Out this week: Ruth Goller's SKYLLUMINA /// Bandcamp Listening Party on Friday /// upcoming shows EU & UK
IARC0078
Ruth Goller
SKYLLUMINA
out this Friday March 1st, 2024 on LP, CD, and Digital Download
(( full album will be available on streaming platforms on April 2nd ))
"Building upon the scaffolding of jazz bass greats, Goller erects towering sculptures of her own creation, sending them spiraling into the clouds." – Aquarium Drunkard
"Music that actually feels like a discovery, like you’re finding a work of art that no one else has witnessed before." – Molars
"The scratchy, uneven refrain of harmonic tones she strings together on her electric bass quake with unresolved tension." – FADER
"Simultaneously ethereal and grounded." – Twisted Soul
"Breathtakingly beautiful, Skyllumina is a perfect off-the-wall masterpiece." – All About Jazz
((( photo by Zak Watson )))
SKYLLUMINA is new work from London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist & vocalist Ruth Goller.
Some may recognize Goller from her work with Alabaster DePlume, whose music she elevates in live contexts with her genre-less improvisational intuition. And she is known to creative musicians far and wide, with an incredibly diverse CV that includes performance and recording with Shabaka Hutchings, Rokia Traore, Melt Yourself Down, Sam Amidon, Damon Albarn, and many many more.
Expanding on the wholly original sound Goller established with her solo debut Skylla – i.e. compositions of detuned bass under a spectra of soprano voices she arranged and overdubbed herself – SKYLLUMINA complicates matters as she augments every piece with a different drummer. “As a bass-player, I love playing with drummers and I decided to focus on my close connection to that instrument and to the amazing people I met in my life who play it,” says Goller. Her accompanists on the album include International Anthem labelmates Bex Burch, Tom Skinner, and Frank Rosaly, as well as prolific British player Sebastian Rochford, and longtime Vula Viel collaborator Jim Hart. But more importantly: this music is an immersive hyperfocus for Goller and her patently distinct, singular compositional vision.
Goller says: “This record is deep insight into my soul and my recent life. It’s coming through a meteor storm and grasping the first light... out of a very unexpected tumultuous time... there are feelings of grief, loss, hope, purest of love, connection to my home, death, and new configurations... as well as self-discovery.”
SKYLLUMINA Listening Party on Bandcamp
This Friday, March 1st @ 1pm CST // 7pm GMT
This Friday March 1st is not only Bandcamp Friday but also ALBUM RELEASE DAY for SKYLLUMINA so YES we'll be doing a listening party on Bandcamp to celebrate the occasion(s). Ruth Goller aka GOTH RULER herself will be in the chat, as well as several of us from IARC to satisfy all your nosey nerdy pryings like "who's that?" or "how'd you make that sound?" or "what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" JOIN US AND FIND OUT <3 <3
!!! Buy it IRL !!!
Here (and below) is a list of record shops across the globe that have confirmed they are stocking SKYLLUMINA for the album release date this Friday 3/1/24. Please consider supporting your local economy and neighborhood record shop, go out and buy this album in public on Friday! And if you're favorite shop isn't on this list below, give them a call on the phone and ask them to stock it for you! Long live small business and analog retail!
Kansas City, MO - Mills Record Company
Kitchener, ON - Encore Records
Köln, DE - Hauptsache Musik
Lawrence, KS - Love Garden Sounds
Livingston Manor, NY - Jitterbug Sights & Sounds
Loveland, OH - Plaid Room Records
Madison, WI - B-Side
Madison, WI - Strictly Discs
Medford, OR - Biscuits & Vinyl
Milan, IT - XTCR
Milan, IT - Serendeepity
Montreal, QC - Atom Heart
München, DE - Echt Optimal!
Nashville, TN - Grimey's
Norridge, IL - Rolling Stones Record Store
Orlando, FL - Park Ave. CD's
Phoenix, AZ - Stinkweeds
Pittsburgh, PA - The Government Center
Portland, OR - 2nd Avenue Records
Portland, OR - Commercial Astoria
Portland, OR - Everyday Music
Portland, OR - Jackpot Records
Portland, OR - Music Millennium
Québec, QC - Explosive Groove Disquaire
Rennes, FR - Blind Spot
Rosenheim, DE - Bebop
Saint Paul, MN - Cheapo Discs
San Diego, CA - Folk Arts Rare Records
San Francisco, CA - Amoeba Music San Fran
San Francisco, CA - Stranded Music
San Luis Obispo, CA - Boo Boo Records
Seattle, WA - Hex Enduction Records & Books
Seattle, WA - Nellis Records
Seattle, WA - Silver Platters
Seattle, WA - Sonic Boom Records
Taylorsville, UT - Graywhale
The Hague, NL - 334
Thessaloniki, GR - Father Coffe & Vinyl
Toronto, ON - Sonic Boom
Tourhout, BE - Topdisc
Vancouver, BC - Audiopile Records
Vancouver, BC - Neptoon Records
Wallingford, CT - Redscroll Records
Aachen, DE - Tam Tam
Akron, OH - Square Records
Amsterdam, NL - Concerto Recordstore Amsterdam
Ancaster, Ontario - Sunrise Records
Antwerp, BE - Sugar Pie Records
Athens, GR - Lofi Concept
Austin, TX - Waterloo
Baltimore, MD - Sound Garden
Belfast, Northern Ireland - Sound Advice
Berkeley, CA - Amoeba Music Berkeley
Berlin, DE - HHV
Berlin, DE - Decks
Bloomington, IN - Landlocked Music
Bremen, DE - Black Plasti
Bucuresti, RO - Barul Tonal SRL
Burlington, NC - The Record Booth 93 at Granddaddy's
Calgary, AB - Blackbyrd Myoozik
Calgary, AB - Melodiya Records
Carp, ON - Birdman Sound
Charlotte, NC - Lunchbox Records
Chicago, IL - Dusty Groove Inc.
Chicago, IL - Laurie's Planet of Sound
Chicago, IL - Reckless Records
Chicago, IL - Tone Deaf Records
Davenport, IA - Ragged Records
Dearborn, MI - Dearborn Music
Delft, NL - Sounds
Denver, CO - Twist & Shout
Denver, CO - Wax Trax
Dresden, DE - Sweetwater
Durham, NC - Chaz's Bull City Records
Düsseldorf, DE - A&O
Edmonton, AB - Blackbyrd Myoozik
Edmonton, AB - Listen Records
Encinitas, CA - Lou's Records
Fulda, DE - Marleen
Grand Rapids, MI - Quality Vintage Collectibles
Grand Rapids, MI - Vertigo Music
Hamburg, DE - Zardoz
Hamburg, DE - Michelle
Houston, TX - Cactus Music
Indianapolis, IN - Indy CD and Vinyl
Iowa City, IA - Record Collector Inc
Japan - Momma Masayoshi
Ruth Goller's Skylla
SKYLLUMINA
Tour Dates 2024
February 27 - London, UK at ROUGH TRADE WEST
March 21 - Canterbury, UK at CANTERBURY FRUITWORKS
April 18 - Bressanone, IT at DEKADENZ
April 24 - London, UK at TINTABERNACLE
April 28 - Bristol, UK at NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
May 04 - Cambridge, UK at NCI CLUB
May 17 - Moers, DE at MOERS JAZZ FESTIVAL
May 29 - Brussels, BE at ANCIENNE BELGIQUE
May 31 - Amsterdam, NL at PARADISO
July 15 - Edinburgh, UK at EDINBURGH JAZZ FESTIVAL
July 24 - Sheffield, UK at LESCAR
September 14 - Dorset, UK at JAMINAROUND
September 21 - Brighton, UK at THE ROSE HILL
November 13 - London, UK at VORTEX JAZZ FESTIVAL
November 15 - Birmingham, UK at HEXAGON THEATRE MAC
November 22 - Berlin, DE at KANTINE AM BERGHAIN
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
*** Sunrise of MIne color vinyl ***
SKYLLUMINA comes on 140g Classic Black Vinyl inside a heavyweight jacket, with insert sheet, IARC OBI strip and dome patterned innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 444 copies of *Sunrise of Mine* color vinyl.
Purchase SKYLLUMINA as part of the
**Spring Mondo Bundle**
A beautiful new bundle for a new season of new releases! For the fervent, faithful collector of our output.
By the middle of April we will have announced five (5) new albums - IARC0078 (Ruth Goller - SKYLLUMINA), IARC0081 (Cassie Kinoshi's seed. – gratitude), IARC0079, IARC0076, and IARC0080 - that will be available on CD, classic black vinyl, and limited edition color vinyl. The Spring Mondo Bundle combines all five titles into a single, beautiful parcel. Save money on shipping (they all come at once, as opposed to five individual shipments) plus an additional 5.5% discount on the retail value of the albums as an extra *thank you* for your trust in us.
Order the Spring Mondo Bundle on limited edition color vinyl here.
Order the Spring Mondo Bundle on classic black vinyl here.
Order the Summer Mondo Bundle on compact disc here.
Distribution via RedEye for USA, 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 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, Australia, Japan, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, Japan, 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!!!
