*Announcing* IA11 EDITIONS: LP reissues of foundational IARC catalog to be released across 2025; first three available for preorder TODAY
Over the course of 2025 we will be celebrating our eleventh year (under the IA11 chrysanthemum banner) by revisiting some of the most celebrated entries in our decade of releases.
Damon Locks Shares New Single & Video “Holding The Dawn In Place (Beyond Pt. 2)”
Today Damon Locks – the Chicago-based visual artist, educator, musician, deejay, and vocalist who is known as the voice of Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, former frontman of legendary punk band Trenchmouth and The Eternals, and leader of latter day liberation music collective Black Monument Ensemble (BME) – releases a new single titled “Holding the Dawn in Place (Beyond pt. 2).”
Makaya McCraven: Artist in Residence at NYC Winter Jazz Fest
Makaya McCraven is Artist-in-Residence for the upcoming 2025 NYC Winter Jazz Festival. Between January 9th and 14th, Makaya will do five shows at five venues in five unique combinations, including multiple performances commemorating the 10-year anniversary of his breakout IARC debut album In The Moment.
Now available on all music platforms: RESAVOIR's "Love Theme from Spartacus" (Live at Les Sons du Cosmos Studio) // Orchestra Resavoir at Thalia Hall
On a cold gray April day, Resavoir gathered at 'le sons du cosmos' studio in Little Village, Chicago, to record a few tunes including a beautiful rendition of the Alex North composition "Love Theme from Spartacus."
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - The Way Out Of Easy - OUT NOW on all digital music platforms
Today, guitarist Jeff Parker releases The Way Out of Easy, the new album with his long-running ETA IVtet featuring saxophonist Josh Johnson (SML, Meshell Ndegeocello, Leon Bridges), bassist Anna Butterss (SML, Jason Isbell, Phoebe Bridgers), and drummer Jay Bellerose (Robert Plant, Allen Toussaint, Joe Henry), on all digital streaming platforms via International Anthem/Nonesuch Records.
*Announcing* DAMON LOCKS - List of Demands /// new solo album out January 31st, 2025
Today Damon Locks – the Chicago-based visual artist, educator, musician, deejay, and vocalist who is known as the voice of Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, former frontman of legendary punk band Trenchmouth, and leader of latter day liberation music collective Black Monument Ensemble – announces a new solo album titled List of Demands, out January 31st, 2025.
!!! NEW MERCH IS HERE !!!
We’re rolling into Winter with a fresh look inspired by the MCI Console that lives at International Anthem Studios. Does the gear nerd in your life need a fresh hoodie, tee, or coffee mug? Are you that nerd in need? Do you just like how it looks? This could be the look for you.
*Out This Week* Ruth Goller's skylla
Available on deluxe LP, CD, and digital download worldwide on December 6, 2024
IA11: celebrating our eleventh year.
Over the next year, we'll be rolling out a series of releases, reissues, miscellaneous media and events under the IA11 banner.
*Out This Week* Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - The Way Out Of Easy
Available on deluxe 2xLP, CD, and digital download worldwide this Friday, November 22, 2024
*Announcing* Deluxe Vinyl Reissue of Ruth Goller's Debut Album
skylla is the debut solo recording of Italian-born and London-based composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller.
OUT NOW On All Digital Music Platforms: Tomin's "A Willed and Conscious Balance"
“Tomin makes offerings that are achingly personal, mysteriously evocative, and unfailingly lovely.” - Bandcamp
OUT THIS WEEK: Tomin's "A Willed and Conscious Balance"
Ensemble leader debut by Brooklyn born and based brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, composer & arranger Tomin !!!
OUT NOW on streaming platforms: 'Mighty Vertebrate' by Anna Butterss
Today, Australian-born bassist and composer Anna Butterss releases Mighty Vertebrate, their debut album for International Anthem, on all streaming platforms.
International Anthem @ Public Records /// Three New Qobuz-exclusive Live Recordings Out Now /// Three Shows Dec 2-4 w/ Jeff Parker, SML, Anna Butterss
In March of 2022, International Anthem and Qobuz began a semi-regular series of co-presented shows in the hi-fi confines of Brooklyn's Public Records.
The ongoing series – now approaching the three year mark – has become somewhat of a Big Apple home base for the International Anthem family, as eight different artists to date have celebrated new or recent releases with IA@PR performances.
OUT NOW on all digital music platforms: Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra - Live at the Adler Planetarium
"Absolutely cosmic, somewhere between Sun Ra and ’70s Miles, with Damon Locks’ poetry and digital manipulations adding a 21st century dimension... This shit is head-spinning." – Phil Freeman, Stereogum
Prologue To A Blade >>> New EP, Poetry Book, and Tour from Alabaster DePlume
Today Alabaster DePlume – saxophonist, songwriter, poet, orator, activist, highly inspirational human who is doing very well indeed – shares Prologue To A Blade, a series of creative statements setting the stage for a larger project arriving next year.
Tomin's "Life"
Today, Tomin — the Brooklyn born and based brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bioinformatician — shares a driving new single, “Life,” from his upcoming album A Willed and Conscious Balance, out November 1st, 2024.
*Announcing* Jeff Parker ETA IVtet - The Way Out Of Easy
Today guitarist Jeff Parker announces The Way Out of Easy, a new album with his long-running ETA IVtet featuring saxophonist Josh Johnson (SML, Meshell Ndegeocello, Leon Bridges), bassist Anna Butterss (SML, Makaya McCraven, Daniel Villarreal), and drummer Jay Bellerose (Robert Plant, Allen Toussaint, Joe Henry), out November 22, 2024 on International Anthem / Nonesuch Records.
OUT THIS WEEK: Mighty Vertebrate by Anna Butterss
The Adelaide, Australia-born bassist and composer "has built their career around unshakable rhythm, blinding curiosity, and a profound sense of artistic freedom" (Alternative Press)