New music from Grant Evans and Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness of Time Travel) under their recently adopted alter-ego Coyote Image, forthcoming from Kimberly Dawn, Frank Baugh’s limited-run mini-CDr label. Grant and Rachel are most familiar for their individual efforts, their duo Quiet Evenings and their ceaselessly fascinating indie label, Hooker Vision. It was brilliant to finally see them perform live at the Stone in New York City on February 1. Already I’m looking forward to next time, but suspect they’ll drag me down to Athens, Georgia, before that.
Impressive sample from Insight by Hundred Acres, the third release on the new Worn Habit imprint from Michael Pouw, who also runs the honored Canadian tape label House of Sun; plays in Basked Unit; and records as Knit Prism and Elder. No idea who Hundred Acres might be – though it’s probably not this band – but I’m eager to hear more. You can connect with Worn Habit on Facebook and Twitter, too.
Discovered through a mention by Nathan McLaughlin on the Fangs & Arrows bulletin board, the newish tape by Lake Mary – a.k.a. itinerant muso Chaz Prymek – sounds like a winner. Limited to 70 copies, the tape can still be had from the source, Planted Tapes.
Singer and synth player Caroline Teagle’s latest creation as Imperial Topaz, with Zachary Zierden on more synths, might just be her sultriest song to date. You can catch the duo’s live debut at The Stone in New York City on Sunday, February 3, and, if you act fast, you can snag a copy of their new split cassette with Motion Sickness of Time Travel on brother Franklin Teagle’s label, Tranquility Tapes (for which Carolyn provides all the snazzy cover art).
Angular Music, the debut full-length album by Tilth – Nathan McLaughlin, Cody Yantis and Joe Houpert – is now available for preorder on the Soft Abuse website, here. McLaughlin has been among my most significant discoveries in 2012 (I can’t get enough of his now-concluded Echolocation cassette series), and I’ve also admired his work with Houpert as Loud & Sad; Houpert’s solo music as Prayer; and the too-little bit of Yantis’s work I’ve encountered up to now.
New audio crackl by Crippling, a recent concern from Grant Evans, of Hooker Vision renown and formerly active as Nova Scotian Arms. It’s one side of a new split CS on Worn Habit, the flip of which is occupied by Ala Vjiior (a.k.a. Frank Ouellette of Hobo Cubes / Hobo Cult).
The excellent local label Rvng Intl. has just opened up a Bandcamp store. Celebrate by blissing out with this narcotic collaboration by Blues Control and Laraaji, available for cheapskate streaming, dry-goods purchase and download in both lossy and lossless varieties.
Blissful new Constellation Tatsu playlist by Jimmy Billingham, chock-full of current and forthcoming tracks, collaborations and remixes: Venn Rain, Tidal, Journey of Mind and more. Press play, sink in…and watch out for a new Journey of Mind tape from Tatsu, which just might be the strongest new cassette (mostly) label to launch this year.
English mystery-music imprint Mordant Music, operated by shadowy performing cartel Mordant or constituents thereof, has just announced a prime clutch of vinyl reissues devoted to Tod Dockstader, an extraordinary American electronic-music autodidact. Electronic, Vol. 1 is the first of two planned volumes culled from the library-music collection of publisher Boosey & Hawkes; Bell Stomp/Pond Dance/Boingo Background, a 10-inch companion, includes the Mordant Music remix embedded nearby, and another by Ekoplekz. Both are available to pre-order from Surus and Boomkat; the latter charges a bit less, but the former throws MP3 downloads at no additional cost.
The quintessential Dockstader document, Quatermass, is available from the Colorado label Starkland, which has also issued a companion volume, Apocalypse. Eugene Chadbourne’s AllMusic Guide review of yet another Dockstader release, Eight Electronic Pieces, is required reading, and you can hear the LP on MOG or Spotify.
Sunk Series is the name of a new tape label just launched by Jimmy Billingham, who’s made memorable recordings under the names Tidal and Venn Rain, and graphic artist Jennifer Crouch. The label’s first two releases include a Tidal/Venn Rain split and the debut of Clime, a collaboration between Billingham and Jake Webster—whose own project, Tuluum Shimmering, hasn’t been documented nearly enough.
