International Anthem: S/D

Hush Harbor Mixtape is amazing, too bad I'm too late to pick up the tape
Quite an amazing label, starting to feel I can basically buy anything I happen to see out there

Hush Harbor is great, been listening alot (and did order the tape!). Just saw this one dropped with very little info: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/jps-myspace-beats

Not much info to go on as there's no digital release, only the 2xlp. It sounds like it's beats and tracks Jeff Parker has worked on over the years. I can't find internet documentation of much, but did find one of the tracks on his Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeff-parker/supernat

Has anyone received their Damon Locks vinyl? I think it was supposed to ship in July but there has been a delay?

Bought it in a shop last weekend so it's out there!

IA tweeted about pressing & shipping of LP's recently:

To Whom It May Concern: an update on vinyl pre-orders (Damon Locks, jaimie branch), pressing/shipping woes, challenges, commitments, ideals and other musings...

To Whom It May Concern: an update on vinyl pre-orders (Damon Locks, jaimie branch), pressing/shipping woes, challenges, commitments, ideals and other musings... pic.twitter.com/Q1VZkF0f7y

— International Anthem (@intlanthem) July 22, 2021

(1) Damon Locks NOW LP's have been stuck customs in the US for the last couple of weeks.. So if you're waiting on this LP which we said would ship July 9th... The albums are out of jail soon. We’ll start shipping them as soon as they arrive in Chicago. Hopefully in 2-3 weeks max

They just announced a new Irreversible Entanglements album, Open the Gates, out in November.

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/open-the-gates

Thanks, willem. I found something indicating a September 16 date so just a little longer.

I think this record is just incredible, so gorgeous, almost ambient:

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-waves

yep, that's my favorite IA release that I've heard. I have yet to buy the new Carlos Niño album but I plan to.

New Irreversible Entanglements out in Nov, on Don Giovanni/IA

This label is just absolutely incredible, I don't know that I can pick just one favorite. The new Carlos Niño & Friends album is even better, to my ears anyway.

I think this record is just incredible, so gorgeous, almost ambient:

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/chicago-waves

I'd not heard this one. Wow, it's beautiful. First track reminds me of The Lark Ascending, somehow.

These guys have all of my money. Those ambient records are really nice, and I dig all of the projects Jaimie Branch is involved in (like the anteloper/tour beats record). But the Makaya McCraven records are still tops for me, especially Highly Rare.

xp willem or others who wanted that Angel Bat Dawid cassette: I noticed there are 25 copies in the bandcamp store as of today.

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/hush-harbor-mixtape-vol-1-doxology

Thanks cw! IA's IG account recently mentioned extra copies were to be brought to a live event and remaining copies would be sold through bandcamp. Sadly, the shipping costs to the EU are insane since there's only shipped from Chicago. Too bad. Still enjoy it through spotify though

So happy to finally get my hands on a physical copy of the Alabaster DePlume album today.

New Irreversible Entanglements out in Nov, on Don Giovanni/IA While we're waiting, the aforementioned Moor Mother alb is just out:
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/album/black-encyclopedia-of-the-air (This bandcamp also has her Brass collab w billy woods from Dec., which I just now noticed, d'oh!)

BEN LAMAR GAY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
OPEN ARMS TO OPEN US

OUT NOVEMBER 19 VIA
INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM / NONESUCH

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR
“SOMETIMES I FORGET HOW SUMMER LOOKS ON YOU”
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/open-arms-to-open-us

it is the best thing i listened to this week. so good!

psyyyyyched to hear the rest of this dos santos album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23rl_6gdXM

New Irreversible Entanglements is sounding pretty sick!

Waiting for my CD to get here in a couple of days, stoked to hear it. This label.

it's ridiculous how many extremely good albums from the last few years feature Luke Stewart as a bass player.

Yeah, the Irreversible Entanglements album is great, maybe my favorite IA release of the year.

Kicking myself for missing them at Big Ears. I saw Moor Mother's solo set, which was fiery, but not with the band.

Another huge thumbs up for Irreversible Entanglements.

Also stoked for the new solo guitar Jeff Parker record and the new Ben Lamar Gay, basically everything they put out is instant purchase imo.

late pass on angel bat dawid, this is liquid fire
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/black-family-2

Jeff Parker's new one is a solo acoustic folky thing, by the look of it. New Ben Lamar Gay is wonderful.

Still superenjoying City of Mirrors. Alma Cósmica is my fave track still but it has a very enjoyable vibe throughout. I’m making seeing them live a priority!

solo acoustic folky thing
it's solo but it's not acoustic or really folky

Very excited about solo Parker, love the preview track (very patient and loop-based, duetting with himself)

Truly a miraculous year for this label. I just listened to the Jamire Williams album; naturally, it's excellent. The Parker is up next

incredible run in '21.

Yes the Jamire Williams is great!

Every album a must buy

It's pretty wild! For ex, the Dos Santos album isn't really my usual thing genre-wise, but it's super well made and sounds great

hello it is fantastic -- the more you listen to it, the better it gets. if you have ever wondered about the intersection of cumbia & krautrock (I have) it really hits the spot.

i should say motorik -- krautrock is too vague

my problem is I only have a vague idea of what cumbia is :/

but I did like it a lot on two listens, just got overwhelmed by IA releasing 4 more albums I had to hear

Soundway Records (another no-miss label imo) has some great comps if you're interested. this was released in 2011 and continues to deliver! https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-original-sound-of-cumbia

I am interested and that looks amazing, thank you!

cosign on that Soundways cumbia comp, it's fantastic

there's two great LP comps via the Mississippi label as well ("A Orillas De Magdelena" and "Remolino De Oro")

saw nicole mitchell performing the xenogenesis suite and angel bat dawid doing the music of yusef lateef. that shit was fucking great but the carnegie audience was extremely square.

enjoying "recordings from the åland islands"

Same, very lovely. Would have been a big lockdown record.

Honer and Chiu opened for Alabaster dePlume when I saw him last night; it was a pleasant new age knob twiddle. I will put the album on now.

Speaking of new age knob twiddle, have you heard this, forks? Pasted way upthread from Rolling Jazz 2021:
More Energy Fields, Current
by Carlos Niño & Friends
Tagged in label notes as 10 pristine gems of collaborative communication helmed by the Southern Californian sage, elegantly presented in his unique “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” style. And sounds like the improvisational part might feed and respond to the Space Collage: it's more jazz than set piece, like the tracks, never too long, might be scooping up something along the way, lighting in the bottle and vice-versa. Wonder if they play live, with loops, maybe? While mixing on the fly---?

Listening on headphones, I keep getting aerial glimpses of the Pacific Coast Highway, interspersed w more time in little caves and coves: an intimate, though airy, small group sound, always incl. Niño (percussion, sound design, editing, mixing) and I think always Jamael Dean on keys, with others sometimes on drums, tenor and/or flute, synths, and voices (on one track: wordless ones, don't worry, of Laraaji and Sharada). Shabaka Hutchings, Dntel, Adam Rudolph, Aaron Shaw, a bunch of others, coming in and moving on, at least for a while, never too many at once.

First one to command my attention was "Nightswimming," then so many of the others that I gave up on linking a favorite in addition to the whole thing:
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/more-energy-fields-current

― dow, Monday, May 31, 2021 4:57 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Niño’s previous album on IA, Chicago Waves, is live if you’re curious! I think I described it as more like ambient/new age than jazz on the IA thread but I liked it a lot

― rob, Monday, May 31, 2021 5:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also now I see Carlos has his own Bandcamp page, with lots more to check out.

new to me but will add to the playlist!

LOVING THIS https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/panam-77