REVOLVE SOUND
One of REVOLVE’s primary missions is to support and nurture the experimental and avant sound artists in our region and beyond. We have hosted hundreds of concerts in our intimate, sonically sublime Listening Space via our Revolve Sound series. Below you can find some of our region’s most dynamic and genre-bending sounds being made now. To further support our community, we will be transitioning to a monthly night of music performances called Revolve Sound. Local noise maker + community builder, Peter Speer, will be curating + organizing these events. Please fill out this form if you'd like to be considered for future line ups.
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Corey Parlamento
You can’t put Corey’s music in a box, and we truly appreciate that. With many different releases available via Bancamp alone, our favorite is definitely Many Aways. “Many Aways is a reflection on leaving and the endless possibilities of starting again, which can be both freeing in its immediate novelty and confining in its eventual emptiness.”
cen0te
cenOte is Gwen Young and Greg Hoffman, a free improvisation duo based in Greensboro, NC. With an ever-changing array of acoustic and electronic instruments, cenOte creates a liquid sonic portal to the underworld. More information at www.cenoteimprov.com.
Cold Choir
Cold Choir is an Electro/Darkwave duo with poetic, evocative lyrics, sensual vocals dressed in a cloak of moody soul, with a ferociously powerful delivery. Growing up in Miami in the 90s they were heavily influenced by the music they would encounter playing in the clubs of the time. From Electro and Freestyle to Darkwave and Techno, their music has no rules or boundaries. It evolves, and is never stagnant.
State Park Ranger
Appalachian grunge folk, a fresh frontier of music that State Park Ranger continues to build upon. Blending the familiar, sweet sounds of the Appalachian folk music, with the frustration and energy of grunge music. “The expressions of a young person, frustrated with the system, connected to the earth and also deeply upset with how it is disrespected.”
Mother Marrow
Hailing from the mountains outside of Asheville, NC, Mother Marrow is the musical project of Charity Cimarron (they/them). The sound is elemental, powerful, spiritual folk music that can call up tears, or send shivers down your spine. Bewitching and poignant, Mother Marrow’s music and imagery capture the voices of the elements, and the creatures that dwell underground. A musical journey into the depths...these tunes have teeth and tenderness.
Fleur Geurl
The indie-folk pop star dream geurl has stolen the hearts of many a sensitive-sweet-tough hearts, and we recommend keeping up with her + attending a show to let your heart feel all the necessary feels you probably usually reserve for your solo bedroom hang. Our favorite lyric is from Crawling, “there’s a space in the ground right beside me, we could push daises for days as our bodies decay.”
Chase A. Hudson
More recently known as Yard Work, Chase is responsible for some of the dreamiest sounds we have heard in a minute. In August 2022, Chase organized a music event at Revolve called Furniture Music, and we think you should all take a gander at some of the work he’s done while we wait to see what’s next.
Splash Blade
Also known as uyyyuyyyui, this noisemaker is bending and breaking the way we shape narrative through “song”. Their Bandcamp description explains it perfectly, “What are some weird sounds? Here are 11 strange sounds that deserve to be heard.” We agree!
Fieldwork Archive
Folklorist Derek Piotr began archiving folksong, poetry, memories, interviews and tales in 2020. The focus of this collection is on the "non-singer"; in other words, someone with no background in musical performance but who can still relate a song or folkloric memory.
XOR
Chill wave, new wave, dark wave post-punk greatness. You may recognize Matthew (XOR) as the bass player for Asheville’s gothy punk band, Secret Shame, which you should also get familiar with.
Nest Egg
This is Krautrock wizardry. The songs are built upon repetition and drone, all sheltered within a hive of buzzsaw guitars and analogue synths. No sound is wasted, space is the place, songs will evolve and grow for as long as they need to. ‘Mood music for nihilists’ indeed.
nostalgianoid
Like loops + deeply moving instrumentals? Look no further. Our favorite from Nostalgia Noid right now is Digital Amnesia, which is mostly harsh noise, with the first few minutes allowing the sample to become recognizable at points but also mangled to a point of harkening sounds reminiscent to the African Diaspora or Gamelan from Indonesia.
Sarah Louise
Earth and Its Contents
“It’s all vibrations - from the cosmic to the sub-atomic, from the spiritual to the cognitive, from the creatively musical to the naturally occurring.”
Thom Nguyen
In Absence
Drummer of Nest Egg, MANAS, Wasting & Sarah Louise making his solo debut with an incisive and compelling investigation of the drum kit and its potential for beautiful chaos.
Emmalee Hunnicutt
Wooden Hollow
Wooden Hollow is a collection of dreamy original cello compositions based on looping pedal pieces composed by Emmalee Hunnicutt (Mountain Bitters) between 2012 and 2020.
Nakatani + Parish
Interactivity
“Boundless imagination; magical collage of ordinary everyday sound with music…” Ongoing collaboration that never disappoints sonically. Parish interweaves Flamingo guitar with Nakatani’s continous rhythms.
Spectral Habitat
Atlas
Sounds are crafted upon substantial backgrounds in classical, drone, and heavy music, using voice, strings, electronics, and synthesizers, found on coastlines, and timbres discovered on city streets.
Sally Anne Morgan
Thread
Emphasizing connections to the natural world and a modern reframing of rural traditions, Morgan’s mastery of folk forms is matched by her ability to push the bounds of those forms into imaginative pastures.
Gyan Riley
Shelter in Space
“I recorded these 10 tunes not knowing how they would strike anyone else but feeling deeply that they would always resonate within me as a very memorable reflection of my own experience in relative isolation.”
Moses Sumney
grae
“The scope, scale, and execution of this record fill a Prince sized hole in my heart…Each genre is attacked with such joy and energy that by the end of the album I already wanted more.”
Wounded Hollow
The Vacuity Sessions
“The album was recorded with minimal means, mostly just me running my instruments direct into a small, cheap handheld recorder that is mostly used for field recordings. All of the tracks are single takes.”
Kimathi Moore
Yurr
Moore spends much of his time daydreaming, field recording and going to old abandoned railroads and buildings to gather found sounds. This recording is a particular REVOLVE SOUND favorite.
Tashi Dorji
Stateless
Dorji takes acoustic in hand, recording in a rare studio setting with extra focus and balance. In a set of songs that travel through our bleak modern lifescape, he accesses an exceptionally wide range of moods.
Wizard Apprentice
Dig A Pit
Each song examines different stages of recovery, including the process of healing from gaslighting, trauma bonding, and victimization to practices of self-protection and honoring anger.
Library of Babel
Sing to Me of…
A kinetic session drawing from our established language and the text of the Sacred Harp, a musical canon that has long held fascination for this dynamic trio: Shane Parish/ Emmalee Hunnicutt/ Frank Meadows
Eli Winter
Unbecoming
Unbecoming showcases Winter as an invigorating, talented presence, and alludes to his bright future as a voice - or perhaps set of well-trained hands - in the constantly evolving guitar music canon.
Patricia
Maxyboy
New to Asheville, Max Ravitz records for the esteemed Ghostly label (a REVOLVE SOUND favorite). Maxyboy is a more varied than past Patricia releases, shifting away from some of the 'lo-fi' sounds he's known for.
Ross Gentry
Memory & Passage
An absolute sublime recording, for fans of the early Erased Tapes sound, and the soundtracks of Clint Mansell. (Strings Performed by Mountain Bitters)
XAMBUCA | WHALEWIPER
Sisiliskopäiväkirjat
This is a collaboration between WHALEWIPER (Petri Viitala) and XAMBUCA (Chandra Shukla) who agreed to do this record in April of 2017 when mutual friend and mentor Mika Vainio tragically passed.
Andre’ Cholmondeley
Enigma With Attitude
This album is a nod to favorites of mine like Vernon Reid, David Torn, Bill Frisell, Henry Kaiser, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Autechre and so much more.
Wes Tirey
No Winner in the Blues
A shuddering and sweet denim blue pocket full of stories and songs, a fingered pick worn sharp, a pen vivid and a voice low, boot the cobblestones and roll tired. A candid blues vision.
Claire Rousay
rehearsals/improvisations
Rousay’s performances and recordings explore queerness, human relationships, and self perception through the use of physical objects and their potential sounds.
Okapi
Carousel (Part I)
OKAPI is a duo which utilizes upright bass, cello, and voice through raw, intimate orchestrations driven by honesty and philosophical content.
GrudaKris
shapeshifterrrr
experimental musician residing in Weaverville, NC...draws inspiration from ((free)) jazz, blues, avant-garde...many many musics 'n sounds...primary instrument = guitar + voice, objects, electronics ( (O) )
Peter Speer
Indian Boundary Park
Originally released on cassette in an edition of 100 on the Patient Sounds label, Indian Boundary Park is a collection of modular synthesizer patches performed live at home in Chicago.
Benoit Pioulard
Sylva
One of REVOLVE SOUND’s first performers back in 2015, Pioulard continues to mine both the present, and the past in evocative, poignant sounds. (A REVOLVE SOUND ALL-TIME FAVORITE)
Last Frost
Friends and Enemies
Lo-fi, noise, shimmering in and spaced out - this was a REVOLVE SOUND favorite live, and this release captures the claustrophobic, ecstatic beauty of that experience.
Anteloper
Tour Beats Vol. 1
Jaime Branch brought her rig to the table: trumpet, synths, delay/looper pedal, auxiliary percussion, and a Roland TR08 drum machine. *(Played this set along w/ Blacks’ Myths at REVOLVE!)
Blacks’ Myths
II
"On Black Myths, Stewart and Crudup craft evocative, Afro-futuristic grooves, frequently disrupted by eruptions of feedback dissonance or languid soundscapes." -- Down Beat Magazine
Daniel Levin
Living
“One of the instrument's most brilliant contemporary practitioners.” (The Wire, October 2017). He has released more than 20 albums as a leader or co-leader on labels such as Clean Feed, HatOLOGY, & others.
Gardener
Keep The Candles Lit
Lewis shows us a spark of optimism through these troubled times with Keep The Candles Lit. Providing an aural respite, its side-long pieces weave through the shadows and chaos, eventually finding beauty.
REVOLVE SOUND LABEL
Various Releases
Limited edition and hand made objects by Constance Humphries, Mountain Bitters, Kima Moore + a digital recording of 2018’s BMCM+AC REhappening event!
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