Night Flight - Follakzoid Video Profile
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Chilean psych band Föllakzoid, known for their hypnotic rhythms and Andean folk and krautrock influences, was formed by childhood friends Diego Lorca, Domingo García-Huidobro, and Juan Pablo Rodríguez in 2008 as a trance experience, jamming on a single song for two hours in their first practice session. This free-form approach to playing and performing influenced their early output, working for years on their self-titled Sacred Bones debut EP released in 2011.
Night Flight - Spellling Video Profile
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As Spellling, Oakland-based artist Tia Cabral creates experimental synth pop that is born from the haunting images and ethereal messages from her dreams. Blending hypnotic folk with darkwave and elements of soul, Cabral’s first self-released record, Pantheon of Me, arrived in 2017 and quickly raised her profile beyond the Bay Area. Her third album for Sacred Bones, The Turning Wheel, was released in 2021 to critical acclaim.
Night Flight - TR/ST Video Profile
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Founded in 2010 by Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski, the group uses ethereal synth pop tones mixed over surging industrial beats. With the release of their first album TRST in 2012, the duo went their separate ways and Alfons continued to record and tour under the name. As a solo project Alfons began incorporating more elements of acid house and techno into his next release Joyland in 2014, which debuted to massive critical and commercial success.
Night Flight - Blanck Mass Video Profile
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Blanck Mass uses fast paced beats, clipped vocal samples and mesmerising synths to create music that is emotionally and sonically intense. Dumb Flesh, his first album with Sacred Bones, saw Power’s incorporate more danceable beats around the chopped-up vocals and drones which were built upon in subsequent releases like 2017’s political World Eater and 2019’s melodic Animated Violence Mild.
Night Flight - Psychic Ills Video Profile
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Experimental psych rock band Psychic Ills, formed in 2003 by the late Tres Warren with guitarist Tom Gluibizzi and later bassist Elizabeth Hart and drummer Brian Tamborello, evolved over their 15 plus year career from creating trance-like noise rock to their more recent, subtle releases that rely on more traditional psychedelic songwriting. Highly respected by their peers, the group is known for their work on indie labels Social Registry and Sacred Bones. In March of 2020 Tres Warren tragically passed away.
Night Flight - Amen Dunes Video Profile
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Damon McMahon started his solo musical project Amen Dunes in 2006, recording atmospheric, lo-fi psych-folk alone in the Catskills before moving to Beijing and further honing this dark sound and recording occasionally. These would become his debut Sacred Bones EP Murder Dull Mind.
Night Flight - Marissa Nadler Video Profile
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American singer/songwriter and artist Marissa Nadler’s creates a fusion of folk, gothic americana and ethereal dream pop that calls back to traditional country and folk music with aspects of indie rock, black metal and experimental music. In her over 15 year career she has released dozens of records including 6 full-lengths with Sacred Bones.
Night Flight - Marching Church Video Profile
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Danish rock band Marching Church began as a side project of solo musical experiments for Elias Bender Rønnenfelt of Iceage. After the success of the band’s debut album on Sacred Bones, This World is Not Enough Rønnenfelt brought in Iceage bandmate Johan Weith and trumpeter Jakob Emil Lamdahl.
Night Flight - Cult Of Youth Video Profile
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Sean Ragon’s dark, post-punk neofolk band Cult of Youth, began as a solo project with the release 2008’s A Stick to Bind, a Seed to Grow. Recruiting a supporting band, Ragon expanded the group’s sound on its 2011 self-titled Sacred Bones debut. This would be followed by 2012’s chamber-pop like Love Will Prevail, then 2014s Final Days.
Night Flight - The Holydrug Couple Video Profile
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The Holydrug Couple, the duo of Ives Sepúlveda and Manuel Parra, began playing together in 2008 and emerged from the Santiago psychedelic rock scene in 2011 with their LP Awe, attracting the attention and support of Sacred Bones. The group’s pop influences and vocally driven songwriting continued to blossom on their 2013 beachy, dreamlike release Nocutary. After touring extensively over the years that followed, the group returned in 2015 with Moonlust, a record heavily indebted to French film music from the 70’s and 80s. Their most recent full-length, Hyper Super Mega, arrived in 2018.
Night Flight - The Men Video Profile
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Brooklyn-based noise-punk band, The Men was formed in 2008 by Nick Chiericozzi, and Mark Perro, later adding drummer Rich Samis and bassist Kevin Faulkner to the lineup. Drawing on a myriad of influences including new wave, country, psych, and surf, The Men released their ambitious 2014 album, Tomorrow’s Hits before returning to their roots with the confrontational and abrasive noise rock LP Devil Music. Their most recent release, Mercy, arrived in 2020.
Night Flight - Jenny Hval Video Profile
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Norwegian singer/songwriter, producer and novelist, Jenny Hval, made her solo debut in 2006 as Rockettothesky with the dreamy, folk-pop album To Sing You Apple Trees. Hval began releasing music with Sacred Bones under her own name with 2015’s experimental, art pop/spoken word album Apocalypse, Girl, influenced by Norwegian jazz singers of the 1960s and her upbringing in Norway’s Southwestern Bible Belt.
Night Flight - Lust For Youth Video Profile
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Lust For Youth is a synth pop duo currently composed of Swedish and Danish producers Hannes Norrvide and Malthe Fischer. As a solo act Norrvide’s Lust For Youth was largely dark and lonely minimalist synth that verged on harsh noise, but with the expansion of the lineup the group’s releases on Sacred Bones are more associated with the catchy songs about heartbreak, most notably channeling elements of New Order and Pet Shop Boys.
Night Flight - Constant Smiles Video Profile
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Constant Smiles, the collective led by Ben Jones, began in 2009 on his home of Martha’s Vineyard, inspired by the music scene centered around the island’s now defunct community record store, Aboveground Records. Their new record on Sacred Bones, Paragons, arrives in November of 2021.
Night Flight - Pop. 1280 Video Profile
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Industrial punk band Pop. 1280, named after a pulpy Jim Thompson story about a corrupt, deceptive and murderous Texas lawman, was founded by Chris Bug and Ivan Lip as a method of exploring their darker, somewhat sinister musical ideas. Their first song, “Bedbugs” would lay the groundwork for their next release, an EP called The Grid, which they followed up with the full-length The Horror, both on Sacred Bones. Their haunting, guitar heavy sound would slowly give way to more refined harmonies and clean polished keys, especially on their grim 2020 album Way Station.
Night Flight - Hilary Woods Video Profile
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Dublin musician and former JJ72 bassist Hilary Woods returned to music after over a decade of hiatus in 2014 with melodic and airy keyboard-based songs inspired by the cinematic works of auteurs like Wong Kar-Wai and Chris Marker. Expanding on these ideas and incorporating more atmospheric electronic sounds, her full-length solo debut Colt arrived on Sacred Bones in 2018, followed by 2020’s Birthmarks.
Night Flight - Black Marble Video Profile
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Black Marble, Chris Stewart’s 80s influenced synth-pop group, began releasing music in 2012 with the EP The Weight Against the Door and later the gloomy full length A Different Arrangement. This moody atmosphere, created by an arsenal of analog synths, would later give way to lighter and warmer sounds on Stewart’s successive releases, including 2019’s Bigger Than Life and 2021’s Fast Idol, both on Sacred Bones.
Night Flight - Var (fka War) Video Profile
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Vår, formerly known as War, was a lofi post-punk act from Copenhagen. The group drew influences from darkwave and goth groups of the early 80s with blown-out, lo-fi recording techniques associated with the early 2010s. Vår’s Sacred Bones, No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers, arrived in 2013 and the group disbanded the following year.
Night Flight - Indigo Sparke Video Profile
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Australian Singer/Songwriter Indigo Sparke was born into a musical family and knew from a young age she wanted to perform. After teaching herself guitar, Indigo began establishing herself in the Sydney-music scene with quiet but commanding folk music, releasing her debut EP Night Bloom in 2016. Over the next few years Sparke would continue to build her profile in the contemporary folk world. Her first full-length album Echo arrived in 2021 on Sacred Bones.
Night Flight - Wymond Miles Video Profile
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Sonically dense and inspired by art rockers like Scott Walker and Robert Wyatt, The Fresh & Only’s guitarist Wymond Miles’ solo output is decidedly somber and draped in layers of reverb. In 2012 Miles’ released his first pieces of material including his debut album Under The Pale Moon, returning the following year with the similarly psychedelic, Cut Yourself Free. After a brief hiatus, he returned to the studio with a new creative direction, recording 2016’s Call by Night, drawing influences from gospel and country.
Night Flight - The Soft Moon Video Profile
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Luis Vasquez's industrial, post-punk solo project, the Soft Moon, marries the haunting sounds of Bauhaus and Joy Division with a stripped-down approach to production and recording. Channeling his Afro-Cuban heritage and upbringing in the Mojave Desert, Vasquez’ first full-length, a self-titled LP arrived shortly after his debut singles “Breathe the Fire” and “Parallels'' in 2010. Honing his singing and songwriting over the decade with consistent and ambitious records, the Soft Moon’s first album with Sacred Bones, Criminal, was released in 2018.
Night Flight - Destruction Unit Video Profile
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Formed by singer and guitarist Ryan Rousseau, Jay Reatard and Alicja Trout in 2000, Destruction Unit are a psychedelic punk band based out of Phoenix known for their tumultuous sound featuring distorted, fuzzy-guitars, loud vocals and aggressive drums.
Night Flight - Pharmakon Video Profile
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Margaret Chardiet’s industrial noise project Pharmakon blends slow rhythmic beats with guttural synth blasts and wailing vocals that are as disquieting as they are hypnotizing. Her live shows have been described as confrontational, interrogating the division between performer and audience, an emotional trance-like experience she has attempted to recreate on her more recent albums, 2017’s Contact and 2019’s Devour, released on Sacred Bones.
Night Flight - Jeremiah Sand Video Profile
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Jeremiah Sand was the charismatic leader of the Children of the New Dawn, a cult that descended upon a California recording studio in the 1970s to create Sand’s ultimate, psychedelic masterpiece. Not much is known of what transpired at the recording studio where these sessions took place, except that one night, Sand awoke the studio owner in the middle of the night at gunpoint and forced him to hide the master tapes in a lockbox until he returned. Decades passed and Sand was never heard from again, but in 2018 wildfires revealed a box in the ruins of the studio that contained a short film, esoteric artwork, and 50 year old album, Lift It Down.
Night Flight - Timmy's Organism Video Profile
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The garage rock trio of Timmy Vulgar, Blake Hill and Jeff Fournier better known as Timmy’s Organism started as an experimental solo project for the group’s frontman that quickly twisted and morphed into a full-fledged punk band. Their first full-length, Rise of the Green Gorilla, arrived on Sacred Bones in 2010 followed by the 2012 album Raw Sewage Roq.
Night Flight - Thought Gang Video Profile
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Longtime collaborators David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti started recording under the name Thought Gang in 1991. 25 years later, the spiritual jazz and spoken word recordings have resurfaced as a self-titled album on Sacred Bones.
Night Flight - Luca Yupanqui Video Profile
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Luca Yupanqui began recording music when she was literally in the womb. The child of musicians Elizabeth Hart and Iván Diaz Mathé, the pair began recording their unborn child with biosonic MIDI technology Diaz Mathé compared to a polygraph. After her parents spent 2020 mixing the album “respecting the sounds as they were produced”, Luca made her Sacred Bone’s debut in 2021 with Sounds of the Unborn, described as an “expression of life in its cosmic state.”
Night Flight - Exploded View Video Profile
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Exploded View’s surreal mix of post-punk and krautrock reflects the makeup of the band and it’s member’s solo projects. Founded by British-German singer-songwriter Annika Henderson and Mexico City-based musicians Martin Thulin and Hugo Quezada the group made it’s haunting self-titled debut on Sacred Bones in 2016, followed by the more focused sophomore release Obey in 2018.
Night Flight - Crystal Stilts Video Profile
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Formed in 2003, Brooklyn based indie band Crystal Stilts has cultivated a myriad of influences over the last decade and half playing and recording together. In 2011 they made their Sacred Bones debut with the EP Radiant Door, following it up with the soul and folk influenced album Nature Noir in 2013.
Night Flight - DJ Muggs the Black Goat Video Profile
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Founding member of Cyrpress Hill, DJ Muggs, a producer synonymous with hazy, horror-tinged hip hop of the 1990s, has made a name for himself over the years with his prolific and varied output across genres including dancehall, alt rock and trip-hop. Born Lawrence Muggerud in Queens before moving to LA as a teenager, Muggs began DJing in the 1980s, producing seminal rap hits like House of Pain’s “Jump Around” and Ice Cube’s “Check Yo Self.” His debut record on Sacred Bones, Dies Occidendum was released in 2021.
Night Flight - Slug Guts Video Profile
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Brisbane garage rock band Slug Guts exploded onto the australian punk scene with the first album Down on the Meat, recorded and released only months after they started playing together in 2009. The band returned in 2011 on Sacred Bones with the full-length Howlin’ Gang, self-described as “menacingly desperate, ugly, and malnourished” this ethos would carry the band into their final LP, Playin’ in Time With the Deadbeat. Recorded in a year in which many of the band's members experienced significant personal turmoil, the group finally called it quits in 2013.
Night Flight - Institute Video Profile
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Institute, the Austin based punk outfit founded by Moses Brown and Arak Avakian of Glue, Adam Cahoon of Wiccans, exploded onto the Texas punk scene in 2013 with lyrics of personal struggles and a dark and streamlined sound that they would continue to hone over the years. Their debut full-length, Catharsis, arrived on Sacred Bones in 2015 and featured cleaner production with broader influences, expanding on their anarchic post-punk sound.
Night Flight - Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Video Profile
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In 2020 Kentucky-based singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle, known for her brand of dark and expressive post-rock, teamed up with Louisiana metal band Thou for one of the most interesting collaborative projects of the year. May Our Chambers Be Full, released on Sacred Bones, channelling Rundle’s brooding lyrics and Thou’s atmospheric sludge into a record that showcases the DIY versatility of both parties.
Night Flight - Boris Video Profile
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Legendary Japanese heavy rock group Boris “continue their musical creation and destruction” with 2022’s W, their first release with Sacred Bones.
Night Flight - Caleb Landry Jones Video Profile II
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Texas-born musician and actor Caleb Landry Jones makes psychedelic music that “reaches into the cosmic realm of imagination.”
Night Flight - Gloria de Oliveira & Dean Hurley Video Profile
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Dean Hurley is a sound and music supervisor who has worked with Daivd Lynch and Zola Jesus. Gloria de Oliveira is a multidisciplinary visual artist and musician who has composed for the theater and for London Fashion week. Their collaboration Oceans of Time combines impressionistic synths, shimmering guitars, and ethereal sonics in a beautiful dream-pop synthesis.
Night Flight - The Soft Moon Video Profile II
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The Soft Moon is the project by American singer-songwriter Luis Vasquez. 2022’s Exister is a powerful, vulnerably therapeutic post-punk masterpiece.
Night Flight - Zola Jesus Video Profile II
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Zola Jesus is the alter ego of Nika Roza Danilova, known for her expressive and powerful voice and dark, atmospheric music. Her latest album Arkhon unleashes her “submerged, stalled pain.”
Night Flight 40th Anniversary - Sacred Bones Video Profile
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Let’s “Take Off” to Sacred Bones, an American indie label founded in 2007 in Brooklyn, New York by Caleb Braaten. Throughout much of the label's history the focus was on dark, experimental sounds, signing Braaten’s friends dark punk bands and reissuing 80s post-punk from acts like 13th Chime and The Cultural Decay. The label’s current roster represents a wide-range of international artists creating music in a variety of genres and styles, with a focus on psych, folk, punk and experimental music.
Night Flight - RVNG Intl. Video Profile IV
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Today we profile the Brooklyn-based record label RVNG Intl., and their star-studded roster of experimental artists including Dialect, Black Decelerant and Tristan Allen.
Night Flight - RVNG Intl. Video Profile III
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Night Flight is profiling the artists of independent record label RVNG, presenting videos from Black Decelerant, Dialect, Tashi Wada, and Dylan Moon.
Night Flight - RVNG Intl. Video Profile II
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Today, Night Flight returns to RVNG Intl and their roster of artists, including videos from Sign Libra, Kate NV, Dylan Moon and Tashi Wada.
Night Flight - RVNG Intl. Video Profile
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Brooklyn-based record label RVNG specializes in boundary-breaking experimental music. Today, we present songs from Kate NV, Paulina Anna Strom, Pierre Rousseau, Tristan Allen, and Sign Libra.
Night Flight - M. Sage Video Profile
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Intermedia artist M. Sage makes his RVNG debut with Paradise Crick, which explores both the pastoral and the digital.
Night Flight - Discovery Zone Video Profile
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Discovery Zone is the alter ego of New York and Berlin-based artist JJ Weihl. Her 2024 release Quantum Web combines retro textures, pop songwriting, and lush ambience.
Night Flight - Ka Baird Video Profile III
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Prolific experimental soundsmith Ka Baird’s latest album, Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos continues the uncompromising sound she has developed for more than 20 years.
Night Flight - Satomimagae Video Profile
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Tokyo-based artist Satomimagae weaves subtle songs for guitar, voice and noise, propagating variant folk strains that flicker between organic and mechanistic, personal and environmental, warm and cool. Satomi’s latest offering, Hanazono, is a work of both simplicity and intricacy, a veritable biosphere of unfiltered artistry.
Night Flight - Tiziano Popoli Video Profile
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Tiziano Popoli is an Italian composer known for his “unusual musical meshing of minimalism and instrumental pop.” Burn the Night / Bruciare la Notte: Original Recordings, 1983–1989 collects scores, soundtracks and commissions that blossomed out of the artist’s independent explorations and collaborations in and around Bologna, Italy.
Night Flight - Rimarimba Video Profile
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Rimarimba is the brainchild of Robert Cox, a British self-taught classical guitarist. His music is built on synth loops, interesting electronic sonorities, melodic counterpoint and humor.
Night Flight - Steve Gunn and David Moore Video Profile
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Steve Gunn and David Moore’s Let the Moon Be a Planet, their 2023 collaboration, is a volume of improvisatory exchanges between classical guitar and piano, and a “meeting place where two artists become acquainted through instrumental dialogue.” Gunn, whose recordings represent milestones of contemporary guitar-guided material, and Moore, acclaimed for his minimalist ensemble music as the leader of Bing & Ruth, both set out on a nomadic songwriting venture without an intended destination. Here’s the video for “Over the Dune.”
Night Flight - Pauline Anna Strom Video Profile
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Pioneering synthesist Pauline Anna Strom was inspired by “the metals of the earth, the easy flow of the human voice, hypnotically stretched out states of consciousness, mysterious vampire legends, modern violence and desolateness.” Her last album, Angel Tears in Sunlight, is an assemblage of music that reflects the expansiveness and minutiae of imagined realms while embracing the kaleidoscopic echoes of our distant epochs.
Night Flight - Nuke Watch Video Profile
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Nuke Watch is an amorphous entity emanating out of Bog 65, Beat Detective’s former headquarters. Its 2020 album Countdown is a “rippling, multi-sensory experience that warms, beguiles, puzzles, tickles and eases the listener,” developed in the improvisational and exploratory aura of the studio.
Night Flight - Oliver Coates Video Profile II
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Oliver Coates is a British cellist, composer and producer who has played with Thom Yorke and appeared on scores for Paul Thomas Anderson. His 2020 album skins n slime sees him leading “an impassioned performance of strings through viscous, synthetic modulation.”
Night Flight - Michele Mercure Video Profile
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Michele Mercure is an electronic artist who has made music for film, television, dance and theater. Her “arresting dream-music” demonstrates a “transportive attitude within and beyond the limited sound recording medium.”
Night Flight - Ka Baird Video Profile II
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Multi-instrumentalist producer Ka Baird is known for an experimental sound matched by raw, evocative live performances. Hungry Shells brings together Baird and the late pioneering composer Pekka Airaksinen for a merging of musical voices to create startling, surreal landscapes.
Night Flight - Flore Laurentienne Video Profile
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Flore Laurentienne is the vessel of Quebec-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Mathieu David Gagnon. The classically trained musician incorporates elements of post-minimalism, early progressive rock, and the compositional art of fugue into his work.
Night Flight - Ernest Hood Video Profile
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The late Portland, Oregon composer Ernest Hood is known for his landmark 1975 album Neighborhoods, which combines field recordings with Hood’s synthesizer and zither playing.
Night Flight - Dima Pantyushin and Sasha Lipsky Video Profile
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Moscow natives Dima Pantyushin and Sasha Lipsky create a musical landscape that bounces between the terrestrial and divine in an “immaculate synth-pop ecosystem” on their debut album Peshekhod.
Night Flight - Dialect Video Profile
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Liverpool-based artist Dialect, or Andrew PM Hunt, explores unusual source synthesis, electro-acoustic arrangements, and sound found in foreign environments.
Night Flight - Kate NV Video Profile II
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Kate NV is the multifaceted solo persona of Moscow-based artist Kate Shilonosova. Her third album with RVNG Intl, WOW, offers listeners a prismatic shift in perspective and scale, a parallel dimension in which the mundane becomes funny, familiar and altogether sensational.
Night Flight - Diatom Deli Video Profile
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Taos-based artist Diatom Deli, or Delisa Paloma-Sisk, is an experimental multi-instrumentalist and vocalist whose work is driven by ethereal sonic experimentation that comprises hypnotic loops, bright samples, and subtle melodies. Her third album, Time~Lapse Nature, is a transportive continuation of the blooming sincerity that characterizes Deli’s musical inclinations.
Night Flight - Dylan Moon Video Profile II
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Dylan Moon is a Los Angeles musician who debuted in 2019 with Only the Blues. His second full-length, Option Explore, is a collection of clever, colorful songs filtered through frequencies, timbres, and dreams discovered and discarded while its maker shifts from one sub-genre to the next.
Night Flight - Horse Lords Video Profile
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Horse Lords is Owen Gardner, Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher, and Sam Haberman, an instrumental quartet formed in 2010. Its music is defined by repetition and complexity, “humanized with exploration and passion.”
Night Flight - Lucrecia Dalt Video Profile II
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Lucrecia Dalt, a former geotechnical engineer, crafts experimental compositions with contemporary electronic sounds, traditional South American rhythms and evocative lyrics. Her latest album, ¡Ay!, channels innate sensory echoes of growing up in Colombia.
Sunshine Soup
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Sunshine Soup, directed by multitalented designers / artists Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid, is a non-linear film keyed to the outer-boundary music created by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma Hollenbach and Rashid captured extensive footage surrounding the recording of We Know Each Other Somehow. Using handheld HD and 8 mm cameras, they later processed the images with a Fairlight Computer Video Instrument (CVI). With its responsive, meditative perspectives and refracted, sun-bleached compositions, Sunshine Soup becomes the visual companion to the transformative musical principles explored throughout the collaborative album.
Night Flight - "Take Off" to RVNG Intl.
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Formed in 2013, RVNG Intl. has consistently released compelling sounds in the form of extravagant reissues, daring new signings and rising avant-garde stars.
Night Flight - Oliver Coates Video Profile
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Cellist Oliver Coates's "ambient braindance" compositions.
Night Flight - Visible Cloaks Video Profile
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Generative tools and software-based sonics from duo Visible Cloaks.
Night Flight - Blondes Video Profile
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"Syrupy, space-case dance music” from electronic duo Blondes.
Night Flight - Tashi Wada Video Profile
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Composer Tashi Wada's “ancient and futuristic" compositions with his father.
Night Flight - Lucrecia Dalt Video Profile
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Former geotechnical engineer Lucrecia Dalt's experimental compositions.
Night Flight - Dylan Moon Video Profile
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Sixties psych, Shoegaze, and ’90s indie come together in the music of folk-pop artist Dylan Moon.
Night Flight - K. Leimer Video Profile
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Seattle based avant garde and experimental musician K. Leimer.
Sunergy - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani
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Sunergy brings together synthesists Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani for the thirteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG Intl.’s intergenerational collaboration series. For this edition, a panorama of the Pacific Coast provides the place and head space for a musical appreciation and consideration of a life-giving form vast and volatile with change.
Anna Homler and Steve Moshier - Breadwoman & Other Tales
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Breadwoman & Other Tales are the collected recordings of a language arising. It is the sound and document of Anna Homler divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music composed, mixed, and engineered by Steve Moshier.
Mark Renner - Few Places
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Few Traces surveys a near decade of Mark Renner’s scarcely released and unreleased material from 1982 to 1990, embracing and evoking the timelessness of his artistic statement: a wordless translation of the individual’s musical experience, met with the poetic expression of being here. Mark Renner first encountered punk while a teenager in Upperco, a country town in rural Maryland. Growing up on his family farm, he became a young acolyte of the British exports hitting not-so-distant Baltimore record store shelves in 1979 / 1980 and was baited by an area musician-wanted ad declaring Ultravox a primary touchstone.
Ariel Kalma - An Evolutionary Music
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An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 - 1979) compiles unreleased recordings from the archives of multiversal artist Ariel Kalma. Concerned as much with musicality as spiritual facility, Kalma’s work vibrates aside fellow travelers along the great rainbow in curved air of the 1970s avant-garde. Directed by Matthew McGuigan
David van Tieghem x Ten - Fits and Starts
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For the tenth volume of RVNG's FRKWYS series, composer, percussionist and sound designer David Van Tieghem alongside ten younger artists from across the avant spectrum become a bulletin of Fits & Starts. Directed by Jordan Kinle
Night Flight - Craig Leon Video Profile
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Producer on The Ramones and Suicide’s debut albums during the downtown NY zeitgeist of the late 1970.
Night Flight - Helado Negro Video Profile
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The sonic world Helado Negro builds an aura vivid enough to be seen.
Night Flight - Kate NV Video Profile
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Minimal electronic abstraction and '80s Japanese-inspired pop from Kate NV.
Night Flight - Greg Fox Video Profile
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The ‘intuitive gesture’ of action painting in drum form from Greg Fox.
Night Flight - Sign Libra Video Profile
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Latvian composer and artist Sign Libra's Sea of Islands and Sea Of Nectar.
Night Flight - Ka Baird Video Profile
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“intertwined etymologies of spirit and breath” from RVNG Intl.'s Ka Baird.
Night Flight - Peter Ivers Video Collage
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RVNG Intl’s 2019 release "Becoming Peter Ivers" collects 25 songs transferred from a survey of over 500 reels and cassettes along with an incredible amount of unseen photos and ephemera.
Ether Antenna
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Inspired by Buddhist tales and set to the tune of Pauline Anna Strom’s astral electronic soundscapes; Ether Antenna is a short film following the journey of some 10 robot characters through Nepal. Fusing spirituality with robotics this cybernetic tale exploits humanity’s fascination with technology and religion. Designed and built on residency at RAN (the Robotics Association of Nepal), all robot characters were developed to act specifically as puppets and carry out precise interactions through different scenes and scenarios. The film begins as robots are birthed from a sacred tree into the pure streams of water at Muktinath and follows their journey toward the polluted rivers of Kathmandu.
Tunnel Vision (New Restoration)
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It's the year "1985" and the proprietors of new television channel called "Tunnel Vision", which is notably free of censorship) are under a government investigation led by a Senator who wishes to shut down the network due to its widespread negative effects on the population. During the hearing, the committee examines a typical day or programming which includes shows, programs, commercials, news, and much more, and what they discover will surely crack you up in this outrageous and irreverent spoof of 1970's movies and television in the tradition of Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon!
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 9
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment features Wayne Federman on tiny NYC kitchens and Stallone movies, Nancy Parker’s brassy beauty-salon matriarch, a chaotic “hand-puppet” singalong sketch, Motown-loving bits from Mike Langworthy, and more. Viewer discretion is advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 10
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment features Steve Oh, Frankie Pace, Taylor Mason, George Calfa, Bill Shepp, and Adrian Tull performing club sets mixed with sketches and music cues. Viewer discretion is advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 11
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment showcases Judy Tenuta, Dennis Blair, Jack Simmons, Mario Cantone, and Scott Blakeman, plus quick-hit sketches and music parodies. Viewer discretion advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 12
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Welcome to an original 1980s episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts starring stand-up stars from across the country. This installment features David Naster, Mike Egan, Scott Blakeman, Nancy Parker, and Dennis Blair. Viewer discretion is advised.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 13
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Welcome to an original 1986 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts, featuring stand-up from Judy Tenuta, Joy Behar, Wayne Federman, Scott Blakeman, and more, interspersed with surreal comedy sketches, offbeat shorts, and vintage Night Flight weirdness.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 14
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Welcome to an original 1987 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts featuring Joy Behar, Wayne Federman, Jack Simmons, and more, alongside absurd comedy sketches, fake commercials, and classic Night Flight interstitials.
Night Flight - Comedy Cuts 15
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Welcome to an original 1986 episode of Night Flight’s Comedy Cuts, featuring Joy Behar, Jack Simmons, Larry Amoros, and more in a rapid-fire mix of stand-up, movie parodies, fake commercials, and offbeat sketches.

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