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New Claire Cronin single + US/CA tour dates w/ Advance Base Posted 21 May 2019

This morning, Post-Trash premiered "Wolfman," the second single from Claire Cronin's forthcoming Orindal LP, Big Dread Moon.

Post-Trash's Dan Goldin writes:

Following the release of album opener “Tourniquet,” Cronin shares “Wolfman,” another dimly light folk song, built on mythological creatures and a slow paced semblance of understanding. Built on a crawling tempo, an airy acoustic guitar, and the uneasy warble of Cronin’s gorgeous voice, every strum rings out until complete, a stunning testament to the slow and beautiful sound of Low or label mate Lisa/Liza. The story of the Wolfman is an interesting one, and the lyrics are abstract enough that they don’t need to have explicit meaning to be enjoyed, but there’s room for interpretation and heavy hearted tension.

You can listen to Post-Trash's exclusive stream of "Wolfman" & read more kind words from Dan HERE.

"Wolfman" will be available to stream on all digital platforms on Friday, May 24. Big Dread Moon will be released on vinyl & digital formats on June 14. You can pre-order your copy HERE.

Claire Cronin will be hitting the road with Advance Base in June, playing shows across the American Midwest, Canada & New England. They'll have Big Dread Moon vinyl & tour-exclusive t-shirts for sale. Get your tickets now!

CLAIRE CRONIN + ADVANCE BASE TOUR DATES
June 21 Chicago, IL @ The Hungry Brain (w/ Advance Base & Moon Racer)
June 22 Rock Island, IL @ Rozz Tox (w/ Advance Base)
June 23 Grand Rapids, MI @ Green Acres (w/ Advance Base)
June 24 Ypsilanti, MI @ Ziggy's (w/ Advance Base & Moon Racer)
June 25 Toronto, ON @ Burdock (w/ Advance Base)
June 26 Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola (w/ Advance Base)
June 27 Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church (w/ Advance Base & Ruth Garbus)
June 28 Portland, ME @ The Apohadion Theater (w/ Advance Base & Greg Jamie)
June 29 Providence, RI @ 159 Sutton Street (w/ Advance Base)
June 30 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (w/ Advance Base, Matt Bachmann & Moon Racer)
July 1 Washington, DC @ Songbyrd Vinyl Lounge (w/ Advance Base)

Gia Margaret- "Smoke (Acoustic)" + UK/EU tour Posted 08 May 2019

This morning, The Line of Best Fit premiered Gia Margaret's acoustic version of "Smoke," one of two bonus tracks on a new digital edition of There's Always Glimmer, available from streaming services on May 24! "Smoke (Acoustic)" is available on all streaming services today. There's Always Glimmer will be re-released outside of North America by Dalliance Records on May 24.

Gia Margaret's UK/EU tour kicks off Friday at The Great Escape festival in Brighton. You'll find all of Gia's tour dates HERE.

Claire Cronin: "Tourniquet" stream & Big Dread Moon LP pre-order Posted 23 Apr 2019

On June 14, Orindal Records will release Big Dread Moon, the new album by Los Angeles, by way of Athens, GA singer/songwriter/guitarist Claire Cronin. Claire has been writing & recording stark, lyrically vivid folk songs since 2011, most recently releasing a collaborative album with Deerhoof's John Dieterich called Down Came A Storm on Ba Da Bing Records in 2016.

This morning, Stereogum premiered "Tourniquet," the leadoff track from Big Dread Moon. Writer James Rettig says:

“Tourniquet,” the first single from her new album Big Dread Moon, is a roiling storm cloud. Strings wrap around her guitar like a mournful cry, giving the whole thing a dusty old Western feel, blood and dirt and sinewy decay. “By the time I left, I was vacant: a haunted house with no basement,” Cronin sings, her voice astringent. “If you hate the night, then replace it/ With visions of light underground/ Dissolvable, impossible, transparent.”

Read the full preview HERE.

Big Dread Moon will be released on limited edition colored vinyl, black vinyl & digital formats on June 14. Pre-order your copy HERE.

Claire Cronin & Advance Base will be touring the U.S. & Canada this summer. All of their confirmed dates are below, & more dates are on the way. Watch for updates on the tour dates page.

CLAIRE CRONIN + ADVANCE BASE
June 21 Chicago, IL @ The Hungry Brain (w/ Moon Racer)
June 25 Toronto, ON @ Burdock
June 26 Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola
June 27 Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church (w/ Ruth Garbus)
June 28 Portland, ME @ The Apohadion Theater (w/ Greg Jamie)
June 30 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right (w/ Matt Bachmann & Moon Racer)
July 1 Washington, DC @ Songbyrd Vinyl Lounge

Matt Bachmann: "Wave Hello" stream & Walking Preference CS pre-order Posted 12 Apr 2019

On May 10, Orindal Records will release Walking Preference, an album of new age instrumental music by Matt Bachmann (Mega Bog, Hand Habits, Big Eater). Brooklyn Vegan premiered the lead-off track, "Wave Hello," which you can listen to above.

Walking Preference expands on the sound vs song work explored on previous Bachmann solo releases, like 2018's Unconditonal Love & earlier ambient experiments. Recorded almost entirely on a Roland JX-3P, a Yamaha digital piano & a D.I. guitar, Walking Preference inhabits an animated universe inspired by Miyazaki films & Nintendo fantasies — a world both natural & unreal. Air & space have been carefully manufactured. The playful drones & compositions within are full of bubbles and sharp turns while still adhering to the core tenants of Bachmann’s sound— that of beauty & space. Bachmann’s music is more sky than earth. Walking Preference zooms out.

Walking Preference is the second tape in Orindal's ongoing series of instrumental "Unguided Meditation Tapes" following Robert Stillman's Portals.

Pre-order Walking Preference on cassette or download HERE.

Matt Bachmann will perform as part of an Orindal showcase on June 30 in Brooklyn, NY, sharing the bill with Advance Base, Moon Racer & Claire Cronin. You'll find tickets & more info on the tour date page.

Lisa/Liza music video: "The Matador Pt. 2" Posted 11 Apr 2019


This morning, GoldFlakePaint premiered the official music video for "The Matador Pt. 2" from Lisa/Liza's 2018 album, Momentary Glance. The video was shot, directed & edited by Orindal's own Karima Walker.

Karima Walker describes the video:

The greenhouses where we shot are owned by a world renowned botanist based just outside Tucson. They're a little island, surrounded by Sonoran desert. It's two acres of succulents and orchids from all around the world. They're a threshold, bringing the larger world within reach, on an intimate scale.

The orchid house, especially, is warmer, fuller, packed with airplants and beautiful flowers. Kind of junglelike, but not claustrophobic because every time your eyes move over the space, they're pulled into these bright gorgeous colors and forms all hypnotizing you into their tiny universes. I feel Liza's songs do something very similar, bringing the sublime and the very intimate together with beauty and tenderness and patience

There's a rich and resounding interiority to her songs that unfurls into these larger and larger arrangements. It's so seamless, and I suddenly find myself somewhere else when the song is over. I get pulled in and lose track of time. They're magical in that way and I wanted to make the video feel magical too, a warmth and light emanating from all the little signs of life around her as she moved through the space. I wanted her to be woven into it, for that magic to be contingent upon her initiation, and so I decided to make a sequence where the flowers and plants would glow when she touched them.

The song takes off at the end, and I wanted the imagery to too, where a kind of collage of the essence of all these forms would transition into a completely new space. So I used footage from one of my favorite drives on tour while Liza and Owen Ashworth and I were playing a few shows together in the west. We drove up from Albuquerque into Denver, passing though essentially a seven hour transition zone from desert into a huge mountain valley. It takes all day, and cell service is bad and there's no where to stop and you watch these super wide mountain ranges slowly creep in closer and closer until you wind right through them to drop down into Denver. I layered, with hand held video, stretches of these mountains over each other, so they'd move and shake, becoming object-like while still maintaining their scale as the song opens out into saturated layers of loops and distortion.

Gia Margaret music video: "Birthday" Posted 10 Apr 2019


This morning, Gorilla Vs. Bear premiered the official music video for "Birthday" by Gia Margaret. The video was created by everybody's baby, & features Gia being haunted by inanimate objects.

"Birthday" is taken from Gia Margaret's 2018 debut album, There's Always Glimmer (released July 27, 2018 on Orindal Records). UK label Dalliance Records will re-release There's Always Glimmer for UK/EU on May 24, 2019, & Gia will be touring overseas in support of the re-release. You'll find all of her upcoming tour dates HERE.

Select Orindal titles now available via Mississippi Records Posted 01 Apr 2019

Select titles from the Orindal catalog are now available to record stores & customers alike through Mississippi Records' new website, mississippirecords.net. We're thrilled to be partnering with Mississippi Records, who will be adding more Orindal titles to their distro in the coming months.

As always, the entire Orindal catalog is available to record stores through The Business's mighty distribution network: thebusinessanacortes.com/distro/

Robert Stillman music video: "All Are Welcome" Posted 13 Mar 2019

This morning, Clash Magazine premiered Robert Stillman's delightfully surreal music video for "All Are Welcome," directed by Benjamin Rowley!

Mirroring the solo recording technique that Robert Stillman deployed to record "All Are Welcome" (& every other track on his new album, Reality), the video layers multiple Roberts over himself as he performs saxophones, piano & drums in a psychedelic collage.

Clash Magazine writer Robin Murray called the video "dazzling... with the arresting effects having a pleasingly DIY quality." Read the full piece HERE.


Reality is available on black vinyl, opaque natural vinyl, compact disc & digital formats HERE.

Robert Stillman will play a launch show for Reality in London, England on Sunday, March 17 at The Vortex. Tickets are available HERE.

ROBERT STILLMAN: "What I Owe" premiere & Reality LP/CD pre-order Posted 29 Jan 2019

Reality, the new album from Maine-born, UK-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Stillman, will be released by Orindal Records on February 22, 2019. Reality is an album of home-recorded, spiritual jazz meditations, colored by a bright palette of saxophones, clarinets, pianos, harps, drums & percussion, & composed, performed & engineered entirely by Stillman.

This morning, Post-Trash premiered the first preview track, "What I Owe." Writer Colin Vallee describes it as "the hero’s journey made audible; conflict and resolution in a delightful two act play; a spirited take on structure that wants to push you away as desperately as it wants your attention."

You can listen to "What I Owe" & pre-order Reality on CD, vinyl, CD+vinyl bundle or digital formats HERE.

EU/UK buyers can order direct from Robert at reduced shipping rates: https://archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album...