Join Moon Ruins Records and The Record Exchange at 6pm on Record Store Day Eve April 17 for an advance listening party featuring AKA Belle’s forthcoming new album All Time is Now, Now is All You Have + The Time for Love is Always Now. This special event is presented by Boise Brewing.
Celebrate All Time is Now with an exclusive first spin in advance of AKA Belle’s official album release party at Realms Arcade on Friday, April 24. Anyone who preorders the album or purchases another Moon Ruins release will receive a free ticket to the release party!
Our craft beer partners Boise Brewing will be on hand offering free cans of their delicious homegrown beer to guests 21 and older (with valid I.D.).
Moon Ruins will be in the house with music and merch, plus a drawing for a prize pack including two tickets to the AKA Belle release party and AKA Belle/Moon Ruins merch!
We’ll have 20% off used music*, video and audio equipment all day on April 17!
*Excluding Rare Wax vinyl titles
ABOUT AKA BELLE AND ‘ALL TIME IS NOW’
Are they a family, a cult, a coven? Maybe a mysterious mixture of all three. Boise, Idaho’s AKA Belle are releasing their new double album All Time is Now, Now is All You Have + The Time for Love is Always Now via Moon Ruins Records on April 24. Featuring the singles “Six Severed Feet,” “Fittin In,” “The Envy of Venus” and “Radiant,” the album is a shimmering powerhouse of divine energy.
Songwriting couple Catherine and Sam Merrick teamed up with longtime friends Anthony Mulparry and Jake Stigers to form AKA Belle. The band’s fifth member, Christine Nygard, would later join after experiencing the band’s bewitching, ceremonial-like live show. In fact, it’s those performances that have endeared AKA Belle to the Pacific Northwest music community. With the release of their new album, AKA Belle aims to harness the stellar potency of those performances and share them with the world.
Recorded at Chop Shop Recording Services in Boise, Idaho, and HQ Performance Space in La Grande, Oregon, All Time is Now, Now is All You Have + The Time for Love is Always Now combines psychedelic blues with hints of bossa nova, ‘60s teen pop and ‘70s punk rock snark with eclectic instrumentation, including vibraphone and theremin, to create an abundantly diverse sound that harkens back to the pinnacle of protest rock. Using a process the band has dubbed “Live, 2-Stage Cosmophonic Recording” – recording all the instruments live in one take, then standing in a circle to record all the band members’ vocals in a second live take – they were able to capture the power of the moment and translate that energy into the album.
With its ethereal cover art and marbled vinyl pressing, AKA Belle wanted to create an album that was physically and sonically impactful. “The whole package is meant to be a piece of art,” says vocalist Catherine Merrick. “That was important to us, to make something beautiful to hold and look at as well as listen to.”
All Time is Now, Now is All You Have + The Time for Love is Always Now encompasses a fascination with nature and the universe, but there is an underlying urgency weaving through the album: “Envy of Venus,” a dramatic evangelical style damnation sung from the perspective of Mother Earth; the hypnotic plea for bodily autonomy – and a brief trip through the historical suppression of women – in “Raise Power”; the more-than-ever relevance of “New Highs in Leadership”; their yearning for connection and the anxieties of living in our current world of distraction/uncertainty in “Transmission ’74” and “Fittin’ In.”
These heartfelt messages for humanity are lovingly balanced with psychedelic, surprisingly quirky mantras; reminders to embrace our unique inner divinity; likening sunlight to a first kiss; introducing you, gentle listener, to traveling salesmen promoting time travel; and inviting you to swim in the dreamy warm water of morning dew.
AKA BELLE have summoned the cosmos and present to you their creation.
“It’s radiant, baby – don’t forget it.”