An Anthology of Chants Operations

Packaged in the label’s signature monochrome triangular sleeve, a Nagaoka anti-static sleeve, and complete with two informative inserts
While often laying unobserved below a landscape of the seemingly unfamiliar, experimental music is the imagining of the future, embedded in a quest for fundamental truth. It is a music that attempts to speak of who we are, fueled by curiosity and formed into creative languages that seek new relationships to meaning and communication through organizations of sound. New Mexico based performer, improvisor, composer, and sound artist Raven Chacon’s latest LP, An Anthology of Chants Operations, the second outing from Ouidah – a new imprint in the Blume Editions family, dedicated to ambitious artists working in often overlooked geographies – is a shimmering window into the rigour, hope, and beauty of these pursuits; a body of recordings drawn from across the last decade of his output, that weaves the elemental and topical into startling abstract form