Everloving - WFMU Sessions - EOE-000
 

EVERLOVING
WFMU Sessions

“DEMOLISH SERIOUS CULTURE.”

Some 60-odd years ago, in gestures of solitary antiheroism, provocateur Henry Flynt deployed a sardonic agitprop Americana, These were not appropriations. They were assertions, derisive snorts of grit and gusto, hybridized sounds that drilled red-hot through contrarian pop stylings and erupted above classifications. Yet within them lurked an ache of the unobtainable—and an implicit challenge. 

Today, in a spirit of affirmation and exaltation, the combative “supergroup” Everloving accepts Flynt’s call to action. However, this is no mere tribute act in which the covers smother. In the ebullient hustle of Everloving, the hot fuss ’n’ bother of yesteryear is churned at a vigorous 45 RPM to a jukebox-lubricating essence. 

The careers of these various artists unwind with kudzu-tendriled resolve. Like Flynt before him, Jonathan Kane promulgates the physicality and spirit of the blues in irony-free romps that have energized 20th-century minimalism via collaborations with La Monte Young, Rhys Chatham, and Swans. 

Peter Kerlin and Jim McHugh fueled Sunwatchers, whose anarchic psychedelia trampled various barricades with abandon. Dave Soldier has renounced classicism in collaborations with Guided By Voices, author Kurt Vonnegut, Talking Heads’ David Byrne, and the Velvet Underground’s John Cale.

Everloving is a triumphant singalong and clangorous Huzzah! from a like-minded gathering of pickers, fiddlers, and tub-thumpers who each reject designations, ossifications, and highfalutin encapsulation. In celebrating the essence of Henry Flynt, they assert collective agency with the low-down, hoe-down abandon that our tumultuous era demands.

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Sunwatchers:

“Music Is Victory Over Time, like so much of the Sunwatchers catalog, creates the mindset in which revolutionary impulses and ideas can flourish—one driven by patience and passion in equal measure. Their music is a leaderless, collective shout of defiance, each element working in tandem to rethink how music moves and how it moves the listener.”
—Pitchfork

Jonathan Kane with La Monte Young:

“You can hear the same blue-note pitch swerves that have been the poetry in motion of guitarists from Son House to Jimi Hendrix. The locomotive chug of Young's playing also swells with the Chicago rent-party exuberance of Jimmy Yancey and Little Richard's barrelhouse hammering."
—Rolling Stone

Jonathan Kane:

“Kane underpins these drones with a deceptively simple, forcefully executed shuffle. His swinging opuses exude bright, earthy euphoniousness instead of dark, cerebral dissonance … Rarely does the avant-garde rock this hard."
—Time Out New York

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Everloving
WFMU Sessions
2025
Table of the Elements
[Oganesson] 116
EOE-000
Phono 12” LP +  7” single, 180g vinyl, gatefold jacket, booklet

 

A Conduit for History Exploding in the Present Moment

TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS is a curatorial network and interdisciplinary platform, live-event presenter, and fine-arts publisher of print, audio, and film, lauded by Pitchfork Media as “a national treasure.” Since its origin as a record label in 1993, TotE has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and promulgating works by international creators of experimental audio, electroacoustics, free-improvised performance, sonic sculpture, microtonality, and modern composition. The label’s 150-plus releases are a vital contemporary chronicle, a survey of meaningful eruptions across a broad horizon of sound and vision.  Each project demonstrates how a publishing concern might romp wild, unbridled from the carousel of convention.

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"The supremacy of Table of the Elements as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalog has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everybody associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen.”

—Pitchfork

“The hallmarks of this New Archivism are beautiful and innovative packaging, elaborate and idiosyncratic liner notes, rare and obscure recordings ... Working with graphic designers such as the Grammy-winning Susan Archie, Jeff Hunt produced a collection that combines varied textures, lavish finishes, and period details with art from the era of the original source recordings. Their treatment of Robert Longo’s late 1970s photographs for Rhys Chatham’s releases could, for instance, measure up to what’s on view at most contemporary art centers. In addition to its archival endeavor, TotE also releases the new work of its avant-garde heroes and their devotees. TotE’s active support of the work of sonic pioneers ensures that theirs are living traditions — not ossified museum objects.”

—Thomas Peake, Art Papers

Tony Conrad: Completely In the Present
A Film by Tyler Hubby

"Hubby's film captures Conrad in all his facets ... broadly as a man determined to make 'abstract art funny, happy, energetic, joyful.' Conrad lived long enough to see his early recordings, barely or never released, get the reissue and the attention they deserve. ... [Completely In the Present] is a sharp, sweet, eloquent documentary about the merriest, most artistically expansive minimalist on record. His work and his life asserted the importance of listening for the sounds nobody else has heard."

—Chicago Tribune

“Joyous, exhilarating, and transformative, Tyler Hubby’s documentary is essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art.”

—Artforum

"Conrad was 100 percent badass. Without Tyler Hubby’s documentary and Table of the Elements ... one of the great stories of American music and art might have gone underappreciated.”

—Henry Rollins

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