In March of 2022, International Anthem and Qobuz began a semi-regular series of co-presented shows in the hi-fi confines of Brooklyn’s Public Records.

The ongoing series – now approaching the three year mark – has a become somewhat of a Big Apple home base for the International Anthem family, as eight different artists to date have celebrated new or recent releases with IA@PR performances.

In the tradition of International Anthem’s affinity for ‘capturing the context,’ and to take full advantage of the acoustically superior Sound Room at Public Records, every single one of these shows has been recorded. Excerpts from four of those shows have already been released on Qobuz, where they are available exclusively for high resolution streaming and download.

Today, International Anthem releases another three recordings on Qobuz, from some of our favorite performances to have taken place in this series. Details on all below.

Album Artwork by Mark Rice

International Anthem @ Public Records (Volume 2) features a twelve minute excerpt from a legendary performance by Anteloper – the duo of late/great trumpeter/synthesist/vocalist jaimie branch and her longtime partner in sound, drummer/synthesist Jason Nazary – at Public Records on July 16, 2022, just a month after their album Pink Dolphins was released.

Nazary gave this track the retrospective title “sol shake” to commemorate a very special moment at that show – it was the first time that branch’s young niece Soledad (aka Sol) got to see her tia jaimie perform. An Anteloper show is a very loud atmosphere for a toddler, of course, so Sol had spent a large portion of the night outside. “sol shake” picks up in the moment that Sol came inside the venue and started really getting into the music. Listen in Hi-Res on Qobuz here.

Album Artwork by Mark Rice

International Anthem @ Public Records (Volume 6) features seven and a half minutes of Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek’s performance at Public Records on July 29th, 2023. It was just one day after the release of their new duo project/album New Future City Radio.

The concept for the New Future City Radio project is: transmissions from a pirate radio station from the future. The day before this Public Records performance, International Anthem organized a 24 hour pirate radio program – called Tomorrow Is Listening – featuring music from a dozen independent record labels that was broadcast into over 75 record shops across the globe. The broadcast culminated in a performance by Locks & Mazurek, live from Co-Prosperity in Chicago. Less than 24 hours later, they were in Brooklyn, doing this performance at Public Records. Listen in Hi-Res on Qobuz here.

Album Artwork by Mark Rice

International Anthem @ Public Records (Volume 7) features an incredible Ben LaMar Gay performance of the song “Aunt Lola and the Quail” from his 2021 International Anthem/Nonesuch release Open Arms to Open Us. On this night – October 29, 2023 – Gay was fronting his working quartet with guitarist Will Faber, tuba player Matthew Davis, and drummer Tommaso Moretti. The band were fresh off a European tour and were absolutely smoking hot. Listen in Hi-Res on Qobuz here.

THE NEXT EDITION(S)
Monday December 2 – Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
Tuesday December 3 – SML
Wednesday December 4 – Anna Butterss
@ Public Records, Brooklyn NY

Today’s release of recordings come just ahead of the next edition(s) of the series. This time, International Anthem will be doing Volume 8, Volume 9, and Volume 10 in one shot.

On December 2nd, 2024, Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtet kick off a three-night International Anthem residency at Public Records, co-presented by Qobuz. The residency also features performances by SML (December 3rd) and Anna Butterss (December 4th), highlighting the prolific and powerful contingency of inter-connected musicians that have grown around Parker in Los Angeles over the last ~7 years. Info/tickets for all shows here, and more details below.

For the first night – Monday, December 2nd – the guitarist Parker and his ETA IVtet (w/ saxophonist Josh Johnson, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Jay Bellerose) will perform twice, just over a week after the release of their new album The Way Out of Easy. The two performances are sold separately.

Tickets for the EARLY SHOW (7pm doors) here.
Tickets for the LATE SHOW (9:30pm doors) here.

Night two – Tuesday, December 3rd – will be the New York debut of SML, the improvisational trance/jazz quintet born of the same NE LA hotbed that housed Parker’s IVtet (ETA), that also features bassist Anna Butterss and saxophonist Josh Johnson, alongside synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, drummer Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann.

Tickets for SML December 3rd (7pm doors) here.

On third and final night – Wednesday, December 4th – bassist Anna Butterss will perform music from their recently-released IARC debut Mighty Vertebrate, alongside their working band that features saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Gregory Uhlmann, and drummer Ben Lumsdaine. This show will also feature an opening set by the improvisational duo of synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and saxophonist Alabaster DePlume, who perform together for the first time since an impromptu Sunday morning “synth bath” at the Vintage Synth Museum in Los Angeles in Summer 2023.

Tickets for Anna Butterss with Jeremiah Chiu & Alabaster DePlume December 4th (7pm doors) here