figureight records

a record label & artist collective founded by Shahzad Ismaily

[figureight records @figureight8]

"Setting Fire to These Dark Times" is the first ever collaboration between two of experimental music’s brightest talents - Arkansas organist @ChazKnapp and NYC cellist Mariel Roberts.

Devastating beauty + dread-filled intensity + breathtaking bliss:
https://t.co/fMvJi5vkyx

[figureight records @figureight8]

Appear to Fade by NYC pianist Richard Sears is OUT NOW!

"Like a vintage recording of Keith Jarrett or Harold Budd decaying and melting on analogue tape – in the most beautiful and enchanting way"- The Guardian

https://t.co/uzabaqx2xM

[Echoes And Dust @echoesanddust]

Review | Richard Sears - Appear to Fade by @zivljub. "Some seamless, spaced-out music that sounds as good as those images that a well-made kaleidoscope can look like." https://t.co/bCAwPAif3j @figureight8

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Big thanks to @MonolithBlogger for this wonderful write-up on Richard Sears' new album Appear to Fade:

https://t.co/tH4ZKXXEyT

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Richard Sears' beautiful new single "What I Meant To Say Was" is out TODAY!

HIs forthcoming album Appear to Fade blurs the boundaries between jazz, ambient music, tape loop experimentation and solo piano.

Head here to listen and pre-order:
https://t.co/uzabaqx2xM

[figureight records @figureight8]

"Ocean" is the new single by NYC pianist and composer Richard Sears, released today!

Listen and pre-order his beautiful forthcoming album "Appear to Fade" here:
https://t.co/uzabaqx2xM

[figureight records @figureight8]

Video premiere!

@Twistedsoulblog feature Richard Sears' new track "Oceans", trailing his beautiful forthcoming album "Appear to Fade"

https://t.co/A2fNa8qKZ9

[Twistedsoul @TwistedsouLLL]

Paris-based pianist and composer Richard Sears has an album on the way following his 2020 project Disquiet. Entitled Appear to Fade, it arrives on 29th September through @figureight8.

https://t.co/sInJiLjmUI

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New release announcement!

"Appear to Fade", the debut album by NYC pianist Richard Sears, is released on Sept 29th 2023.

Check out the opening single Manresa and pre-order the album on vinyl here:
https://t.co/uzabaqx2xM

[@tuskisbetter.bsky.social @TuskIsBetter]

The June installment of Best Field Recordings @bandcamp is up: this month we have sounds from railway crossings, churches, thermal baths, haunted houses, and a Pitbull concert: https://t.co/0Df34HvDsK

[figureight records @figureight8]

A wonderful interview for the @nytimes with label founder Shahzad Ismaily:

https://t.co/XfMtFGeqSA

With huge thanks to @currincy

[aquarium drunkard @aquadrunkard]

Multireedist Doug Wieselman is known for his work with the vanguard of pop, jazz, and avant-garde, but with his new album WA-Zoh, released by Shahzad Ismaily’s @figureight8, he turns his attention to electronically manipulated birdsong.

https://t.co/ihnglH64a7

[MAGNET Magazine @MAGNETMagazine]

#EssentialNewMusic: #DougWieselman “WA-Zoh” (@figureight8). “Wieselman found inspiration in his collection of avian field recordings. Each of its 8 tracks is named after a location & the music for each is derived from birds he recorded there.” Our review: https://t.co/OBe8eVrRLF

[figureight records @figureight8]

WA-Zoh by Doug Wieselman is out now!

Described as "achingly, unnervingly sublime" by @thewiremagazine, the record combines processed birdsong with clarinet, flute and piano.

Available on LP and digital here:
https://t.co/x5KdGLR0Sz

[Beats Per Minute @BeatsPerMinute]

"Setting Fire to These Dark TImes is drone music that sounds aged and decayed, like it’s all coming from the basement of a dilapidated warehouse"

- @JohnnySetlist reviews Chaz Knapp and Mariel Roberts' collab album: https://t.co/d4D91kHFE1

Out on @figureight8

[p ° s t — ambient \ u x @postambientlux]

• chaz knapp + mariel roberts
• setting fire to these dark times
• https://t.co/wn39qD9lJk

[InMemoryOf John Peel @WorldCupOfMusic]

Playlisted on Special: Zaph Mann’s Whole Extra Bit - https://t.co/tfiqhdc5jk Dream Sequence by Mariel Roberts @ChazKnapp "Setting Fire to these Dark Times" on Figureight records @figureight8 @ulfur_ 2023 https://t.co/4hxfbBxVkP

[figureight records @figureight8]

New Doug Wieselman single out now!

[figureight records @figureight8]

"Setting Fire to these Dark Times", the beautiful new album by Chaz Knapp & Mariel Roberts is OUT NOW!

“[Has] a ravenous appetite for and tireless discipline.”
Bandcamp

“A devastating album.”
The Quietus

https://t.co/fMvJi5vkyx

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figureight boss Shahzad Ismaily chats literature with Arooj and Vijay!

[All Of It With Alison Stewart @AllOfItWNYC]

Today on All Of It: @vijayiyer, @arooj_aftab & @figureight8 (Shahzad Ismaily), @TheAthletic's @EvanDrellich, @nypl's @JulieThePH, and @metmuseum's @miafineman

LISTEN LIVE at noon, on @WNYC

[figureight records @figureight8]

We're very excited to announce the return of NYC's immensely talented multireedist Doug Wieselman, whose brand new album WA-Zoh is created from processed birdsong, clarinet, flute and piano.

Check out "Brooklyn 2" and pre-order on highest spec LP here:
https://t.co/x5KdGLRyI7