Happy Birthday Charles Stepney!!!
Celebrate Charles Stepney's birthday today, Tuesday March 26th, with a special conversation hosted by The Stepney Sisters featuring Chicago House music legend Terry Hunter, James Poyser of The Roots, Kitty Haywood and several others.
out this week: Cassie Kinoshi's seed. - gratitude
Cassie Kinoshi's seed. featuring NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra - gratitude is out this Friday March 22nd, 2024 on LP, CD, and Digital Download
*announcing* Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX // out May 3rd
Today, Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and renowned Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly announce MESTIZX, their debut album as co-composers, arrangers and musicians.
Cassie Kinoshi performs her new IARC album 'gratitude' for International Women's Day this Thursday March 7th @ Barbican, London
A very special International Women's Day event presented by Serious: this Thursday, March 7th, composer, arranger and alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi will perform the music of her forthcoming IARC debut gratitude alongside her flagship ensemble seed., turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Out this week: Ruth Goller's SKYLLUMINA /// Bandcamp Listening Party on Friday /// upcoming shows EU & UK
Out this Friday March 1st, 2024 on LP, CD, and Digital Download (( full album will be available on streaming platforms on April 2nd ))
Carlos Niño, Surya Botofasina, Adam Rudolph - Live at Public Records 12/10/2022
On December 10th, 2022, Carlos Niño and Photay assembled a beautiful cast of musicians at Brooklyn's Public Records to perform in celebration of their recently-released International Anthem LP An Offering (and the subsequent mixtape of bonus material, More Offerings).
Out Now on digital music platforms: ASHER GAMEDZE - Another Side with Another Time Ensemble /// EU TOUR starts next week
In December of 2020, Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where he would assemble a quintet with some of the city's finest improvisers: Maurice Louca (Elephantine, Northern Spy Recs) on synthesizers, Adham Zidan (The Invisible Hands, Baskot Lel Baltageyya) on bass, Chérif El-Masri (Eskenderella, Dimension Machine) on guitar, and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies) on alto saxophone.
Out This Friday: Vinyl LP editions of Jeremiah Chiu's IN ELECTRIC TIME
By popular demand... Jeremiah Chiu's In Electric Time – a smoking suite of organic electronic music created entirely analog, in-situ at Los Angeles's Vintage Synth Museum - is available this Friday in record stores worldwide.
*announcing* Cassie Kinoshi's seed. - gratitude /// LP/CD/Digi Album out March 22nd
We are elated today to share new music by visionary Berlin/London based composer, arranger & alto saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, alongside her flagship large ensemble seed. The album – titled gratitude – also features turntablist NikNak and the London Contemporary Orchestra in a stirring philharmonic performance recorded at Southbank Centre in 2023.
Out This friday >> Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - The Closest Thing to Silence LP/CD/Digital
This Friday 2/2 is the worldwide release date for THE CLOSEST THING TO SILENCE by Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. It's also BANDCAMP FRIDAY so we thought: why not go crazy and celebrate this glorious confluence with our first ever Bandcamp listening party???
*announcing* IARC0078 Ruth Goller - SKYLLUMINA /// LP/CD/Digi Album out 3/1/24
Today, we are pleased to make our first new release announcement of the new year with this utterly beguiling music from a new artist on our label: London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist & vocalist Ruth Goller.
Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - “A Treasure Chest” from forthcoming The Closest Thing to Silence, out LP/CD/Digi on February 2nd 2024
New single by Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, out now.
New Merch + Merch on Sale!
For keeping warm and repping the dome this winter... We've got a couple new merch items available via our online store.
*announcing* IARC0077 Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - The Closest Thing To Silence /// LP/CD/Digi Album out 2/2/24
In August 2022 the Australia-based, French born new age musician and electronic music composer Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. The program pairs artists who have not previously worked together to create new music cooperatively. Kalma was quick to suggest working with two musicians whom he had never met – International Anthem recording artists Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer…
Tracing The Lines - Issue No. 2 is here! Fresh edition of our zine available now
Tracing The Lines is a creative exploration of International Anthem and the community that surrounds it. Issue #2 – our second annual installment – maintains a focus on artists speaking with one another about how and why they make their art, and in turn, how and why they live their lives.
OUT THIS FRIDAY >> Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Rainbow Revisited (LP, CD, Digi)
"A brave, stand-alone release that lays her talent bare, it’s a beautifully unreal entrancement you’ll find hard to stop listening to again and again." – Andy Cowan, MOJO
*announcing* Ben Lumsdaine - Murmuration Without End /// Cassette/Digi Album out December 8th /// Plus "A Moment of Discovery" in Tracing the Lines
Today we're thrilled to announce an immersive debut work from a new artist on the label – Bloomington, Indiana raised, Los Angeles, California based producer, composer, percussionist & multi-instrumentalist Ben Lumsdaine.
!!!IARC in LONDON!!! November 10th-16th 2023
It's that time of year again... the time when we perennially, inevitably, disregard our previous decisions to "save some money this year" and not buy tickets for England-bound flights... because the fine folks at EFG London Jazz Festival have relentlessly good taste + a sturdy proficiency for booking IARC artists. So here we are again, packing our bags and readying to head across the pond.