stratford, and Janosch Pugnhaghi.
“The lyrics paint an urban experience of the sublime. A deliciously lurid scene between two lovers, reveling in each other’s presence so fervently that they create a wild magnetic force field, attracting all sorts of delightful chaos around them.”
On “cosa rasa,” the first new solo music since her 2022 album ¡Ay!, Lucrecia Dalt once again challenges the limits of genre and form, warping pop elements through an experimental lens. Featuring mixing, production, and a rare performance from David Sylvian, Dalt explores an unlikely infatuation with one’s self, distilling the highs of love through bold sound and psychosis.
Dalt’s recent work for film and tv manifests itself in wild, widescreen details on “cosa rasa,” as well as the accompanying EP of the same name. Stream the single now, and pre-order a limited edition 7”, due Friday, February 28.
“A memory palace is a kind of inner-mind architecture used as a mnemonic device to recollect detailed memories. In the inter-dimensional travel of the record, the listener is pulled through dimensions to find busy within the memory palace, haunted by a group of deceased drag queen.”
Today, Colin Self shares “Busy walks into The Memory Palace,” the latest single from their forthcoming album respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis. sung by Bully Fae Collins through the voice of Busy Adams, a character from the opera “Tip The Ivy,” which Colin co-wrote with the artist, it is dance music for corporeal forms that don’t yet exist. The track makes self a different kind of time traveler; music primed to be played thousands of years hence.
r∞L4nGc is available for pre-order now in an Artist Edition of the LP, including a unique watercolor painting by Colin, Standard LP, Japanese import CD via Plancha, and wherever you find sound or it finds you.
Colin will be supporting the album on the following upcoming dates:
04/04/25 – [ES] Madrid @ Electronica en Abril Festival
04/06/25 – [NL] Den Haag @ Rewire Festival
04/21/25 – [DE] Berlin @ Volksbühne
