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Ishmael Reed, Every Time I Feel the Spirit (2CD, rg34)
Chris McKelway and John Welsh, Piano Music (2CD, rg35)

This music reminds me what I love about music

Only about 5 of Chris/John’s cd left. Thanks everyone ❤️
@ch_ris6456 @jwelszs @j.a__w by @readinggroup_company

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This one is a real privilege, I love Cop Tears! ♥️

Cop Tears – The Rules Of The Game
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Cop Tears play interpretations of John Dunstaple, Johann Sebastian Bach, Valentin Silvestrov, Francesca Caccini, Michael Pollard, Guillaume de Machaut, Gabriel Fauré, Friedrich Nietzsche, Camille Saint-Saëns, Peggy Seeger, Erik Satie & Alma Mahler. All recorded at Cameron’s New York apartment in 2022.

John Andrew Wilhite, double bass
Cameron Kapoor, electric guitar
Derek Baron, flute, melodica, voice

@readinggroup_company @cameronkap @j.a__w

Limited edition vinyl on Bandcamp, 200 copies

John Dunstaple, Quam pulchra est (mid-15th c.)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Chorale #351, “Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist” (c.1735)
Valentin Silvestrov, Children’s Music, No. 1, III: Gratitude (1973)
Francesca Caccini, S’io men vò (1618)
Michael Pollard, selections from Piano Sonata After a Conversation with Jonathan Gean (2016)
Guillaume de Machaut, Puis qu’en oubli (mid-14th c.)
Valentin Silvestrov, Children’s Music, No. 1, II: Modern Dance (1973)
Gabriel Fauré, Le parfum impérissable, Op 76 no. 1 (1897)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Das “Fragment an sich” (1871)
Camille Saint-Saëns, Le carnaval des animaux, IV: Tortues (1886)
Peggy Seeger, Of All the Beast-es (1957)
Erik Satie, Prière (c.1895)
Alma Mahler, 5 Lieder, No. 1, “Die stille Stadt” (1910)

Thank you, Cop Tears! ♥️

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu @studioschwebung
Cut at Schallplatten Schneid Technik, pressed at Optimal
Distributed by Honest Jon’s Records
Digital distribution by Kudos

Thanks to Jack Sheen @jackfrsheen ♥️ by @readinggroup_company

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Two new albums are now up for preorder on BC:

Ishmael Reed, “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” (2CD, RG34) — gorgeous collection of personal and epistolary home-recorded piano sketches from the genius jongleur of American letters. Liner notes by Reed.

Chris McKelway and John Welsh, “Piano Music” (2CD, RG35) — wide selection of recent research works for piano by these two incredible composers, featuring liner note essay by Andrew Wilhite and the composers.

Two albums, 4 total discs, ~3.5 hours of contemporary piano brilliance from west of the Rocky Mountains. Not to be slept upon. Links up top, ships next month. Lots of love.

@ch_ris6456 @j.a__w by @readinggroup_company

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Touching homebuilt compositions from celebrated American novelist, playwright and poet Ishmael Reed, channelling a long life immersed in jazz culture.  A joint in-house production from All Night Flight and NYC-based label @readinggroup_company .

You’re never too old to learn something new.  Reed credits bebop with keeping him and his friends out of reform school because they were too busy listening to records at each other’s houses to get into trouble.  Finding fame as a distinguished writer, he found his way back to music circuitously, eventually taking the plunge at aged 60 to study jazz piano.  Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 he hastily assembled a quintet to fulfil a lifelong ambition of recording an album. He made the record but thankfully he didn’t succumb to his illness   Cash-strapped during COVID, he became a composer to save on money for his own plays, enlisting his daughter Tennessee as the narrator.

These humble origins and a genuine love (and natural talent) for music are what underpins The Hands Of Grace.  Consisting of works written for Reed’s play ‘The Slave Who Loved Caviar’ alongside new original compositions, it brings in close friends and family to accompany his casual, unvarnished playing style that’s so genuinely heartfelt it feels as if you could be sat alongside them in their living room.  The music carries a lived-in simplicity yet it also holds something ambiguous that draws it away from the predictable. Music papers rustle, a living room chair is dragged up to the keys whilst Reed’s wife Carla contributes violin and daughter Tennessee recites her poetry on standout ‘How High The Moon’.  This is a poignant family affair with no-one left out, ending on a touching tribute and voicemail from their late daughter Timothy.

Ever since it first appeared on CD The Hands Of Grace has become a staple. A record to return to, a uniquely personal tribute, a document of working method, a lifelong passion finally coming to fruition…(Mint / new - with free DL & double sided insert - shops pls ask for wholesale)
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Tap for website link by @readinggroup_company

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“The Holy Restaurant” is out today from @recitalprogram

It’s really special to me, not least because it is full of my friends and family: (in order of appearance) @g_l_i_m_m, my mom, @dombly, @edatkinsdiet, @lucyliyou, Quentin Moore, my dad, @kiramb, @adambaronbloch, Hannah Baron, and @magical_feelism

💙 taken in Arcades ;) by @readinggroup_company

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My new LP, “The Holy Restaurant,” will be coming out soon via @recitalprogram. It is my first solo album since “Curtain” in 2020, which was also released by Recital. In some ways “The Holy Restaurant” is “Curtain”’s gnostic little sibling.

I’ve been working on the album for 5 years and I’m very, very happy to finally get to share it with you. It also comes with an elaborate book of liner notes that contain the sheet music and describe how it was put together.

Many of my favorite people also contributed to the album : @g_l_i_m_m @dombly @edatkinsdiet @lucyliyou @magical_feelism @kiramb @adambaronbloch Quentin Moore, Hannah Baron, and my parents.

You can preorder from Recital now if you’d like. Thank you for listening 🖤 by @readinggroup_company

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Very happy to send these two into the world today:
Double Goocher Shop - Radio Carrion (CD, rg32)
J. Gordon Faylor - Polastra Slicks (Book, rg33)

Two “ways to keep up the glyphs.” Homeopathic rarrenages from both ends of the pharmaceutical harp. You will really like them.
Thanks everyone ❤️

@___knn___ @gordons_implicit_dogma

Copies are moving fast if that’s your thing taken in Pharmaceuticals by @readinggroup_company

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Two new releases coming next month on Reading Group:
Double Goocher Shop - Radio Carrion (CD, RG32)
J. Gordon Faylor - Polastra Slicks (420pp book, RG33)

Extremely pleased to present new works from iconic intercontinental duo Double Goocher Shop (Renato Grieco and Moss Hopkins) and New York writer J. Gordon Faylor. Renato and Moss and Gordon and all of their respective endeavors have been influences on the Reading Group mentality since the beginning of time and we’re very glad to publish these two works simultaneously. They are both brilliant and pair extremely well together.

Limited runs ship in early July, pre-orders and excerpts available now via lynx. 🫂 taken in Summer Vibes by @readinggroup_company

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Next weekend, April 26-27, we will be hosting two evenings of concerts at Cafe Oto. Friends and family of Reading Group, past present and future: Fred Moten + Brandon Lopez / Zara Joan Miller + Ute Kanngießer / X-Ray Hex Tet / Imani Mason Jordan / Cop Tears.

We will also have a few advance copies of CT’s new album, “The Rules of the Game.”

Ticket link in bio — first night sold out. Hope to see you there.
Love / RG

@cafeotodalston @bantlopez @xcrswx @zarajoanmiller @utekanngiesser @billy_steiger @homopathic @j.a__w @cameronkap @g_l_i_m_m taken in Dalston, London by @readinggroup_company

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I’m so happy to have done the music for the new film by my friends @edatkinsdiet and @stevenzultanski , called “Nurses Come and Go, but None for Me.” The film is showing at Tate Britain for the next few months, amidst Ed’s incredible show. If you’re in London I hope you get a chance to see it. I love Ed and Steve and I love this film.

Hope to be able to share an “OST”-type album of the film’s music (and then some) soon. Thank you to my friend @james_krivchenia for recording these piano indulgences last year. by @readinggroup_company

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Proud to release these two albums today, proud to be a friend of music always

I learned from Fred the method of looking through an artwork to see another artwork, like a gel. These two albums reveal so much about each through this kind of stereoscopic listening. Among many other things, they feel like two different ways of trying to confront the slaughter-bench of history, one hot and one cool.

RG30 - Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez / Gerald Cleaver - the blacksmiths the flowers (2LP)
RG31 - X-Ray Hex Tet - s/t (CD)

RG30 art by @prosearchitectures
Both mastered by @matt___bachmann (happy birthday matt)
@bantlopez @a_good_question @xcrswx
Shipping, stock on their way to EU, UK, JP, SK, and shops in New York.
More info in the links
Much love + thank you taken in Stereoscope Journey by @readinggroup_company

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Announcing the next two albums on Reading Group:
Moten, Lopez, Cleaver - the blacksmiths, the flowers (RG30, 2xLP)
X Ray Hex Tet - s/t (RG31, CD)

RG30: Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, Gerald Cleaver. cover and inset art once again by the inimitable @prosearchitectures / mastered by @matt___bachmann / release show @roulette_intermedium Oct 18

RG31: Edward George, Crystabel Riley, Paul Abbott, Seymour Wright, Pat Thomas, Billy Steiger // also mastered by matt.

Some of the deepest music being made right now. Honored to release these October 15.
Links in bio.
@bantlopez @a_good_question @xcrswx @billy_steiger
Photos Cameron Kelly McLeod + Crystabel Riley taken in History by @readinggroup_company

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