RVNG Intl have issued a 50 minute cassette of original material from the duo with a new record to follow in August.
Sometime around 2011, Christelle Gualdi discovered the delights of the dancefloor. Up until that point, her career under the Stellar OM Source alias had been a tale of self-released oddness, experimental electronic jazz, fluorescent ambience and analogue-heavy drone. What pushed her towards the pounding, distorted rhythms of techno and ragged electronics of acid house is unclear, but she embraced it in a big way. After releasing the throbbing Image Over Image 12” via Rush Hour No ‘Label’, she duly signed to New York’s admirable RVNG Intl. and delivered her most accessible set to date, the acid and intelligent techno powered Joy One Mile. Typically raw – you’d expect nothing else from someone who has long been an advocate of outboard hardware – the album flitted between moments of intoxicating intensity, scattergun dancefloor dynamics and joyously colourful fusions of bright synthesizer melodies and snappy machine percussion.
RVNG Intl. will release the first new material in some two years from Christelle Gualdi in June.
The multidisciplinarian pair gets remixed by Afrikan Sciences, Thomas Bullock, RVNG Intl. and more.
Based around the brilliantly simple idea of inter-generational musical collaboration, the FRKWYS series has thus far thrown up some memorable albums from Arp and Anthony Moore, Blues Control and Laraaji, Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras with The Congos, and, most recently, Steve Gunn and Mike Cooper. The genius of the series lies not in the inter-generational aspect, but rather the often absorbing and beguiling results of these imaginative collaborations. RVNG Intl boss Matt Werth has proved something of an expert at bringing artists together, with results that often combine the best of each musician’s style and repertoire into something thrillingly fresh, atmospheric and – in the case of this 12th installment of the series – magical.
Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid visualise a track from the pair’s new FRKWYS album from RVNG Intl.
Platform “proposes new fantasies and rejuvenates old optimism” and will arrive in May.
A 12th edition of the cross generational series from RVNG Intl entitled We Know Each Other Somehow will arrive in April.
A vast canon of potential candidates is whittled down to just 10 as the best record sleeves of the year are decided.
The subject of the recent An Evolutionary Music release on RVNG Intl is explored in this film by Matthew McGuigan.
Our review of 2014 continues, as Tony Poland, Scott Wilson and James Manning run down our 15 best record labels of the year.
Scott Wilson runs down the best reissues and archival releases of the year, with records from Dark Entries, Music From Memory, Light In The Attic and more making the cut.
Under-appreciated disco, lost Chicago house, meditative electronic compositions and more featured in November’s best reissues.
Records from Beau Wanzer, Shit & Shine, Dez Williams, Bing & Ruth, Line Idle and more caught the eye for their own particular reasons.
Bing & Ruth’s RVNG Intl. debut Tomorrow Was The Golden Age was recorded in Yonkers, an inner suburb of New York City used in films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and A Beautiful Mind (among others like Catch Me If You Can and Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy). Soundtracks to those Jim Carrey and Russell Crowe films were largely classical, minimal and ambient, so it seems for want of a connection with this type of music there’s one to be made with this part of the Big Apple.
Unreleased works from the minimalist electronic artist’s archives feature on An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 – 1979).
The American artist returns to RVNG Intl. in typically singular fashion with one-track single Home.
The tireless New York-based label will release Tomorrow Was The Golden Age LP from the David Moore-fronted ensemble in October.
This month’s best reissues include offerings from RVNG Intl, Sacred Summits and Death Is Not The End.
A track from Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper’s FRKWYS collaboration is brought to life as a Thai ghost story.