watch Theodore Darst's animated video for jaimie branch's "prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2" /// FLY or DIE LIVE full concert video out this Sunday
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watch Theodore Darst's animated video for jaimie branch's "prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2" /// FLY or DIE LIVE full concert video out this Sunday

The final lead single from jaimie branch's forthcoming FLY or DIE LIVE – "prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2" – is out on all DSPs today!

EVEN BETTER though is the psychedelic animated video for "prayer" by Theodore Darst & Gregory Nachmanovitch, made/manipulated with performance footage from the FLY or DIE LIVE recording 1/23/2020 at Moods, also out today!

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*announcing* IARC0041 jaimie branch FLY or DIE LIVE Digital album out May 21st Double LP & CD out in July (exact retail date TBA)
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*announcing* IARC0041 jaimie branch FLY or DIE LIVE Digital album out May 21st Double LP & CD out in July (exact retail date TBA)

As we gear up for the full-blown (hopeful) return of live music in the coming months... We are happy to share a riveting whistle-whetter of a LIVE document from jaimie branch, recorded near the very end of the Before-Times (January 2020) when her ace quartet (with Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis and Chad Taylor) was in peak form...

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*announcing* IARC0040 Carlos Niño & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current // digi album out May 7th, LP/CD out June 25th
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*announcing* IARC0040 Carlos Niño & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current // digi album out May 7th, LP/CD out June 25th

After several years of slowly blooming partnership... from his hosting of King Hippo's RAWS: LA (aka Makaya McCraven's Los Angeles debut) at the Del Monte Speakeasy in Fall 2015, to warming up Jeff Parker's release show for The New Breed at the Blue Whale in summer 2016, to sharing the decks with us at Danny's Tavern in Chicago in early 2017, to playing on the LA side of Universal Beings in early 2018, to the summer surprise of 2020's duo meditation Chicago Waves...

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Angel Bat Dawid's LIVE 2xLP/CD in stores EU/UK this Friday March 5th // in stores US/Canada on April 9th
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Angel Bat Dawid's LIVE 2xLP/CD in stores EU/UK this Friday March 5th // in stores US/Canada on April 9th

Today we're happy to confirm retail street dates for the CD and deluxe gatefold double vinyl LP versions of LIVE by Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood.

LIVE is available in stores across Europe, UK, Australia and Japan starting this Friday March 5th (via our partners at !K7); and in stores across the US & Canada starting Friday April 9th (via our folks at RedEye).

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*NOW* a new album by Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble // lead single & video out TODAY // pre-order on SHADES of NIGHT in GOLD color vinyl NOW
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*NOW* a new album by Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble // lead single & video out TODAY // pre-order on SHADES of NIGHT in GOLD color vinyl NOW

An exciting day today... Mercury is no longer in retrograde AND we have the privilege of announcing our first new release of 2021, which is: brand new music by Damon Locks and his Black Monument Ensemble. A followup to their iconic 2019 debut Where Future Unfolds, it's an album for these times appropriately titled NOW.

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*announcing* Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood - LIVE
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*announcing* Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood - LIVE

Late last night... clarinetist, composer, singer & spiritual jazz soothsayer Angel Bat Dawid unleashed a plume of cleansing fire energy into the blue moonlit midnight air of All Souls' weekend... in the form of this powerful LIVE document.

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NAVARRO & HOLMES's new album OUT TODAY!!! PLUS more COLOR VINYL versions /// AND release shows IRL in NYC this wknd (social safe, of course)
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NAVARRO & HOLMES's new album OUT TODAY!!! PLUS more COLOR VINYL versions /// AND release shows IRL in NYC this wknd (social safe, of course)

Telepathic Afro-Caribbean improvisational trumpet-and-percussion duo Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes are longtime friends, collaborators, and tireless hustlers on the creative music scenes of New York City. We came to know these brilliant players via their work in the mighty free jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements; and after several years of growing steadily fonder of the sounds they make, we are pleased to share that their new duo album, Heritage of the Invisible II, is out TODAY!

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TWO new singles & videos from forthcoming Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra album OUT TODAY
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TWO new singles & videos from forthcoming Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra album OUT TODAY

Rob Mazurek releases two new singles today: “Galaxy 1000” and “The Careening Prism Within (Parable 43),” from his forthcoming Exploding Star Orchestra album Dimensional Stardust (which comes out November 20th via our partnership with Nonesuch Records). They follow the album’s lead single “A Wrinkle in Time Sets Concentric Circles Reeling.”

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*announcing* ROB MAZUREK EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA - "DIMENSIONAL STARDUST" // co-release w/ NONESUCH RECORDS out 11/20/20
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*announcing* ROB MAZUREK EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA - "DIMENSIONAL STARDUST" // co-release w/ NONESUCH RECORDS out 11/20/20

We are very happy to christen the first day of Autumn 2020 with news of a major new work by ROB MAZUREK and his EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA. Mazurek – the artist who inaugurated our record label (hear: IARC0001, Alternate Moon Cycles) and perhaps what many 21st century modern music heads would consider "The Chicago Sound" (hear: Chicago Underground, Isotope 217) – presents the monumental Dimensional Stardust as a co-release of International Anthem and Nonesuch Records.

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MONDO STREET DATE! Three LPs hit stores worldwide on 9/25! Makaya, Anteloper, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood Ferguson!
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MONDO STREET DATE! Three LPs hit stores worldwide on 9/25! Makaya, Anteloper, Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood Ferguson!

A very exciting retail date is nigh... Our three most recently released albums – Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's Chicago Waves, Anteloper's Tour Beats Vol. 1, and Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings E&F Sides – will all be available in physical formats, for the first time, via your favorite record stores, on Friday September 25th.

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*announcing* AQUILES NAVARRO & TCHESER HOLMES - HERITAGE OF THE INVISIBLE II // new duo LP from members of Irreversible Entanglements out October 23rd
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*announcing* AQUILES NAVARRO & TCHESER HOLMES - HERITAGE OF THE INVISIBLE II // new duo LP from members of Irreversible Entanglements out October 23rd

Telepathic Afro-Caribbean improvisational trumpet-and-percussion duo Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes are longtime friends, collaborators, and tireless hustlers on the creative music scenes of New York City. We came to know these brilliant players via their work in the mighty free jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements; and after several years of growing steadily fonder of the sounds they make, today we are pleased to share news of their new duo album Heritage of the Invisible II, out October 23rd.

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announcing* Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's CHICAGO WAVES
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announcing* Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's CHICAGO WAVES

In late November of 2018, long-time collaborators (& life-long Los Angelenos) Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson flew to Chicago to participate in the album release performance of Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings. Just 11 months prior, Carlos & Miguel were part of recording the ‘Los Angeles Side’ of Universal Beings at Jeff Parker’s house in Altadena, California, and this performance in Chicago would be the first time that all of the musicians reunited to re-learn and perform the music they’d collectively composed during those sessions.

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Announcing Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
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Announcing Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1

It is our pleasure to announce: the next entry into the International Anthem catalogue, our first full length release by a British artist; our first 3-way co-release with Total Refreshment Centre and Lost Map; an album that has been a great source of peace to our internal ears over the last few months, and is sure to be for the world now as well: To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 by Alabaster DePlume.

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Irreversible Entanglements "Homeless/ Global" 23-Minute "Single" Out Today
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Irreversible Entanglements "Homeless/ Global" 23-Minute "Single" Out Today

We are pleased to share today… the first new music from Philly/NY/DC free jazz collective IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS since their 2017 debut. “Homeless/Global” is an epic, 23-minute standalone “single” and unabridged take from the first moments of the Philadelphia recording session for their forthcoming LP, “Homeless/Global” stretches out inside a vacuum of time, running over 23 minutes in a blink of an eye.

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