09/26/11

HIGH WOLF/SUN ARAW at SHRINE TIME

 

 

 

09/15/11

 









08/23/11

 



OUT NOW! BUY IT HERE

 We're letting Drag City do the heavy lifting on this one, so get it directly from them!

NYC LOCALS:  8/26 at Williamsburg Music Hall with Prince Rama, Julianna Barwick and more!
8/27 at PS1



08/12/11


 

   

 SUN ARK BATCH #2!  3 new tapes + a super limited LIVEPHREAXXX! ! ! ! VHS
for you, check out samples IN THE SHOP


  EAST COASTERS!  Where are you on Aug 26th?


 
  

07/29/11



 

 

Sun Araw :: Live @ Mutek 2011 from Scott Kaplan on Vimeo.

 

Czech HEAVY DEEDS live at MUTEK.  Massive update coming so very very soon.

 

 

 

06/15/11





SHERBERT

 

 



05/25/11

 


LISTEN TO "CRETE"

ANCIENT ROMANS is the fifth full-length album from SUN ARAW

Primal Splendour, who sends out innumerable rays, not perceptible by the senses, but collectively thinkable

Heartfelt and marbled, this album is documentation of the slow exit (the triumphal entry): moving the camera back 8 stages along the circumference of the circle to the point where the obverse is reverse, in order to celebrate the building of an edifice and then walk away from it in wisdom, gaining freedom from it. 

ANCIENT ROMANS will be available as a 2xLP on white vinyl in a gatefold jacket with an accompanying art book, as well as on CD.

available on SUN ARK RECORDS through Drag City, August 23rd


Side A

Lucretius
Crown Shell

Side B

Crete
Lute and Lyre

Side C

At Delphi
Fit for Caesar

Side D

Trireme
Impluvium

 

05/21/11

WHERE'S YR CHILD V from miko revereza on Vimeo.



THE SUN ARAW BAND MOVES EAST

Newly minted large band mode comes to the east coast for shows and more!  Kicking off June 3rd at Coco66 w/ WHERES YR CHILD NYC!  HOUSE/ITALO dance party with DJ SETS from SUN ARAW, DJMGG, DJ EGROEG, TODD PENDU, and live performances from SEX WORKER and PSYCHIC REALITY!  Followed by a shredfest full band performance June 4th at 285 Kent St.  Here's the full rundown:

 

6/2 - MUTEK FEST, Montreal

6/3 - WHERES YR CHILD V NYC! w/ SEX WORKER, PSYCHIC REALITY and more
(HOUSE/ITALO NIGHT, DJ SETS)
at Coco 66, Brooklyn

6/4 - THE SUN ARAW BAND, M. GEDDES GENGRAS, MATTHEWDAVID, D'EON
at 285 Kent St, Brooklyn

6/5 - THE SUN ARAW BAND, M. GEDDES GENGRAS, RUN DMT, ZOMES
at Ottobar, Baltimore

6/6 - MORAL COMBAT w/ G LUCAS CRANE!
at 108 Leonard Street between Broadway and Lafayette, NYC

6/7 - THE SUN ARAW BAND, M. GEDDES GENGRAS, EXCEPTER, DANIEL HIGGS, DEEP MAGIC

at Maxwell's in Hoboken




 

04/18/11



        

SUN ARK CASSETTES!  INFO AND CLIPS IN THE SHOP



03/29/11





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01/12/11

 

You might remember Matthew Lessner from IN ORBIT.  He is a good friend and a man of many talents, one of which has borne fruit in the completion of a feature film premiering at SUNDANCE in a few weeks.  He asked me to record a cover for the film, and so here is a cover of Neil Young's "Thrasher."

Sun Araw - "Thrasher" (Neil Young)

 

 

 

12/08/10

 


 

Collab tape with deep homie matthewdavid available from LEAVING RECORDS this week, should have some in the SUN ARK SHOP this week as well:

The legendary invite-only parties at SUN ARK STUDIOS had reached a sort of frenzied climax in late summer of 2010, steamy and yet ambiguous police actions, multiple lenticular object sightings, and spontaneous dance-floor teleportations all were pointed at some sort of budding vortex, a sinister portal that was going to have to be danced through.  Everything was coming up fungal, spiral filaments wrapping around wrists and ankles, yanking some chains.  For the 3am set, MATTHEWDAVID joined SUN ARAW onstage for what would be the moment of germination: SUN ARAW passing retrieved melodic objects while MD dilated, distended, folded, and then flung them through the gateway.  After listening from the control room with eyes closed, I wandered out onto the dancefloor to take stock: the partygoers as I remembered them had vanished, and the entities that were moving to these grooves were tough to identify, multiplying rapidly in fractal-like patterns and then slipping sideways into shadow.  I caught a cab and got out of there.  I have no idea who finished the recording.

-Aristocrat P. Child, 2010   

 

AND...

 




DECEMBER 17th, WHERE'S YOUR CHILD?
@ SHOWCAVE

From the minds of M. Geddes Gengras and Sun Araw comes

ALL THE HARD HOUSE, SUNRISE MIXES, AND ITALO YOU CAN HANDLE
LIVE SET by SFV ACID!!!
DJ SETS BY M. GEDDES GENGRAS
SUN ARAW
INTERESTING DRUGS
and more TBA!


In the meantime: WHERE'S YOUR CHILD? MEGAMIX

M. GEDDES GENGRAS:

HOUSE MASTER BOYZ & THE RUDE BOY OF HOUSE – HOUSENATION
IAMTHATIAM – AND ON THE 3RD DAY
AZTEC MYSTIC – REVENGE OF THE JAGUAR (MAD MIKE MIX)
FRANKIE KNUCKLES FEAT. JAMIE PRINCIPLE – BABY WANTS TO RIDE (X-RATED VERSION)
STEVE POINDEXTER – BODY HEAT 1991 (PERSON∆BLE DRTY FLTRZ MIX)

SUN ARAW:

HIPNOSIS – ASTRODANCE
ISAAC HAYES – CAN’T TURN AROUND (RON HARDY EDIT)
MR. FINGERS – SLAMDANCE
G FORCE – FEEL THE FORCE
COSMIC TOUCH – NOTHING EVER CHANGES


COME SWEAT: TAKE THIS BASS, FILTER, AND CELEBRATE


10/04/10

       

SUN ARK RECORDS is here with wearables and spinnables that will fill you to the brim with sweet fruits and nectars.

AVAILABLE NOW: New ON PATROL shirts, available in sizes S-XL in heather grey and white

COMING OCTOBER 30th:  BEACH HEAD [
SA001] remastered on 180gram vinyl!




Originally issued in a limited pressing in 2008, BEACH HEAD is a release of sunburnt affection for a place that has since submerged: a coastal constellation of friends and energies that still slosh and burn through dimensions just above our perceptual apparatus.   These are the coordinates, should you want to go: THOUGHTS ARE BELLS opens in séance before easing back into full Florian blossom.  HORSE STEPPIN’ is a love song to Neil Young’s six-string gateway: sunblushed and indulgent, persistently burning.  BEAMS builds a bridge between Marconi Notaro and Long Beach, and throws an underwater groove party in the midst.  BRIDAL FILLY pushes the sun under the horizon with a mountain of vocals; unfailing love glowing at its center: a marriage song.  As the inaugural release on SUN ARK RECORDS, BEACH HEAD has been re-mastered at the legendary Dubplates & Mastering in Germany, and has been imprinted onto 180 gram vinyl, these tunes have never sounded this good.  The LP comes correct with the original artwork, including an 11 x 11 full color insert.
 

To keep up to speed on all future happenings (and there will be ample, supple future happenings), join the mailing list!  Email sunaraw@gmail.com with "Subscribe" in the subject line.


8/24/10

 

HEAR SUN ARAW REMIX PRINCE RAMA


 

 
8/23/10

 

 

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6/14/10


Was stoked on the chance to dive in on lenticular objects in the LA WEEKLY this past week.  SCOPE IT.  I like your five-polygon-style.  

 

TUESDAY 6/15:


SUN ARAW at WOODSIST FEST, playing at 7pm
upstairs at The Echo

 

5/12/10


 

ON PATROL CD cruises into view. In case the 2xLP isn't your speed, grip it on the ones and zeros for a fraction of the cost.

On Patrol is a double album in two parts, and the 4th full length album from Sun Araw, following 2009’s Heavy Deeds. An album for heavy-steamin' late nights in the city, inter- dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs, and midnight-sweat locker rooms, it creeps and tunes in on a much darker, sparser, and more classically minded channel than its predecessors: dark and deep steam-vent ruminations on Philip Cohran, lenticular objects, and fried Hot 92.3 R&B slow-jams. Eschewing liner notes, Sun Araw has subtitled each track to let the listener know exactly where they are in hopes of recruiting more explorers as would-be enforcers. WATCH YOURSELF, GET ON PATROL. 

Available at the usual distros

 

4/15/10

 

The Wire asked me to make a mix for their ADVENTURES IN MODERN MUSIC radio program. It's been beamed across the UK and back, and now it can be on your computer.  Click HERE.

 

 

 

3/31/10

"DEEP COVER" - SUN ARAW

Directed by SUN ARAW

Director of Photography - Brian Davila

Edited by Daniel Brantley and SUN ARAW

 

 

 

 

SIDE A

MA HOLO
BEAT COP
THE STAKEOUT (feat. William Giacchi)


SIDE B

CONGA MIND
DEEP COVER

SIDE C

HIGH SLIDE
THE STAKEOUT: REPRISE (feat. William Giacchi)
DIMENSION ALLEY

SIDE D

HOLODECK BLUES

 

COMING IN EARLY APRIL on 2xLP/CD

 



3/01/10

 


REUNITED FOR NONHORSE BOSS ANGELES STUDIES

First things first.  Every Bushwick Thug that came out, major thanksgivings to you.  What was almost a straight bum-out unfolded into some major positive energy work-outs, hang-outs, and shout-outs.  Dan, Todd, Lucas, John, superhuman all.  Imitate these fools because they're onto something.

Second order of business, it has become official that I am no longer a member of POCAHAUNTED.  They are deep family, and I wish them the best, schedules had just become too hairball to maintain both SUN ARAW and POCAHAUNTED and give them equal attention.  I was stoked to jam on MAKE IT REAL and various tours and I don't doubt that further collabs might be in the future, but at the moment I am floating free from that crew.  Sadly that means that any post-SXSW SUN ARAW/PHAUNT/WET HAIR shows you see scheduled (Chicago, Madison, etc) will not include SUN ARAW, but you should go anyways, are you kidding?  That's a sick lineup. 
 
 
  

THE KGB MAN KNOWS SANDWICHES


 

7/29/09

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