Bassist Trevor Dunn, known for his work with Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, and many many more projects, has launched the new Riverworm Records label, which will release its first album next month.
“Like most DIY labels, I started my own because I could find no appropriate home for this first release,” Dunn says of Riverworm. “The idea of a ‘label’ is nearly defunct as marketing is essentially all DIY, that is, unless you are a heavyweight influencer, corporation or actual rock star. This is mom and pop at its most niche-within-niche. I know I’m absolutely insane or branding myself mid-pandemic in a world where art is nearly expected to be free for the consumer but the will to have this music heard is part of what drives me. I’ve never expected everyone to like everything. That goes against common sense. That’s why everyone has boundaries. Having total control of a very personal release is the core motivation, and the feeling that, at this ripe old age, my own branding is as relevant as any grass fed mammal.”
And the first release is the merdeka atau mati album from Dunn's SpermChurch project, described as "a poly-electro, pan-genre duo" featuring Dunn and Sannety, who handles the electronic elements of the group.
Watch/listing to “A Puzzle & Not Intended For Use” from the upcoming record here:
SpermChurch: A Puzzle & Not Intended For Use from Riverworm Records on Vimeo.
merdeka atau mati track list:
The Unrestricted Gaze
What Street Is This
You Thoroughly Want The Thing That Mounts
Ovary Looping
https://vimeo.com/586041462
Which Ways The Arrows Point
Martyrs, Badgers & Other Rodents
Put The Baby Online
There is Plenty Of Time To Be Saved
Consider Yourself Left-Handed
