'Extended Field' unites Horse Lords and Arnold Dreyblatt for the eighteenth volume of 'FRKWYS', an intergenerational collaboration of adventurous musicians drawn to the sonically radiant world of just intonation—an ancient tuning system in which scale intervals are derived from whole-number ratios. Dreyblatt first immersed himself in this approach in New York during the 1970s, while Horse Lords began exploring and applying its possibilities nearly four decades later. Together, they create a vibrant harmonic environment, fueled by a shared devotion to rhythm, achieving a marriage of discreet but related aesthetics for the ages. Dreyblatt is a pioneer of psychoacoustic phenomenon, serving as an assistant to La Monte Young between 1975 and 1977 before studying with the legendary Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University. He discovered the sonic power of excited strings, retrofitting a double bass with piano wires and striking with a rapid thrum to produce enveloping clouds of metallic overtones.

Dreyblatt’s 1982 album 'Nodal Excitation' laid out a sonic blueprint that resides at the heart of his pulsating music today. He eventually moved to Berlin, and has led various ensembles over the years that have amplified and interpreted the compositional scaffolding he built around his ringing tones. In contrast to Dreyblatt’s hyper-focused practice, Horse Lords have built an ecstatic, hybrid sound all their own; hard-driving rhythmic sprawls support a collision of traditional ritual music, free jazz, and spectrally brilliant electronic showers of psychoacoustic sound. After cementing a devoted following with their 2020 album The Common Task, most of the band relocated to Germany in 2021, with guitarist Owen Gardner and bassist Max Eilbacher settling in Berlin, and saxophonist Andrew Bernstein a few hours away in Bavaria. Drummer Sam Haberman remained in Baltimore, although he reconvenes with the band for album recordings, including the 2023 album 'Comradely Objects', and extended tours Unbeknownst to one another the two parties shared a mutual interest in one another’s music.

In early 2017 Dreyblatt’s long-time colleague and friend Werner Durand suggested he check out the band. He recalls, “After listening, I quickly replied: ‘Sounds great! A little like my music. I’ve never heard of them!’ I sent a message through their Bandcamp page, and they responded: ‘Hello! Thanks for the note, we’re big fans of your music!’ But it wasn’t until Dreyblatt caught the band in Berlin in October of 2021 that they finally crossed paths. Days later Bernstein proposed a collaboration. This process would unfold slowly but surely; both parties were exceedingly busy, and when the musicians eventually assembled, they had different harmonic conceptions to reconcile and needed someone in the room to fill Haberman’s percussive role. Dreyblatt suggested Andrea Belfi, a venerable Italian drummer and composer based in Berlin.

In the composing sessions that followed, Horse Lords and Dreyblatt learned the finer points of one another’s harmonic preferences and found ways to fuse them in a single unified sound. “Andrew and Owen proposed structures for navigating my tonal systems,” explains Dreyblatt, “while Max developed weighted algorithmic frequency patterns in SuperCollider.” Many denizens of the tuning universe hold stubbornly strong convictions about what’s right and what’s wrong, so the patience and openness from both parties is quite unusual, with the partnership bringing out fascinating accents and alterations.

TRACK LISTING

1. Advance
2. Extended Field
3. Suspension
4. Impulse Array

Lucrecia Dalt’s 'A Danger to Ourselves' is a daring yet intimate reflection on the unfiltered complexities of human connection. Stripping away fictional narratives present on the artist’s last several album endeavours, 'A Danger to Ourselves' arrives from a place of emotional sincerity. Sonically unravelling like a deeply personal conversation, Dalt’s voice is focal , supported by a lush array of acoustic orchestration and percussive instrumentation, and an esteemed cast of collaborators.

Dalt, born in Pereira, Colombia, was raised in a family of music enthusiasts who encouraged her to pick up a guitar when she was nine. Dalt followed this creative impulse, becoming fascinated with computer-based production and leaving a burgeoning career as a civil engineer, moving from Medellín to Barcelona and ultimately Berlin, where she developed her distinctive, adventurous sound. Her work has spun into increasingly accomplished terrains with 'Anticlines' (2018) and 'No era sólida' (2020), and notably,'¡Ay!', Dalt’s 2022 breakthrough sci-fi bolero album. Along the way, Dalt expanded her practice into scoring for films like 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' (2024), HBO series 'The Baby' (2022), and the forthcoming psychological horror 'Rabbit Trap', while creating sound installations and performances that showcase her luminous modulations and distinctive, evolving vocal approach. 'A Danger to Ourselves' emerged from fragmentary declarations Dalt scribbled while navigating life on tour for '¡ Ay!', and the formative moments of a new relationship. She began crystallising these intimate fragments into musical compositions in January 2024, giving gradual form to a purposeful constellation of songs. The album’s sonic architecture builds upon dynamic drum loops provided by collaborator Alex Lázaro, whose percussive backbone, as on '¡Ay!', became a canvas for Dalt’s layered vocals. Rather than following conventional melodic structures, the album generates musicality through the interplay of basslines, rhythms, and compositional design. 'A Danger to Ourselves' reveals Dalt’s uncompromising quest for sonic clarity, where bold production choices and meticulous recording techniques encourage both voice and instrument to harmonise with newfound depth and radiance.

Distinctly anti-conceptual, 'A Danger to Ourselves' is a poetic instinct by which Dalt ushers in an unobstructed focus on the music itself, using vocals that vibrate past the songs’ parameters, and observing the beaded echoes of primal, romantic thrill. lucid attention to detail is palpable in every measure ,a dedication that spins in concentric circles, forming a field that unifies the personal and ethereal. Drawn from intuitive experiments, the album uses simple gestures and intricate compositions to weave wandering lines, as in “divina,” which moves between Spanish and English through elastic soundscapes and mesmerising auditory collage.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cosa Rara (ft. David Sylvian)
2. Amorcito Caradura
3. No Death No Danger
4. Caes (ft. Camille Mandoki)
5. Agüita Con Sal
6. Hasta El Final
7. Divina
8. Acéphale
9. Mala Sangre
10. The Common Reader (ft. Juana Molina)
11. Stelliformia
12. El Exceso Según Cs
13. Covenstead Blues