It’s that time again: the long-running (15 years, if you must know) Los Angeles based Not Not Fun have officially jump-started their 2019 with a trio of cassettes from projects beamed in from across the globe, all making their NNF debuts.
The first release is from Danish musician Dreamers Cloth (Jonas Frederiksen), whose Vitrospection 2008-2009 collects tracks from across older cassette releases “into a patchwork voyager’s hour of highlights, reflections, and reveries.”
The next set of transmissions come courtesy of Russian sound sculptor Atariame (Natalia Salmina). Voiceless is a spool of “futurist-noir nocturnes” with track titles that convey late night/early morning isolation and solitude (“Outside at 5am,” “Desk Lamp,” and “Lost in a Forest”).
The third tape is from Oakland’s Channelers (Sean Conrad, who runs the Inner Islands label). For Being is a continuation and evolution of Channelers’ extensive discography of calming, meditative, and healing tones mean to “evoke ‘the simplest conceivable state: being.’”
All three tapes are out June 21, with a track from each streaming below, along with tracklists for your perusal.
Vitrospection 2008-2009 tracklisting:
01. Positive Theme Music – Side A (excerpt 2)
02. Endlos Reichenberger Schorle Pool
03. Plays “Ecstasy Waterfall” – Side B
04. The Coconut Pearl – Side B (excerpt 1)
05. Total Descent To Mind Beach – Side B
06. Pearl Divers – Side A
07. The Coconut Pearl – Side B (excerpt 1)
08. Positive Theme Music – Side A (excerpt 1)
09. Plays “Ecstasy Waterfall” – Side A
10. Shiggajon Split (excerpt)
11. The Coconut Pearl – Side A
12. Lift Ekko Puls Puls – Side A
13. Marble Halls
Voiceless tracklisting:
01. Breath Exercise
02. Lost In A Forest
03. Mood Swings
04. Outside At 5 AM
05. Same Thought All Day
06. Green Trees Violet Sky
07. Desk Lamp
08. Stay Late
09. Split
10. Not Today
11. Deconstruction
For Being tracklisting:
01. Tuning In
02. Thought to Form
03. Drift Ripple Dive
04. Late Afternoon
05. Through and Through
06. Something’s Gotta Rain
07. Simple Purpose
08. Come What May