According to Drag City, Ben "Don't Call Me Kenny" Chasny will soon be releasing his fifth LP for the label, Luminous Night. The label expects many things from the man they like to call ol' "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem" Chasny, including "something powerfully rich and strong, both sonically and ideologically — something that will address our collective spiritual crisis from left field, using arcane and intimate language and following his own damn lights to his own personal kind of solutions." The record will come out August 18 and will include the work of "viola master" Eyvind Kang (who has worked with or has made guest appearances on records from Animal Collective, sunn 0))), Beck, Sun City Girls, and John Zorn) and the production of Randall Dunn (who has worked with sunn 0))), Earth, Sun City Girls, and Wolves in the Throne Room).
The same day that Luminous Night comes out, Chasny and his crew will coincidentally kick off a tour in Seattle and do nine days on the West Coast before joining Om for a seven-date East Coast tour.
Luminous Night tracklisting:
1. Actaeon's Fall (Against the Hounds)
2. Anesthesia
3. Bar-Nasha
4. Cover Your Wounds With the Sky
5. Ursa Minor
6. River of Heaven
7. The Ballad of Charley Harper
8. Enemies Before the Light
Tourdates:
08.18.09 - Seattle, WA - Crododile Cafe
08.19.09 - Bellingham, WA - The Nighflight
08.20.09 - Vancouver, BC - The Biltmore Cabaret
08.21.09 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
08.23.09 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
08.24.09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
08.25.09 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
08.26.09 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters
08.28.09 - Big Sur, CA - Fernwood Resort
09.11.09 - Brooklyn, NY - Europa*
09.12.09 - Boston, MA - Institute of Contemporary Art*
09.13.09 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom*
09.14.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's*
09.15.09 - Washington, DC - DC9*
09.16.09 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle*
09.17.09 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl*
* Om