Jordan Reyes - Sand Like Stardust (Black Vinyl)

Jordan Reyes - Sand Like Stardust (Black Vinyl)I envisioned the record as a journey through human expression over the course of one day, says Chicago composer and ONO member Jordan Reyes, musing on his sophomore album Sand Like Stardust. When planning the album, Reyes wanted to consider the trajectory of American music, drawing a throughline from the oral traditions enmeshed in blues, country, folk to contemporary underground music, splicing together acoustic instrumentation with an experimental,

Chancha has notoriously broken way outside those boundaries to forge unprecedented mergers between Brazilian rhythms

Sometimes he’d head out on foot

Featuring reinvigorated artwork

acutely observed lyrics

Throughout the album he attempts to wrap his head around the idea of fate and how you can brush up against other people and then leave them behind

Explosions and sirens boomed and whined in the distance

The vinyl comes in creamy white with download code and new cover artwork

The album itself was cobbled together in a mix of DIY ways: home recordings with Livvy’s roommate Joey Oaxaca (White Reaper

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and acoustic instruments through conflicting emotional territories as a means of personal catharsis and abstracted self expression

unsurprisingly

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