Malakai

Join us May 24th at The Sultan Room in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate the release of Rumpistol’s new album, NEBULA, with special sets from Rumpistol, Entangled Mind and Malakai. The album will be available to purchase on vinyl and we’ll have some other surprises to share with you at the show - we can’t wait to see you! Lineup: Rumpistol (Album Release) Entangled Mind (Downtempo Set) Malakai About Nebula: On the list of recurrent favorites from The Rust Music, Rumpistol has kept us enamored with his compositions for the entirety of our label’s active years. A musician and producer of remarkable vision and professionalism, each successive Rumpistol release has gradually unveiled more and more of the story hidden in sound, playing out more like a musical drama than just a catalog. Consequently, Nebula is much more than just an album: The LP is inspired along two mingled fronts, being both a testament and a love letter to the waning awe that the Space Race (and its implications) imbued amongst the many peoples of the world, while also being designed with an implicit focus on the results on stage. Nebula’s arrangements work in tandem with these ideas, combining jazz, neoclassical motifs, and modern electronic music, utilizing an array of both vintage and contemporary tones and compositional approaches to channel the all-encompassing wonder of the cosmos. Its pacing is entirely unlike the more dance-oriented offerings in the Rumpistol discography, replacing frenetic energy with the draw of tempered, introspective listening. Explicitly recorded and designed alongside a cast of instrumentalists and visual designers, the record is the next logical step in Rumpistol’s recent grounding in his consistent live ensemble, breaking out of the traditional molds that tend to keep producers narrowed to a single lane. Naturally, for The Rust’s upcoming 95th release, we can think of no more perfect a match than the Nebula LP.