RVNG has announced that it will release the 12th installment in FRKWYS, the NYC label’s ongoing “music, film, and event series celebrating intergenerational collaboration,” with a new project from Chicago musician Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (who also works under the name Lichens) and seasoned French ambient artist Ariel Kalma, who has now composed meditative music for over four decades. The pair’s We Know Each Other Somehow LP is said to have been recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, where Lowe and Kalma created the “six extended evocations of environmental ambience and entrancing naturalism” that make up the album. To give us all a better idea of where the two artistic minds meet on the forthcoming record, RVNG has shared a full stream of “Mille Voix” a dense, meandering ambient exploration which fuses together sheets of electronic textures, vocal drones, and airy woodwinds; the meditative composition (and its accompanying video) have been included below.

Furthermore, the release of Lowe’s and Kalma’s FRKWYS album installment will also conicide with the release of Sunshine Soup, a feature-length “exploratory documentary based on the collaboration.” Directed by visual artists/designers Misha Hollenbach and Johann Rashid, the visual piece is said to take shape as a “non-linear film… keyed to the outer-boundary music created by Lowe and Kalma.” A trailer for Sunshine Soup has also been included below; both it and the Lowe’s and Kalma’s We Know Each Other Somehow album will see their official release via RVNG on April 13.

1. Magick Creek
2. Mille Voix
3. Gongmo Kalma Lowe
4. Strange Dreams
5. Wasp Happening
6. Miracle Mile
Palo Alter Reality (Bonus Track)
Mille Voix (Infinite Version) (Bonus Track)