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𝙈𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃𝙀𝙎𝙎 is wild! In addition to hitting the road this July for a jaunt in West/Southwest/Northwest with the a new iteration of the Matchess trio, Whitney Johnson has released an expanded version of Fundamental 256 Hz! 𝑭𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 256 𝑯𝒛 was originally released in 2019 by the venerable @longformeditions and Whitney has since doubled-down with a remix of equal length! Not only is it available on cassette AND digitally, you can also get the full digital album with purchase of the new ‘cymatic’ t-shirt or tote bag! It’s the debut release on Whitney’s own 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀! Whitney is bringing Haley Fohr (aka Circuit des Yeux) and Jenny Pulse (of Tim Kinsella of Jenny Pulse!) as part of the Matchess band for a big grip of live dates – read below or swipe for the rest! 13 JUL - New Orleans / Siberia 14 JUL - Austin / Hotel Vegas 15 JUL - Marfa / The Pony 16 JUL - Tucson / 355 N. Court Ave 17 JUL - Phoenix / Gracie’s Tax Bar 18 JUL - Flagstaff / Interference Series 19 JUL - Joshua Tree / The Firehouse 20 JUL - Los Angeles / 2220 Arts + Archives 21 JUL - Big Sur / Pop & Hiss 22 JUL - San Francisco / Lost Church 23 JUL - Arcata / The Miniplex 24 JUL - Reno / The Holland Project 25 JUL - Eugene / Ditch Projects 26 JUL - Portland / Turn, Turn, Turn 27 JUL - Astoria / Anita 28 JUL - San Juan Island / Alchemy Arts Center 29 JUL - Seattle / Recreational Psychoacoustics Lab

MATCHESS is OUT THERE! On the road, that is! As the venerable Drag City recently pointed out: “Whitney will be joined onstage by Haley Fohr (AKA Circuit des Yeux) and Lula Asplund; in July, it’ll be Matchess, Haley, and Jenny Pulse. “Their individual practices in experimental music, sound art, and performance will invoke the “two against three” principle to alchemize a fresh collaboration on this tour of the American East, South, and West — with tremors of a new Whitney Johnson / Matchess album percolating! We’re surely feelin’ something…” JUN 12 - Asheville NC / Static Age JUN 13 - Carrboro NC / All Day Records JUN 15 (#1 )- Virginia Beach VA / Logstradamus JUN 15 (#2 ) - Baltimore MD / Current Space JUN 16 - Philadelphia PA / The Rotunda JUN 17 - Portland MN / The Aphodion Theater JUN 19 - Kingston NY / Tubby’s JUN 20 - Brooklyn NY / Union Pool

Let’s talk 𝙃𝙊𝙍𝙎𝙀 𝙇𝙊𝙍𝘿𝙎⁽¹⁾. Today we reveal the ‘Interventions’ tape reissue⁽²⁾ & expanded digital edition! ‘Interventions’ is their third album & it is WILD. We added a bonus live track + we reissued the tour t-shirt⁽³⁾! This beautiful band⁽⁴⁾ is also going on tour on the US west coast⁽⁵⁾ where they will have the black version of the tour shirt⁽⁶⁾. If you saw them on the east coast, you saw the blue version of this shirt as well as the blue tote bag⁽⁷⁾. Soon there will be a black tote bag and those will, one day, end up on Bandcamp. All this other stuff is on Bandcamp NOW & there is a link in the link spot and today is 𝘽𝘼𝙉𝘿𝘾𝘼𝙈𝙋 𝙁𝙍𝙄𝘿𝘼𝙔.

𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗫𝗘𝗥 announces ‘𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙞𝙧' — out 1 Apr 2024 on Lovers Rock Recordings. Following the eerie, floating vistas of 2022’s ‘Force Field: A Guide for the Perplexed’, Relaxer dials back the psycho club impact of ‘Candy’ and ‘Licking’ in favor of whalesong womb sonics and HD rain droplets. In Softening Air is a mercurial, poetic descent, combining spoken word with spacious, enveloping sound design. Two tracks are up for preview: “In Softening Air,” which snarls and contorts before laying back in dreamy, dark pools, and the gorgeous instrumental “Days”. Link up above. In 6 tracks, plus a remix from K Wata, this album spelunks into moist, mossy, fleshy crevices of the psyche. Sorrows & lamentations, shit talking, punk rock, apps, phlegm, studies in depth psychology, rat piss - it’s all here, presented in a gentle, loving tableau, and recited as a catalog of the inevitable and the unavoidable.  “like a river from a stream, we’re here / and it’s unwinding / in softening air.” This work was premiered at Dripping (@dripping.fyi ) at Nowadays (@nowadaysnyc ), May 2022, reworked as an audio/dance piece choreographed and performed by Æirrinn Ricks and Relaxer. Relaxer is the solo project of Daniel Martin-McCormick (fka Ital, member of Black Eyes (@blackeyesdischord ), Mi Ami and co-founder of Dripping). He is based in New York.

3 LP bundle of my solo records (Shift, Acquiesce, and Love Sick) is now available. This one’s for the new heads ⚡️ Thanks in advance 💕🎧 TALsounds.bandcamp.com 📸 by @reallyfarrah

𝗛𝗔𝗬𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗢 has landed! And he’s taking Europe by storm! Swipe to see a clip from the first night of his first-ever non-US tour – a packed show in Berlin, no less. The rest of the dates below, tix in our 🔗 zone. He took the time to issue his third newsletter today as well, find that in the same 🔗 spot and sign up by clicking the upper lefthand corner. Swipe to see how that thing would look on your phone if you had already been signed up. EU/UK TOUR (c/o @swampbooking ) Feb 02 - Aalborg, DK - Northern Winter Beat Feb 03 - Gothenburg, SE - Folkteatern Feb 04 - Copenhagen, DK - Beta Feb 06 - Hamburg, DE - Kulturpalast Feb 07 - Brussels, BE - La Source Beer Co Feb 09 - Manchester, UK - Yes Basement Feb 10 - Glasgow, UK - The Glad Cafe Feb 11 - Newcastle, UK - The Lubber Fiend Feb 12 - London, UK - The Lexington (SOLD OUT) Feb 13 - Paris, FR - Supersonic (NEW VENUE!) Feb 14 - Lyon, FR - Le Sonic Feb 15 - Geneva, CH - Antigel Festival Feb 16 - Milan, IT - Teatro Linguaggicreativi Feb 17 - Innsbruck, AT - Weyrer Loft Feb 18 - Jena, DE - TRAFO Feb 21 - Lisbon, PT - ZDB

Many happy returns to the great Natalie Chami, aka 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀! Truly one of the best to do it – she’s gifted, bold, and completely right on. If you know her music, you know she’s an incredible artist. If you’re friends with her, you’re very lucky. We’d be remiss not to re-up the link for her latest album, ‘𝙎𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙩’, on NNA (@nnatapes ) – an absolutely beautiful record that Natalie brilliantly conceptualized to feature a post-production cast made up completely of women who share her Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) descent. It’s truly a feat on many levels. Additionally, we put up an older mix, plus her performance from one of our favorite livestreams from the days of the pandemic (care of our friends at @newmusiccircle ), and the tickets for her Chicago homecoming gigs with none other than BLACK EYES and Lifeguard. Happy birthday, Natalie! 📸 by @reallyfarrah

𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗦 aka Whitney Johnson provided music (alongside the great Olivia Block) for Deborah Stratman’s ‘𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨’ which is about to finish a return engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. Final showtime in our links. Also in there is an interview with Stratman in Tone Glow: Film Show which covers some of Stratman’s collaborations with musicians like Matchess, Olivia Block, and Mary Lattimore. “An official selection of Sundance and the Berlinale Film Festival, and the opening night film of the 33rd Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Stratman’s LAST THINGS examines evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us. “With a stunning array of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes, Stratman seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.” Swipe ⬅️ for stills and the trailer! Awards & Nominations Winner - Green Dox, Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival
Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, DocAviv Film Festival

𝗔𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗡 𝗗𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗬 released ‘𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠​-​𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨!‘ – his 35-minute live set from TUSK Festival – via Hanson Records. ＨＵＧＥ ＧＩＧ. There’s no wonder that Dilloway himself refers to it as “possibly my favorite set I’ve ever performed.” The video is an absolute must-see – scope it + the Bandcamp entry in our links. Recorded in 2015 by Sam Grant at Gatehead Old Town Hall in Newcastle, England, this was Dilloway’s first UK gig since the Thurston Moore-curated All Tomorrows Parties in 2006. Tusk Festival wrote “Hailing from Michigan, Aaron Dilloway possibly first came to your attention as a member of Wolf Eyes. Since he left that band a decade ago, he’s delicately extended his exploration of tape manipulations and found sound appropriation, simultaneously bringing warmth and acidity, high-end assault and dreamy dislocation in a way that could be said to unwittingly form a bridge between Robert Ashley and hauntology.”

ＭＡＴＣＨＥＳＳ, aka Whitney Johnson, contributed voice recordings to the superlative new ᴋɪᴋᴜ̀ ʜɪʙɪɴᴏ release ‘Sky Trajectories’ on Superpang. Yes, we have the link! Boomkat wrote: “Hitting square between grid-bending styles developed by likes of SND & also explored by everyone from Second Woman to Ábrus Gryllus, the nine studio-based cuts - and longer liver track - of ’Sky Trajectories’ find Kikù Hibino in pursuit of a more sensitive approach to ostensibly hard-nosed electronic music sounds and structures. The five pieces featuring vocals by Whitney Johnson aka Matchess (Drag City) really set the results apart from the crowd with a canny ‘human’ sentimentality and touch that contrasts Hibino’s electronic purism.” Of her performance Whitney said, “The voice is that of a baby who has been through decades of life’s turning. Where some might hear sentimentality, others might detect a brutal refusal to succumb to the numbing of those decades.” About the project, Kikù wrote “My new body of work entitled ‘Sky Trajectories’ was created intensively in the month of December 2023. During that time, I felt a stark contrast between the dire realities facing children as the war raged on in Gaza and the peaceful environment in which I was able to immerse myself in making music in Chicago. I am aware that I am in a privileged position; therefore, in consultation with my label, I have decided to donate the net profits from the sales of this album to the UNICEF Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Fund.“ Original @matchesse 📸 by Fred Somsen.

HAYDEN PEDIGO has two US dates for you before heading to EU/UK — this is what’s up & and it all starts tonight! Two beautiful dates, two gorgeous venues: ★ USA (c/o @tba_agency ) Jan 18 - Oklahoma City, OK - Resonant Head Jan 20 - Galveston, TX - St. Joseph’s Church And then it’s off to Europe & the UK for the first time ever!

ROCKER is here — and AARON DILLOWAY is the cover star! New from @no_rent_records , Rocker is a bimonthly digest out of Philadelphia focusing on (deep breath) “harsh noise, ambient, musique concrète, electroacoustic, drone, tape music, wall noise, experimental, unclassifiable, concept works, computer music, field recording, indeterminate electronic, narrative, ecological, text-based, religious, song, acoustic ensemble, gorenoise, power electronics, blacknoise, and composed, modern, synth-based noisy stuff and sound design.” THIS ISSUE: • interview with Aaron Dilloway • interview with Yan Jun • Molassas Industries paper circuit with assembly instructions …and a lot more! Printed in full color on #80 gloss text. 64 pages, all content. It’s also SOLD OUT AT THE SOURCE but still available in stores. Happy hunting!