Two striking notes of news for you.
First and foremost, Infinite Limb (Kyle Numann) has joined the yk roster. The Nashville based artist and musician has an impressively varietal body of work – from his early solo performances with looping pedals, to multiple albums and videos with his art-folk band Cloudmouth, to three prior albums as Infinite Limb; his creations have run the gamut of ideas and always proven to be compelling endeavors.
He’s also curated a monthly series of collaborations called Ambient Sundays. These early evening performances are curated by Numann to help cultivate a community of like-minded creatives in Nashville. It is a damn fine way to spend a Sunday night.
We are excited to work with Infinite Limb on his fourth album, Seeds for Cosmic Radio – an album inspired the unfathomable connection of your home garden, the atom smashing nuclear furnace of our sun and the interconnectedness of each and every one of us in the outlandishly large universe.
Which brings us directly to the second note of good news, Infinite Limb’s fourth album (and debut on yk Records), is available today on Bandcamp and Ampwall.
Watching his front yard become a living ecosystem each summer, Kyle Numann reflected on the intertwining of the plant-cosmos connection – every leaf on the planet powered by star energy, the entire web of life feeding on cosmically produced plant energy. The colliding scales between the minutiae of plant cells and the incomprehensible magnitude of a star’s nuclear furnace inspired Seeds for Cosmic Radio.
The album came together through weeks of listening through archives of multitrack recordings from the previous several years — compositions built on hardware sequencers, performed live, captured in the moment. These were curated and given fresh attention with renovated arrangements. The sequence of pieces was arranged alongside a field recording of ocean waves at night, ebbing and flowing continuously.
Numann’s final 17-track exploration functions as an aural journey from the confines of the garden to the expanses of outer space, a reminder of the constant conversation between the natural world and the human landscape. He notes a second inspiring force, “I find the theme of interconnectedness to be a powerful tool. In an age of environmental uncertainty I find connecting to the natural world helps to keep me grounded. We live in romantic times, where truth flies on a feeling. Maybe one way to progress is to encourage the kinds of feelings we need to float us into a better future… or at least give us the peace of mind to keep trying.”
To commemorate the release, Seeds for Cosmic Radio is paired with a package of Zinnia seeds cultivated and hand-harvested from Numann’s home garden. These are hardy bloomers that pollinators love, each flower capable of producing dozens more seeds. The journey to growth starts in the dirt and yearns for a remnant of smashed atoms from 93 million miles away.
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