Out this Friday: TOMIN's IARC debut Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina
IARC0083
Tomin
Flores para Verene /
Cantos para Caramina
LP / CS / DD out this Friday August 2nd, 2024
(( full album available on streaming platforms August 20th ))
Releasing worldwide on vinyl LP, cassette, and digital download this Friday: Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina by Brooklyn born/raised/based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bioinformatician Tomin.
The twenty four tender miniatures from Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina tell the story of a transformative period in Tomin’s life. Reflecting on love, change, and the passage of time, Tomin’s astute playing and expert arrangements bind the album together in an appreciation of the beauty of small acts.
"...a double-sided revelation with one part offering masterful interpretations of Mingus, Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Albert Ayler while the other immerses listeners in his original creations of futuristic electric keyboards and synths that push the boundaries of sound and imagination." - New Commute
((( Shop photos courtesy of 606 Records (Chicago), Reckless Records (Chicago), and Hex Enduction Records and Books (Seattle) )))
!!! Buy it IRL !!!
Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina is available in record stores across the globe this Friday. Please consider showing your neighborhood small business some love and head out and grab a copy from an independent record shop this weekend!
If you don't know where to go, below (and here on our site) is a list of places we've confirmed have stocked the album in their stores this weekend.
Aachen, DE - Tam Tam, Tonträger
Asheville, TN - Harvest Records
Austin, TX - Breakaway Records
Bellvue, WA - Silver Platters
Berkeley, CA - Amoeba Music
Berlin, DE - Rough Trade
Brighton, UK - Family Store
Bristol, UK - Rough Trade
Calgary, Alberta - Blackbyrd Myoozik
Chicago, IL - 606 Records
Chicago, IL - Dusty Groove
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records (Belomont)
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records (Loop)
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records (Wicker Park)
Chicago, IL - Tone Deaf Records
Cincinnati, OH - Shake It
Dayton, OH - Omega Music
Denver, CO - Twist & Shout
Denver, CO - Wax Trax
Derry, IE - Cool Discs
Dresden, DE - Sweetwater Recordstore
Dublin, IE - Freebird
Dublin, IE - Spindizzy
Düsseldorf, DE - A&O Medien
Edmunton, AB - Listen Records
Glasgow, UK - Some Great Reward
Hamburg, DE - Zardoz
Hannover, DE - 25 Music
Hollywood, CA - Amoeba Music
Iowa City, IA - Record Collector
Isle of Man, IM - Sound Records
Köln, DE - Hauptsache Musik
Livingston Manor, NY - Jitterbug Sights & Sounds
London, UK - Dreamhouse Records
London, UK - Phonica
London, UK - Rough Trade East
London, UK - Sounds of the Universe
London, UK - Stranger Than Paradise
London, UK - World of Echo
Loveland, OH - Plaid Room Records
Manchester, UK - Piccadilly
Milwaukee, WI - Acme Records
Minneapolis, MN - Electric Fetus
Montréal, QC - Atom Heart
Montréal, QC - Aux 33 Tours
Montréal, QC - Le Vacarme
Montréal, QC - Sonorama Disques
Nashville, TN - Grimey's
New Orleans, LA - Euclid Records
Norwich, UK - Venus Vinyl
Opelika, AL - 10,000 Hz Records
Oxford, MS - The End of All Music
Portland, OR - Clinton St. Records
Portland, OR - Mississippi Records
Portland, OR - Music Millennium
Princeton, NJ - Princeton Record Exchange
Richmond, VA - Plan 9
San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Music
San Luis Obispo, CA - Boo Boo Records
Seattle, WA - Hex Enduction Records & Books
Seattle, WA - Sonic Boom Records
Somerville, MA - Vinyl Index
St Paul, MN - Cheapo Discs
St. Louis, MO - Vintage Vinyl
Toronto, ON - Sonic Boom
Vancouver, BC - Audiopile Records
Wallingford, CT - Redscroll Records
West Palm Beach, FL - Rust & Wax
((( Photo by Alejandro Ayala )))
...about Tomin,
Flores y Cantos...
by Piotr Orlov
27-year-old Tomin Perea-Chamblee is a brass- and reed-centered multi-instrumentalist, the composer and arranger of pieces with excellently thorny harmonies, an at-times reluctant musicker and enthusiastic Brooklynite (born and raised, so his admiration primarily concerns the borough’s pre-gentrification qualities), who, by day works as a bioinformatician. If you're in New York, there’s an OK chance that you’ve heard him play before, with young (jazz-adjacent) bands and musicians of some renown. Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina introduces Tomin as an individual artist to the wider public, and is in many ways a tribute to family and heritage. It’s music grounded in clear purpose and a gravity seemingly beyond his youthfulness, yet coloured with unexpected hues, engaging a newness and hope that lies beyond tradition’s solemnity.
Tomin has been self-releasing the music compiled on Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina since 2020. Originally, these pieces were low-key exercises in personal expression, mini markers of intentional beauty. They were also a kind of culmination. By the time Tomin got around to recording them, he’d already been a high-school trombonist in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, and a many-hats-wearing horn player with Standing on the Corner, while studying at Columbia. Setting these sounds down on tape was just a matter of time and follow-through.
Flores para Verene (“Flowers for Verene”) brings together solo clarinet-and-trumpet versions of compositions by Tomin’s musical paragons — Mingus, Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Albert Ayler, Eddie Gale, among others. They were recorded to honour his life’s great hero, his maternal grandmother, Virlenice Diaz Valencia, who’d passed away in late 2019 in her native Colombia. (Tomin’s liner notes express the love the two had for one another with an exceptional clarity.) These versions are miniatures—short-length, layered constructions offering little more than the song’s theme, in lo-fi recordings that embrace the click of the clarinet keys—yet full-hearted in their intimacy. As with all the best sounds, laughter and tears are on equal footing here.
On the album's Cantos para Caramina (“Songs for Caramina”) side, it’s Tomin’s own originals—dedicated to his older, very much living sister, Caramina—which rise to the fore. Horns are abandoned for the sine-waves of synths and electric keyboards. The longing of remembrance is replaced with the allure of a future yet to happen. The textured air is filled with melodic abstraction reminiscent of Erik Satie or Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, or maybe even Ra at his solo and sanguine. In 2021, as hope came into view, Tomin wanted to honour Caramina by creating something new. And this quartet of (equally) small-scaled compositions dance like a gathering of angels on the head of a pin. None too fancy, but eminently breathable. The kind of thing that insists, “There is more to this world.”
Listen and purchase Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina
as part of the
**Summer Mini Mondo Bundle**
For the fervent, faithful collector of our output.
The 𝙎𝙐𝙈𝙈𝙀𝙍 𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙄 𝙈𝙊𝙉𝘿𝙊 is a beautiful bundle containing all three of our albums announced across Summer 2024 – IARC0085 (SML), IARC0083 (Tomin), and IARC0084 (Asher Gamedze)... with a few bonuses this time: (𝟭) 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 *𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚, 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗𝗪𝗜𝗗𝗘, and (𝟮) 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝗨 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲, in addition to the US & UK warehouses, which will help to minimize VAT tax etc !!!
All items are shipping NOW, together in one package. Note, this means that you will indeed receive SML - Small Medium Large ~four weeks after the street date, BUT it also means that you will receive album Asher Gamedze's new album Constitution ~four weeks BEFORE its street date. Bandcamp downloads will be sent via email for all the releases around the time of the ship date.
Order the Summer Mini Mondo on limited edition color vinyl here.
Order the Summer Mini Mondo on classic black vinyl here.
*re: FREE SHIPPING, due to a technical nuance that’s not worth describing here, we had to charge atleast .50 cents, so please don’t be alarmed
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
Golden Hummingbird color vinyl
Flores para Verene / Cantos para Caramina comes on 140-gram vinyl (pressed by Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST) inside a heavyweight jacket, with our IARC obi strip and poly-lined dome patterned innersleeve.
We also have a limited edition color vinyl option, for the first pressing only, with 444 copies of *Golden Hummingbird* color vinyl available via our Bandcamp page.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on Cassette and Classic Black Vinyl (same package specs as listed above).
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 will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, 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!!!
((( Photo by Alejandro Ayala )))
