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Herb Sundays 201: Andy Stott (@andystottmlove)

playlist at link in bio.

Art by @michaelcina

Mr. Autumn Man rides again. On the eve of his new album on @ourmodernlove, the king of the North Andy Stott gives us the cold beat we need for Herb playlist 201 + notes on Herb @ 200.

“This playlist is a good reflection of where I’ve been in the past 5 years while making Late Loop. Long drives, skewed romance, that kinda thing. Get comfy lol.”

-Andy Stott for Herb Sundays

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Herb Sundays 200: An interview with Larry Heard (@larryheard4)

A chat with Chicago legend, now in Memphis, on his music and legacy on the 40th anniversary of Washing Machine/Can You Feel It, the Deep House blueprint.

Plus a 26 song dive playlist into the Heard catalogue (Mr. Fingers, etc) from @michaelcina. Art and sketch by Cina.

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TELL IS PRINTING ITS FIRST ISSUE: A PRINT MAGAZINE ABOUT THE PEOPLE SHAPING CULTURE ACROSS THE MIDWEST, MADE BY PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE, FOR A REGION THAT HAS BEEN TOO MODEST FOR TOO LONG AND IS READY TO TELL THEIR OWN STORIES THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS.

Inside Issue One: Elliot Bergman and Allison Glenn on loaded materials, Emma Beatrez recasting Midwestern nostalgia as something stranger and darker, Reuben Wu following the light to places no one else will go, Katherine Goertz and Lynne Locke unpacking the myth of the Midwest art scene from 1840 to now, Kate Nordstrum and Maija García on refusing to stay in your lane, and more than twenty other Midwesterners.

How many copies exist is up to you. Pre-order Issue One for $20, or take a Community Tile and put your answer in the pages.
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Images by: @jjoehorton @elenastantonn

Pre-order now on TELL-WORLD.COM

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VIN#001: Jazz Foundations

Jazz did not arrive fully formed.

It borrowed, argued, traveled, and evolved, absorbing Latin rhythms, electric instruments, orchestral commissions, and the occasional rule it had no interest in following. This first installment of a four-part jazz series listens to that expansion in real time, across hard bop, modal jazz, free jazz, film music, and beyond, all on vinyl, all through one of the finest hi-fi systems in the region.

Michael Cina creates an original visual program to accompany the full two-hour sonic journey. Limited to twenty seats. Located in Minneapolis. Wine, non-alcoholic drinks, and light hors d’oeuvres included.

Doors, drinks + hors d’oeuvres: 7:30
Listening session: 8:00-10:00

Hosted by @dannylitin and @michaelcina.

Link in bio for tickets.

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Herb Sundays 199: Bullion (@bullionness)

Nathan Jenkins builds masterpieces in miniature, all endless depth: an impossible pop.

Playlist: Apple Music / Spotify at link in bio.

Art by @michaelcina. Photo by Oliver Jennings.

Harmony and vocal play. I grew up going to a church with a lot of loud harmonising - mortifying at a certain age, but likely gave me the curiosity to notice harmony. Hearing harmonic information in a piece of music that isn’t actually there is one of music’s great gifts! Happy Sunday 🌻 -Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) for Herb Sundays

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Six designers each contributed a letter to @fcklck.studio’s Anti Charm bracelet, none of them knowing what the others were making. The letters spell FCKLCK – fuck luck.⁠
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Herb Sundays 198: Anastasia Kristensen (@anastasia.kristensen)

Playlist: Apple Music / Spotify / Bandcamp (Buy Music Club) a link in bio.

Art by @michaelcina. Photo @katya_istakingphotos

“This playlist reflects the first cooler autumn Sundays, channeling a slightly melancholic feeling. Dubby atmospheres, textural and moody synth riffs. I have many of the tracks in my “unorthodox” folder, this is a great time to show them off.”

-Anastasia Kristensen for Herb Sundays

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Herb Sundays 197: JP Haynie (co-founder @actual_source)

Cover art: @michaelcina
Playlist: Apple Music / Spotify at link in bio

Art by @michaelcina

What Actual Source, the publisher/design studio/shop founded by @haynie.jp and @rupeshow does, on the daily, is make things slightly more beautiful and fun, and I want to applaud them. If taste is trying things on, so to speak, seeing how they feel, and learning that you don't know that much, even if you know a lot, and still trusting your instincts to some degree. All the more reason to buy books and records from people like the Source crew.

New @actual_source collaboration with @ghostly is live now

“Sunday is a big music day for me cause I can take her slow and listen to records for a few hours in the morning while I cook for my family and whatnot. This is a sequence of songs that I love, and that maybe captures a bit of the mood of the most recent record I made. The recordings of Gabor Szabo, Italian composers like Riz Ortolani for horror and western films, and 'Switched On' versions of pop and country songs from the 70's were a big influence on the sound of my recordings. I've included 3 songs from 'Meadow System' for good measure."

—JP Haynie for Herb Sundays

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Herb Sundays 196: James Ellis Ford (@james_ellis_ford)

Playlist: Apple Music / Spotify at link in bio.

Art by @michaelcina. Photo by @wandilton

“Here’s a playlist that I put together for Sunday listening…starts out quite spacey but later peppered with a few classic songs. There are sounds and textures here that inspire me and some moments that informed the production on ‘Lost In Another World.’”

-James Ellis Ford for Herb Sundays

As he shared on his Instagram in July: “In April last year, while I was receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia in St. Bart’s Hospital, I started making music on the ward in between rounds of chemo, mainly as a way to lift my spirits and process what I was going through. Within a few weeks, to my surprise, I had written and recorded an album’s worth of material which feels to me like a Polaroid of a very surreal chapter of my life.”

The specter of death is a large part of Herb Sundays in many ways, which are obituaries for the living, often mid- or early-career, with care not to hasten or affix any finalities to an artist, but to appreciate them while in full stride. Maybe more importantly, for who they are and how they operate, rather than a list of accomplishments or a posthumous purge that often feels like “too much, too late.”

Why can’t artists feel their value in real time, especially “off-cycle,” as we say in music, or not in a promotional moment? Ford is a good example of the above; his list of credits is astounding, but the grandiose aspects are of little interest to me personally. I’m more enamored with the scope and thrust of it all, names redacted.

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Herb Sundays 195: Spencer Doran (Visible Cloaks /@visiblecloaks) [season 12 premiere]

Playlist at link in bio.

Art by @michaelcina

15 songs on the topic of "impossible music", going beyond the confines of human playing and composing by both mechanical and digital means. Creshevskian "superperformers", lab-grade physical modeling from University of Edinburgh's NESS project, pianos pushed beyond their means and other pleasant post-human music making.

-Spencer Doran for @herbsundays, Portland, OR.

A nice confluence here this week is that Doran’s connection to this week’s new release on @ghostly, Haruomi Hosono’s Yours Sincerely, which landed Friday. Tickets are still on sale for his two US dates at The Greek and Radio City Music Hall with @toroymoi this week Doran will be DJing Sept 22nd at LA's JACC in support of Hosono’s DJ set and Q&A, an artist he's long supported and admired, co-presented with @insheepsclothinghifi.

Indeed, Doran’s influence in his work as a curator has been vital to the landscape of contemporary experimental music, especially in widening the Western influence of late 20th century Japanese artists. The outcomes of all this work include the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light in the Attic, 2018), acting as an introduction and deepening into the world of Japanese ambient and BGM music.

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PREORDER these limited collab tees w/ @publictype_us by @michaelcina & myself .!. (:)

avail in white smiley & black jakaarlo (link in bio+story) .

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Herb Sunday, in focus: Electro 1997-2005.

link in bio to posts and playlist. Art by @michaelcina. Archival photos by @weansmachine

A two-part investigation into the Electro resurgence and its Electroclash labeling + I Was an Electro Malcontent, Ghostly in the mix and stolen moments from @trevorjacksonofficial, @tromano_writer, @thejuanmaclean, @galkin.jonathan, @bougie, @jacquesrenault, @deathinvegasmusic, and more.

The interest in '80s sounds, spikier analogue sound design, and genre-mashing was a globally diverse 90s movement which crested into something that for a brief moment held music in a headlock, leading to some exciting characters, many only getting their rightful appreciation now. The colorful heat poured on a dour techno scene was a brief blip but would have influence felt now in the hands of art-forward pop.

It’s almost that "Electroclash" has been more useful as a phantom genre or historical record than in its own moment, one which threatened to flatten the underground into pastiche.

As a DJ moment it was sublime, just at the dawn of mashup, anything goes. The real heroes of the era, along with the DJs, were the dancers, the promoters; and women who sang the songs.

More on this in the post.

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