‘Dream #3’ by Britta Phillips and Kramer | ‘Rings of Saturn’ Box Set
Exclusive video premiere of ‘Dream #3’ by Britta Phillips and Kramer, taken from the ‘Rings of Saturn’ box set of six 7″ mini-collaboration EPs featuring Kramer and Britta Phillips (Luna, Dean & Britta), Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers), Jad Fair & Danielson, Eerie Wanda, David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol), and Rob Crow (Pinback).
Earlier this year, Shimmy-Disc shared a brand new release entitled ‘Rings of Saturn’ — a collaborative vinyl series featuring six 7″ EPs (@33rpm), packaged in an ornate wooden box. Each record (with cover photography by William Coupon) is a unique “mini-album” collaboration between Kramer and an amazing group of artists: Britta Phillips (Luna, Dean & Britta), Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers), Jad Fair & Danielson, Eerie Wanda, David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol), and Rob Crow (Pinback, et cetera).
In celebration of the new series, today, Britta Phillips and Kramer share a brand new video to accompany their collaboration, ‘Dream #3.’ This new video, created by Kramer (with use of footage from Jean Renoir’s The Little Match Girl, 1928), serves as a follow-up to the visuals for Kramer’s other collaboration tracks, one with Jad Fair & Danielson (‘In A Lonely Place’), one with Rob Crow (‘Kerosene’), and another with Britta Phillips (‘Nocturne’).
‘The Rings of Saturn’ box set is limited to just 333 hand-numbered copies, and is only available directly from Shimmy-Disc. Pressed on red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple vinyl, respectively; and packaged within a custom wooden laser-etched box.
In 2022, the pandemic seemed to be receding to the point where artists could work together again, side by side. So, returning to the spirit of my Joyful Noise Recordings 2020 Artist-in-Residence vinyl box set…revisiting the borderless landscapes of audio art, tempered by the imaginations of the artists i chose to work with, then cast against the myriad infinities of mysteries betwixt those ageless, spinning rings… those rings that seem to sing, “…listen to us.”
It always begins with imagery. Always. Rings around the planet. Rungs on the ladder. Baby steps. We keep going because we believe there will be more places to go. There must be more places to go. Please, let it be so. Please, remain open. Love cannot enter a clenched fist. TIME, with all its mysteries intact, unfettered by borders, so that both the artists and the listeners can enter, in partnership, together.” Kramer
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