LEVITATOR
@microlevitator.bsky.social
Scientist & research professor. Defying gravity, trying to improve the world. Vinyl & music enthusiast digging for new sounds. Electronic production, field recording, urban microfarming, hiking on the side. Burqueño af. Personal account, views own
steel tipped dove's fused arrow records is one of my favorite labels in operation right now, so i did a deep dive on it for @bandcamp.com
Hip-Hop Label Fused Arrow Hits The Target, Every Time
Helmed by acclaimed producer Steel Tipped Dove, the label is fast becoming an underground rap bedrock.
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Excited to share the premiere of my film The Witness tree, which explores narratives of colonialism & climate change through the biodata sonification of trees in Virginia, sponsored by Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, Religion, Ecology, & Expressive Culture Initiative. ism.yale.edu/events/2026-...
I’m going to be in Chicago toward the end of August for a week. I need recs for venues where I can catch some cool music. @intlanthem.bsky.social I know y’all got the scoop. Tap me in! I’m down with any type of left field music but my fave to see live is creative improvised instrumental type.
This was my son’s first CD. Went out and got him a new CD so he can spin Happy Today
LEVITATOR@microlevitator.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am *hyped* to find a record shop in New Mexico carrying @intlanthem.bsky.social. Picked up a few records and watched a screening of the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet film at No Logo Records. Incredible album and great shop. I will be back. Next, we just gotta get the IVtet to come here for a show!
This review captures the magic of JP ETA IVtet — and many in the @intlanthem.bsky.social sphere in general — wonderfully. “The IVtet’s power is in presence…The simple act of finding space with other people can help you touch the infinite”. @gardenerjams.bsky.social pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Jeff Parker / ETA IVtet: Happy Today
Read Dash Lewis’ review of the album.
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I am *hyped* to find a record shop in New Mexico carrying @intlanthem.bsky.social. Picked up a few records and watched a screening of the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet film at No Logo Records. Incredible album and great shop. I will be back. Next, we just gotta get the IVtet to come here for a show!
Gonna stop posting anything work related on this account, it hasn’t worked so well to try and have a personal/ work account. Will set up a work account for anyone interested in research updates!
I am happy to see some good news!
International Anthem@intlanthem.bsky.social · 5mo ago*announcing* IARC0109 𝗝𝗲𝗳𝗳 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗧𝗔 𝗜𝗩𝘁𝗲𝘁 - 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 album out May 15, 2026 Today we are very pleased to announce Happy Today, the third album from guitarist / bandleader Jeff Parker and his long-running ETA IVtet, out 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟱 via International Anthem / @nonesuch.com : tinyurl.com/5adwhu8n
Wowee what a stellar album! The vibes are like Ambrose Akinmusire meets Carlos Niño and I love it. Really unique debut album as a leader (I think) from Aaron Shaw aaronshaw.bandcamp.com/album/and-so...
And So It Is, by Aaron Shaw
8 track album
aaronshaw.bandcamp.com
My Fly or Die shirt prompted a couple conversations about jaimie branch today at the rock gym. Hopefully a couple new listeners to the fly or die universe. Thanks @intlanthem.bsky.social for making sure her legacy lives on! The shirt has been helping me educate the world every time I wear it.
I scooped up both these for Bandcamp Friday (along with this uurydon tape: uurydon.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-...)
OCEAN CALE, by UURYDON
5 track album
uurydon.bandcamp.com
International Anthem@intlanthem.bsky.social · 7mo agoOrder yours today! Order for your loved ones! ORDER: intlanthem.bandcamp.com/merch
Today’s soundtrack for boxing up Christmas decorations. Things got more and more free as the day went on
It makes me sad that I’ll soon have to take down this epic holiday light display that we made out of a dead tree stump. I’m tempted to keep the dead tree in place for next year…
The final bundle of the IA11 reissue series just touched down and it’s a doozy. 2 of my favorite albums (Fly or Die II and Universal Beings) and a Deplume I hadn’t yet heard but now love. Universal Beings was my introduction to @intlanthem.bsky.social. Excellent choice for the 11th and final album.
Since joining Bluesky I haven’t seen any #pizza discourse. I kinda miss the random food arguments at the other place, honestly… So I’m gonna try to kick it off posting my family’s go-to pizza order. We’re traditionalists. So we stick to the main toppings of pepperoni, green chile, and pineapple
Incredible review of one of my favorite albums of the year, How You Been by SML (via @intlanthem.bsky.social). “By synthesizing all manner of history, theory, and experience, [SML] create complex, brand-new, brain-teasing compositions” By @gardenerjams.bsky.social pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
SML: How You Been
Read Dash Lewis’ review of the album.
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My pepper plants do not look well but they gave up another harvest. Probably their last. We have not had a frost here yet. It’s rare to be this deep in November and not have a frost.
Next up, jaimie branch’s Fly or Die Live. Jaimie was an incredible innovator and improviser. It really shines on this album. BTW, International Anthem just announced a special reissue of Fly or Die II. Very excited for that
LEVITATOR@microlevitator.bsky.social · 10mo agoI’m holed up sick, but music is the healing force of the universe, so I’m spinning lots of music to get better. First up, Ruler Rebel by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. The first in the centennial trilogy. Taking the next step in his stretch music philosophy.
I’m holed up sick, but music is the healing force of the universe, so I’m spinning lots of music to get better. First up, Ruler Rebel by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. The first in the centennial trilogy. Taking the next step in his stretch music philosophy.
New Tortoise arriving just in time for the mood boost I really needed! The blue ‘seamount axial’ vinyl is even better than it looked online. Another gem from Tortoise and IARC
Travels took me through Phoenix, so I stopped at @stinkweeds.com and the In Groove, two of my fave record shops in the country. Picked up some gems from Low, Charles Tolliver, Angel Bat Dawid, Marc Johnson, and Morton Subotnick. @intlanthem.bsky.social has their own section at Stinkweeds now!
Shoutout @gardenerjams.bsky.social for this excellent review and for clueing me into this beautiful album by Flur, the London trio that “fuses composition and improvisation in a vaporous, polyrhythmic style somewhere between astral jazz and cosmic minimalism”. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Flur: Plunge
Read Dash Lewis’ review of the album.
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Seeing all these semi trucks jamming up the road, burning a bunch of fuel makes me wonder if there’s a better way to transport cargo? Like maybe a single truck could pull a bunch of the cargo containers? And since there’s so many of them, maybe give them their own road.
To celebrate the announcement of Mercy — the new collaborative album from Armand Hammer and the Alchemist — I am spinning my pride and joy. My deluxe edition of Haram with an alternate cover (thankfully)
New arrival: Hyperglyph, the excellent new album from Chicago Underground Duo. Via @intlanthem.bsky.social, the label that doesn’t miss
Here’s how summer 2025 has gone in New Mexico. In Albuquerque, the Rio Grande is entirely dry in spots. In the Sandia Mtns, the east slope — the side that gets the most rain — has acres of dry, dead/ dying pine trees. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but this doesn’t seem good.
THIS FRIDAY - Join Rob Mazurek & Chad Taylor --aka Chicago Underground Duo-- in the chat along with the IARC crew as we listen to their new LP, Hyperglyph, in its entirety ⚡⚡ RSVP: tinyurl.com/8k48xnpj
