Experimental trio Rhyton has a new one coming out just in time for your Solstice celebrations. Called Navigating by Starlight, the album drops December 22 on MIE Music and is limited to a run of 500. This is the fourth album for the Brooklyn-based trio featuring David Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills, Stygian Stride), and Rob Smith (Pigeons).
The album is basically two sidelong improvised tracks. The A Side, “Lovejoy Vapor Trail,” is an homage to a comet that produces tons of alcohol in space through some weird space booze process. Or, in the words of Byron Coley, it’s named “after the recently discovered comet said to be releasing enough alcohol to fill 500 bottles of George T. Stagg every second. Who could fail to be staggered by such a suggestion? Not these guys.” The B Side, “Scylla and Charybdis,” was inspired by, or at least named after, ancient Greek sea monsters.
Preorder your ticket to sonic space exploration here.
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