Mari Rubio stays busy. The avant-garde musician is always juggling a million musical projects, including partnerships with claire rousay and Wendy Eisenberg (as Whait) and Lynn Avery (as Pink Must), the sprawling ensemble Water Damage, and her own robust solo catalog as more eaze. She's about to add to that discography.
In October, Thrill Jockey will release valley and structure, the latest more eaze LP. It's the follow-up to Rubio's first album for the venerable label, sentence structure in the country, which came out just a few months ago. This lady has structure on the mind! The new LP features Rubio performing her compositions with Eisenberg, Jade Guterman, Conner Simmons, Nora Stanley, and Sammy Weissberg.
Lead single "what's wrong with the structure?" is out now. We're told the track is composed like a minimalist jazz lead sheet. Rubio has this to say about it:
I really love this performance of this piece because it highlights the ensemble. Everyone is doing some really interesting improvisation within the framework of the score. I also did a lot of post-production on this piece that I think further served to carve out a sense of dynamics and an overall arc within the repetition of the piece. This piece in particular feels like a merging of many different strains of my work into something new and alien.
Listen below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "they tried to shove me in the structure"
02 "what's wrong with the structure?"
03 "once you say yes to the structure, you never get out"
04 "i'm in the structure"
05 "how can we get out of the structure"
TOUR DATES:
09/01 - Glasgow, UK @ Glad Café
09/02 - Leeds, UK @ Wharf Chambers
09/11 - Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
09/26 - Cincinnati, OH @ Talk Low Festival
10/2 - Florence, IT @ Centro Pecci Prato
10/4 - Rome, IT @ Trenta Formiche
10/11 - Ghent, BE @ Viernulvier - Miry Theatre (live scoring of Nadja)
10/15 - London, UK @ Vespers
10/16 - Madrid, ES @ Conde Duque - Auditorium (Delicatessen/ Soundset Series)
11/07 - Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who?
12/03 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
12/04 – Buffalo, NY @ The Rec Room *
12/05 – Kingston, NY @ Assembly *
12/06 – New York, NY @ LPR *
12/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
12/09 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat *
12/10 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *
12/11 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre *
12/12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory) *
12/13 – Asheville, NC @ Revival *
* = supporting Friendship
valley and structure is out 10/9 on Thrill Jockey. Pre-order it here.
