*announcing* jaimie branch & jason nazary's ANTELOPER present TOUR BEATS VOL. 1
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Anteloper
Tour Beats Vol. 1
digital album out July 1st 2020
LP/CD street date TBA (est. September)
preview & pre-order on LP/CD/Digital
via our Bandcamp page TODAY
We are very happy to announce & share today.. A monumental beat suite by jaimie branch & Jason Nazary's ANTELOPER.. What was previously only available on a rare run of analogue cassette tapes... Formerly and now forever known as...
~ TOUR BEATS VOL. 1 ~
Anteloper is a duo of psychedelic sonic compatriots starring a pair of raggedy celestial sound warriors: trumpeter jaimie branch and drummer Jason Nazary. These longtime friends and collaborators met as young explorers and consider this electrified duo a continuous experiment into the unknown sonic abyss. Improvised organisms, abstract bangers, and mind-bending head boppers are guided by a unique desire to hear what hasn’t been heard before. This is music made of and for the moment, tipping towards the future, moving feet to the new-new beat.
Of Anteloper, in the liner notes for their 4/20/2018 debut Kudu, audiovisual avant-garde sage Rob Mazurek says: “Perspectives shift in weight and wander, sometimes distilled into perfect shots of mystic rum and sometimes left alone in an overgrown petrified aluminum forest, dripping and seething into utopian oblivion… Multiple dimensions collide and caress like a wooly tiger, kissing suns and embracing the nothingness, cracking this nothingness into sheets of corrugated dreams…”
Although only released on cassette, Kudu was dubbed one of the “Best Albums of 2018” by Bandcamp, Pop Matters, and Rolling Stone, who said “the duo convincingly bridges woozy psychedelic abstraction and furiously propulsive free funk... fractured beats and pealing, effects-heavy brass suggests a punk-minded update of Miles Davis’ most thrillingly weird Seventies explorations… This is music for serious immersion.”
In May 2018, Branch took up a month-long residency in the shipping container-turned-recording studio at Pioneer Works, an arts center down the street from her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She called up Nazary, and he rolled by the studio loaded with acoustic drums, electronic triggers, modular FX unit, synths, sequencers, and a myriad of processors. Branch engineered the sessions, and brought her rig to the table: trumpet, synths, delay/looper pedal, auxiliary percussion, and a Roland TR08 drum machine. They did what they always do — rolled tape and started from nothing.
In the Fall of 2019, they set out for the “Ante-Myths Sonic Projections Tour” that took them across the US alongside DC duo Blacks’ Myths. For the journey, they self-produced a super limited-edition tour tape, Tour Beats Vol. 1, which features recordings from those Pioneer Works sessions.
For Summer 2020, International Anthem is proud to re-present Anteloper’s Tour Beats Vol. 1 on 45RPM 12” vinyl in a package featuring artwork by Branch, photos by Richard Ross, and liner notes as poem, again, by Rob Mazurek, excerpted below...
“…blustery nights frozen distinct; systems... cones... reversed... allowed… plush… reminiscent wastelands gothic potential; screaming planets forlorn… wax and wane... born again and again and again; citing against the pricks, within sullen elastics, ecstatic pulse weft; new informal districts of time and energy…”
Listen to the first single
"Bubble Under"
& pre-order Tour Beats Vol. 1
via our Bandcamp page today.
Fuck It We're Doing A Live Stream
((( Release Party for Tour Beats Vol. 1 )))
Was only a matter of time before we got into the stream zone.. Being that it's 2020 we'll be celebrating the release of Anteloper's Tour Beats Vol. 1 on the world wide web c/o our good friends / Chicago-born comrades of The Hideout and their trusty mixer stream. A lot of fun ephemeral surprises planned, but here's the gist:
The Hideout & International Anthem present
ANTELOPER - Tour Beats Vol. 1
digi album release party
Wednesday July 1st @ 9pm Chicago time
via hideoutchicago.online
live performance by ANTELOPER
aka jaimie branch & Jason Nazary duo
w/ live visual manipulation by
KIM ALPERT
PLUS the world premiere of "RADAR radio"
animated video by THEODORE DARST
RSVP via Hideout
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
TANGO INFERNO SUNBURST RED COLOR VINYL
Tour Beats Vol. 1 in vinyl form is a 45rpm 140 gram LP (pressed by Pallas in Germany) in a heavyweight matte jacket (artwork by jaimie branch) with album credits insert (with liner notes by Rob Mazurek and portraits by Richard Ross), IARC obi strip and dome patterned inner sleeve (designed by our man Craig Hansen).
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 333 copies of Tango Inferno Sunburst Red color vinyl.
Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!
Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada, North & South America
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via K7 for
Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our friends at K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, Asia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!