Fashawn talks 'This Town;' his longtime support for new label Fresh Yard Records
Plus, experimental record label Existential Tension releases new work from Ryan Gregory Tallman.
Fashawn started teasing a new project and new record label earlier this summer.
It’s now official, “All Hail the King,” drops Oct. 19 on Fresh Yard Records.
“I’ve been a longtime supporter of Fresh Yard. For over a decade. And vice versa,” Fashawn says.
“We’re just making it official with the release of ‘All Hail The King.’ ”
The album itself is full collab with producer/musician mbjkVeterano and will feature the likes of Aloe Blacc, Planet Asia, DJ Revolution and Elzhi. Fashawn did the verses for “All Hail The King,” for Veterano’s 2020 album “The Gathering,” and says the timing of the whole thing was just kind of perfect.
“I was starving to create the kind of music that we did on this project,” he says.
“I haven’t had chemistry like this with a producer since my debut album.”
The pair dropped a video for the new single “This Town,” just this month. The three minute track seems to hit direct into Fashawn’s wheelhouse. Lyrically, it’s an obvious ode to lost friends, and also to Fresno, though that’s all meant to be universal.
“This is an ode to our hometown and to any other town out there with a story that mirrors it,” Fashawn says.
As to what the Fresh Yard release means for his relationship with Mass Appeal, Fashawn says that’s on the album, too.
“I address my previous situation on the first song on the album. I figured people would want to know, so I address it right out of the gate.”
In related news: Fashawn will be playing host at this year’s Taco Truck Throwdown, Oct. 23 at Chukchansi Stadium.
New music: “Tryst,” by Ryan Gregory Tallman
Ryan Gregory Tallman is prolific is his experimentation. As a composer/sound artist he has released recordings through labels like Petcord, Isolationism Records, Subspine Records and Important Records.
He’s also self-released 20 albums.
His latest, “Tryst,” is out Friday, Oct. 1 on his own Existential Tension Recordings.
The albums is comprised of two, half-hour tracks; “textural, slowly moving and unfolding pieces of music that envelop and entrance the listener.”
The songs explore feelings of love and loss, Tallman says, feelings that can be “all consuming.”
“It is an album that asks for patience and stillness, openness and vulnerability, love and compassion,” he says.
From the album’s liner notes: “Tryst is an invitation to be still, to be completely of time and wholly separate from it. It is an adumbration of the nonlinearity of love. Neither minutes nor lifetimes mean anything when surrounded and engulfed by its grace. In its purest form, all love is divine and not bound by the constructed constraints of time. It is eternal—pain dissolved by joy endlessly.”
The album is available in digipack CD format with art and design by Kevin Gan Yuen’s and printed in metallic bonze ink.
It is the first physical release from Existential Tension and available at Ragin’ Records in Fresno, Mission Synths in San Francisco and online at ryangregorytallman.bandcamp.com.
Events list Sept. 26-2
Palaye Royale, with Phem, 7 p.m. Sept. 26, Strummer’s. $15. All ages.
Michael Buble, 8 p.m. Sept. 28, Save Mart Center. $68-$165.50.
Teething with Aenimals, 9 p.m. Oct. 1, Fulton 55. $10-$15.
Y2K Night, 9 p.m. Oct. 1, Strummer’s. $5, all ages.
Rivals, 5 p.m. Oct. 1, Full Circle Brewery District. $13-$17, all ages.
The Jules Winnfield, album release show, 7 p.m. Oct. 2, Intermountain Nursery
30443 Auberry Road, Prather. $10.Flaw, 6 p.m. Oct. 2, Fulton 55. $15-$18.
Shaverstock Brewfest, 1 p.m. Oct. 2, Shaver Lake Community Center baseball field. Free, all ages.
Cool Blues, 7 p.m. Oct. 2, Full Circle Brewery District. Free, all ages.
Cash’s Out, 8 p.m. Oct. 2, Strummer’s. $16, all ages.
Werebear, The Sunnydales, Kinship and Tommy Bahama Boys, 7 p.m. Oct. 2, Barmageddon, 126 E. Kern Avenue, Tulare. $8.
That’s it for this week. If you have anything you think I need to be looking at or listening to, feel free to let me know: jtehee@gmail.com