!!! KUDU ON VINYL !!!

Available on vinyl for the first time... Kudu is the 2018 debut of Brooklyn-based synth-laced deep-bass outer-space improv duo ANTELOPER (aka jaimie branch on trumpet/electronics and jason nazary on drums/electronics).

Despite being originally released as cassette only, Kudu was hailed as a 'Best Album' of that year by Bandcamp, Pop Matters, Rolling Stone, and more. In Rolling Stone, about Kudu, writer Hank Shteamer said: “The album’s collision of 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.”

The vinyl edition of Kudu is available for pre-order via our Bandcamp page on limited edition "Melted Highlighter" color vinyl (pictured above) or "limousine black" vinyl. Both versions come with a psychedelic Eastside obi strip, a full color insert sheet, and our classic dome-patterned inner-sleeve. The black vinyl version will be in stores worldwide on January 28th, 2022, and both versions will ship to Bandcamp customers shortly before that date.

!!! Order Kudu on vinyl today !!!

Reflecting on the record over 3 years later, branch says: "listening back to Kudu produces a three pronged thought process - 1) the immediacy of the music is undeniable, 2) the aliens are coming, and 3) still sounds like us. While Nazary notes “I hear us pushing through, evolving a new shared language exploded from sonic dynamite & cosmic chisel.”

branch continues: “Kudu is the very beginning, the exact start of Anteloper and when I listen back I remember how we were so excited to share this music with the world and Im glad it's gonna see it's propper vinyl release. During the recording of Kudu, jason and I ran our electronics in mono, and while it's not mixed fully mono, that punchiness pervades the sounds in full. Alien lithographic smears and remnants on the windows between us are definitely audible. It's kinda funny, I hear myself barely knowing how to work the delay/looper pedal that 5 years later i can now operate in total darkness, but it doesn't matter - the edge is there, the intentionality is there the lack of mastery doesn't bother me it adds to the Kudu vibe i think. Sometimes you meet a musical partner and you intuitively know that the music is important and must be followed - kudu is the beginning and jason and I are still on that path. space warriors."

Listen to Kudu.

ANTELOPER SHOWS IN NYC, CHICAGO & LA

In addition to the vinyl announcement today, the duo also share details of shows in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Info and ticket links below:

Friday January 14th - New York NY
NYC Winter JazzFest - Marathon Night 1
@ NUBLU
(with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, Marc Ribot, Kassa Overall, Terence Blanchard)
tickets

Sunday January 16th - Chicago IL
@ SLEEPING VILLAGE
tickets

Thursday January 20th - Los Angeles CA
@ GOLD DIGGERS
(with Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer)
tickets

Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada and Latin America

This album will be available on Limousine Black Vinyl and, for independent retailers only, worldwide, on indie exclusive limited edition color vinyl.

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 of this album, or any other album in our catalog. 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 - and all of our albums - are distributed by our friends at K7 Records 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!!!