SALUTATIONS / VARIOUS - SALUTATIONS / VARIOUS (RSD) Vinyl LP

An inaugural compilation of new music from RVNG Intl., Salutations observes and elevates the nature of meetings, greetings, group assemblies and exercises along the invisible plane created through correspondence.The question of how similar we are arises in the simple form of contact, and how we choose to embrace the potential of that moment and one another. Through correspondence, we connect, communicate, and form community. At first, correspondents with one another, and through the processes of collaboration and transmission, we correspond to parallel and intersecting collective cores. This eternal network, perhaps informed (consciously or subconsciously) by some celestial or spiritual force, becomes a portal to practice social responsibility and an access point to a wider, inclusive universe of information. In turn, the network becomes a human phenomenon, as well as a potent demonstration of art and collectivism. As the world hurts, heals, and evolves through change, having this network in place provides a vessel to and grow / glow beyond our corporeal state. Salutations features twelve pieces of new music from artists near and dear to RVNG's sphere, including Isik Kural, Satomimagae, vhvl, Visible Cloaks, Sign Libra, Dialect, Batu, Anna Homler, Diatom Deli, Emily A. Sprague, Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith, and Wayne Phoenix. The vinyl edition expands on the spirit of correspondence with poetry readings by Zoe Brezsny, Ivanna Baranova, Tessa Bolsover, Jessica Rae Elsaesser, and Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola, assembled by Breszny and RVNG. Inspired in part by a collaboration with Adult Swim, the limited edition Record Store Day 2022 exclusive pressing on coke bottle clear vinyl also includes a printed insert and a high quality, multi-format digital download.

Track List:

1.1 Timelapse Passionflower
1.2 Forlorn
1.3 Window Poem
1.4 Dots
1.5 Cantadito
1.6 Shell One
1.7 There Is a Dream of You
1.8 ArcoiRis
1.9 Untitled (Morning)
1.10 Pi
1.11 Nice to See You Joyous
1.12 Beeoh
1.13 It Regenerates Each Night
1.14 Face of the Lake
1.15 High Ways (Desert Poem)
1.16 Bounding / Missive from the Teacup Galaxy
1.17 Untitled (Salt)
1.18 Tranquilo
1.19 Twin Flame
1.20 Silken Pt. 2.13
1.21 Untitled (Night Buzzes)
1.22 In the Memory Room
1.23 Whiplash Portal
1.24 Living Is the Answer to the Question That Is Asked By Being Alive
1.25 Sunken Meadow Park II

Label: RVNG Int'l