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.
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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.
Only time stood between one face and another. The second vinyl edition of Horse Lords‘ As It Happened: Horse Lords Live makes its way into the world today. The band has a fresh batch in hand / hoof for their west coast tour dates (starting next week, if you’ll have a gander below), and tonight’s appearance at Wilco’s Solid Sound Fest at MASS MoCA.
