From Meditations, volume 1 of Convocations / Listen/buy here: https://sufjanstevens.ffm.to/convocations
Join us Thursday, April 8th at 12PM EST for a livestream of the full volume: https://youtu.be/Ivpq4VDFC1I

Visual Artist: Melissa Fuentes @melissazrtt https://www.instagram.com/melissazrtt/
Editor: Otto Sánchez

Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.
 
Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his biological father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

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ALL MUSIC PERFORMED, RECORDED, MIXED AND PRODUCED BY SUFJAN STEVENS 
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Convocations

Sufjan Stevens - Meditation V - Convocations

Betty Lou Landreth - I Can't Stop 45 Version

written and produced by Richard Eigner & Fabian Holzinger
All instruments played by Richard Eigner & Fabian Holzinger 
Mixed by Richard Eigner
Mastering by Mike Grinser at Mandmade Mastering
Artwork by Typisch Beton


Ritornell & Abby Lee Tee - Melting Sphere

The Bones-led independent hip hop collective and label TeamSESH take the NTS airwaves for a monthly one hour transmission live from our LA studio.

From the host: _"The November episode of TeamSesh on NTS Radio is curated by hnrk: It features a blend of a multitude of genres, new musical discoveries and releases from both friends and peers. SESH"_ 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/team-sesh/episodes/team-sesh-21st-november-2025

TeamSESH w/ HNRK  211125

Talk from Home

Never Heated

The song "W Pogoni" is a spontaneously recorded single, which can turn into something much larger than a one-time collaboration. The author of the music is already known to UKM listeners (a single with KRS One appeared on vinyl). A positive summer song is something we definitely need now!

Maira x Invent - W Pogoni
ISRC: PLI862000022
UKM 082
© U Know Me Records 2020

Wokal & tekst: Maira
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soundcloud.com/maira_music
www.facebook.com/mairamusic1111/

Muzyka: Invent

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www.facebook.com/LizzyPopInvent/

Mastering: Kwazar (Gagarin Studio)

Grafika: Aga Kotowska

agakotowska.myportfolio.com
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Zdjęcie: Tatiana + Karol

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W Pogoni

Maira x Invent - W Pogoni [UKM 082]

Tinder Chat - kojocki feat. Manu(drums)

Surface Currents

Offshore

Molten Chimes creates deep concentration into nostalgia, the sounds and desires all swirling alongside the distorted chimes of an ice cream van lulling us towards the positives.  Mangled vocals are overlaid with instrumentation rather than this be a ‘sung’ track or precise meaning behind vocal and melody, on purpose it needs to be listened to.  It perhaps confuses, annoys, or delights.  
Mastering work by Denis Blackham.

Tinder Chat - kojocki feat. Manu(drums)

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