After much delay, we wildly announce Sept. 18 as the worldwide release date for Flying Basket -- the double album by Akira Sakata & Jim O'Rourke with Chikamorachi & Merzbow. Check out the trailer video to get a sense of what is waiting... Available as 2xLP/CD and digital.
Yes, preorder a copy now of each of these 500 edition LPs by Little Howlin' Wolf.
A brief journey through the world of Little Howlin' Wolf...
“I’m the only one who plays on the streets all year round. I don’t do it for money. Most people ignore me but some people come by and toss a $5 bill and say, they’ve been listening for years and that I should keep it up.
"I’ve lived an impoverished life. I’m just playing for people to listen. I must have composed 4,000 songs.
"I am a Polish gypsy, a member of the on-going wolf tribe. I can play music from the Stone Age. I maintain music of the twilight.” -- Little Howlin' Wolf, 1980.
We are so pleased to finally release Blues: The Dark Paintings of Mark Rothko -- Loren Connors' masterpiece of six-string ambience and lyricism. It's been 25 years since the LP first came out, and really, back then hardly anyone heard it. Today, pretty much anyone can now grab ahold -- or at least hear via quality bitrates -- this album. A lot has been writen about this album so far, but we'd like to share one insight from Grayson Haver Currin:
These seven instrumentals represent Connors' responses to a posthumous exhibition of the "Dark Paintings" of Mark Rothko, a major ideological and technical influence he's long acknowledged. Rothko finished these works just before committing suicide in 1970. Connors' responses, then, seem like an attempt to live among those same bleak grays and blacks but to not languish in them—that is, to survive by singing about the sadness, not drowning in it. The anguish so apparent in the hand-wringing chords of "No. 1" sublimate into a kind of contemplative beauty by the end of "No. 7".
The LP is available now. Order here.