Ka Baird shines a light on the many collaborators that helped lift their forthcoming album, Bearings: Soundtracks of the Bardos, including music from Jon Mueller, Nate Wooley, Max Eilbacher, John McCowen, Andrew Bernstein, Joanna Mattrey, gabby fluke-mogul, and more. Now streaming from the Friends & Fiends archive, our monthly show for NTS Radio.
Both a provocation and a total jam, As it Happened: Horse Lords Live is out today. Documented at a series of concerts spanning the band's multiple 2022 and 2023 European tours, and compiled / collaged as a limited vinyl edition, available exclusively from RVNG or on an upcoming tour stop. ᝰᝰᝰ
Check out the video for “Zero Degree Machine” released today, which captures the band overcoming a broken string by delivering a full face melting sax improvisation and an “as if nothing happened” completion of the track.
"We are always in a bardo because impermanence never takes a break."
Ka Baird offers “Gate IX,” another point of contact to Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, their new album set for release on March 22.
Standard and Artist vinyl editions of Bearings, alongside a Japanese import CD edition from Plancha, are available for pre-order now.
How can you leave, when you’re living in somebody else’s dream? Discovery Zone proposes “Pair a Dice,” the latest single from the forthcoming album Quantum Web. accompanied by a video from Jennifer Juniper Stratford (TelefantasyTV).
Dialect heads out n’ about on a run of dates with Yann Tiersen, starting next week. If you’re lucky enough to be in France, Switzerland, or Italy, let alone hold a ticket for these highly anticipated shows, you might catch a glimmer of Dialect music forthcoming from our corner of the cosmos.
20 FEB - Orléans @ L'Astrolabe *
22 FEB - Besançon @ La Rodia
23 FEB - Annecy @ Brise Glace *
24 FEB - Lausanne @ Les Docks *
25 FEB - Zürich @ X-TRA
27 FEB - Padua @ Hall Padova
* Sold out
Horse Lords bring the fervor and fury of their live show to the confines and comfort of your trusted playback device with As It Happened: Horse Lords Live, a collection of recordings that capture the quartet’s galvanic energy as never before while toying with the trope of the live album. With performance at the center of the band’s practice, and elements of chance colliding with Horse Lords’ tightly composed and complex music, As it Happened works as both provocation and total jam.
Captured at a series of concerts across Europe spanning Horse Lords' multiple 2022 and 2023 tours, As It Happened is a mediated, sometimes obviously edited presentation of a live performance that strives for a certain level of idealization. The album “makes the present infinitely repeatable,” says the band, “like a painting of a crashing wave can evoke an experience while being of a fundamentally different substance.”
Horse Lords’ As It Happened: Horse Lords Live arrives Friday, March 1 just ahead of the band’s first US tour in six years (with Ka Baird), available as a limited vinyl edition exclusively at those shows, directly from RVNG, and digitally.
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